January 2009 Archives
TV itself may need to spend some time on the island. Be seeing you .Then                                            and                        now
Twas the night before  Christmas and I'd left the house I hadn't her present, I felt like a louse, So leaving work early , prior to falling to bits I popped in a camera store, of the name Ritz The model I wanted I  spied  on the shelf I inquired of its features before reducing my wealth "it has to have", the salesperson said. It better I responded or  in morning I'm dead. Checked though the menu, the manual and staff and  pulled out my iphone just for a laugh found out  that this camera didn't auto bracket. Is the advice in this  shop ,merely a racket? So back to the shelf the d60 went and out came the A200 sony instead, it had all the features  and cheap second lens, Now sadly this isn't where my rhyme ends. The lens , wasn't in stock , but that was ok I could come back and get it  in a few days the time came to pass and alas I was told. you can't have the offer  because it's now old. No matter had I offered to pay in advance we're now stuck in some weird customer service dance Were he said and she said  drives me round the bends when all  I want is the aforementioned lens. So people let this be a lesson to buy in advance Or maybe you'll be the one taking it in the pants Even if you get a promise in writing it makes no difference you still end up fighting. Take that Vogons  I totally  own you !  I'm still waiting for the regional manager to intervene since the store is now unable to proceed without this step To date not one returned call and  I'm tired of chasing them around.  The offer was a  second lens for $50  with new camera  ( saving about $200) and this was a key factor in the purchase.  This with the rep's name was written on the receipt  (  which is misplaced , thank the kid)  but all the info is on my  amex and their till has the transaction and the rep knows she did it.   Regardless of a happy ending here  I get  very little feeling of urgency  from the store in question.
Next step  I think is returning the camera since we're now  close to their limit on returns. ( which they say they will extend while resolving this  but to date my confidence  in their proclamations is quite low:)
Then I posted an update.
After a few more days of waiting, four separate promises to contact me re this had elapsed and they have basically failed to honour the deal.Maybe the salesperson ( Kim) messed up in offering this to me but I bought this in good faith with the expectation of returning to store the following week and getting the lens at the price stated.
This offer was material to my choice of camera and no transaction would have occurred without it. While he ( manager John)  would like me to wait for their regional manager to get back from vacation I don't find that to be an acceptable state of affairs and will likely be returning the camera and while they have said they wil extend the return period in this case part of me fully expects them to renege on that too.next step: Head office and also find out the franchise owner.
That must be a really light and small shotgun because I've had experience being young with them. A four year old that holds that kind of grudge is , well sorry. I'd like to know more about these witnesses because the idea of a 4 year old shouldering and aiming a 20g that's not a youth size is pretty frigging suspicious, that there are many teens present.. Let's just say the reports elsewhere claim a 4 year old , got mad, got a shell, got a gun , put them together and boom.
Let's see how this turns out:)
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JACKSON, Ohio (AP) -- Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured.
It's at this point I disagree with Mark Cuban and his insistence that taxation has minimal to no effect on those starting a business which may hold true for a 5 - 10% swing in either direction but at 83% I seriously doubt it. Several , small, very small, ventures that Creddy and I considered were impractical to enact because the local town, county and state permits made it prohibitively expensive relating to the expected return. E.g you have spare herbs from a hydroponic garden and you may make say $1200 extra a year, er no not legally you can't:) Yeah I know it's not the big league but come on it's not legal to offer surplus from your garden.. Grr anyway rant off:)
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