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Pippin04
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10-26-2007

Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 8:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pippin04 a private message Print Post    
Ok I have a new gripe....I just read a news article about the website birthornot.com, where a couple wants the internet public to vote if they should have an abortion or not. I would like to think this is a joke but the website is there. Why is this news? Why would anyone report on this, all it is doing is giving this couple exposure. Why would anyone have the public vote on if they should abort a child? What if they have the child, do they tell the child we were going to abort you but the public decided we should have a baby. What if they have the baby and decide it is too hard to be parents, do they ask the public if they should put it up for adoption. Can these people even raise a child. Will they have the public vote on everything in this child's life.

I do not wish to debate abortion but am just so irritated by this couple and needed to vent.

Thanks

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I saw that yesterday Pippin. I just can't wrap my head around it and why anybody thinks it's a good idea.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 11:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
To follow up on the Dazzles fiasco, nope, I've still not heard anything.

It's now the principle of the thing.

Christy358
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07-10-2007

Monday, November 22, 2010 - 9:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Christy358 a private message Print Post    
My gripe is that today in the mail I got the front page of a magazine.

I can't complain to the magazine, because they mailed it, and the post office just does not care because they delivered the part with the address.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 12:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
That's terrible, Christy.

I've got a gripe too today. Darren's company gives holiday (Thanksgiving & Christmas) bonuses, a $30 gift certificate for butterball products every year. I like it, works out for us well because at Thanksgiving I'll buy either two turkeys or turkey roasts if we already have a big bird and at Christmas when everyone is home for a couple weeks I can stock up on either lunch meat or more turkey roasts. The gc's can only be used for butterball products and you can't get change back, so either spend $30 or more or lose some of it.

Darren got it last Thursday or Friday and it was perfect timing, we still hadn't bought a turkey yet. Plan was to pick up one large turkey for Thanksgiving and a smaller one to toss in the fridge that we could cook next month and split up for lunches over Christmas vacation.

So, sis and I went shopping today and ended up at Walmart (I hate Walmart) and they had the butterball turkey's for I think 98 cents a pound. Grabbed the big one, $21 and some change, and a smaller one, $11 and a few cents and we went to check out. Gets to be my turn and the cashier rings everything up and I hand her the gc and she says, "I don't know what to do with this." Then wanders away to ask someone else.

She comes back a couple minutes later and tells me she knows how to do it, but I can only buy one turkey with gc. Er, huh? Well that's not right. She says sorry, thats what my boss said, you can only get one product with the gift certificate. I stared at her for a minute, first of all, Darren's been with the company 15 years, we get two of these certificates each year, I know for a fact they're wrong. Second of all, show me one single butterball product you have here that's $30! I had picked out the biggest turkey they had and it was only $21, so I'm just supposed to give up almost $9 of his bonus? Sis reminded me she had one turkey at home and had bought another at Costco (they didn't have butterball turkeys so I couldn't get them there) and we didn't need one for Thursday so I told the lady I didn't want those two!

Told Darren when I got home about it and he said that's a bunch of bull. You should have asked to speak to a manager. Yeah, not all that interested in that, I'd rather spend the gc somewhere else. And it kinda tickled me to walk out of Walmart after spending only $7.

Everytime I go to Walmart anymore I find more reasons to hate the place. It's gotten to the point I do about 90% of my grocery shopping at Costco and only go to walmart for the things I don't need to buy in bulk. Wouldn't even go for that stuff if there was another grocery store close by.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 7:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Gift cards are just that... an amount of money you can spend on the item or at the store. I still boycott Walmart, but if I didn't I would on that alone. Telling you that you can buy only one item when the gift card is worth $30? That's total bull. (And, in California, I think it's illegal.)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 7:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
I still have a self-imposed moratorium on bad-talking Walmart because I'm so happy with my glasses, but I absolutely understand what you're saying Wargod and I'm glad you decided to take your gift card elsewhere.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Christy, call the magazine, they will send you another.

Those of us who use the USPS to mail products are used to replacing things they damage.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Since dh lost his job I have been a HUGE couponer. And there are a ton of couponing sites and resources out there. And the number one thing I learned is that WALMART STINKS when it comes to any kind of coupons. They are WAY coupon UNFRIENDLY.

They do have excellent pricing on many items. Many of their stores have excellent selections of items. But you probably won't see me grocery shop there. Nor will you see many couponers, as they all know that walmart, (well, their employees actually) are notorious for not knowing how to use coupons correctly. Glad you took that GC and left!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I have never had problems at Walmart with coupons. I do make sure I point out any buy one get one frees, totally free, or any gift certificates. Tho if I just have regular coupons that don't need a cashier, I usually just go to self check so maybe that's why I don't have problems with Walmart and coupons.

As far as seeing "couponers" I guess it depends on what you call a "couponer". I use coupons, but I don't consider myself a "couponer". I see lots of people using lots of coupons at Walmart. And at Target, Value Market, Kmart, Krogers, and Meijer.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 4:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
My gripe: I just got called a stupid f'n b'h from somebody saying they were calling from Card Member Services. He wanted to know the primary card holder's name. I asked him who he was calling, as there are more than one credit card holder at phone number XXXXXXXXX, and we are still getting calls from whomever had this number last and is STILL giving it out to open new credit cards. [Sound familiar? Cuz that's what happened at our previous number when we lived in Iowa!] The guy says, I will repeat myself again [uh you haven't repeated yourself before so you can't do it again] Who is the primary card holder at XXXXXXXXXX? I said sir I'm trying to tell you there are multiple card holders for different cards at this phone number so I need to know who - and he interrupts with stupid f'n b'h & hangs up on me. SO I call both of the cards we have from Card Member services, one my hubby and one mine. Nobody called from there, and there is nothing they can do about the name "Card Member Services" being used. Grrrrr. [I will add I knew that they wouldn't tell me who they were calling but still grrr!]

Next time I will just either start singing, or pretend that I called them and ask " Is Bob there? I really need to speak to Bob!"

Karen
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09-06-2004

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Next time, Serate, just tell them, 'sure, I'll go get the primary card holder for you." Then put the phone down (don't hang up) and go about your business. Come back in half an hour to hang up the phone.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
That sounds good too Karen!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 - 11:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Here, the Walmarts don't let you do any coupons by yourself. They all have to be put in. The cashiers get wigged out at times, when an item ends up being free or better than free, (let's say you have a Q for $1 off a toothbrush and the toothbrush is on sale for 99ยข) so that is when things start going haywire with Walmart.

Mack
Member

07-22-2002

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 4:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
Serate - You got hit by a phone scam. It's quite famous, or infamous actually. They're fishing, in fact it's actually called phone plishing, for card numbers and trying to get you to give out account information over the phone. It probably came from a 1-800 number, usually something like 1-871-xxx-xxxx. If you ask what bank or card company they work for they'll tell you they work for all of them or they'll ask which cards do you have. I got a number of these last year, maybe earlier this year, and I started using my caller ID feature to screen the calls. If it's from a 1-800 number, or some version like 1-871, I just let it go to the answering machine. If it's important or real business they'll leave a message and a number. 99% of the time, since it's just a computer generated dialing, the call just drops when it's not answered by a person.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 6:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Julie, no problems with that at any of the Walmarts I've been to and used coupons at. Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas. I use quite a few coupons but still don't consider myself a "couponer". I buy what I need and if there is a coupon for it so be it. Yes sometimes if I get something totally free with double coupons [sometimes triple] at Meijer or Kroger, I might try something new. But I don't go to the store and pay $10 for items that normally would ring up as $100.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 6:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
Mack I was certain it was a scam even before I answered the phone because of the 000 prefix, and in no way would I give anybody that called even our name as all they had was our phone number. But the original card said Cardmember Services, so that's why I called both of our cards that come through Cardmember Services.

The reason I started answering these calls is because of the person/persons who used to have this number. Lots of bill collectors calling for them, and they are still using our phone number for new credit applications. If I can speak to the bill collectors, they usually end up believing me and the calls are starting to stop.

Mack
Member

07-22-2002

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 7:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mack a private message Print Post    
Serate - The first time it happened to us I did what you did and called one of my credit card services number. They actually passed me to a supervisor who wanted all the information as they were trying to track this scam artist down. The supervisor explained it was actually "big business" and they were washing the phone calls through a computer in somewhere like South Korea and then linking back into the US. Since I'm retired I actually jerked the next couple of scammers around. For one I made up a name like Larry Lipschitz, for another I asked if they serviced my bank and picked a bank that I'd been with that was acquired by Bank of America over 30 years ago. The first guy bought Larry's name and the totally made up number I gave him. He seemed really pleased and promised me I'd be getting this wonderful new interest rate. I'm sure his boss was miffed that he'd been scammed back. The but the second couldn't find the bank so I said "Guess you don't service my bank then." and hung up. I got tired of that and started ignoring the calls and they finally stopped this past spring.

We too have had problems with somebody who once had or used our phone number and apparently got into all sorts of debt problems. The collectors would typically leave a call back number and after a number of calls I actually answered the phone a couple of times and explained that we'd had our present number for seven years and had no idea who the individual was. Interestingly it got to the point where I actually got a call from the county court leaving a message that an arrest warrant had been issued for this person and they ought to turn themselves in. I called the court back and indeed it was real. The clerk was nice and it turned out our number was what had been used on some bad checks, etc., a few years ago but the address was nowhere near our house. That kind of ended the calls so they either caught the person or the records got cleaned up.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 7:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
A really loud whistle can do the trick. Only takes one time, lol

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Thursday, November 25, 2010 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
I like that Hukd!

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Friday, November 26, 2010 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Update on the turkey gift certificate. I went to Vons today (our Vons closed about 18 months ago, had to go to Quartz Hill) and they didn't have any butterball turkey's. But they had turkey roasts for $9.99, I picked up three of them. Had no problem at all, cashier looked at the certificate, ran it through the machine and had me sign it, then wished me a nice day and offered to get someone to help me out to the car with my bags. Certainly don't get that treatment at Walmart!

Costacat
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
So this is a closure of a gripe...

The Dazzles corn thing? I had to laugh... the stoopid bimbo replied to the BBB complaint, claiming she had contacted me several times, had shipped the item, AND had refunded my money. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?????

She didn't respond to the PayPal dispute/escalation, however. And here's where I'm laughing... because she didn't respond when she was supposed to, PayPal automatically found in my favor, and they subtracted the fifteen bucks from her and put it in my account. So I got my money back.

And yeah, I'm laughing all the way to MY bank!! Stoopid bimbo thought she could pull a fast one? I dunno but I actually have records of all the emails I sent, and I'm willing to bet she doesn't, nor does she have record of any item shipping.

So, the upshot is... Stay away from Dazzles. FAR AWAY. The woman is a fraudulent **tch!

Ophiliasgrandma
Member

09-04-2001

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 10:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Huk, the loud whistle thing could come back to bite you; however, just pretending that you can't hear them because you are hard of hearing is a pretty non-confrontational way to discourage them.

Hukdonreality
Member

09-29-2003

Monday, November 29, 2010 - 12:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
I'm not worried OG, but thanks for your concern.

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Friday, December 03, 2010 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Argh! Ran to the bank for my aunt, did her grocery shopping, had a pleasant time. Sis and little "adopted" sis went and even though it's just groceries, a little bit of girl time is fun!

Come home and there's a message from Darren on the answering machine. "Hello? Ok, guess you're not home, I call back later if I get a chance. I've got a couple things I want to talk to you about later on."

That's it. We've had this conversation before, I hate hate hate when he leaves messages like that! At least give me a heads up about whatever it is! Now I'm gonna be sitting here wondering til he gets home...is something wrong with his mom? Shift change at work? Major overtime? He wants new socks?

Last time he left a message like that I worried over it all day to find out when he got home he wanted me to pick up a different kind of granola bar for his lunches. Time before that, his mom was in the hospital. So no telling what it is. Argh!