Archive for ‘Bad Business’

July 11th, 2010

Dear Spammers,

Why is it every single time I write a post that even so much as mentions diet pills you have to flood me with spam comments about other thermogenic fat burners? As you can see I am purposely linking to a website that is NOT yours because you get no link love from me. As my commenting policy states you don’t even get the pleasure of seeing your gazillions (okay not quite, but it feels like it) of comments posted. As with most other sites you spam, you’re wasting your time and mine.

I hate to break it to ya, but why would I, or anyone else for that matter, want to purchase a product from a company that has such poor business ethics that they spam the crap out of people just to sell something.  I’m guessing you don’t sell very much, do ya?

June 12th, 2009

Please Stop Calling

Wow. I can finally say today has been a nice normal day except for the fact the dog is sick and has puked in every room of the house.  Poor guy’s stomach is all messed up, but it’s not something new that worries me.  He’s got some serious allergies, and when his allergies flair up so does his stomach.  I called the vet to double check, then I gave him his usual dose of Benadryl.  He’s not running a fever, so we’re not going to give him anything else unless we have to.

Now if my phone would stop ringing I’d probably be able to lay down for a nap, but I’ve gotten 4 calls today from a company trying to sell us Medicare supplement insurance. That’s all fine and dandy, but I don’t need it because I’m not with medicare. I applied for medicaid since we don’t have insurance to cover the pregnancy, but other than that we don’t have anything to do with medicare.

I have a feeling it’s probably got something to do with my sister-in-law. She’s on disability, and she has medicare. She used to live with us years ago…and I mean like 6-7 years ago…when we had an apartment, but that was not only in another town but was in another county. For some reason we still receive hospital stuff for her, though, and sometimes junk mail from companies trying to sell her supplemental stuff. I can understand that, but I don’t understand how these people got my personal cell phone number and think I’m on medicare. I explained I’m not and to take me off their list, but they’ve called 3 more times today. Each time they’ve told me it can take up to 48 hours for my number to be removed from the system, so they keep calling back.

Honestly I think it’s one of those work at home things where the people get a list of numbers to call that day, and half the time 10 people have the same list. I know how that works because I did a short trial as a cold caller for one such medical company, and it only took me a couple weeks to realize it was something I definitely didn’t want to do. I got tired real quick of getting yelled at because I was the 4th or 5th person to call someone that day. Now that I think about it I do think it was one of those type companies because I definitely remember hearing something that sounded like a kid in the background of one of those calls.

Ya know I have no problem with a stay at home mom trying to make a little extra cash anyway she can. Honestly look at me. I do the same thing, and I’m not even a stay at home mom yet, but when it comes to the cold calling, don’t call me, especially on my cell phone.

April 22nd, 2009

PayPal Rant

I’m so ill with Paypal right now.  My Paypal debit card expires in 8 days, and it looks like I’m not going to have my replacement card in time.

Back in February, on the 24th actually, I received the email from Paypal telling me they would be sending out my new card so that I would receive it before my old card expires.  I was to give it 6 weeks to arrive, and if it didn’t show I should contact customer support.  At the same time the reminder popped up on my “To Do List” inside Paypal to activate my new card.  It’s been there since driving me nuts every time I login making me wonder where my new card is.

Two weeks ago on the six weeks mark I called Paypal customer service to inquire about my new card.  I was told by someone who barely spoke enough English to deal with me that she didn’t understand why I received the email in February because my card had only been mailed out 4 weeks ago.  She even accused me of “misreading the email date”. Ok I’m not exactly an idiot here.  I know if the email arrived in my inbox in February or March.

Today yet again marks 6 weeks according to the customer service woman’s time frame, so I yet again called Paypal.  I went through the whole spiel about my card not arriving, getting the email in February, offered to forward a copy of the email, explained my last phone conversation with customer service, and it got me no where.

I’ll give you 3 guess what the customer service guy said in broken English, and I’m sure you’ll get it right on the first try.  “I’m sorry, mam, but you were misinformed.  Your card was mailed out 2 weeks ago when you called, and you should be receiving it within the next 4 weeks.”

Seriously Paypal?  Why do you have to make this so difficult?  All I want is my replacement card so my hosting account isn’t put on hold temporarily when my card expires!

Someone else mentioned to me she had problems getting Paypal to issue her new card until she finally gave up and used the lost or stolen card option to get a replacement.  I’m giving them until the end of the week then I think I’ll try that route.

This is seriously getting old!  First Paypal supposedly randomly selected my account for a temporary hold while they checked things out last week, and I didn’t know about it until I attempted to purchase a rubber stamp. The “transaction cannot be completed” threw me off since my card wasn’t denied, so I called Paypal and was told I was randomly selected for an account hold and check…something I’ve never heard of them doing before. Now I’ve got to deal with this, too!

Trust me Paypal, I would totally ditch you if a majority of my customers as well as companies I work with had some other option to pay me.

December 16th, 2008

Live It With Charter Redemption Days

This is just a quick note for those of you who asked me to let you know if I did happen to actually hear about any of the Redemption Days for Live It With Charter.  I finally got my first email from Charter telling me their running Redemption Days for some tv show swag now through December 21st.

There are 2 pages of swag listed, but none of it is interesting to me at all.  With my points all I can afford to pickup are a set of fake plastic lips from TV Guide or an Award Season 08 button from TV Guide.  I think I’ll pass.

If you’re in the 12,000 point range you can pick up Mad Men Season 1 on Blu Ray or DVD or the Extras Season 1 DVD.  There are a couple DVDs in the 28,000 points range, and that’s it.