intolerant crab?

I am in a customer service disaster. I ordered stuff from two different places online.

1- I bought 2 items, the next day they receive something new so i buy that too and ask for combined shipment instead of paying for each to save money.
I obviously ask for a new total which would be less for the second order because shipping would be reduced. I get an answer 4 days later telling me they will send me an invoice in the mail! I always pay with Paypal, and they don't even ship before they receive the payment which takes 10 days. It's been a week now so my first order will ship by itself and i will have to pay charges for the second one when they wake up. I email again with my request for a new total and i've been waiting ever since. This is indeed the last time i buy from them, but they have good selection, it sucks.

2-I order books and stuff from another place, one of the items is the wrong one, (i'll ignore that it was stapled on the invoice next to the correct item description), i then email with a picture of the problem and propose to buy the wrong item at a discount instead of charging them for the shipping both ways. I even place a bigger new order and ask that they just ship the right item with that one to save them shipping. I get an answer 3 days later telling me thank you for your order!!!!! W T F
I write back asking that my email be read carefully and my questions answered. I get told that they will ship the right item as soon as they get it.

Ok, is it just ME———??

Now, with ridiculous customer service like that, annoying commercials and loud music in stores, where will i buy stuff— I like to shop, i'm a girly-girl, DESPAIR!!

Just venting, but feel free to comment. Customer service where i work sucks internally, they aren't that good, but at least they make an effort with the clients. I think.

No, it's not just you, I would have thrown some stuff and broken a few things by now if I were in your place.

I hate it when orders get fucked up, it is always a nightmare to get it straightened out.

Both of the payments cleared this morning, so they will probably ship both without having resolved the issue first. It's been over a week.

Wow. I'd *so* be writing all kinds of letters.

I'm lazy and i love to hate. :-)

Hate is love, love is hate. (With drugs, that sentence would make sense. Not that I would know)

I will say this, though: working with the public is a very difficult thing to do. You have to deal with idiots and crazy people all day long. Having had *only* customer service oriented jobs, I can safely say that the one I'm doing right now will be the last. Never again. I'm so over the attitudes, the customers thinking I have control over things I don't, the lack of respect (when those same disrespectful customers could not last .01 second doing the job I do) etc. Having to put on a happy face all day long when really I want nothing more than for all the damn people to get out of my face. I can see how people go postal.

I know that didn't have a lot to do with your post but I needed to vent for a minute 🙂

Hey, grab a machine gun. We'll tag team.

Yeah, I'm all for it!

2- Update: my new order was shipped plus the right item from the first order, "AS AGREED"
When was there an agreement?? I asked and never got an answer. Oh well, it's almost settled now, some items are BO. Imagine, it's not even over.

Machine Gun...

*hands you the ammo

(I don't know how they work, but by God everybody will die) 🙂

By me and you they will. Sad thing is i could have traded a BO item for something else they had in stock, but the order is shipped now.

I am in shock. Just like my mom's chihuahua after the teeth brushing. Oh my my...

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix

Machine gun
Tearing my body all apart

Machine gun, yeah
Tearing my body all apart

Evil man make me kill ya
Evil man make you kill me
Evil man make me kill you
Even though were only families apart

Well I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber
(you know what I mean)
Hey! and your bullets keep knocking me down

Hey, I pick up my axe and fight like a bomber now
Yeah, but you still blast me down to the ground

The same way you shoot me down, baby
Youll be going just the same
Three times the pain,
And your own self to blame
Hey, machine gun

I aint afraid of your mess no more, babe
I aint afraid no more
After a while, your, your cheap talk dont even cause me pain,
So let your bullets fly like rain

cause I know all the time youre wrong baby
And youll be going just the same
Yeah, machine gun
Tearing my family apart
Yeah, yeah, alright
Tearing my family apart

(dont you shoot him down)
(hes bout to leave here)
(dont you shoot him down)
(hes got to stay here)
(he aint going nowhere)
(hes been shot down to the ground)
(oh where he cant survive, no, no)

Yeah, thats what we dont wanna hear anymore, alright?
(no bullets)
At least here, huh huh
(no guns, no bombs)
Huh huh
(no nothin, just lets all live and live)
(you know, instead of killin)

May this be
Love or just
Confusion born out of
Frustration wracked
Feelings - of not
Being able to
Make true physical
Love to the
Universal gypsy queen
True, free expressed music
Darling guitar please
Rest. amen

and LOL @ your post 😛

Please don't mention how i am supposed to like Hendrix because i play guitar 😉

I wouldn't! Otherwise I would have by now. 😛

I've always liked him, but that started long before I played guitar. It's not a requirement or an expected connection as far as I'm concerned.

Down with all cliches

The problem is i listened to someone who followed him and liked him a lot first, Uli Jon Roth, and he's a lot better and has evolved immensely, so that's why Jimi doesn't do it for me.

Uli was in Scorpio(n)s in the 70s.

Interesting. I will be researching this Uli Jon Roth you mention. Heard of the Scorpio(n)s (lol) but have never heard of him. Better than Hendrix -- now I'm intrigued. 🙂

He has a Hendrix side, and a classical side. And very strange guitars to play each style .

Everything a person could want, all in one guy named Uli. What more could anyone ask for?

I don't think I've ever *really* listened to classical stuff. Maybe somewhere I can find his music online.

I can't wait until some day when I can afford a really cool looking guitar, mine is so boring. I got creative one day and slapped a mermaid sticker on it. lol, but I realize I can't expect a lot for a fifty dollar guitar.

And I can't wait to try electric...I've heard they're easier to play, is this urban legend or is there any truth to that, do you think?

They make thinner strings for electric guitars and a lot of players tune lower to have less tension, so it's quite true.

Cdnow.com have samples usually, Transcendental Sky Guitar, 2cds, cool stuff. And the Scorpions albums too, from 1974 to 1978.

Make sure you don't hear him sing, though. Ayayayay.

lol, checking it out right now. Thanks.

Well so far, I'm unspeakably impressed...I've never heard anyone play like that

He can play a Hendrix lick and then make his guitar sound like a violin in the next bar.

I KNOW, I'm speechless, wow.

So far, I'm liking (although this is just based on a sample) track #12 on Transcendental Sky Guitar...

Oooh, and definitely his Voodoo Child (not suprisingly) 🙂

and track 18. (I'm going to have to buy this album now)

I still have to get his Metamorphosis of Vivaldi's four seasons, there has to be some samples too.
See ya tomorrow, dweedleeee dweeedleee.

Glad you like it.

Ah, I recognize some of the Scorpions stuff. Kind of interesting to hear the tracks that weren't super popular though; kind of confirms they weren't just a hair band!

Bye! Have a good one, thanks for the suggestions! 🙂