Take that Futureshop!
Today I successfully worked the system and got some goods from the man. Here's the story as transcribed to JJK over MSN, because I am too lazy to retype it correctly.
18 months ago I bought my mp3 player, it crapped out really fast and had to be replaced, so with the replacement I decided to buy a 2 year warranty. I have always been convinced that these warranties are bullshit... still am despite this little story. Proceeded to misplace the warranty receipt (or so I thought) and so when my player started causing the blue screen of death on my pc I thought all was lost... THEN I came home and found my warranty receipt in my room. Sweet. So today I called them up and asked the guy if I could come in and get a new one, he said sure, and to ask for him specifically (manager of the section). So I did, and he basically told me that he'd give me a new player for the same value ($200). So I pulled out a new samsung one for $229, and went to do the change.
The girl at the counter tells me that the warranty only covers the current value of my old player... meanwhile, he has dissapeared to do an interview. I feign ignorance and tell her I didn't realize that, and that he told me I could get the full value (which he did). So she calls someone else, who comes up, and I feign ignorance to him and smile. He tells me he will "make me happy". $30 dollars later I walk out of there with a new player that is half the size, has 8 times the storage and won't cause blue screen of death. My sense that I had just stolen an mp3 player was so strong that it was hard not to run out of the store.
Its pretty, and somewhat diminshes my iPod urges, since for the next year and then some I will be attached to my computer all the time, and this one is big enough to keep 200 or so songs at my fingertips.
On another note, I have just had an 'ex' epiphany, not just with one ex but with two! Amazing. How that's possible I don't know, one very good and one very upsetting.
18 months ago I bought my mp3 player, it crapped out really fast and had to be replaced, so with the replacement I decided to buy a 2 year warranty. I have always been convinced that these warranties are bullshit... still am despite this little story. Proceeded to misplace the warranty receipt (or so I thought) and so when my player started causing the blue screen of death on my pc I thought all was lost... THEN I came home and found my warranty receipt in my room. Sweet. So today I called them up and asked the guy if I could come in and get a new one, he said sure, and to ask for him specifically (manager of the section). So I did, and he basically told me that he'd give me a new player for the same value ($200). So I pulled out a new samsung one for $229, and went to do the change.
The girl at the counter tells me that the warranty only covers the current value of my old player... meanwhile, he has dissapeared to do an interview. I feign ignorance and tell her I didn't realize that, and that he told me I could get the full value (which he did). So she calls someone else, who comes up, and I feign ignorance to him and smile. He tells me he will "make me happy". $30 dollars later I walk out of there with a new player that is half the size, has 8 times the storage and won't cause blue screen of death. My sense that I had just stolen an mp3 player was so strong that it was hard not to run out of the store.
Its pretty, and somewhat diminshes my iPod urges, since for the next year and then some I will be attached to my computer all the time, and this one is big enough to keep 200 or so songs at my fingertips.
On another note, I have just had an 'ex' epiphany, not just with one ex but with two! Amazing. How that's possible I don't know, one very good and one very upsetting.
posted by Care @ 1:25 a.m.
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