I agree with the content of pkbites’ first post, if not its tone. When I was in college, I “donated” (read: sold) my plasma twice a week, often so my family and I could have a little extra money. In general, we paid our bills on time and were relatively secure, but had little left over for extras. The extra 20 or 30 bucks a week meant I could buy a book I had my eye on, or maybe that we could go out to dinner or to see a movie.
Plus, hell, it gave me extra reading time, as I sat there for an hour while the plasma machine whirled my blood around and extracted the plasma. I’ll never forget the feeling of my red cells, sans plasma, being put back into my veins… slightly cool. And the first time I went to give plasma, I was (by chance, not design) reading Interview with the Vampire. No joke.
Seriously, though, when you’re hard up for money in college and don’t have the time to get a second job, selling plasma can be a good way to get a little bit of extra cash for the stuff you want. And now that I think about it, some of my plasma has probably already been used, possibly to help someone who needed it. That’s a pretty good feeling, too.
Hey, sometimes $8 is a big deal to me too. Will you send me money?
Seriously, I don’t know if this is a viable option for you, or even worth it since you no longer have a subway pass, but you can return any merchandise to a disney store for a full refund for any reason. You won’t lose S&H costs this way. Does your e-mail offer apply to internet purchases only? Using the store locator and you listed location, there are 3 stores withing 11 miles of you.
Reversing the charges might be more of a hassle than returning the thing, depending on your card company.
Really, the easiest thing to do would be to eat the cost and hate Disney for the rest of your natural life, much as I do.
Or you can call back, and remember rule #1: No customer service person will ever give you the same answer as the previous customer service person. Ever.
Why? Because I said I had it rough in college but it sounds like Daniel has rougher?
Some of you are misreading the tone of my post! You’re interpreting things wrong. Knock it off!
Trust me, you will know when I’m trying to be a prick! This ain’t it!
Almost every store now days has a price guarentee, where if they or someone else has the same product for a lower price within (usually 30 days) they’ll refund the difference.
Disneystore would rather keep your 8 bucks and lose you as a customer. By the way, can we know how much the watch was before the sale?
For me, the issue is not the money - whether it’s 80 cents or 800 dollars - but the fact that Disney is being SUCH A FUCKING ARSE about a discount it could so easily afford to give (and is giving to other buyers).
They should be trying to encourage etailers, not piss them off. The little it costs them to extend a promotion compared to the good will they receive is just less than nothing.
So I don’t think so much you got screwed, Daniel, as Disney are really screwing themselves.
I’d hate to see how you act when you’re trying to be a prick. It’s been more than twenty years since you got out of college, and you still haven’t learned how to act like a grown-up. Here’s a free tip: if people take offence when none is meant, the proper response isn’t “Fuck you, I’m not being offensive.” It’s “I’m sorry, I worded that poorly.”
Wow, I’m surprised that as big an operation as the Disney store wouldn’t give you the sale price!
Most major stores do. I made a fairly large purchase for drapes last year from Penney’s, about 2 weeks later, all the sudden they had this FANTASTIC drapery sale on the very style that I’d purchased, something like from $5 - $25 lower per piece depending upon the piece of drapery.
I called them up and they refunded the difference to me. Did you go to the highest department you could?
If you don’t get satisfaction with a “mere” clerk, ask for the supervisor, or a much higher up.
If you get that angry and worked up over $8, you have a problem, and it’s nothing to do with money. You can afford a whimsical watch. You can afford an education. You have a computer, or access to one. Suck it up and quit whining.
Ever been frustrated by a store employee’s rudeness? Ever been on hold for 30 minutes only to be told that “There’s nothing we can do”? Ever felt cheated out of something? I’m pretty sure it’s not the $8, but the general crappiness of the situation.
Or maybe it’s the hold music Disney plays. That would make anyone cranky.
CanvasShoes, it’s not that he bought something and then they had a sale and they’re being dicks about it, it’s that he bought something and got sent a promotion code as a thank-you for the order. Welcome to the world of online retail. They won’t give him the promotional discount on this order. That would defeat the entire purpose of the promotion.
Daniel, if they’re telling you it hasn’t shipped yet but you still can’t cancel the order, that’s total bullshit. Get back on their site and read their return/shipping policies. If it actually says that, you’re fucked, but at least now everybody in the world knows not to shop at that site. If it doesn’t say that, call your credit card company. You’ll win – trust me, having been on the retail side of countless credit card chargebacks, I know.
Often when you save up for something that you’ve been planning for a while, two days after you buy it, you’ll see it in another shop on sale. It’s like a consumer edition of Murphy’s Law or something.
If it will really bug you and spoil your appreciation of the watch, I’d make sure the order was cancelled and I’d buy a different watch. Otherwise I’d try to be a bit more philosophical about the situation and remind myself that I was prepared to spend $X on the watch. Give a shrug to the universe and groan “Typical!” then move on.
I’d already budgeted the money for this, but the point is the whole experience left me feeling like I’d just thrown a handful of money away. Part of it was the bad customer service, and part of it was that Disneystore seemed to be going out of its way to put me in a situation where I’d realize how bad their customer service is.
Well, it still hasn’t shipped, so I guess I get to call again tomorrow and see if I have better luck then.
And at least I got a decently popular pit thread out of the whole ordeal
Hey I’m not the one ordering a cartoon watch meant for children!
Okay, I totally didn’t mean that.
In fact, my own wife would kick my ass if she read that. She’s always making comments to me about how strange I am about cartoons. How I’d rather watch Disney Toon or Cartoon Network rather than the evening news.
In fact, if it wasn’t for Donald Duck being on the watch I wouldn’t even be interested in any of this.
