But Amazon does sell a lot of things that you might buy again. I’ve bought a 12-pack of the same chocolate bars from them twice so far and will do it again when the price drops.
One of my tenant’s died. Leaving a new car in the driveway. No relatives, no will. I get into the glove box and find the salesman’s card. He advises me of the bank that did the financing. I call them and I’m in the dreaded phone tree. Keep pushing zero until I get someone.
Her (after I explained the situation) - I need the acct. # or SSN of the customer
Me - sorry, I don’t have either. I can provide VIN #, name & address. Will that help?
Her - much mumbling, signing, asking repeatedly for the same information I just gave her.
Me - (losing patience) - Can you just let someone know she’s died and they need to pick up this car?
Her - sighing again - well, it’s really HARD without the SSN or account #.
HARD? I bet if I push this damn car off a cliff it will bounce. REAL HARD.
When will this sinus infection end?? I’m tired of all the drugs and near constant sinus headache!
Google Music…I understand that some obscure artists might not get auto-populated with thumbnail pictures in my library, you weren’t at the prom in 1986 when the school band was passing out their cassette demo, so your failure to thumbnail it is forgiven. Likewise, single-release Norwegian language acts may be difficult to suss out promotional pics of.
But holy hell…Cab Calloway, David Gilmour, Django Reinhardt…there were still prominent musicians before your Taylor Swift epoch.
And that is exactly who is spamming me about buying - car dealers. For me, it’s only been a month - I don’t even have the plates on yet. Do they really think I’m going to buy another one at this time?
Ridiculous. I was happy with the service I got from my car place (Hornsby Mazda for Sydneysiders playing at home) and I’ve bought two cars from them now. This sort of email nonsense could potentially send me to another dealer next time.
It isn’t the dealer I bought it from, it’s the dealers that I went to before I bought this one. It’s been a month with no response from me - buy a clue!
How do they know you already bought one?
I bought a train ticket online yesterday, to Gatwick airport, and today I’m getting bombarded with ads for train tickets to other places, for the same day, or following day. Keeps making new giggle; ooh, should I forget my diving holiday in Indonesia and just have a nice 4 hour train trip to Norwich instead? I can hardly decide!
Anyway, rant; my headphones broke just before Christmas, and my brother got me a really nice new pair as a present. Bit big to take on holiday though, so I bought a new pair of decent quality earbuds as well, which arrived yesterday. Today, my mp3 player suddenly upped and totally died (mid David Bowie album, which seems kinda right somehow). So now I have two nice shiny new sets of headphones, and nothing to use them with.
8 years I’ve had that mp3 player.
Me not responding for over a month would be a clue.
I find you oddly optimistic. Not responding takes a very long time to work. They know how much junk email you probably get, so they are hoping that persistence will pay.
Today’s whinge: It’s the middle of summer in Sydney. Bloody hot and friggin’ humid as buggery. Because I’m fat and have no suitable clothes for this weather, I decided to treat myself to something appropriate.
All the tops are either sleeveless (I’m too old and too fat for that) or long sleeve. Dresses: ditto. Fabrics are almost universally synthetic - a ridiculous option in this heat - or see through. One of the less helpful assistants suggested I could wear a cami under one of the see-through tops. Way to miss the point, lady.
These emails are coming from specific salesmen from dealers I visited or contacted in late Nov, early Dec, so it’s not just random spam. And, these are people that I told I wouldn’t be buying from them because they couldn’t do the deal I wanted. Just seems odd that they keep trying after that, and the amount of time, and the fact I’ve said nothing to them since at least a month ago.
Ugh! I’m still sick. I started getting sick mid-December and was very sick over the holidays. I started to feel better beginning of last week, but every time I try to get back to my real life, I start coughing again. I’m so very tired of coughing. I’m tired of being exhausted. I miss running. I’m starting to feel very depressed about it. 
That you told them you would not be dealing with them is new information (or I missed it) - or is it possible that you just turned down a specific deal with each of them? In any case, there is a school of salesmanship that says that persistence and perseverance over objections, refusals and even silence is a tactic that will pay off in the long run.
Today, I was stupid enough to engage the crazy. I went to a store before work and got there 10 minutes before they were open. That’s OK, I was early and I always have something to read.
Another “lady” showed up a couple of minutes after me, but still before the store was open and tried the door. I said that the store wasn’t open yet and she glared at me, then tried to open the door again.
I should have just walked away at that point, but I wasn’t thinking.
For some odd reason, the door still didn’t open for her, but she could see people inside. She started screaming at them, kicking the door and yanking at it. They ignored her. She had a total meltdown and I started laughing. I couldn’t help it.
Big mistake. She started screaming and cussing at me, got right in my face and hit my glasses with spittle in her rage. I couldn’t stop laughing which just made her madder. I think it might have gotten physical, but someone opened the door just in time.
Note to self: next time I witness someone melting down because a door won’t open magically to someone who isn’t supposed to open it…walk away and laugh my ass off out of earshot.
I hope you feel better soon.
This is a really, really minor and trivial “rant.” I had 2 prescriptions called in for refills. Neither was a rush. But this morning I got an automated recorded call from the pharmacy asking me if I still wanted my prescription or not. Well, I do, so I drove over there this afternoon. When I got there the refills were actually NOT ready. The clerk told me the price and asked if I still wanted them. Of course I do; that’s why I called in the refill. But, she says, they are expensive and we didn’t know…
Yeah, they are. Just like they have been for the past decade or so that I’ve been taking them. This is not news.
So, I had to wait 10 minutes or so while they completed the prescription, which, as I said above, is really extremely trivial in the grand scheme of things. It’s just irritating. Why didn’t an actual person call instead of using a pre-recorded message?
Because they will note that you didn’t respond out of the thousand(s) of emails they sent out in that one batch. You’re just one item on a list that gets processed. If you respond asking them to take you off their mailing list you might have better luck. It has worked for me.
Do you really think that car dealers send out thousands of personalized emails? I can’t imagine.