About two years ago, I bought a Sony receiver at The Other Evil Place Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken (initials are CC). I don’t usually buy extended warranties, but I did so in this case. The receiver had cost $350 and the three-year warranty was an extra $50 or so (I can’t recall exactly). Well, last night I discovered that the left channel had disappeared completely. I checked all the wiring to make sure it wasn’t a bad wire or conecction.
Of course, I couldn’t lay my hands on the warranty (although I had just had my hands on it a few weeks ago while spring cleaning), so I called CC to make sure it was still in effect. Luckily, it still had a year left on it (I wasn’t sure if it was a two or three warranty).
I took the receiver to CC. It was the first time I’d step foot in the place since the Playstation 2 debacle of last year. I walked to the counter, got the thing written up and immediately walked out. I will have to go back in a couple of weeks to pick it, of course.
I feel so unclean. Ick…
Linky-link?
You’ll need to bathe in tomato juice to get the smell out.
Rather than torture the hamsters by seacrhing for an old thread, I’ll recap:
Christmas 2001 I buy my son a PS2. We get it set up and it doesn’t play any PS1 games. I check with Sony and they say an early batch of PS2s have this problem and to take it back for an exchange. I call CC and ask if they have any in stock. They say yes, no problem. I take it back only to find they don’t have any (or at least that’s what I’m told). I ask when they’ll have some more and am told by the Wage-slave at the counter that they aren’t going to carry them anymore! I asked, “You aren’t going to carry the most popular game system in the world anymore?”. I am told, “Yes, that’s right.” To say she was rude would be an insult to the word.
I get a refund. I am so stunned by this news that I call the store the next day and asked a manager if this is true. He tells me, “That’s ridiculous. I have an entire wall of them right now. We have no intention of discontinuing them. Who told you that?”. I give him the name of the Wage-slave. He says, “Well, she isn’t a salesperson, so she doesn’t know what we carry.” (insert stunned smiley here).
I say, “Well, if she doesn’t know what you are or are or not going to sell, why is she saying anything?”
He has no answer. He does invite to come down and buy a new PS2. I decline. I go to Sears and buy one.
I have not been there since. I’m sure they miss me. :rolleyes:
Evil place? I thought you meant Microsoft. Or the Motor Vehicle Licensing Office.
Glad to hear you were in one of the Lesser Evils. 
Feh, today I was at THE Evil Place… the Revenue Office. The real one, Departamento de Hacienda central office (KarlGrenze would know my pain, were she in this thread) And my business even included paying for renewal of my Vehicle Registration. Yes, I compounded two evils in one prolonged visit. Hell, by next month I’ll be there getting a certification that I am up-to-date on my taxes. Oh Joy.