The Wrong Card

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Really… I have NO idea what to title this thread.

Two weeks ago today I took my laptop into Computers Plus for repair. Turns out it was unrepairable and I ended up buying a new Acer desktop from them. I had forgotten and left my camera’s memory card stuck in the little slot on the side of the laptop, but I told them, and they gave it back to me.

Or… that was the theory, anyway.

I also had to buy an external card reader that plugs into the computer with a USB cable. But I’m getting ahead of myself here. They taped the memory card to the packaging and I brought it home.

I have not had time to take any pictures and hadn’t messed with it. Yesterday was a beautiful, warm, sunny day and I thought I would do some hobby model horse pictures. Spent about a half an hour setting up my scenery, got the horses I wanted to photograph dusted and ready, popped the card in my camera and began. I took 5 pictures and the message pops up on the camera- Memory full. WTF? No… no it isn’t. My card held like 1500 pictures, and I know I was nowhere near that. I began viewing the pictures, and after the 5 I had just taken, there were… pictures of some strange Indian children I have never seen in my life.

Yes, my friends, they gave me someone else’s memory card. A very small card.

I was so pissed I could have bitten a nail in half.

So… since it was Christmas day I knew I couldn’t call about it, so I figured I would download the 5 pictures I had gotten; I plugged the USB cable into the computer and then into the reader… and IMMEDIATELY the cord got scorching hot… To the point the rubber got soft & began MELTING. I unplugging it right away.

This morning I called Computers Plus and they said ‘they hadn’t seen another card’ laying around, but they will get the card reader taken care of. I had to bite my tongue… but what about my card? There are irreplacable pictures on it. Non-commital. “We’ll keep looking for it.”

So… here it is. I am probably out my card, all my pictures, gone. I am incredibly sad and pissed.

Don’t know why I did this thread. Just venting, I suppose.

sigh

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Wow, I’m enraged on your behalf! Maybe the Indian family has your card.

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That’s what I am wondering, and HOPING that they are honest… because instead of ther small memory card with 20 or so pictures of their kids they got a HUGE memory card filled with pictures of plastic horses and my beloved dogs. It would be SO easy for them to just delete my pictures and have a nice big card to do what they want with. :frowning:

Since it’s been almost 2 weeks, I don’t hold much hope of getting that card back.

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Don’t worry. The Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

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:confused: Am I being whooshed? I have NO idea what you are talking about…

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Mission Impossible

The mission would be on a tape recording which would then burn up after playing. The phrase was uttered right before destruction.

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Ah, gotcha. I was never a Mission Impossible fan.

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This morning’s ‘update’:

I had been told I would be called today and was not, so I called them back. Talked to a manager that verbally patted me on the head and said I must be mistaken, that HAD to be my card I was given.

I beg your pardon?

I do not, nor have I ever had a bunch of indian/Hindu-ish childre. I think I know the differece between my dogs and these kids. He said the chance of me being given the wrong card was about the same as winning the lottery, to which I said I had better run outy asnd buy a ticket then.

He was VERY comdescending in attitude and said they would keep looking but they had already looked and it’s not there. I replied ‘so I’m basically out of luck then?’ to which HE replied, and I quote:

“Mmm hmm.”

I am one unhappy bitch right now. I am spreading the word about Computers Plus anywhere and everywhere- Craigslist, local newspaper letter to the editor, FaceBook… anyone I talk to.

I am one pissy bitch right now. I hate being talked down to and that is exactly what he was doing.

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Exactly. Nobody would suspect you. So they put the photos and instructions for your mission (which would involve an Indian orphanage) on the memory card. Your mission, had you chosen to accept it, was to put the Corrupt Dictator of the Banana Republic of Santa Fictiono out of business for good.

Doesn’t everyone know how this is supposed to work?

However, by returning the memory card, you are refusing to accept the mission.

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So… I’m supposed to do…something… to 2 little Indian girls about 9 or 10 years old and an Indian teenage boy? Okey-dokey.

Right now I’d rather skewer the dickwad that exchanged the memory cards…

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That is really upsetting. I don’t blame you for being angry.

Did you ask the company if they have made any effort to contact the Indian family? (I would think they have some records on who has dropped off a computer or card lately).
If you’d be willing to accept it, maybe you could try negotiating for store credit for some percentage of the value of the card at least? How much do you think the card was worth?

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As of today, I have a very happy update: My card was found! I ran to the store & got it and all is well with the world. They also replaced the defective card reader with a working one.

I am happy.

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Did you make some snarky comment about going to play the lottery? Because I would have been biting my tongue myself.

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Glad to hear it. Now go do two things:

1.) Back up your pictures on your computer and probably at least one other place

2.) Call the condescending manager and tell him “Neener neener neener.”

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Glad to hear it. A couple follow-up points:

  1. Did they say how they found it, or how they missed it the first time they looked? Maybe the Indian family did bring it in. You have someone to thank in any case.

  2. If you were bad mouthing Computers Plus everywhere you could, have you gone back to all those places and corrected the record?

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Photos are backed up to a disc & on computer, and as I was leaving, I turned around and said, “I’ll be stopping to buy my lottery ticket at Thornton’s.” He was at the counter and just laughed.

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They just said they found it and I was too happy to think to ask where. I did thank them profously. And yes, I have corrected my bad publicity.

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The guy was still a dick to you, and unwilling to take responsibility for their screw-up. You have every reason to tell people not to use their service.

Glad everything worked out though!

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I just read this thread for the first time. At the beginning I was certain that you were out of luck and I was feeling very bad for you.

I’m happy to see that it worked out so well! :smiley:

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But did they identify the Indian family whose card you had?

I’m a bit flabbergasted that they told you it couldn’t be the wrong card. How could you be mistaken about that? I am very happy for you, but I don’t think you need to go scrub all those other posts.