Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[subzero]

Took extra precautions to avoid poison ivy, still got that shit all over my arms and hands.

You don't seem to do very well outdoors.

[Androidpk]

You don't seem to do very well outdoors.

I may lose some battles but I'm winning the war.

[Wrathbringer]

My glasses had been missing for almost 24 hours. My wife found them in the bathroom medicine cabinet. ???????????????

[Gelston]

My glasses had been missing for almost 24 hours. My wife found them in the bathroom medicine cabinet. ???????????????

I knew you were a pill popper. Now to stop imagining you have a wife.

[Tgo01]

I almost had to go Chuck Norris on the manager at Costco today.

Yesterday I saw an 8 pack of solar powered LED pathway markers that were already a pretty good price at 30 dollars but they had a manufacturer's rebate of 10 dollars making each pathway marker only 2.50. These are pretty nice ones too, not those really tiny ones that you can hardly see and look like they would break if you looked at them wrong.

So anyways. They had two different kinds going for the rebate, both an 8 pack but the others were 35 dollars with the rebate. I didn't really like the look of the other ones so I bought one box of the cheaper ones to see if I would like the way they look in my yard and I figured if I liked them and wanted more I could always buy more because the rebate offer was good on both sets of pathway lights until the 1st of June.

I go back today and notice the rebate offer was pulled from the ones I liked yet the other one was still up. After getting the guy at the customer service desk to agree I should get them at the cheaper price he asks his supervisor or whatever and she tells him to tell us no, because she's apparently a pussy and couldn't tell us herself, even though she was close enough that I could hear what she was saying. So I find the store manager and tell him everything, saying yesterday the sign said clear as day the offer was good until June 1st.

He was skeptical, saying "No, we never advertise when a sale on an item is going to end." I'm like the fuck you don't. I take him over to the pathway lights and show him the other rebate offer that is still up, saying plain as day "Offer good through June 1st."

He kind of brushed this aside and said "Are you sure you weren't just confusing the two?" I'm thinking, no, I can read, idiot. You're the store manager and apparently didn't even know you advertise when sales end so let's not try to talk about my intelligence here.

"Well, prices are subject to change anytime we feel like it." Fuck that shit, not when you advertise that the price is good until a certain date. I mean sure, if you want to be complete fuck nuggets but at least admit you are complete fuck nuggets.

I said look, if it wasn't for the sign stating the sale would have been good until the first I would have just bought them all yesterday but I figured I was good since it said the offer was good until the first. Then he brings out the stupid "prices subject to change" bullshit again and says "You really should have just bought them all yesterday and not come back today to get them." Really? I wonder what his boss would say if he's telling people not to come back to the store 2 days in a row. I bet every store in the world would love it if their customers would come to their store everyday. In fact, isn't that like the number one obstacle of most brick and mortar stores these days; getting people to even enter their store?

Finally he says he'll allow me to buy just four more at most at the discounted price (having to show he's in charge or something even though I told him I only wanted 4 more anyways) but then says "I can't do this for you in the future because you know we're losing money on this now."

Like I give a fuck if Costco is losing money on this? Trust me, I am losing zero sleep over this. Well, okay, maybe 1 second of sleep. Tops!

[Gelston]

I almost had to go Chuck Norris on the manager at Costco today.

Yesterday I saw an 8 pack of solar powered LED pathway markers that were already a pretty good price at 30 dollars but they had a manufacturer's rebate of 10 dollars making each pathway marker only 2.50. These are pretty nice ones too, not those really tiny ones that you can hardly see and look like they would break if you looked at them wrong.

So anyways. They had two different kinds going for the rebate, both an 8 pack but the others were 35 dollars with the rebate. I didn't really like the look of the other ones so I bought one box of the cheaper ones to see if I would like the way they look in my yard and I figured if I liked them and wanted more I could always buy more because the rebate offer was good on both sets of pathway lights until the 1st of June.

I go back today and notice the rebate offer was pulled from the ones I liked yet the other one was still up. After getting the guy at the customer service desk to agree I should get them at the cheaper price he asks his supervisor or whatever and she tells him to tell us no, because she's apparently a pussy and couldn't tell us herself, even though she was close enough that I could hear what she was saying. So I find the store manager and tell him everything, saying yesterday the sign said clear as day the offer was good until June 1st.

He was skeptical, saying "No, we never advertise when a sale on an item is going to end." I'm like the fuck you don't. I take him over to the pathway lights and show him the other rebate offer that is still up, saying plain as day "Offer good through June 1st."

He kind of brushed this aside and said "Are you sure you weren't just confusing the two?" I'm thinking, no, I can read, idiot. You're the store manager and apparently didn't even know you advertise when sales end so let's not try to talk about my intelligence here.

"Well, prices are subject to change anytime we feel like it." Fuck that shit, not when you advertise that the price is good until a certain date. I mean sure, if you want to be complete fuck nuggets but at least admit you are complete fuck nuggets.

I said look, if it wasn't for the sign stating the sale would have been good until the first I would have just bought them all yesterday but I figured I was good since it said the offer was good until the first. Then he brings out the stupid "prices subject to change" bullshit again and says "You really should have just bought them all yesterday and not come back today to get them." Really? I wonder what his boss would say if he's telling people not to come back to the store 2 days in a row. I bet every store in the world would love it if their customers would come to their store everyday. In fact, isn't that like the number one obstacle of most brick and mortar stores these days; getting people to even enter their store?

Finally he says he'll allow me to buy just four more at most at the discounted price (having to show he's in charge or something even though I told him I only wanted 4 more anyways) but then says "I can't do this for you in the future because you know we're losing money on this now."

Like I give a fuck if Costco is losing money on this? Trust me, I am losing zero sleep over this. Well, okay, maybe 1 second of sleep. Tops!

Threaten to slip next time.

[Tgo01]

Threaten to slip next time.

Oh believe me, that was the next trick up my sleep. Pour a gallon of water on the ground and say "My mother just got 6 figures from Home Depot for a 'slip and fall' accident. Sure would be a shame if the same thing happened to your store..."

[Ker_Thwap]

Oh believe me, that was the next trick up my sleep. Pour a gallon of water on the ground and say "My mother just got 6 figures from Home Depot for a 'slip and fall' accident. Sure would be a shame if the same thing happened to your store..."

Rebates are for impulse buy suckers. Make sure you post your next frown thread, when you mail in the receipt, they attach it to one UPC and deny three of the four rebates for lack of proof. Then again when they sell your marketing information to all of China. It's going to be hard to post it when your head explodes.

[Androidpk]

Threaten to slip next time.

Or threaten to cancel his membership again.

[Ker_Thwap]

Or threaten to cancel his membership again.

I see what you did there.