"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
02/13/2018 at 21:38 • Filed to: None
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"ImmoralMinority" (araimondo)
02/13/2018 at 21:38 • Filed to: None | 12
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Some of you may remember when I posted about purchasing a very expensive, fancy refrigerator.
It worked like a damn dream...at first. Then it just got less cold. So I called it in.
It is just a part, they said.
Ran when parked, I said.
The part turned out to be a power converter that had to be shipped from fucking Tatooine.
Seriously, I have bought homemade Japanese car trim parts off eBay from random people in Asia that took less time to arrive.
The part arrived, and the techs came for the big install. This took about a month.
Tech: We are done.
Me: Does it work?
Tech: It’ll kick on in a minute.
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Me: It’s been more than a minute.
Tech: I gotta make a call.
They don’t know what is wrong or how to fix it.
In light of the nightmare and horrible warranty support, I was upset. I paid more for this fridge than I did for the Sunchaser, Vespa, T Bird, and Cresida combined. Can I give you some free advice? Don’t do this shit when your customer is a lawyer, especially when it is me.
THE OUTCOME:
1. Brand new replacement fancy fridge
2. 2 year extended warranty and service plan ($798 retail)
3. $1600 cash refund (MOTHERFUCKING CAR PARTS)
To paraphrase Mr. Bukowski, I broke them like a wooden match.
CB
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:02 |
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I am both impressed and terrified.
shop-teacher
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:07 |
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Well done sir, well done.
My parents used to have a dishwasher, an expensive one, that couldn’t clean a dish no matter how many parts got thrown at it.
His Stigness
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:08 |
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Haha nice job!
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:21 |
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There is nothing as infuriating as buying the absolute best and having it go to shit.
someassemblyrequired
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:22 |
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Ha you’re going to convince some younger Oppo to go to law school with talk like that.
Spridget
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:32 |
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Wait . . . you managed to make money by having a broken fridge, right?
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shop-teacher
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:39 |
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Unrelated, but I thought of you this morning. I haven’t seen a second gen Aurora in years, but this morning I parked next to this.
smobgirl
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
02/13/2018 at 22:44 |
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I will say, it makes folks like me more content knowing I’ll never afford said fancy fridge.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 22:52 |
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\0/
Win!
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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> smobgirl
02/13/2018 at 23:31 |
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The cash refund is more than my last fancy frig cost.
415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
> ImmoralMinority
02/13/2018 at 23:43 |
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So they shipped it from Tosche Station? Was it the power converter?
They started our union negotiations, I wanted to get a higher rate for being on the outside of the building in the swing stage. We get high time 10% for being in a lift of any kind, but almost nobody wants to get in the swing stage and you have to be a graphics applicator to even do the job so it’s pretty niche. We also have to deal with weather, I don’t think it’s in the proposal, I guess there was an ideas meeting and I didn’t know. But they are expanding Moscone Center so some shows that skip SF because of square footage will be able to come here, it’s not a bad position for us, the city is building so much and most shows should be coming, so they need us!
Scary__goongala!
> ImmoralMinority
02/14/2018 at 00:18 |
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Damn, you didn’t just drop the mic. You slammed that shit into the ground harder than a Storm Trooper hitting a tree on the moon of Endor.
random001
> ImmoralMinority
02/14/2018 at 06:27 |
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So...can I call you to negotiate a car deal for me? Because....damn....
diplodicus
> ImmoralMinority
02/14/2018 at 09:06 |
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It’s a German fridge isn’t it.
DipodomysDeserti
> ImmoralMinority
02/14/2018 at 10:38 |
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After buying new appliances when I first bought my house, I’ll never buy new shit again. It’s all made like crap and is meant to be replaced. Retro appliances from here on out.
RallyWrench
> Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
02/14/2018 at 13:37 |
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This is what keeps me employed, yet despite my advice, people keep buying German cars.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> ImmoralMinority
02/14/2018 at 14:33 |
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Very nice. Good negotiating sir, but that is literally what you do for a living, so i would be disappointed otherwise.