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Am I being eccentric ? Here is how I spent 4 hours at Home Depot. Because they have a policy and have no way around said policy! I bought this last week and had it delivered to Home Depot WHY? well as far as Home Depot (HD) knows I have no email address and no phone number when they gave me $100.00 discount for opening a HD credit card It took them an hour to figure out what to do about no email or phone number. It was a $500.00 purchase they had motivation By mistake gave them the wrong SS number ops Still got the CARD this is what I bought POWERTEC 71550 110" Track Saw Guide Rail Kit for Makita or Festool | Includes 2x55 Guide Rails/Protective Guide Rail Bag/Rail Connectors - Amazon.com[^] When I got it home I assembled it joined the two track's together worked great this was yesterday So today I decided to use it and began the assemble this time the track rails would not stay connected YIKES After 2 hours of fiddling I gave up and packed it up and returned it to HD no issue HERE is the killer when I got back home I realized I was using the wrong size allen key for assembly SO I rushed back to HD and explained what I did wrong and that I wanted to pay for the item I returned an hour ago I don't think we can do that because we created a return document ! The 4 hours I wasted at HD that involved two conversations with the store manager. Two resolution management employee's on the phone in Utah And best of all a store sales associate (I am being kind) and I was She said I can not order without a email or phone number Could you please come back tomorrow. Requesting the store manager he proceed to enter a new order for said item He ask if I use Carrier Pigeons to communicate when I told him I had no email or phone number B
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Am I being eccentric ? Here is how I spent 4 hours at Home Depot. Because they have a policy and have no way around said policy! I bought this last week and had it delivered to Home Depot WHY? well as far as Home Depot (HD) knows I have no email address and no phone number when they gave me $100.00 discount for opening a HD credit card It took them an hour to figure out what to do about no email or phone number. It was a $500.00 purchase they had motivation By mistake gave them the wrong SS number ops Still got the CARD this is what I bought POWERTEC 71550 110" Track Saw Guide Rail Kit for Makita or Festool | Includes 2x55 Guide Rails/Protective Guide Rail Bag/Rail Connectors - Amazon.com[^] When I got it home I assembled it joined the two track's together worked great this was yesterday So today I decided to use it and began the assemble this time the track rails would not stay connected YIKES After 2 hours of fiddling I gave up and packed it up and returned it to HD no issue HERE is the killer when I got back home I realized I was using the wrong size allen key for assembly SO I rushed back to HD and explained what I did wrong and that I wanted to pay for the item I returned an hour ago I don't think we can do that because we created a return document ! The 4 hours I wasted at HD that involved two conversations with the store manager. Two resolution management employee's on the phone in Utah And best of all a store sales associate (I am being kind) and I was She said I can not order without a email or phone number Could you please come back tomorrow. Requesting the store manager he proceed to enter a new order for said item He ask if I use Carrier Pigeons to communicate when I told him I had no email or phone number B
Choroid wrote:
I said NO I use morose code
Sending a lot of sad messages?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Am I being eccentric ? Here is how I spent 4 hours at Home Depot. Because they have a policy and have no way around said policy! I bought this last week and had it delivered to Home Depot WHY? well as far as Home Depot (HD) knows I have no email address and no phone number when they gave me $100.00 discount for opening a HD credit card It took them an hour to figure out what to do about no email or phone number. It was a $500.00 purchase they had motivation By mistake gave them the wrong SS number ops Still got the CARD this is what I bought POWERTEC 71550 110" Track Saw Guide Rail Kit for Makita or Festool | Includes 2x55 Guide Rails/Protective Guide Rail Bag/Rail Connectors - Amazon.com[^] When I got it home I assembled it joined the two track's together worked great this was yesterday So today I decided to use it and began the assemble this time the track rails would not stay connected YIKES After 2 hours of fiddling I gave up and packed it up and returned it to HD no issue HERE is the killer when I got back home I realized I was using the wrong size allen key for assembly SO I rushed back to HD and explained what I did wrong and that I wanted to pay for the item I returned an hour ago I don't think we can do that because we created a return document ! The 4 hours I wasted at HD that involved two conversations with the store manager. Two resolution management employee's on the phone in Utah And best of all a store sales associate (I am being kind) and I was She said I can not order without a email or phone number Could you please come back tomorrow. Requesting the store manager he proceed to enter a new order for said item He ask if I use Carrier Pigeons to communicate when I told him I had no email or phone number B
Uhhhh - I learned something reading your post, I'm just not sure what. :laugh:
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Choroid wrote:
I said NO I use morose code
Sending a lot of sad messages?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Uhhhh - I learned something reading your post, I'm just not sure what. :laugh:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkI am sure it was not informative Guess I am just too old and remember when business used logic to remedy a customer request In this case Home Depot would have spent a lot of money to return the item and offered no resolution that included customer satisfaction I am sure the post was not a teaching moment Except I now know how to spell Morse Code
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Not sure if the incorrect spelling was better than the correct spelling for clarity Morse Code
Morse proficiency was removed from Radio Amateur ("ham") requirements a few years ago. I am curious: (1) How many CPians actually know Morse code (at least at the Radio Amateur level)? (2) If you know (or 'have known') Morse, have you made serious use of it, e.g. for a QSL, this millennium? For myself: (1) At least I knew Morse. I wouldn't claim so today. (2) You must go a lot further back in time!
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Am I being eccentric ? Here is how I spent 4 hours at Home Depot. Because they have a policy and have no way around said policy! I bought this last week and had it delivered to Home Depot WHY? well as far as Home Depot (HD) knows I have no email address and no phone number when they gave me $100.00 discount for opening a HD credit card It took them an hour to figure out what to do about no email or phone number. It was a $500.00 purchase they had motivation By mistake gave them the wrong SS number ops Still got the CARD this is what I bought POWERTEC 71550 110" Track Saw Guide Rail Kit for Makita or Festool | Includes 2x55 Guide Rails/Protective Guide Rail Bag/Rail Connectors - Amazon.com[^] When I got it home I assembled it joined the two track's together worked great this was yesterday So today I decided to use it and began the assemble this time the track rails would not stay connected YIKES After 2 hours of fiddling I gave up and packed it up and returned it to HD no issue HERE is the killer when I got back home I realized I was using the wrong size allen key for assembly SO I rushed back to HD and explained what I did wrong and that I wanted to pay for the item I returned an hour ago I don't think we can do that because we created a return document ! The 4 hours I wasted at HD that involved two conversations with the store manager. Two resolution management employee's on the phone in Utah And best of all a store sales associate (I am being kind) and I was She said I can not order without a email or phone number Could you please come back tomorrow. Requesting the store manager he proceed to enter a new order for said item He ask if I use Carrier Pigeons to communicate when I told him I had no email or phone number B
Isn't it a lesser trouble if the email / phone number is just given to HD? Time taken to delete unwanted mails, messages is much lesser than the waiting time there, isn't it?
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Am I being eccentric ? Here is how I spent 4 hours at Home Depot. Because they have a policy and have no way around said policy! I bought this last week and had it delivered to Home Depot WHY? well as far as Home Depot (HD) knows I have no email address and no phone number when they gave me $100.00 discount for opening a HD credit card It took them an hour to figure out what to do about no email or phone number. It was a $500.00 purchase they had motivation By mistake gave them the wrong SS number ops Still got the CARD this is what I bought POWERTEC 71550 110" Track Saw Guide Rail Kit for Makita or Festool | Includes 2x55 Guide Rails/Protective Guide Rail Bag/Rail Connectors - Amazon.com[^] When I got it home I assembled it joined the two track's together worked great this was yesterday So today I decided to use it and began the assemble this time the track rails would not stay connected YIKES After 2 hours of fiddling I gave up and packed it up and returned it to HD no issue HERE is the killer when I got back home I realized I was using the wrong size allen key for assembly SO I rushed back to HD and explained what I did wrong and that I wanted to pay for the item I returned an hour ago I don't think we can do that because we created a return document ! The 4 hours I wasted at HD that involved two conversations with the store manager. Two resolution management employee's on the phone in Utah And best of all a store sales associate (I am being kind) and I was She said I can not order without a email or phone number Could you please come back tomorrow. Requesting the store manager he proceed to enter a new order for said item He ask if I use Carrier Pigeons to communicate when I told him I had no email or phone number B
Hmm. All I can say is that whoever is actually at "test@test.com" gets a lot of spam that people thought they were sending to me. Similarly 07555-555555 is one unlucky number. Much, much simpler than the hassle of not having comms at all.
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Morse proficiency was removed from Radio Amateur ("ham") requirements a few years ago. I am curious: (1) How many CPians actually know Morse code (at least at the Radio Amateur level)? (2) If you know (or 'have known') Morse, have you made serious use of it, e.g. for a QSL, this millennium? For myself: (1) At least I knew Morse. I wouldn't claim so today. (2) You must go a lot further back in time!
1. I know a tiny, teeny bit of morse code 2. I use it pretty much every day My company initials are SOS and my logo is formed of three circles, a gap, three rounded oblongs, a gap, and three circles. :-D :laugh: :-D
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Hmm. All I can say is that whoever is actually at "test@test.com" gets a lot of spam that people thought they were sending to me. Similarly 07555-555555 is one unlucky number. Much, much simpler than the hassle of not having comms at all.
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Yes I have used my first ever email address when we had dial up dwight@ezo.net company is out of business Thought about a bogus phone number did not someone else to get a spam phone call Considered not being on the net but it is my educational tool to learn programming and woodworking and national news Gave up TV in 1998 Grew up in Canton, Ohio you put an antenna up and watched news from Cleveland, Ohio market
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Isn't it a lesser trouble if the email / phone number is just given to HD? Time taken to delete unwanted mails, messages is much lesser than the waiting time there, isn't it?
I tend to agree My initial approach to this issue was to give bogus email and phone number but the Credit Card seems to have my phone number tied to it for fraud so not a practical idea YES I can delete spam email except at the time I was not using Proton Mail which in 3 years I have never had one spam e-mail NOW if I want to communicate with a company I know will spam me I just create a new Proton Mail email address and delete the email address after I am done with that company I have used the White House Phone number or BBB but very seldom
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Morse proficiency was removed from Radio Amateur ("ham") requirements a few years ago. I am curious: (1) How many CPians actually know Morse code (at least at the Radio Amateur level)? (2) If you know (or 'have known') Morse, have you made serious use of it, e.g. for a QSL, this millennium? For myself: (1) At least I knew Morse. I wouldn't claim so today. (2) You must go a lot further back in time!
I never learned Morse code, but I earned a semaphore merit badge in the scouts, some 600 years ago, give or take.
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