Originally Posted by
rickthedrummer
I hate scammers, hackers, whatever. Anyone who inflicts themselves in my life without my consent, is going to have a problem.
I don't want to jump on Mark's thread, but even "legit" companies can screw with you.
Several years ago, I bought a printer from X company. I bought it, put it in the closet knowing I was going to be gone for 4+ months.
When I got back home, I hooked the printer up, and for a couple of days it worked fine. Then it started putting lines across any page I printed and basically ruined pictures.
I called customer service and told them what was happening. The person I talked to told me that 90 days had passed so I couldn't take it back to the store, and that I had to put it back in the box and send it back to them on my dime. The conversation was longer than that and I was pretty pi$$ed.
I said to this person that I wanted them to listen to something. We lived in a 2nd floor apt overlooking the water. Directly below us was a sidewalk about 8' wide. I took said printer out on the little balcony we had and dropped it over the railing, and grabbed the phone before it hit the ground. I then asked this person if they heard that, which they did (it did make a racket when it hit the ground). I told them that that was their printer, laying down there in quite a few pieces. I then told them that I was going to put the pieces in a box, take it to the store I bought it from, go down the printer aisle, dump it out on the floor, and tell people not to buy this piece of junk.
2 days later, before I had a chance to go back to the store, Fed-Ex or UPS brought me a box containing a new printer with 4-5 extra ink cartridges and a letter of apology from some middle management minion.
Never heard from them again.
Point being that not only scammers will mess with you, but legit business's will if you let them.
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