Today has been an awful day in terms everything that COULD go wrong HAS. I do not mean to make it sound like the world is crashing around me. Nothing serious like death, illness, famine, or war. This has just been petty corporate nonsense. Here are the highlights.

1) Transformer in the area blew just minutes before I was set to win an ebay auction that ultimately could/would have saved my $700 on an item that I will be purchasing and have been scouring to do so for a couple months.

2) Expensive cell phone that has been crapping out decides to tease me and drop in and out of data service while I am scurrying to get to that auction via my +$30 “data only” plan on my +$300 cutting edge phone. Needless to say, I never saw the auction on that phone.

3) I was doing work that subsequently has since needed to be redone as the computers went down…”Where’s your battery backup?” Hooked up, just couldn’t see the screen to save anything in my non-powered monitors.

4) Purchased a $50 iTunes card from Circuity City that said in the ad came with $15 iTunes credit and a free pre-release video/audio track. They told me at the counter, go home scratch off the number, iTunes will credit your account. It didn’t. I called them and was basically admittedly sent through hoops.

CC Guy: “You need to call Apple first and then you can call us back and we’ll be able to do something then”

GP: “I bought this from you, they will tell me to fly a kite. Then what? Call you back?”

CC Guy: “Well if they do, we can do something.”

GP: “So right now, you expect them to not do anything. You also expect me to then call you back and then you already know what you are going to offer me. So why don’t I just tell you I already did that and you can make the offer now rather than after I go through all of this?”

CC Guy: “We need some sort of reference number or something as proof.”

Sidenote is that Apple does not have an iTunes call center, ALL iTunes issues go by email and “will be answered within 48 hours” or the day after the 48 hours in my case. So this means that my Saturday night purchase could not be rectified until at least Monday at minimum. It is now Tuesday night, I have recieved my email from Apple telling me they are aware of the sale but my beef is with Circuit City. I call them back and English is not the first language of the agent I spoke with. He was prepared to offer me a $15 in store credit that could be processed in 10-15 business days. He also told my I could “try” and return it. My guess is that a store would not take back a scratched off iTunes card…even if they were the ones that told me to scratch it off. I am going to go in there when I am not so postal and see what happens.

5) I also called Best Buy to service my monster plasma tv. The guy that I spoke to sounded like he had smoked a pack a day for 80 years or so, no joke. I was on the phone with him for a total of 30 minutes or more, 6 of which were spent talking with him. I told him I needed to go to the bank, he said “give me your cell phone number and I will call you right back when I know something.” Two hours pass and nothing. I call back and after 3 minutes of getting my information, the next representative asks if I had called about that tv before. This is about when the lid flew off the pumpkin. So not only did I waste 30 minutes talking to an idiot, but apparantly that call did not exist. Then this guy goes “ooh there it is…for some reason, here is all that information. It looks like you are setup to get a call from our service department tomorrow.” I had to ask why the first guy didn’t call me back and the response I got was “simple, we [our department] aren’t allowed to make outgoing calls.” This means that this guy gathered my personal cell phone number for a reason that is not possible. Why not ask for my social security number or anything else. I call shady business on that.

Since I started writing this there have been about five other elements that have fired me up beyond belief and to be honest with you, this day has a good chance of lingering.

Pumpkin Out.

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