Pet Peeves

[piqaboo]

If ignorance is bliss, why are there so many unhappy people in the world?

Because "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."

[treebeau]

Lately I have noticed a lot of people who are fat, dumb, and happy.

Regards,
Tim B.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Lately I have noticed a lot of people who are fat, dumb, and happy...

I'd be one of them, if I didn't talk so much.

[Catmando]

Ok, I'm ticked off. Awhile ago, I placed a large CD order with Barnes & Noble (back in October!). There are still a few CD's that I haven't received yet.

Anyways, their customer service has been very poor, and I'll no longer order from B&N. I'll switch to Amazon or other internet music store.

[Trumpetmaster]

What about B.com?

I placed an order through the b.com link
2 weeks before christmas and
got the CDs in about 3 days....

[Catmando]

What about B.com?

I placed an order through the b.com link
2 weeks before christmas and
got the CDs in about 3 days....

Isn't that through Amazon TM?

[Shapley]

I order from both Barnes & Noble and Amazon frequently. I don't think I've had a problem with either of them.

B.com is affiliated with iclassics.com, from whom I've also ordered. Their service was good, but I find their site harder to search than either of the other two. Prices seem to be all over the place. Sometimes Amazon is cheaper, sometimes B&N. I think iclassics is usually in line with both, but I've not shopped there enough to be sure.

Both B&N and Amazon have a "where's my stuff" link that allows you to track your shipments.

I ordered the set of books by Eric Michaels through the Amazon link, and they took an unusually long time to ship. To be fair, though, I think it was a publisher hold-up, not an Amazon problem, since I ordered them pre-publication.

Check your order with B&N. If you check the 'hold shipment until order is complete' (which makes shipping cost lower) you will not receive your order until all backordered items are shipped.

V/R
Shapley

[Catmando]

Check your order with B&N.

I have. I've also checked with Canada Customs and Canada Post. They've all given me runabout answers, saying check w/ B&N, check with CP, etc, etc.

Basically, the order is wedged into a delivery truck crack, or someone is enjoying my CD's, aka my order is lost. And B&N won't do anything about it since it's been over 60 days.

[Shapley]

I've never waited 60 days for an order, except the Eric Michael's book or other pre-publication orders.

I usually check the 'where's my stuff link often'. Plus, B&N and Amazon send an e-mail when the packages ship, so I usually let the wife or the sitter know to expect a package. We can't always hear the UPS truck arrive, and we have a wireless doorbell which hasn't always proven reliable, so they sometimes just drop the package on the porch. That's why I like to give them a heads-up.

V/R
Shapley

[Trumpetmaster]

What about B.com?

I placed an order through the b.com link
2 weeks before christmas and
got the CDs in about 3 days....

Isn't that through Amazon TM?

Cat,

Yes it is...

BUT
When I placed a direct order with Amazon before what I ordered through B.com the direct order took 3 weeks to arrive where the B.com order took 3 days.

Note - All Items ordered were in stock..

TM

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

Amazon is my friend, and I've got that "amazon prime" deal where I give them an annual fee and they cover the ordinary and 2-day shipping costs for a year. B.com link orders included. I don't know if they order this deal in Canada but if they do, consider it!

Generally, I get things in about two days. Some oddball things take longer but hardly ever more than four. Occasionally, they can't get something and they then email me that they're cancelling that part of the order and suggest some other avenues for acquiring my heart's desire. The "where's my stuff" link almost always keeps me up-to-date, and the exceptions are mostly when a single CD has been sent in the US Mail. UPS and DHL tracking is much better than the mail.

I did order a few things through the old iclassics link, but was much less happy with the service. And the website design and search utilities on iclassics were atrocious. Amazon is much better, almost as good as eQuilter.

[jamiebk]

I ordered a movie from Amazon (Kubrick's..."A Clockwork Orange") and it took close to 4 weeks to get it. There was no indication when I ordered it that it was on backorder or anything. In fact, I keep checking "where's my stuff" and it kept giving the late delivery date but no indication as to why.

I don't think it should take a month to get a movie

[Schmeelkie]

winter peeve:
People who only clear the snow off the windows.

you need to clear off at least the lights so we can see you and if you're turning, and when you don't clear off the rest, you create a minisnowstorm behind you that no one can see through, least of all you!
Or it melts and slides onto your back window - and again, you can't see!

I even clean off the top of my minivan - and I'm only 5' 2'!

[jamiebk]

winter peeve:
People who only clear the snow off the windows.

you need to clear off at least the lights so we can see you and if you're turning, and when you don't clear off the rest, you create a minisnowstorm behind you that no one can see through, least of all you!
Or it melts and slides onto your back window - and again, you can't see!

I even clean off the top of my minivan - and I'm only 5' 2'!

I guess this would only matter to someone who lives in Rochester NY Except for a few times in Tahoe, I've never dusted snow off of my car. I must admit however to seeing cars roaring down route 80 west (from the Sierra mountains) with 12-15 inces of the white stuff glued to their roof. Of course, it usually blows off (in the face of the car behind) and/or melts as the car decends into the more temperate regions of Auburn and Sacramento.

[Trumpetmaster]

winter peeve:
People who only clear the snow off the windows.

you need to clear off at least the lights so we can see you and if you're turning, and when you don't clear off the rest, you create a minisnowstorm behind you that no one can see through, least of all you!
Or it melts and slides onto your back window - and again, you can't see!

I even clean off the top of my minivan - and I'm only 5' 2'!

I guess this would only matter to someone who lives in Rochester NY Except for a few times in Tahoe, I've never dusted snow off of my car. I must admit however to seeing cars roaring down route 80 west (from the Sierra mountains) with 12-15 inces of the white stuff glued to their roof. Of course, it usually blows off (in the face of the car behind) and/or melts as the car decends into the more temperate regions of Auburn and Sacramento.

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Cleaning your car off is very important.
A number of years back, a man who I worked with
was killed when the ice on top of a vehicle came flying off
and crashed through his windshield.

He was killed instantly.... The driver of the vehicle never knew
what their laziness cost........ as they kept going not knowing
what had happened.

[Schmeelkie]

My first year in college (Poughkeepsie, NY - that's on the Hudson between NYC and Albany) I gave my roommate, an Austin Texas native, a snowbrush and ice scraper before winter started and promised to teacher her how to use it. She had had ice on her car once or twice, but never snow.

then there was the time our senior year when she left her car on campus over winter break and had to dig it out of 3-4 feet of snow when she got back. My roommates and I were supposed to pick her up in her car when she arrived at the airport, but figured she had to see how deep her car was buried to believe it. We did help dig....

[jamiebk]

Ah yes...dealing with buried cars. I do remember my first 18 years on the planet, growing up in Western PA (Pgh) and all the snow. (family was from Erie and Buffalo). This is one of the reasons why I am happily living in Northern CA now.

[Catmando]

Latest peeve.....

Have you noticed how many "remakes" of pop/rock classics are out there these days?

I rarely ever listen to "Top 40" music anymore, except if I'm in the car with my girlfriend and her son, we share our listening time to our tastes. And when it is on a "today's pop/rock" station, it plays so many remakes of famous 70's/80's pop/rock classics. ......and most of them are terrible!

Examples:

Remakes of:

Landslide - Fleetwood Mac - remake by The Dixie Chicks.

Breakfast in America and Give a Little Bit by Supertramp (not sure on the bands who did the remakes)

Every Breath You Take - The Police (again, not sure of the remake band, but it is a hip/hop version).

There are many more, but I'll leave it at that.

Gets a major 2 from me.

[navneeth]

That's been happening a lot here as well. It's not pop and rock tunes, but those numbers which featured in (Hindi aka Bollywood) movies from a few decades back (you know how most Indian films are ). There's this DJ <Insert crazy name> who comes along and spoils a good song, with a video of scantily clad women to boot. Of course, that was about a year ago, and ever since I immersed myself into classical, I haven't bothered to look, not that I was interested in that before.

[Serenity]

Excuse me, Sorry Nav, but this is my last post before I see total board domination once again! mwa-ha-ha!