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~All the accumulated knowledge, experience, and suffering of mankind is inside you. You must build a huge bonfire within you. Then you will become an individual. There is no other way. ~~~U.G. Krishnamurti
"I don't know whose water this is, but I'm drinkin it so F you."~~~Dale
"He is a wook in sheep's clothing."~~~Popsicle Sarah
I just got into a shouting match with a telemarketer who had the bad luck to robocall me and then mock me when I told him that I was on the "do not call" list. It ended with me turning him into the FTC and him accusing me of making Terroristic Threats. Seriously? I can't even shoot a water gun straight.
Post by NothingButFlowers on Nov 6, 2012 23:54:46 GMT -5
Damn! I just defriended someone on Facebook the other day for posting ridiculous messages about how Obama hates America and is just out to destroy the country. Why could I not have waited a few weeks so that I could see her posts tomorrow?
Columbia, SC is a true dead zone for music concerts... the only notable things we get around here are the most mainstream of the mainstream pop, rap, and country (Miley Cyrus, Soulja Boy, Kenny Chesney, etc), tired ass 90s radio rock (RHCP, Pearl Jam), the occasional mid scale legend (Merle Haggard, George Jones, George Clinton), and the rare Prince... aside from that, Columbia is over saturated by indie-folk and "dirty south" rappers, and these acts make up a majority of the club scene. We have a "punk" club that is an absolute mess of an establishment that every once in a blue moon gets an old act that was once somewhat relevant, or something really obscure... but it's mostly local Misfits cover bands and people trying to be the next Modest Mouse.
How, in the middle of all this, has an act like Pretty Lights been able to become something of a regular attraction here??? I just found out he has a show this Friday... somehow, I guess, they have become a popular semi-big arena and large club act... how can't we get more of these types of acts? Not this type of music, but this level of popularity? I know that the University has something to do with it with a band like that, but god, this town sucks...
Essentially, the reason for my biznatching is... we have the resources, the venues, and I'm sure we have the demographic to be a decent concert town, but there's something not right. Bad booking? A history of poor turn out? If we can get Pretty Lights on a somewhat regular basis, why not for something else that's pretty popular on that level? I know he isn't one of a kind, that's for sure...
Post by itrainmonkeys on Nov 9, 2012 14:22:20 GMT -5
Still waiting on a deluxe package for the Avett Brothers last album. I preordered in August and was one of the first 500 to get it. It's now November 9th and I don't have it. Album came out on September 11th. Here's one thing I've posted to try and get this resolved but haven't been able to yet:
I have contacted customer service multiple times. 3 e-mails in the past 7 days and no response. And those are just in the past week...I've sent multiple e-mails trying to resolve this but keep getting form responses or no response at all. I'm supposed to be receiving a phone call about my order because they say my payment had an issue but nothing yet. I pre-ordered this in August and it was supposed to come out Sept 11th. Then I had to wait until October 1st. On October 1st it was back ordered until October 17th. On October 17th it was back ordered once again. It is now November 9th...which is a full 14 days after I was told that my deluxe package would ship overnight to me. I was one of the first 500 people to order this and now I'm probably the last to get it. Terrible, terrible experience.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Nov 9, 2012 14:51:48 GMT -5
It's MyPlayDirect which is an offshoot of Sony/BMG. The thing that frustrates me the most is that all of this could be resolved if I just had a semi-capable person get on the phone with me. But I have absolutely no number to reach them at and have been waiting for them to call me over a week now. I just got an e-mail response to my complaint a few days ago and it pretty much just told me "Sorry....someone will contact you at some point". So basically....nothing has changed.
The package got "backordered" multiple times with no explanation or notice. Then I was told they would overnight my package to me and after I didn't get it yet I checked the order status and they said something was wrong with the payment but I would never have known that if I didn't look myself. They didn't notify me or anything.
This is easily the worst customer service i've had to deal with.
Apparently what threw off the wankers with the Roll Call packages was running out of certain sized t-shirts.
Sounds like a very similarly frustrating situation, although with a different company. Sounds like we could swoop in and corner the market...
There's a handful of things:
Inside this beautiful, genuine pine box, adorned with a burned-in Avett Brothers design you’ll find the following:
Thirteen 12x12 Two Sided 2013 Calendar & Lyric Prints
Seven 12x12 High Quality Photo Prints
12x12 Exclusive Letterpress Art Print
The Carpenter 180 Gram Double Vinyl Gatefold Package
Exclusive 6-song CD of Demo Recordings from The Carpenter, not available anywhere else!
I also made sure I was one of the first 500 to order so I got some autographed thing and a 7" vinyl of some other songs.
From what I could gather from a few other disgruntled customers there was an issue with the vinyl record pressing, which is why I was fine when the backorder went from September 11th to October 1st and then to October 17th. Whatever....I can be patient...I know Vinyl can be tricky. A littler after the 17th they had the vinyl package back up for sale and it said "In Stock - Ships in 1 or 2 days" which angered me beyond belief. Once it got towards November I started to get really annoyed....mainly at the lack of any respectable customer service. Multiple form letter responses that piss me off more and more.
I have now e-mailed myplaydirect (no help), sent a message to their facebook page (no help), posted on their facebook wall (was told to e-mail them to get my order status....so no help), posting on the Avett Brothers crappy message board (no help) and have even resorted to sending facebook messages to the Avett Brothers manager to see if maybe they can do anything at all.
That's what you get for spending money on the Bluegrass Jonas Brothers.
Yea.....kinda regretting it now unless I can somehow get it worked out soon. It's a clear case of the big corporation they are now attached to not giving a crap about customer happiness.
As I said...the main thing that bothers me so much is the terrible customer service and lack of any kind of notification/response. Also, they e-mailed me a survey asking me to fill out how much I'm enjoying the package I ordered and that sent me over the edge.
That's what you get for spending money on the Bluegrass Jonas Brothers.
Yea.....kinda regretting it now unless I can somehow get it worked out soon. It's a clear case of the big corporation they are now attached to not giving a crap about customer happiness.
As I said...the main thing that bothers me so much is the terrible customer service and lack of any kind of notification/response. Also, they e-mailed me a survey asking me to fill out how much I'm enjoying the package I ordered and that sent me over the edge.
Have they already charged your card? Can you cancel your order?
Yea.....kinda regretting it now unless I can somehow get it worked out soon. It's a clear case of the big corporation they are now attached to not giving a crap about customer happiness.
As I said...the main thing that bothers me so much is the terrible customer service and lack of any kind of notification/response. Also, they e-mailed me a survey asking me to fill out how much I'm enjoying the package I ordered and that sent me over the edge.
Have they already charged your card? Can you cancel your order?
That's the latest issue. After they told me it would be overnighted to me I checked the order status and it said there was an error with my payment. I know it's not a lack of funds. At first I assumed that the issue came about because of something to do with the hurricane/power outages since I think they have offices in NY and that's exactly when the card was supposed to be charged. So it's either a mistake on their part or (i'm now assuming) I made a slight mistake/typo when putting in my info. I doubted this at first because I am usually very, very careful with this stuff but I'm fine with being the reason that the payment didn't work....what I'm not fine with is waiting 8 days to talk to someone so I can find out what the actual problem was and get my package overnighted like they said they'd do.
The day afterwards I always just wish I had someone to cuddle.. my body feels like I got hit by a truck. But that won't happen so.. sigh. whatever right.
The day afterwards I always just wish I had someone to cuddle.. my body feels like I got hit by a truck. But that won't happen so.. sigh. whatever right.
