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Radio Shack......................

Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Here’s something that is really burning me up.

Last Monday, got out a Christmas Tree that we bought last year, yeah a fake tree, but it looks neat. Set it up with some other lights and stuff, here at the shop. Wanna look a little festive. It has fiber-optic type lighting, balls and a star on top. Well it stayed lit for a while and then I noticed… it wasn’t lighting up. So, I took the adaptor into Radio Shack last week and the guy matched up a new power supply for me. Got back and plugged it in and everything worked fine. Noticed Friday it wasn’t lit again, so I called Radio Shack on the phone and found out I could return it to any Radio Shack with the sales receipt. So, last night I went to the Radio Shack down where I live cause of errands and stops I had to make. This time I took the base with me.

Got there and some young snot-nosed kid tried to give me all kinds of excuses for everything, cept he found out he was wrong on every count. Anyway, he plugs in the new adaptor and told me the old one was wrong. Okay, so hook me up. He finally plugged it in and… presto, nuthin’. I asked him if the bulb could be bad ?? Got one of those and plugged it in and again….. nuthin’. Then he got his cohort involved who did seem to have some electrical experience and knowledge. He at least used the terms polarity and AC vs DC in the same sentence. So, turns out that my tree worked for a while with their adaptor, but their power pack must’ve burned out my motor and light, since they originally gave me the wrong one. Both of them said Radio Shack would be responsible for replacing what I have. Get the number of the regional overseer and he won’t return any of my calls….. YET. In my opinion, I can’t replace the tree and Christmas is around the corner. What would you do ?? Just wait for Doug Solt to call me and then give me some lip about how it will have to go through proper channels until they give me permission to purchase a tree, which is only a year old ?? OR…… just get one and demand replacement costs ??

We’ll miss having a tree this year at the shop. It will be the first time, since we started it at the shop about 15 or so years ago. Just ticks me off.
 
signage

signage

New Member
Don't be so cheap and go get a real tree for this year and then get your replacement after the holidays when they tell you you can!:omg::Big Laugh
 
BobM

BobM

New Member
I think I would get Doug Solt and hang him up in the window with some decorations dangling from his, you know what. It's the principle of the thing.
 
rjssigns

rjssigns

Active Member
Buy the identical unit. Take it home and set it up. You now have an empty box and a receipt...see where this is going Gino?
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Yeah, real smart. Problem is.... I can't find the same tree. Now, with your thinking I could get any tree I wanted which resembles the tree I have and just say it's the same, but I don't work that way...... well, maybe not. I hafta think about that one..........

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anotherdog

anotherdog

New Member
rjssigns said:
Buy the identical unit. Take it home and set it up. You now have an empty box and a receipt...see where this is going Gino?
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Now you have two cheap made in China, don't last a year Christmas trees (one broken one) and you have corrupted your morals by stealing!

Doncha just get that warm feeling round Christmas?


Do like everyone else, throw it in the trash, buy more badly made crap for Christmas and never learn your lesson.
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
anotherdog said:
Now you have two cheap made in China, don't last a year Christmas trees (one broken one) and you have corrupted your morals by stealing!

Doncha just get that warm feeling round Christmas?


Do like everyone else, throw it in the trash, buy more badly made crap for Christmas and never learn your lesson.
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:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: This is so frickin' true :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

BUT....... Radio Shack broke it and it was a white guy that waited on me in both stores.
 
Pat Whatley

Pat Whatley

New Member
Damn first world problems.

I can already tell you how this is going to work out. You're going to get ignored in the hopes you just go away like most other people will. When you don't go away and actually get him on the phone he will get all the information and tell you he'll have to look into it and get back to you. After Christmas when you finally get in touch with him he'll tell you that Radio Shack will gladly replace the bad power supply they sold you or refund it if you kept your receipt but that they aren't responsible for what you ultimately did with it that caused your tree to quit working.

You'll get pissed off, you'll start to rant, you'll get ignored and he'll get you off the phone.

You'll hate Radio Shack....they'll forget all about you.


Gino said:
...it was a white guy that waited on me in both stores.
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Why've you got to blame white people? Damn racist.
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Pat Whatley said:
Damn first world problems.

I can already tell you how this is going to work out. You're going to get ignored in the hopes you just go away like most other people will. When you don't go away and actually get him on the phone he will get all the information and tell you he'll have to look into it and get back to you. After Christmas when you finally get in touch with him he'll tell you that Radio Shack will gladly replace the bad power supply they sold you or refund it if you kept your receipt but that they aren't responsible for what you ultimately did with it that caused your tree to quit working.

You'll get pissed off, you'll start to rant, you'll get ignored and he'll get you off the phone.

You'll hate Radio Shack....they'll forget all about you.


Why've you got to blame white people? Damn racist.
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Cause it wasn't Chinese, like the others made mention........

Ei, ei, ei..... even here ya can't talk freely..... what happened to good ole splainin' ??
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Pat Whatley

Pat Whatley

New Member
It? IT?! Why's the gentleman now an "IT"? Some people are so full of hate this holiday season.

You need to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The kid made do with a stick for a tree and he liked it.
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Good Grief Charlie Brown...... I'm still waiting for 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

All day yesterday, I was whistling.... Sistas..... Sistas......Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sista.................
 
GAC05

GAC05

Quit buggin' me
Take it back to the store, douse it with some flammable adhesive remover and point out how the lights don't work any more with your propane wrap torch.....

wayne k
guam usa
 
J

John L

New Member
Funny thread.

Landfill bound. The container ships are bringing more right now. But it "looked" like a Christmas tree didn't it?

...yeh its always gotta be the white guy.
 
Gino

Gino

Premium Subscriber
Pat White said:
Don't you guys do channel letters and stuff Gino?

Throw a string of cool whites in that tree and call it a day!

As for getting an answer from someone with authority to make it right......I wouldn't hold my breath. They'll probably weigh the cost of replacement vs. the risk of you going viral with your complaint and assume you'll just give up. Little do they know......
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Ya fuggin' got that right............... They don't know me vewy well.....
 
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