I let my paid account expire. Now it seems like a silly thing to have paid for, but I guess my had my reasons. I even renewed it last year, in what I can only guess was sincere hope that my joblessness would be brief. Hah ( Read more... )

As a former service person myself, I can't stand incompetence in service people! First thing today, I went and picked up the mail at the P.O. and at first I was excited because I thought we'd gotten one of our cell phone rebates back in the mail, but alas, it was a message from US Cellular telling us that the UPC code we submitted for one of our ( Read more... )

Monday or Tuesday (my days off) this week, I noticed that my rear driver's side tire was looking a little saggy. My imagination often gets the better of me where the welfare of my car is concerned, but it was hard to deny the fact that by Wednesday morning, when I was leaving for work, it looked even flatter (though it wasn't totally flat). I ( Read more... )

You may remember when I recently found myself in a bit of a mess when trying to cancel a few "free trial" offers that I foolishly signed up for (links here and here). I was trying to work with my bank to resolve the first and most unpleasant of these situations. Two weeks ago or something, I received a letter from my bank detailing the ( Read more... )

"Free Trial" Insanity Update: I was completely polite and didn't yell.

Even though the lady tried TWICE to trick me into not canceling. Tricksy Hobbitses.

Great. Tomorrow I have to call up another customer service rep and yell some more. This time it was for a thing that I totally forgot I signed up for (or rather, forgot there was eventually a membership fee involved). I try to avoid "rewards" programs that you have to pay for, because there's no point unless you would often be doing the rewarded ( Read more... )

--> Yesterday I yelled at a customer service rep over the phone. It wasn't a telemarketer, but someone I called to cancel my subscription to something stupid (I don't feel like explaining it). I don't normally do that kind of thing, and I feel a little bad about it because he's only doing his job, but I just couldn't stop myself in this case. ( Read more... )

Yesterday we finally received our refund check from PPM in Eureka. Funny that we used to rent from Professional Property Management, and now we rent from Pioneer Property Management. I guess the checks can still be paid to PPM ( Read more... )

So we got the place! Already made the up-front payments via PayPal, which included a 3% processing fee, but what else we were supposed to do? It was still less than the up-fronts for the dumphole we're in now--go figure. James remarked that it's kinda funny that we're renting our third place together, and we still haven't received our deposit ( Read more... )

We're [hopefully] going to be moving again soon. Within town. To a better place. We applied this morning, and even got to see the inside of it already. It's $35/month more than our current house, but it more than makes up for that in quality ( Read more... )