a confession/why best buy is a bastard.
part 1: the subject
so i got the DVD version of "swing kids" for christmas from brian. for those of you who don't know, swing kids is secretly one of my favorite movies because it brings together two of my favorite things: dancing and drama. the premise: 1939 nazi germany, where the underground swing movement is slowly being stomped out by the gestapo. our heros, the "swing kids," deal with the harshness of nazi-ism and the threat of swing-extinction hand in hand. overall, the movie plays like an after-school special set during WWII. but the dancing is awesome (i'm a sucker for musicals) AND my (he doesn't know it yet) boyfriend Christian Bale is in it. so therefore, whether i am ready to admit it or not, swing kids has become one of my favorite feel-sorry-for-myself movies.
part 2: background info
the copy i got for christmas turned out to be a duplicate copy. when my sometimes douche-y ex-roomate, jeff lived with us, he constantly would make fun of the movie and then me for watching it. one day it disappeared, and i blamed brian and jeff for hiding/throwing it away to spite me. it never resurfaced. SO, in an effort to show some love, brian replaced it. he didn't know that i had already taken it upon myself to repace it 6 months earlier.
part 3: the climax
finally today i got around to taking the DVD back to best buy. i knew it was from there, beacuse there was still part of a damn yellow tag on the front that read "Bes" and had a dollar sign showing. so i went to the sevice counter smiling and said that i wanted to return a gift for a store credit. the girl said i couldn't. she didn't tell me why that was, but just basically said no. if there was ever anyone more sympathetic to stupid corporate rules and policies, it's me. but don't just say no like it's your decision, tell me why you don't want to take back this DVD that i'm sure was only $6.99 in the first place. so i urged her on to find out that they don't take ANY RETURNS WITHOUT A RECIEPT. not even for exchange or store credit. what typs of shit is THAT? i mean, it obviously came from there, and i want to use this value and probably more of my money for buying something else in your goddam corporate warehouse, so why in god's name won't you give me a store credit? i am feeling really betrayed somehow. she basically told me that there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING i could do as far as returning this thing. way to go, best buy, you're really culling some customer loyalty with your shitty service and policies. i guess i shouldn't be shocked, though. maybe i'll just return it to B&N...
so i got the DVD version of "swing kids" for christmas from brian. for those of you who don't know, swing kids is secretly one of my favorite movies because it brings together two of my favorite things: dancing and drama. the premise: 1939 nazi germany, where the underground swing movement is slowly being stomped out by the gestapo. our heros, the "swing kids," deal with the harshness of nazi-ism and the threat of swing-extinction hand in hand. overall, the movie plays like an after-school special set during WWII. but the dancing is awesome (i'm a sucker for musicals) AND my (he doesn't know it yet) boyfriend Christian Bale is in it. so therefore, whether i am ready to admit it or not, swing kids has become one of my favorite feel-sorry-for-myself movies.
part 2: background info
the copy i got for christmas turned out to be a duplicate copy. when my sometimes douche-y ex-roomate, jeff lived with us, he constantly would make fun of the movie and then me for watching it. one day it disappeared, and i blamed brian and jeff for hiding/throwing it away to spite me. it never resurfaced. SO, in an effort to show some love, brian replaced it. he didn't know that i had already taken it upon myself to repace it 6 months earlier.
part 3: the climax
finally today i got around to taking the DVD back to best buy. i knew it was from there, beacuse there was still part of a damn yellow tag on the front that read "Bes" and had a dollar sign showing. so i went to the sevice counter smiling and said that i wanted to return a gift for a store credit. the girl said i couldn't. she didn't tell me why that was, but just basically said no. if there was ever anyone more sympathetic to stupid corporate rules and policies, it's me. but don't just say no like it's your decision, tell me why you don't want to take back this DVD that i'm sure was only $6.99 in the first place. so i urged her on to find out that they don't take ANY RETURNS WITHOUT A RECIEPT. not even for exchange or store credit. what typs of shit is THAT? i mean, it obviously came from there, and i want to use this value and probably more of my money for buying something else in your goddam corporate warehouse, so why in god's name won't you give me a store credit? i am feeling really betrayed somehow. she basically told me that there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING i could do as far as returning this thing. way to go, best buy, you're really culling some customer loyalty with your shitty service and policies. i guess i shouldn't be shocked, though. maybe i'll just return it to B&N...