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Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:47 pm
by SplatterTone
full name, address, phone number, etc.
Lily Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Mockingbird Heights, <any state>

- or -

Edith Bunker
704 Hauser St.
Queens, NY
(no such street in Queens)

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:45 pm
by cjk
SplatterTone wrote:
full name, address, phone number, etc.
Lily Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Mockingbird Heights, <any state>

- or -

Edith Bunker
704 Hauser St.
Queens, NY
(no such street in Queens)
867-5309

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/get-supe ... umber.html" target="_blank

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm
by Mark
SplatterTone wrote:
full name, address, phone number, etc.
Lily Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Mockingbird Heights, <any state>

- or -

Edith Bunker
704 Hauser St.
Queens, NY
(no such street in Queens)

For those none-of-your-business grocery store cards, I am:

Abraham Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ...
(555) 555-5555

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:02 pm
by daveinem
Mark wrote:
SplatterTone wrote:
full name, address, phone number, etc.
Lily Munster
1313 Mockingbird Lane
Mockingbird Heights, <any state>

- or -

Edith Bunker
704 Hauser St.
Queens, NY
(no such street in Queens)

For those none-of-your-business grocery store cards, I am:

Abraham Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. ...
(555) 555-5555


In Canada you can be Mr. Santa Claus Montreal, H0H0H0 (legit postal code as far as I know!)

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:18 pm
by tclements
I suspect this the same business that won't sell me instruments.

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:03 pm
by jonesbrass
tclements wrote:I suspect this the same business that won't sell me instruments.
??

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:14 am
by Brian C
tclements wrote:I suspect this the same business that won't sell me instruments.
I suspect it is the same business that called my teacher and yelled at him for stuff I posted here back when I was a teenager. And who also won't do business with me.

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:28 pm
by Uncle Buck
This thread is an interesting exchange of information.

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:37 pm
by Uncle Buck
bloke wrote:
Uncle Buck wrote:This thread is an interesting exchange of information.
Though similarities in bidnus prac'cises may exist, you badly need to brush up on your geography, Unca' Buck. :|
:oops:
Uh, yeah. Multitasking is not a good thing, especially as I get older . . .

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:45 pm
by imperialbari
Which it are?

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:12 am
by SousaSaver
bloke wrote:
unsolicited email to me from a friend wrote:ask[ed] what a new [XX-X] sells for and they wouldn’t release any info to her unless she gave them her full name, address, phone number, etc. and when she said her name is [first name] and they really don’t need all that information for a simple price quote they hung up on her.
bloke "Maybe that's one of the reasons that I haven't ever bought anything from that place."
Well that's just plain rude isn't it.

Re: email quoted: midwestern-based store's business practice

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:26 am
by Wyvern
If anyone treats you like that, then you don't want to do business with them anyway, so best to find out before spending money there!