Bingowings said:
An Apple computer repair man called me 'an arse', in writing and signed it which I took as a invitation to a free replacement computer, it was and all so in that respect I wasn't upset.
I want to hear more about this story.
So there was some contract for a new Apple computer through a warranty or something, I assume, and the dude wrote in it that you were an arse?
That's awesome! I wish people would call me an arse in contracts. I'd sign the hell out of them!
CP3S said:
Bingowings said:
An Apple computer repair man called me 'an arse', in writing and signed it which I took as a invitation to a free replacement computer, it was and all so in that respect I wasn't upset.
I want to hear more about this story.
So there was some contract for a new Apple computer through a warranty or something, I assume, and the dude wrote in it that you were an arse?
That's awesome! I wish people would call me an arse in contracts. I'd sign the hell out of them!
I was going through a more money than sense phase.
I got a 17inch PowerBook G4 back when they were the only 17inch laptop on the market and they cost a fair whack.
I had just moved away from my cheating money hungry ex and it acted as a DVD player/Music Centre/Internet Radio/Net machine thing in the tiny house I ended up in. It was handy but basically it was a, "there, there" present to myself (cheaper less fancy options were available).
I got it from an official affiliated Apple supplier but not the Apple store as there weren't that many around back then (now every shop that isn't a charity shop or boarded up is a freakin' Apple Store or a Tesco).
About a year in I started getting electric shocks from the case and took it to the shop to be seen to, they would take it for a while and give it back and then I would get more shocks and take it back until eventually it blew my headphones up while I was wearing them and the speakers stopped working.
So I took it back again and I hardly saw the thing for about nine months while I was writing to the shop, to Apple, visiting the shop to get the latest BS from the store manager until eventually I got a call to pick up my machine.
They had fixed it and it now worked but attached to bag was a repair slip where the shop manager called me an arse.
So I naturally sent this off to Apple who sent me a new PowerBook G4 (just before they announced the switch over to intel).
I got to keep the original laptop too but it wasn't until I got broadband that I discovered the cheeky monkeys at the shop had pinched my Airport card so I had to buy a new one to get it to go wireless.
Still, I wonder what I would have got if he called me a sack of 5h1t?
I won't be getting anything else from Apple not because they called me an arse but because I can't afford their overpriced gimmicks anymore but the laptop has lasted a very long time.
5 Balls for Durablity.
5 Balls for Free extra fancy pants laptop.
3 Balls for the amusement of being called an Arse by a soon to be ex-employee (their shop was closed last time I checked, almost every Cancom shop is the source of some sort of consumer horror show).
-3 Balls for stealing my Airport card
-7 Balls for the price.
-3 Balls for the electric shocks and the assumption that my leg skin serves as an effective heat sink.
Bingowings said:
About a year in I started getting electric shocks from the case and took it to the shop to be seen to, they would take it for a while and give it back and then I would get more shocks and take it back until eventually it blew my headphones up while I was wearing them and the speakers stopped working.
There's your problem: stop listening to AC
DC !
I have gone through an ironage but at the time was going all folkzie Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake.
So the last thing I wanted was electric ears.
If my ears weren't so screwed up I might have heard my neighbour shout "Judas" at me.
Does your neighbor tend to do that often?
There was this one time.