[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#3042891 27-Feb-2023 19:05

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Why do marketing departments piss off their potential customers like this? Surely it's counter-productive?

For every 99 people they piss off, there's one customer who clicks on the link and proceeds with a purchase.

And there is probably 2-3 who get pissed off and go elsewhere , I am one of those now.

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#3042893 27-Feb-2023 19:10

But speaking of Optometrists...

My son bought some glasses from a Canadian based company.

Blue light blocking for me at OPSM was NZ$150, his was NZ$20

In fact every "extra" from OPSM was $150

The local Plaza in Palmy has 3 chain store optometrists , I am presuming that even with the rents they pay and the competition they have they are still highly profitable...

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#3042903 27-Feb-2023 19:54

Sellers on TM who say Location = Christchurch, yet everything they ship comes from Auckland!

Then give you a tracking number with instructions to remove the "P" off the end!

Why give me a tracking number that won't work as given, and you know it won't work!!!!!!!

Why say you are Christchurch based when you obviously aren't!

No point buying mailorder "local" as it probably isn't!

Rant over!

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#3042927 27-Feb-2023 21:22

msukiwi:
Sellers on TM who say Location = Christchurch, yet everything they ship comes from Auckland!
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No point buying mailorder "local" as it probably isn't!

Wait till you encounter a category polluted by big face and all their crap from china that shows as Auckland. Always in wrong places and overpriced.

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#3042965 28-Feb-2023 07:53

The inappropriately named Post Haste couriers.

Parcel sent to me from Auckland using their “Two Day Interisland” ticket. It’s now been in transit 7 days and the equally inappropriately named “Tracking” on their website says only “Picked up from sender’s address”.

When I rang them they had no idea where it was, needed to “initiate an investigation” to locate it. Once located they rang and said “We’ll try and deliver it tomorrow but obviously we can’t guarantee anything”!

Most places in the world, the very reason for using couriers is guaranteed delivery time etc.

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#3042967 28-Feb-2023 07:59

Geektastic: The inappropriately named Post Haste couriers.

Parcel sent to me from Auckland using their “Two Day Interisland” ticket. It’s now been in transit 7 days and the equally inappropriately named “Tracking” on their website says only “Picked up from sender’s address”.

When I rang them they had no idea where it was, needed to “initiate an investigation” to locate it. Once located they rang and said “We’ll try and deliver it tomorrow but obviously we can’t guarantee anything”!

Most places in the world, the very reason for using couriers is guaranteed delivery time etc.

In their defence there has been major disruption in transport. Weather, inability to fly, road issues and Cook Strait ferry outages

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#3042969 28-Feb-2023 08:09

That doesn’t defend the fact that their tracking should convey these things to the customer, or that they couldn’t find it, or that they could not even guarantee delivery today, 5 days late, when the parcel is already only 25km from my house in a region unaffected by the recent weather….

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#3042972 28-Feb-2023 08:14

Geektastic: That doesn’t defend the fact that their tracking should convey these things to the customer, or that they couldn’t find it, or that they could not even guarantee delivery today, 5 days late, when the parcel is already only 25km from my house in a region unaffected by the recent weather….

These events cause back logs and there is a catch up period which impacts deliveries even outside the directly affected regions. The parcel may be local but still awaiting scan.

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#3043001 28-Feb-2023 08:50

My son's second day at University. Yesterday was a leisurely start (sort of) with an online lecture at 10am and then an on-campus one at 12.30pm.

He's remaining local so stayed at home with us. He'll try and bus to and from Uni whenever possible to save on gas.

He has a lecture at 8am today. So he gets up at 6.30am, gets ready and leaves the house at 7am to get to the Park and Ride to travel the 7km to Uni.

Didn't take too long to get the P&R (he thought that would be the hard part).

He finally got on a bus after being in a queue for 30 min and was deposited at his bus stop around 7.45am. He's obviously new and nervous about getting to lectures on time (having just come out of high school, he's still not 100% used to being an adult).

It's not a great way to start a day of intense lectures and learning and study.

He said the queue to get on a bus went around the station and the bus he wanted (NX2) just kept getting cancelled whenever it got close to being due.

We wonder why so many get on the roads in their private vehicles in this city of nearly 2million people.

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Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

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#3043184 28-Feb-2023 12:24

eracode:

Over the past few weeks we have been driving in Murcia province here in SE Spain - using Google Maps on my iPhone as GPS. I have been surprised and frustrated at how frequently GM is wrong and inaccurate.

It has frequently directed me to enter the wrong way into one-way streets in towns and cities. In the country it has more than once directed me up unsealed clay tracks that are obviously farmers’ private stock access tracks. Near motorways it has tried to send me the wrong way into on/off slip-roads. At times it seems to confuse itself and sends me five kilometres along a motorway to effectively do a u-turn at the next interchange - and come back down that motorway in the opposite direction (on the other side) - when that wasn’t necessary.

In Northern California, I found that Navigator using OpenStreetMaps seemed to believe I was 100 or so metres to the left of the major road I was on... presumably the road location was wrongly mapped. So, approaching an intersection, it would think I was on the side road, and tell me to turn left, meaning onto the major road (that I was already on). But of course what I did was to turn left *off* the major road (onto the road it thought I was on), only to be told I was going the wrong way.

I must admit to user error on a couple of occasions too... once when walking in San Francisco but with the app in driving mode, and once vice versa, also in SF. This had us driving in circles for a couple of miles while the app resolutely directed us away from the Golden Gate Bridge which we could see in front of us.

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#3043186 28-Feb-2023 12:29

msukiwi:

Sellers on TM who say Location = Christchurch, yet everything they ship comes from Auckland!

No point buying mailorder "local" as it probably isn't!

Not to mention the people who say Location = Christchurch yet everything is shipped from China. I suspect that these people aren't even in NZ at all.

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#3043188 28-Feb-2023 12:38

frankv:

msukiwi:

Sellers on TM who say Location = Christchurch, yet everything they ship comes from Auckland!

No point buying mailorder "local" as it probably isn't!

Not to mention the people who say Location = Christchurch yet everything is shipped from China. I suspect that these people aren't even in NZ at all.

In the past there have been Chinese Students who had set up businesses here, they could get a TM Verified address because they were in NZ but everything was drop shipped from China, or sent from a relative in China.

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#3043284 28-Feb-2023 14:45

frankv:
Not to mention the people who say Location = Christchurch yet everything is shipped from China. I suspect that these people aren't even in NZ at all.

Gymjunnky has a good, but as usual NSFW, rundown of how this is done when it's more or less fraudulent rather than simply being economical with the truth about locations.

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#3043307 28-Feb-2023 15:24

His spelling and grammar are as shaky as the 'chinglish' he sneers at. I would take him more seriously if he took the trouble to at least use a spell checker. Most Chinese I have dealt with use English more correctly than he does.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3043337 28-Feb-2023 16:43

sir1963:

well I sent them a sh!t-o-gram telling them that "I should have gone to SpecSavers" if that is how they treat their customers.

This is your friendly reminder that virtually all eyewear brands and chain optometrists (except Specsavers) are owned by a single firm, Luxottica. A company so evil that when it wants to buy other brands, it simply stops stocking that brand in any of their global stores (including OPSM, Laubman and Pank, Sunglass Hut/Spectacle Hut, and Target Optical) until the company goes bankrupt, at which point they buy it for pennies on the dollar (they most famously did this to Oakley).

That more something really big that annoys me though. Vile monopolists like that should be rent asunder.

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