goin to CA soon, to be a CC tychoon

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Date: Sun Jun 8 14:09:00 2003

Hallo Fred,

> [mental note: DO NOT pay with a Platinum card. you WILL be talking
> to a black-hatted security professional soon after, usually one
> from the Sunnyvale Police.]

Why is that?






At 08:40 PM 6/8/03 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> > > You will be treated like crap at all levels of any transaction at fry's.
>
>Hmm... must be my cute appearance and sweet voice then, because I
>was NEVER treated badly _at_ Fry's. And jesus, at one point my friends
>just drove to Fry's rather than my place if they were looking for me,
>so I *did* spend some time there :)
>
>Basically... everyone there wearing a Fry's badge is clueless. That
>is a fact. They're paid to walk around and take your cash, but not
>anything else. Get your facts right BEFORE walking in, or you'll
>loose.
>
>Oh, and indeed, their return policy means:
>
>----------
>[with heavy Indian accent]
>
>Oooh, Sir, so it did not work? Let me call my Supervisor,
>and we will refund you then.
>
>[throws unchecked package on stack of stuff]
>
>Thank You, Sir, and shop here again!
>----------
>
>Later, I'd see someone with that stuff in a cart, returning
>the packages to their shelves.. ;-)
>
>Did I mention how I managed to get an ethernet card NOT working
>by accidentally plugging it into my 220VAC ? OK, so I didnt like
>the friggin card and wanted to return it, but still.. they never
>checked, and I am sure they just placed it back on the shelf...
>
>But, however clueless they are, they were never rude to me, or let
>me wait long.
>
>[mental note: DO NOT pay with a Platinum card. you WILL be talking
> to a black-hatted security professional soon after, usually one
> from the Sunnyvale Police.]
>
>All that said... I love to hang around there. The automatic piano
>in their Sunnyvale store rocks, and I have spent endless hours there,
>talking to customers who were looking for wireless [ethernet] gear,
>up to the point where I was asked by a staff member to help myself
>to anything in their coffee shop ;-)
>
>--fred
Received on Sun Jun 08 2003 - 14:09:00 BST