The last line should read:
"The only thing they could do now is issue a recall on that Lot No., but without some form of proof, they may not do it.
Go HERE: http://forums.whatthetech.com/forums.html
They will be able to help you uninstall the McAffey product (which quite frankly, sucks) and clear out any remaining files that cause the pop-ups AND they'll be able to point you in the direction of some really decent FREE antivirus and internet security products. (Yes, free - open source)
Good Luck.
um, Tell Oscar isn't all that helpful.
There's no way there to refute any complaint or offer help. I find it pretty useless.
Lexmark printers will take generic cartridges, you just have to make sure you buy the correct generic cartridge. I've had two lexmarks in the past (one a desktop printer, the other an all-in-one) - not top quality printing, but suitable for homework or personal letters.
I used to buy our generic cartridges at radio shack, and they also sold ink refill kits for the lexmark printer (calidad solo brand). There is a trick to getting the generic cartridges to re-register in the printer software to display as full, though most generic cartridge packs come with the instructions.
I know that wal-mart (at least ours did) sold the generic cartridges for a while, as did a couple of other sources (Staples was one). Lexmark cartridges weren't any more expensive than HP or Epson - for the most part, ink cartridges for most printer models fall within a few dollars of each other. Locally, I find the HP cartridges more expensive than the lexmark were, and the Epson is more expensive than both.
Let's face it, you can't buy ink cartridges of any kind "anywhere", you can only buy them in shops that sell printer ink. Quite possibly the rep had no idea what stores were local to you, or what stores carry generic cartridges for all brands.
I just realized you are in the UK - almost everything is considerably more expensive in the UK (sometimes I wonder how you guys survive over there). You might be better off looking for an online source (a trustworthy one) for ink cartridges for whatever printer you buy. Order in bulk (perhaps 5 sets at a time or so) and you can often save a decent amount of money, cutting your ink costs per cartridge over local sources. Particularly if you don't have a lot of "local sources".
Oh - one other thing. Ink cartridges do not all contain the same amount of ink. A printer mfg. might have cartridges that appear to cost less, but the cartridges contain smaller amounts of ink.
Do your research before you purchase your printer, because just comparing straight-off cartridge costs can be misleading.
I had a look - that's one whopping bill for a website like that. You could have have built it yourself using a wordpress template or purchased a ready-made editable website template for a lot less. What you've got there is a basic template design. There doesn't appear to be anything much on the site that would require extensive coding.
While wordpress.com is the freebie site, wordpress.org allows you to install it on your own webhost and use your own domain, and at least one of their templates is very like that website of yours. I've used a similar template from wordpress to set up a site for a charity on their free host...in fact I've done a number of them - I do charity stuff for free (most recent site took me about 4 days). And I'm no web designer. I know basic html, and enough css to edit the template.
Wordpress is a blogging platform, and most templates are designed to be used as blogs, but there's a few that work as basic "websites" and using your own webhost you can customize the site design very easily. I can't imagine getting (or paying) $3, 000 for what you got, unless they are also providing you with a year of webhosting (at least) and domain registration.
I'd suggest you take these people to small claims court. There's no excuse for not refunding at least the portion for the work they didn't do. Also, as to the site files - let me look a minute at the coding and get back to you.
Anybody who knows anything about coding should be able to take the source code (which I got for you home) and create the css file for the site easily enough. I don't know enough css coding to write the design sheet.
Besides, what you've got there should take a decent designer a week or less.
@Kee white
warranty BEGINS with the date of purchase, not the date you first used something. No matter where you go. The warranty would be 90 days from the date of purchase, not 90 days from the day you opened it.
Both the store and the manufacturer within theirs rights since your warranty was up.
Yeah, that's all well and good if it's a real complaint. How many complaints have you seen on a lot of boards that just aren't real? Not only that, sometimes the person making the complaint is the one at fault.
Tell Oscar is good if the complaint is real, not so good if it's not. And there's no way to refute them, so there's no way for people to know the difference.
What it is to the casual observer is a list of complaints.
It could be better than any of these other places - particularly for Canadians. But it needs a little more interaction somewhere to make it really useful.
Geeze, did you happen to read their TOS before you signed up? It reads like a "sign in blood on the dotted line and let us screw you" document. It's horrendous.
There's also a section that says you can't post bad reviews about them:
[quote]43. Negative Comments/Slander
Client specifically agrees not to engage in negative comments or slander regarding HWS, including but not limited to publishing, or causing to be published, complaints or derogatory comments regarding HWS in any format, including but not limited to, print, newspaper, television, radio or on internet complaint sites, blogs or other public internet forums. Should there be a breach of this condition HWS will be entitled to liquidated damages in the amount of $2, 500.00 for each publishing or posting. If said breach occurs on an internet complaint site each hit to that website will be considered an individual breach of this condition, and subject to additional liquidated damages of $100 per occurrence. Further, HWS shall be entitled to litigate this matter, and obtain the money damages together with injunctive relief. The prevailing party to that litigation shall be entitled to an award of attorney’s fees.[/quote]
Their TOS: http://www.hitwebdesign.com/tos.html
Their privacy policy is equally bad.
As for their source code - I wouldn't recommend you use it (as I mentioned above) - in fact another designer wouldn't use it anyway since it would contravene copyright laws, but then...another designer wouldn't actually need the code anyways.
There is something else of interest in their TOS that you may, or may not be aware of.
It indicates that even if you cancel your website order, or if they cancel your website or remove it for ANY reason, you are still required to pay for the domain and for one full year of webhosting. (I found their webhosting prices expensive too). Reading through the TOS there is another section that says they can remove a website for ANY reason they see fit to choose. Oh, not in those exact words, but essentially if they think it might offensive or they find it offensive, it comes down and you get no access to your site or services you paid for, yet you still have to pay for them.
As digusting as this idea is to me, I might suggest that you consider at least trying to get them to finish the site; at least you'll have something for your year's cost of webhosting services.
There's one complaint on Rip-off from a guy whose waiting on class-action papers to arrive (apparently he's planning on instituting a suit). You might want to try and contact him.
Pretty strange that you found two separate foods with stuff in them.
For the future, when you find stuff in food, you need to keep the remainder of the food and all the packaging and call the company. They'll tell you how to return the packaging and product to them so they can follow up in their labs.
Without proof, it's doubtful they'd listen or do anything.
What do you mean it just disappeared?
I've never heard of an account disappearing. (unless it's removed because it's been used to send spam or or illegal materials).
And what do you mean when you say "I almost did when they asked what my domain was"? Who asked?
gmail admin would have no reason to ask what your domain is.
When you access (or try to) access gmail, the "domain" is already on the sign-in page (the domain being @gmail.com) all you have to type in is your username (that would be solbaby - it's also "case sensitive" so if you signed up all in capital letters, you have to use all capital letters to sign in) and your password.
Also, I'm not sure what you mean "I went back to my google home page and it wasn't there". If you go to gmail.com do you get a page like the attached one? (click to see larger)
We have 3 Hampton Bay fans, the most expensive was $140 and the least expensive about $50. I'd have to look up the warranty for the older two, but we just bought one last week, and it has a 15 year warranty. Nobody offers a 15 year warranty unless they are sure their product will last that long. The warranty, of course, is usually limited to certain things like manufacturing defects or failure. If a power surge or incorrect installation caused it to short out they won't cover stuff like that. Your best bet is to contact Hampton Bay directly. Most likely, you'll need your warranty card info and/or your receipt, and things like the product model# and serial #.
No, the store won't take it back. Most stores (not just Home Depot) have a maximum return period - some are 14 days, some are 30 days, and a very few are 90 days. After that, you return the products to the manufacturer. No matter where you buy it. Home Depot's policy is 90 days for most items, which is rather generous. Their store policies can be found here: http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContentView?pn=Return_Policy&langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=100
I really doubt Home Depot will miss your business, but dissing them because they won't take back your fan after more than a year is a silly reason to not shop somewhere. If you've shopped there as long as you say, then you should be well aware of store-return policy.
I can't see any logo for your company in their galleries.
Beyond that you got a logo designed for you, and they also fixed it to remove what you consider to be an error. When you placed the order, did you read the terms? Because the terms act as a contract. Their terms and conditions of sale indicate the following:
[quote] 2. We do not offer a money-back guarantee. Once a design is created, our time spent on the project is unrecoverable. Rest assured we are very fussy during the design process and over 85% of our logos are accepted without need of further revisions or re-works. [/quote]
THEY DO NOT offer a money-back guarantee. They also indicate that there is a fee for chargeback:
[quote] Customer acknowledges and specifically agrees that chargebacks - which might occur if Customer disputes GotLogos.com charges directly with Customer's credit card bank - are unlawful if GotLogos.com service has been rendered. If customer has a fee dispute with GotLogos.com he has to settle such dispute with GotLogos.com directly without initiating any chargeback proceedures. Any chargeback will evoke an automatic US$150 (one-hundred-fifty dollars) service fee, without exception, for which customer will be held responsible in future collection procedures. [/quote]
What don't you understand about the contract? It seems pretty clear.
Without seeing the logo design, it's difficult to say whether it was worth $69 or not, but I'll tell you that $69 is a decent price for a one-off logo design but what I've seen in their galleries indicates that the quality is reasonable for the price . $69 is certainly less than I'd charge for one.
Secondly, the email replies sent you are definitely far less than professional. Regardless of what you wrote to them, their responses should have been handled in a more business appropriate manner.
That being said, you neglected to post copies of your emails to them, word-for-word with headers to prove that was what you sent to them.
I'd guess it depends on what channel you are watching. I'm in Canada and we speak english, however, depending on the channel we get programming in a number of different languages.
I don't see anything insulting about having different languages airing on certain channels - if you don't want a different language, don't watch that channel. What's insulting is thinking that english is the only language that's acceptable, considering the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people in the US (and Canada) who actually do speak other languages as well as english.
I'm not particularly delighted that we have two official languages here, but if I don't want ads or programming in french, I don't watch the channels that air them.
I'll also add to that...I hate McDonald's coffee. Give me Tim Horton's any day.
Did you complain to them? If you don't first give them a chance to correct the problem, then you aren't really helping anything.
Frankly, our local McDonald's puts out the worst breakfast fare in town. And (our) McDonald's coffee pretty much sucks - I'd dump it down the toilet before I'd drink it, but a franchise in Niagara Falls, and a couple we've tried in the US had decently fresh coffee.
And, you should remember that each franchise location (unless they are under the same ownership) will be different. We have about a dozen in our town (Tim's), and out of that dozen, three are top-notch and we've never had a complaint with their service, their cleanliness or their food. There are at least 3 we won't set foot in any longer because nothing ever appears to be clean...and the bathrooms are horrendous. We have complained, things change for a couple of weeks, then revert. One place we had repeatedly complained about them getting the orders wrong, but that didn't result in any change either. So now, we only go to the ones we know are good.
We can find similar things with the KFCs and the A&Ws locally. It's a matter of ownership. And you should complain to the Head OFfice/Franchise area. They should know when franchise owners aren't taking care of things, because it isn't just the franchisee's reputation on the line, it's the Tim Horton's name.
They honored the warranty. You got the part, and you got the service payed for. They just didn't honour it the way you wanted them to. If you hadn't bought the warranty, you'd have to pay the whole shot or buy a new TV. When you live that far away from stores, you need to make some allowances. Though I have to admit that Leon's should have a repair person who handles all repairs outside the city, within a certain distance and pay that guy a little extra (or at leas mileage) to do it.
Your letter won't likely get to head office via this board.
Leon's Furniture (Head Office)
45 Gordon MacKay Road, North York, ON, M9N3X3
And you paid their whopping fees for service that is provided FREELY by other places? Very unfortunate...what's more unfortunate is that you like paying for free services.
shill, maybe?
Well, the thing is, when you said yes to the $10.00 discount, you also said yes to a membership. You have to signup for the membership to get the discount, and the membership is $12 a month. Did you read everything that was presented with $10 discount before you agreed to it?
I thik you might have misunderstood your warranty. The store or extended warranty generally doesn't take over until the manufacturers warranty is up. Since HP provided a 1 year warranty and your laptop was still under warranty, the store was right in sending you to HP.
Your complaint should be directed at the poor service you get from HP,
What you quoted him saying...that doesn't say she isn't entitled to her complaint because she's a woman.
He could have this "this woman isn't entitled to her complaint" it's the same thing.
Granted, the grammar and spelling isn't good, but you made an inference that wasn't in his statement - you simply read it the wrong way.
Actually, having a washroom does not make a business more money, but it can open them up to even more liability and possibly more liability insurance. And means that somewhere like a department store will wind up having to deal with even further health inspections with a different set of rules because they now have a public washroom.
We've had many instances of people coming in just to use the washroom, then they leave...no purchases. We just happened to be handy and had public washrooms.
So, voila! No more public washrooms.
Non-buying customers go to the restaurant next door instead.
