12-17-2020, 01:02 PM
(12-17-2020, 10:31 AM)ezdays Wrote: Certainly on topic Tom and Charlie. And regarding stores, just about anything I buy now days, they want an Internet survey or rating of the product. By the time I get home, I have an email from Harbor Freight waiting, that not only asks me to rate the item, but to send them photos of how I'm using it. I haven't even got the @#$!%& item out of the box yet, and I'm asked to send them photos. "I love the new hammer I bought, especially since the color of the handle matches my drum sander. Here's a photo of me striking my thumb with that very same hammer. I give it five stars for functionality, one star for ease of use".
That post got me chuckling very hard. I used to fill out those surveys and I do rely on the results to a point but usually the one star rants you can easily tell instructions were not followed. Same with ebay. try to give a bad seller an honest bad rating and they expect you the buyer to suck up to him so he will make it right. When buying model railroad locomotives the key thing to watch for is: I have no way to test this. that means there is no way in hell it will run.
I bought a really nice looking Mantua PRR E6 last year. said it had dcc and lights lit but would not run. I never saw a more botched job installing a decoder, but the price was right and with a new motor and decoder it makes a nice little locomotive. I have got some real buys from honest people that did not know how to do a reset.
My son for the most part still goes face to face with the drive through bank teller. he has no internet, he has dad. He used my email address on his bank account and now and again they send him a survey and ask how his experience was. for a while I gave them a good rating because they are good folks, but it just got monotonous especially when they want you to write an essay telling them why you gave them that rating. I don't write essays anymore. I even thought about answering the one question "Why did you visit us today" with "to commit a robbery.
That reminds me of an off topic here but it is short. Many years ago my wife worked in a convenience store and if they opened the register for a no sale they had to write on the slip why. She started to write "robbery" on the back. Several months later the store manager discovered one of these slips and was alarmed. It took that long for her to pay attention, and the head office that got them never did catch on.
Charlie