Life has been nice and quiet since then. Some laundry, some World of Warcraft, and some television watching. This morning we're having a TV stand delivered and in a couple of weeks the TV should arrive. It was sold out when we bought it. There's a small story there. I'll sum it up with: buying pick-up items from Best Buy is not as easy as you'd think. One of the worst customer experiences ever.
Okay, I'll back that up a little. There was a deal with the TV we bought, that included a Blu Ray player. Best Buy was out of stock of both so we arranged to pick up the Blu Ray player later and have the TV delivered about a month later. Fine. The people we worked with were great, very good in fact, but the computer system they use leaves much to be desired.
I got home with my Blu Ray player receipt to an email saying it was available for pick up. Turns out, after calling to confirm the email message, and going in the next day, the computer system set aside an open box item for us and cancelled our warehouse order. There was much finagling of the computers to get them to acknowledge our order of a NEW player. Hey, Blu Ray players are temperamental. I'm not risking it.
I went in a week later to pick up my player and they couldn't find it at first. Computers again. The people were super nice though, just completely handicapped by what they had to work with. While I waited, two people got angry and started yelling "Don't buy from Best Buy!." They were escorted out. Awesome.
You know I hesitated to share this story because we I can just hear someone mumbling, quit complaining at least you have new stuff. True. But I also saved for it. And we replaced the fuse in our current TV a year ago so we could afford a nicer one down the line. And we've never had a nice TV stand. We've been using shelving Jer has used since high school. End defensiveness.
The local Greek Festival is this weekend. I'm excited about that. And I finally ordered a duvet cover for the guest bedroom (smartbargains.com) so Lily will have a proper place to sleep when she visits next month. Whoo hoo!
And I paid our first water/trash bill as homeowners. I think that makes us official now.
2 comments:
Best Buy sucks. That is all I have to say about that. OH, and I think it's great that people were escorted out for saying so! haha
Nhu and Brian just bought a TV with Blu Ray player at Best Buy. Must be the thing to do.
Oh, the Greek festival. Should have come over for that! Have some loukoumades, baklava, and spanakopita for me...and maybe more loukoumades...and a little more baklava. Hell, throw in a gyro and some dolmathas, too.
A new duvet cover? I feel special.
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