Summer 2014 September 26 Friday
64 Degrees this morning. 53:44 minute walk
I kind of know what a animal (or person for that matter) must feel like when vultures are overhead when I drove over to the car dealership to look at a car I had priced on the Internet. There must have been ten identically dressed sales professionals standing in front of the building waiting to pounce on the next possible car purchasing prospect! (I don’t blame them or the dealership, but the relationship was so obvious!)
We actually had a very nice, non-pushy, sales person. It was such a pleasure to have a non-pushy salesperson! Of course, I assume somewhere along the line, you meet the pushy sales person. I’ll see. She is supposed to e-mail me the final price.
It is supposed to be a “best price” deal over the internet. If the price holds, it will be a great deal, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
I am waiting to see if it will be financially advantageous to purchase the car of not, I may know how to proceed as soon as October 1, but I doubt it.
Cable TV is another vulture in our lives. They always seem to have another reason to add a fee someplace, even though the service is a joke. (The cable internet is great, but the TV cable service makes you want to go “off the net” and just use over the air tv and the internet. I can understand why people hate cable tv. The service people they send out seem to care less about about their job or providing even adequate service.)
As an example, I like to pay the cable tv/internet/phone bill by a credit card to get points for using the credit card (it adds up over the year). AFTER the deadline, I was advised that my credit card had been “rejected”. It was due on the 23rd, they kindly advised me of this on the 24th. I immediately paid it and was advised that I had a $25!!!!! “late payment”.
First, $25 is unbelievable and I question the ethics of a company that gouges it’s customers so much. Second, I have to wonder why my credit card company showed no record of them attempt to run the credit card through. (I used the very same credit card to pay the bill the month before, the “rejected” charge and the “late” payment”.). Somehow, I just don’t see how they can justify a $25 late fee that is really targeted at low income people while paying their CEO millions of dollars.
While I”m on the subject, phone companies are the ultimate vultures. Over the years (both cell phones and home phone), a little charge will suddenly appear. When I call about it, they say it is a “mistake” and they are taking it off. Figure what 50 million “mistakes’ will make them! Or the vaguely named “taxes” that are really just fees dreamed up by the phone company!
One time, I had a small fee for something (I don’t remember what disguise it was), but when I called it was for “special rate international calling” that they “just knew I would want”. I asked them to cancel it. I had to call three times to get it canceled.
Of course, actual phone taxes are one of the biggest “vultures”. I saw the federal funds being used from these fees (for “school technology) used by a private company to construct an entire fiber optics system for the school system that I understand was never used since they did’t understand how to use it! I won’t name the school system, I’m sure it is only one of many.
Anyway, I hate to “rant”, but sometimes, I feel at least one small voice needs to raise it’s head and complain.
Went on “field training” today and did a lot of the tasks I will be doing myself, thanks to a patient trainer! While I realize I can’t rush it (There is a lot involved to doing everything independently), I feel I am making good progress.
Another field training day today (Friday), and then another weekend! Time goes fast!
That’s it for now, Friday, September 26, 2014
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