On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 21:16:01 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A recent experience: > During dinner a week or so back, SheThatIs decreed that the purchase and > installation of a new mailbox and post was essential to my continued > happiness. There are two major sources for such purchases in this neck of > the woods -- Lowe's and Home Depot. Wanting to eliminate schlepping > between the two stores, I decided to visit to each company's web site to > compare their offerings. Fired up Konq, went to Lowe's, and saw what they > had. Next stop, Home Depot. Oops! Some nitwit has decided that since I > would not be able to enjoy the full benefits of their site because I was > not running either Netscape 4.0 or IE 4.0; further access was denied. > > The next morning I dropped about $150 at Lowe's for the mailbox, mailbox > post, and some other stuff. > > Yes, I could reconfigure to Konq to get past Home Depot's barrier, but why > the hell should I? They are the ones trying to sell something to me. > > And yes, I thought about sending them a nastygram, but that was not in the > > list of options. (Remember when every website had a Contact Webmaster > link?) Then too, would anyone who considers Netscape 4.0 and IE 4.0 to be > the latest and greatest understand my complaint? The idiot must still > think it's 1997. I have done that three times (I'm old enough to blame the fact that I forget about Home Depot and Konq), each time I send a postcard addressed to the manager of the local store about the situation. Third time I got a reply back apologizing, explaining that it was handled by corporate, AND a nice juicy discount coupon (that I may or may not use). I'd be interested to hear his explanation about why he was offering 50% off for an old senile linux geek. ;-) Tim -- ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML e-mail x registered Linux user # 329428 / \ GnuPG KeyID 6B5A70DF www.keyserver.net
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