I took the old battery out of the boy's (to be the girl's) SD and took
it to Interstate to swap it, as it was getting a bit weak and not
holding a charge. It was an "85" and turned out to be from June 2007
(71 months). So I ask the guy there if that meant I got some credit on
a new one. He goes off to check some mysterious book and a couple
minutes later comes back and says a swap with the credit will be
$158.something but a new one will be $154.something. I took a few
seconds to process that, and asked him why with a credit will be more
than buying it outright, and he proceeds to explain to me that the
credit price is more than the new price because when that battery was
new it was more than the new one, and the credit on it made it more than
a new one now. Huh, WTF??? So I asked him to explain that again, and
he goes through the same thing, but this time less comprehensible. He
apparently, perfectly understood the rationale for this apparent
contradiction but was not able to explain it to such a simpleton as me.
So the battery is sitting there on the counter, he had gone to get it
when I said I needed a swap, so I asked him if that same battery, that
one right there, had 2 different prices depending on whether I had one
to swap for it, then he tells me that he is giving me $10 off the new
price so that is why it is less than the swap price. So I say, OK let's
say that battery right there is new, and I will pay the new price for
it. He says OK and proceeds to write it up, which for more reasons
unclear, took like 5 minutes and involved 3 different machines in
different places at the counter.
I am plagued by idiots... or maybe I am an idiot and just do not fit
into the world well.
--R
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