Why did this even happen?

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby beatbandito » Tue Nov 25, 2014 8:15 pm

I once ordered a 40 lb bag of rat food on sale for about $40 online, and was instead shipped two 20 lb bags of super fancy dog food that cost over $200.

Then a week later got refunded with an apology email that they ran out of the rat food.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Tue Nov 25, 2014 10:19 pm

Turns out it was supposed to go to a local specialty vet office that is very close to his address. The name of that vet? For the Birds
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Caithness » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:13 am

Did it get to its intended destination, or does he still have it?

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Wed Nov 26, 2014 12:16 am

Pretty sure it's going to the vet whether the vet just comes and picks it up or the feed company arranges something.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Thad » Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:43 pm

ok netflix why the fuck is there a giant recommendation for Birth of a Nation at the top of my list page?

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 05, 2015 2:57 pm

You can hide your racist shenanigans from us, Thad, but you can't hide them from BIG DATA!

It'd be even funnier if it continued. Like you go to Amazon and no matter what you buy you get a thing at the bottom that says "People who purchased this also purchased Mein Kampf".
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Büge » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:04 pm

I don't know if that book is available on Amazon, and I don't want to have it in my search history.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:43 pm

It's not quite on the same order, but I've been listening to bad old Canadian 80's metal and now my YouTube sidebar has "HOW TO BE ALPHA ALL THE TIME - by BroScienceLife - Recommended For You" in the sidebar. looooooooooool
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Thad » Tue Jan 06, 2015 2:33 am

I assume it's because of all the silent films in my queue. But still.

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:55 am

So car insurance is horrible and high priced in Ontario, which maybe I've mentioned before. It's the reason I don't own a car (I was once offered a FREE CAR, albeit one in need of about a grand worth of repairs and turned it down because it would have cost me thousands in insurance and parking just rusting away in my spot).

So a guy I know called his insurance company to complain after his rates jumped way up for no reason (which happens a lot - the reasons usually turn out to be spurious, like "We like your brand of car less now" or "We asked the government control board to allow us to have a double rate increase because reasons").

His insurance broker told him - with a straight face - that he could save money buy buying an entire second car, insuring it, and then applying for the multi-vehicle discount. WOO-HAA
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:28 am

Watching anime while eating sausage and pretzels and drinking beer. I feel like my Grandfather should be asking himself why he bothered. :whoops:

On the other hand the beer's Canadian and the pretzels are Polish. Even the sausage isn't German. It's... uh... Italian.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Disposable Ninja » Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:20 pm

I think I got a crank call. I'm not sure. This man with a heavy accent told me that according to his "service center", I had downloaded some "infections and junk".

I wish I had stayed on the line longer, but I had to hang up because I couldn't contain the laughter.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 19, 2015 2:42 pm

Per the suggestion of someone here (sorry, I can't recall who), the next time one of those guys calls, I want to pretend I'm an old man who is confusing his microwave for a computer.

(it's me, so maybe I won't have to pretend)
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Z%rø » Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:43 pm

Shit, that's genius

Most of the time when greeted with some motherfucker with an accent saying "I work for Microsoft tech department" I reply "sure you do" and hang up.

My other plan would be to maybe to string them along while being totally retarded with a fake Texas accent.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:13 pm

Anything involving funny voices is probably going to be fun, but yeah old man or redneck have some great potential.

"Whut... whut do you mean the delete key? Do you mean defrost?"

"Okay, I hit Enter. Now the system tray is rotating..."
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby sei » Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:17 am

Ziiro wrote:coconut, that's genius

Most of the time when greeted with some motherfucker with an accent saying "I work for Microsoft tech department" I reply "sure you do" and hang up.

My other plan would be to maybe to string them along while being totally retarded with a fake Texas accent.


Have done this with SEO company fishing emails. Got them to the point of trying to walk me through visiting "the Googles" using a phone. They asked whether I had an iPhone or an Android [sic]. I guess "What the hell does a robot have to do with phones?" gave away that I was stringing them along.
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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby François » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:38 pm

Last time I got one, it was a lady. I asked if she spoke French, she didn't. She asked if I spoke English. ("A leetle.") I told her she had a nice voice, asked where she was from. ("New York." Nice try.) She hung up when I asked her to sing for me. If she hadn't, I think I'd have sung for her.

Hey, if nothing else, it's good practice for talking to women. Even if I say something horrible by accident, she's a criminal trying to rob me, so who cares?

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby François » Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:08 pm

For months now, every couple weeks I'm getting a call from "EcoPlan" asking me if I own or rent my home. I'm on the no-call list so that's already BS right out of the gate. The first several times I said "I rent", they said "sorry to bother you, this program is only for owners", I said "take me off your list, you jackasses called me many times already, and you're not allowed to contact me in the first place" and they said "sure".

Second-to-last time they called, I said I owned my home. They explained that they were offering some sort of help to pay heating costs in the winter. I asked if they were with the government, with Hydro-Québec (our nationalized power company), or some private company. They didn't seem to understand the question at first, and when I insisted on asking them, they hung up. So the tiny odds that this was just some scuzzy-but-technically-legit corporation are out the window, these guys are obviously outright scammers.

I got another call from them today. The lady on the other side clearly had no idea they had contacted me before. I said I was a homeowner, answered a couple very very basic questions about the heating in my home, and when she asked me how much I paid in a year for heating I said "about 1200$", which is completely made-up. But then she actually told me that my costs were too low to qualify for their aid program, and that I could only benefit from their help if I paid more than 1800$ a year for heating. She apologized for bothering me, wished me a good day, and we ended the call politely like civilized people.

On one hand they're clearly scammers anyway. But... still... what? Do they only scam people with high heating costs? Did that lady calculate that I was too poor to steal from? This doesn't make a lick of sense. I'm actually kinda looking forward to their next call so I can tell them I pay 2500$ a year and see where the rabbit hole goes. It's starting to feel like a conversation in an adventure game where I'm picking my way through branching dialog paths and starting over from scratch every time I reach a dead end. The goal is either figuring out what's going on, or no longer getting these dumb calls.

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby François » Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:00 pm

I got another scammer call just now but it was just the regular "HELLO THIS IS TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT SOMETING IS WRONG WITH YUOR WINDOWS COMPUTAR" nonsense. I was so disappointed it wasn't my mystery assholes that I immediately hung up without messing with 'em. My heart's just not in it without the thrill of intrigue anymore.

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Re: Why did this even happen?

Postby François » Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:50 pm

Fuckers called again, pretending to be an insurance company this time, but it was the same "are you a homeowner" nonsense. Unfortunately I was cooking something and didn't have time to mess around so I just yelled incomprehensibly at the top of my lungs and hung up. That said, if they're doing it several times a day now it's not like I won't have another chance to dig deeper.

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