View Full Version : Just what the @#%$ is it with the Midwest?
For those of you who don't live out here, and don't want to expend more than one brain cell thinking about it, you would probably assume that it's nothing but a bunch of cattle, corn, and tractors.
Wrong. There are people out here, suburbanites, urban folk, and rural people. We like to buy @#%$, just as much as the next guy/gal. We are consumers, and we like to consume.
I go to Best Buy today to buy Halo for the PC, and the representative tells me, with a diabolically unappropriate level of enthusiasm that "WELL it says right HERE that we SHOULD have it in today, but as you can SEE, there are no orders placed from the distributor, and there is NO Best Buy in the MIDWEST that has ANY orders placed or ANY thing in stock".
Me: "Ok, so when do you reasonably expect a shipment".
Him: "GOSH, I don't really know. Maybe next week?"
Fine. Nevermind the fact that you are the biggest purveyor of software and stuff in the country, I'm sure it's quite alright that none of you have a @#%$ clue.
So I drive down to Cricket, because I was looking to get a new phone. Roll into the Cricket out-let store, tell them what I want, and the guy looks at me.
Him: "You want the $150 Flip top phone?"
Me: "That's what I said".
Him: "Uh, well, see, we haven't had that model of phone in for, oh, like 3 weeks."
Me: "Amazing. Who does?"
Him: "No store in the Midwest right now has them."
Me: "You're kidding me right? 3 outlet store in Lincoln, 1 per major city, and like 5 in Omaha, and not a single one of them has this model?"
Him: "Yeah....we oversold them..."
Me(turning 4 shades of red): "Ok.......mind telling me when you plan on getting more?"
Him: "We really don't know".
Me: "/sigh"
Him: "But we do have the $250 Flip top Kyocera in stock, plenty of th.......uh, thanks for coming in....". As I walk away.
Really folks, what is the @#%$ deal. I can understand being out of stock, but why does no one @#%$ know? Who the @#%$ is ordering for your stores, chimpanzees? What does it take to put a @#%$ REGION on the distribution map, ridiculous levels of crime, pollution, and traffic? Inner city slums? Like I said....we are people that like to buy @#%$ too. Treating us like 4th class consumers who only get distribution on a quarterly basis is @#%$. And at the very least, if your websites(both Cricket and Best Buy) tell me that you have "Item_001" currently in stock, you'd godamn better well have it sitting on the shelf when I drive across town to come to your store. "They will come back, come back again, as long as the Red Earth rolls. He never wasted a tree or a leaf, why should he squander souls?"
"You're a big one....a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a 2-for-1 sale, and you remind me of him." -Mr. Nancy
Llabak Tharr
09-30-03, 03:38 PM
Indiana ranks 49th in the nation for Obesity!
According to most television, their is nothing between LA and NY except inbred farmers with sister wives wearing bib overalls and molesting livestock.
EZ_Gyorg
09-30-03, 05:26 PM
Except Denver. Anyway, I'd demand they get it transfered from another store, even if that store is on the east coast.
One key problem: You went to Best Buy.
Their distribution system is so screwed up, that its very, very likely that for a popular item, they were sold out of it for that entire that region.
I worked there for 6 months. Every single damn time we got a sales paper on sundays, By noon every single really good deal was sold clean out. They'd run some insane special, like a well equipped PC for $500 lower than any other place. They'd have 2-4 in the store.
Know what? Odds are, they wouldn't even have any come to replinish the stock/fill rainchecks for another month.
They absolutely suck at having the merchandise you want when you want it. Trojan Horseshoes
EZ_Mythas Grimlore
09-30-03, 05:32 PM
Working at best buy, i can tell you, yes the person who does do the shipping reports and what not could VERY well be a chimp. I worked at the one in mansfield Oh, and i would constantly be doing searches in our reigon ( Mich. Ohio. Indiana ) approx 30 stores total, and YES things would be out of stock all across the board. I work in the computer dept. and man it would suck to have everything you don't sell, and to have nothing that your reports show are flying off the shelves...
I do feel for you and will let you in on a little secret, we put the retards in the media section, they don't have to know much, only the alphabet.
Also shipments are getting rather low as these months before the holidays are "slow" times for retail, the back to school rush is over, and every one gets a bit lax about everything.
All in all sorry about your luck, was just letting you know that its not the "cartoon rain cloud over nenjin thing"...
Why do you not shop online the smart people on the right and left coasts?
Because EBGames&F*ckers charge 49.99 + shipping and handling + tax. Best Buy undercuts them a little cheaper, and it's not always completely screwed up, but the majority of the time it is.
As for my little black rain cloud, don't poke him, he bites. :">
Coincidentally, I looked for the phone I did want online, and it has seemingly vanished from production, which pisses me off very badly. I guess they wanted to cut out the mid-range flip top phones.
$44.95
Free Shipping
Support the Safehouse
/pokes little black cloud
Link without the referel.
Without the Referal
Woops wrong mboard
/BONK you left your session info in it....
I just wanted to show you what I was going to buy for you Aidden Edited by: deuce at: 9/30/03 6:54 pm
Nenjin, he was probably dumbfounded that you didn't want to buy the HUSKER PHONE.
And yes, Nebraska is pretty crappy for customer service. One exception is Nebraska Furniture Mart... I have always had good luck with them. And to those that aren't from Nebraska, NFM sells everything under the sun... electronics, computers, appliances... oh, and furniture too.
Oh, and not sure if this will make you feel better... but I lived in Missouri for several years and my experience with CS there was 100 times WORSE. They're just so laid back that any more of customer help is more like a nuisance.
(btw Nenjin, let me know if you need ever help finding something, I can always check the stores here in Omaha and save you long-distance)
freonsmurf
09-30-03, 08:20 PM
You know there is no co-op in multiplayer...
Huh? Whaddya mean Wix?
/the cloud poops on Aidden
EZ_Pedric Cuf
09-30-03, 09:41 PM
Oh God. Don't get me started on Missouri CS. Luckily I've had no problems with it out here in Olathe, but I know that as soon as I go a small distance, the problems crop up all over the place. But I don't shop at Best Buy, either. ;P
freonsmurf
09-30-03, 10:45 PM
Co-op. Playing the single player version with a buddy. One of the cool things about xbox version. Also my computer is easily twice as powerful as an x-box and the performance is @#%$. Locking the game at 30fps and turning down options should not be needed with a high quality gaming system.
EZ_Halen
10-01-03, 02:41 AM
Hell yea. Amazon is your friend. I barely know what a real shop looks like. Halen Taz : 61 assassin : Tholuxe Paells <Doomed Legion>
Syrinne Taz : 61 heirophant : Tholuxe Paells <Doomed Legion>
Yeah, I've been really underwhelmed by the problems in Halo that Wix states.
They SAY they might put co-op into a patch, but I'll believe it when I see it. No co-op means no Halo for me... that was the best part. Add that into the monster of a computer it takes to run it and that's all she wrote for a lot of us.
Kaielen
10-01-03, 05:41 AM
I've lived in the midwest all my life. Trust me...
We're a bunch of bastards.
Darkefang
10-01-03, 06:36 AM
Quote:Indiana ranks 49th in the nation for Obesity!
Indiana hasn't been in the midwest since, oh, 1850 or so. Nevada and Arizona are just as "midwest" as Indiana is.
There is no Co-OP for the story missions? What kind of hokey ass @#%$ is that?
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-01-03, 07:29 AM
Don't you dare defend that damn cheap ass excuse for a state the next time I rant about Omaha or Nebraska, Nenjin.
The last time I went to Omaha (by force, may I add) I swear those damn hicks there got excited over a 40 story bank building in the middle of downtown Omaha, herald to be the tallest buildling between there and Missouri. I swear they were squealing and gleaming like a mom with a damn "Honor Student" bumperstick on her mini-van. Where I come from, we call that a mini governmental housing building.
Kaielen
10-01-03, 08:04 AM
40 stories??? YEEEHAAWW! That's the tallest I've seen since Old Man Miller built that fancy shmancy new barn out on Keller Lane!
EZ_Prenn
10-01-03, 08:13 AM
I have a friend who's applying for a job at best buy here in texas. Well, he applied 4 weeks ago and submitted himself for the drug test 3 weeks ago. And for the last 3 weeks, the assistant manager has either told him that they're still waiting on the full manager to access the results, or that he hasn't been calling her and that she doesn't know who he is.
We suspect that she's swapping the sample with her own to mask her overusage of LSD.
I DID say if you wanted to expend more than 1 one brain cell thinking about it....
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-01-03, 09:28 AM
Oh believe me, I don't even waste one brain cell thinking about the armpit that is Nebraska. I just dread going there once a year for a company meeting that does not pertain to me whatsoever, and I get it shoved in my face daily by NE hicks I work with that have moved to Denver, thinking that their cattle's sh*t don't stink.
Nyssa, I think that people were so excited about that building is because the Woodman Tower is like, a mainstay of Omaha culture (LOL, culture), and they got pissed that First National Bank was upstaging it. Then the tower was built, Husker football season started and OMG, nobody cared anymore!!
Omaha is nice in the fact that it's a large city, but you can get anywhere within 20 mins easily. And, it's set up really well, the highways are good, etc. But aside from that, I won't miss it when we leave. I'm a fairly conservative person, and still this city is WAY too conservative for me. It's like a city full of Rush Limbaughs.
And, we are talking about a city that gets riled up for crap like this... woot, let's crown a fictional King and Queen from "society" and continue our l33t separatist ways!! The King is always an old distinguished business leader, and the Queen is always a young college student. Average-income folks need not apply.
Well, I ordered from Amazon, for $54, arriving 7th-9th of October. Called the @#%$ hole that is Gamestop, and they had it in stock, for a total price of $54 dollars.
freonsmurf
10-01-03, 10:39 AM
To avoid the Morrowind fiasco, once again I offer you the warez so you can see if its really worth all the trouble and cash.
You can cancel an Amazon order anytime before it ships. What's the problem Nenjin?
I already did, wasn't a problem, just stating how it is the same price, for no waiting, yet still more expensive than Best Buy, which should have had it yesterday.
And thanks Wix, but I forsee that a patch is coming to address some issues, and if nothing else, it's worth it to play online with friends, if not the random servers. So it's ok owning the full version for me.
how does it go from 44.95 to 54.00 with free shipping?
$10 Tax?
Probably bought it before the sale?
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-01-03, 12:28 PM
LOL...Dorla, when my fiance and I went to Omaha this past February for my company's annual meeting, while I was stuck in useless meetings, they took the spouses to the First National Tower, sat them among one of the top floors in some board room in the middle of a smather of cubicles, and spent half the day showing them some time lapsed video of the First National Tower being built. I guess that's what they call excitement there...a sped up video of a 40 story building being built. WOOOPEEE FRIGGIN DOO!
And oh! This just cracked me up. As a gift for attending the spouses luncheon, my fiance came back with a glass plate with a flower painted on it. It wasn't even a crushed flower, it was a PAINTED flower on a piece of glass! One of my co-worker's wife just squealed in elation like a little girl with her first banana seat bike, and said, "it's from Borsheim's!" I looked at her funny, raised my eyebrow, and said to myself..."SO? It's a friggin piece of glass with a flower painted on it you hick. I did that back in 3rd grade arts and craft. And WTF is Borsheims? Is that related to Florsheims the shoe store or something? Where I come from, I only squeal if it's a blue box with the word "TIFFANY'S" on it, hick." Of course, I just smiled and nodded.
Careful Nyssa, you might have a nose bleed from up there.
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-01-03, 12:35 PM
I'll be sure to wipe it on your overalls, Nenj.
A piece of glass with a painted flower is just that, glass, be it from Borsheims, Tiffany's or the Salvation Army store. To squeal and be elated about it just because it came from a locally known upscale store is laugh worthy. All that says to me is that they're a bunch of friggin idiots overpaying for a piece of glass. Edited by: Nyssa Rainwhisper at: 10/1/03 11:38 am
Borsheims is a big jewelry/glass store, very hoity-toity for this area. And, it's owned by Warren Buffet... need I say more? Omaha folks slob his knob like there's no tomorrow.
I'm not defending the excitement of people who really have very little to be excited about, but in all seriousness, can you take it back down a notch? Your attitude...well.....sucks ass.
Llabak Tharr
10-01-03, 01:10 PM
Well golly, I guess those people who spend millions of dollars for Picasos and such are a bunch of idiots too, because all they're buying is a piece of canvas with paint on it.
Believe it or not, different people derive enjoyment from things other than what you derive enjoyment from. If I see a box from Tiffany's should I think to myself "what a dumb-@#%$ that they overpaid by 50% or more for a piece of jewelry for the sake of being able to say that they bought something from Tiffany's?
People make judgments about each other for some of the stupidest things. Choice of art/decoration/jewelry is probably one of the more stupid ones. The more we can learn to accept people are different from us, the better our world will be.
Jhani Vandolay
10-01-03, 01:16 PM
"Where I come from, I only squeal if it's a blue box with the word "TIFFANY'S" on it, hick."
"A piece of glass with a painted flower is just that, glass, be it from Borsheims, Tiffany's or the Salvation Army store. [...] All that says to me is that they're a bunch of friggin idiots overpaying for a piece of glass."
Righto.
I squeal when i get those "plain brown wrapper" boxes in the mail!
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-01-03, 02:09 PM
Quote:People make judgments about each other for some of the stupidest things.
Weren't you judging me?
Do also keep in mind, people who spend millions on Picassos affect my wallet none. However, my company spending excessively on a piece of glass affects me PLENTY since it comes out of MY profit sharing, and the company budget which also affects MY salary increase potentials. Additionally, Picassos and other famous works of art are timeless and have been around for hundreds of years. There's plenty of abstract value to famous paintings. Also keep in mind, that those works of art were essentially junk when the artists were alive. Not to mention those art were done by HAND by skill artists who labored hours on end, not some mass produced goop from a machine, much like the piece of glass we received. Just how do you compare a priceless piece of art to a piece of glass from any modern day department store? Oh I know! It's like comparing apples and oranges isn't it? Edited by: Nyssa Rainwhisper at: 10/1/03 1:16 pm
Llabak Tharr
10-01-03, 03:05 PM
I see no contradiction in my calling a spade a spade. You are making a value judgment about someone for something as trivial as their tastes in art. It's sad and it's pathetic. Your earlier post had nothing to do with profit sharing and you shouldn't try to back up your earlier comments with it (see Apples v. Oranges 2003).
Would she still have been a hick if your company had given her a Picaso? Your justification of your outrage would imply so. It wasn't the fact that she liked art you didn't like, it was that your company spent money on something that wasn't for you that made her a hick, right?
You can pretend to be angry about how those gifts probably shaved 5 cents off your profit sharing if you'd like, but no one believes you. The bottom line is that you are being small minded and petty, and people are calling you out on it. This isn't the first time you've made some outrageous claim about how people who like different gifts than you are somewhat less than you and then tried to come up with some justification to mean that you didn't mean it when called to task on it. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice...
Nenjin, sicne when am I supposed to agree with you on stuff? WTF?
Eh, I've seen that sort of regional arrogance/snobbery a million times. It no longer surprises me.
Quick, talk about something partisan!!!!!!!
Private Shcool vouchers: Escape hatch for kids in failed schools, or death of public education?
Ready, set, go!
EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper
10-02-03, 10:12 AM
We've seen anal retentiveness, and over zealous conservative, "our politician's crap don't stink" snootiness plenty of times too but yet we still feed those trolls.
How's that for a diversion, Nenj? Edited by: Nyssa Rainwhisper at: 10/2/03 9:37 am
You get a D-, for implying I wear overalls.