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Office Depot Employee — "We Changed Prices Too"
Avram Piltch writes "Last week, LAPTOP reported that Office Depot employees were routinely lying to customers about notebook inventory, telling them that systems were out of stock if they didn't want to buy extended warranties or tech services. Now LAPTOP has spoken to more Office Depot associates, one of whom goes by the name Alex and reports widespread altering of prices in his region. He says he even Photoshops higher price tags on clearance notebooks so that associates can tell customers that they're getting a free warranty or tech service, when the price has been raised to cover it. LAPTOP also talked to a representative from the FTC, who would not comment on Office Depot specifically, but said that the sales practices described by LAPTOP clearly violate federal law."
I think when you get modded -1 troll your IP should be revealed.
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And what if that IP leads to some ad/linkfarm/spam/malware site?
False-advertising a 10% sale, which the businessman refuses to honor, is fraud. That's illegal under Virginia's Constitution.
Fredericksburg. Is that considered "the south"? The manager's name is Bryce, and I recommend you avoid doing business with him or his motel 6. In fact just boycott Motel 6 completely, since when I complained to the central office their response was, "We can't overrule the manager's decision. We can't let you stay there in the future." What kind of corporation lacks the power to overrule its own employees??? That's just pisspoor.
At least Discover was helpful, and returned my money.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I get moderated troll/flamebait every time I expression my opinion on Apple products but it haven't stopped me. Do I think it's correct? No, but it's not like I will shut up because of it, and my karma is still excellent.
What we should do is meta-moderate more.
Regarding anonymous things I got so fucking upset in a game of WC3 when I fast creeped three mines and exped at all of them and then my fucking team mate whined how he wanted one of them and I told him to creep one of his own but instead he killed my exp. But since I had more money I just killed his new exp at the same time and started to attack his units but later for whatever stupid reason I helped defend his base instead of letting others ruin it which already was my own intention (heck, I was attacking his town hall when the enemy came and then I started to solo-defend his base... Retarded I know :D)
Anyway, we lost the game but I still had the highest score in it and we would still had won if he got to keep the exp he stole and I hadn't fighted him any more but he was such a retard. Norwegian, "svettesvein", was his username.
Right then I so wished I could had smacked him IRL. A loss isn't a problem but I was so fucking upset on this idiot. Same for removed forum posts/crashed browser/failed AJAX-crap/useless Apple power cord not charging killing the battery/... and what not, I've put in effort writing them, you better have a damn good reason for removing them.
I think the moderators inadvertently proved my point. They didn't like what I had to say, so they subtracted points and labeled me "troll". It's a form of censorship, where the goal is to make the poster's score either (0) or (-1) and thereby invisible to readers.
Heaven forbid a moderator post an actual reply such as, "I disagree" while leaving the poster's score alone.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
That wouldn't exactly be nice. I posted a journal entry on moderation. One specific post went all the way down to -1 Troll, and all the way up to +5 Funny. It all depends on what people think about you.
What's funny to 99% of the people here may be a blatant insult to the other 1%. It really matters who happened to get mod points, and which comments they felt like scoring.
Just because a user (or even a couple) didn't like what I said, is it fair to give up my IP to everyone? Not really.
But for real trolls, just ignore them. Eventually they'll get bored and go away. As long as you feed them, they'll keep hanging around. Kinda like a stray cat, or that girl you picked up at the bar last month. If you stop feeding her, she'll find another place to stay. :)
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.