Is it just me, or...

Is it just me, or do BG emails sound as if they were written by the Doge dog?

Not really poking fun or anything, but I was going through the collection of nigh-daily emails to trash all the outdated ones, and each one seemed to sound like

“Wow! Great deals! Lucky! Half-price! Grab now!”

and such. I swear, with each one, I could see the Doge dog all wide-eyed and narrating the subject-lines.

Screenshots or it didn’t happened !

I noticed BG sales info is way off. MC3000 @ 40% off and when I click on the link, $3.00 off only. Can't take their prices serious anymore.

Too late, deleted all of ’em to unclutter the dir.

Just ask anyone who ordered from BG and still has the emails floating about.

I get the same from a variety of sellers. “80% off!”, “0.99 bin!”, etc.

I go and look, and, uhh, no. Just no…

Yep. All it did for me is keep me away from clicking any of their links anymore. Just a waist of time. When I want something now, I just save the page and watch it for a price watch and jump when there really is a deal.

Bah! I anathematized advertising loong ago. I don't @#$%ing care. If there's a nice sale for something of real interest to me, my consciousness brings me there at the right time. So nice & easy, seriously.

So extreme, in fact, that one of my last orders from GearBest has gone PayPal dispute, and due to the lameness of GearBest I've had to escalate it to a claim. In brief: I chose “Spain Priority” shipping for my order (€5.75 total), which added €0.99 on top (gross: €6.74). That shipping method wasn't to be delivered by the post, but never was I warned about this fact. A few days later I received up to 3 emails warning me about “Salvador, grab @#$% package…”, emails which were promptly sent to the dustbin for the aforementioned reason(s) (confused with @#$% advertising). At a later date I noticed what was going on by inspecting my order status where I could see how my shipment had been returned. I then opened a PayPal dispute where I discussed about this stuff with a GearBest customer service employee. The GearBest's employee offered me a partial refund which only covered a fraction of my payment. I complained. He told me that in this case they could only offer me a partial refund minus the shipping cost. That was €5.75, a sum total he had not even reached. Upon complaining (and telling him I couldn't agree with that at all) I accepted I could live with just an €5.75 refund. He agreed to reimburse me ≈5.7€…

A few days later (this morning) I noticed an €4.72 refund. BAD DECISION GearBest fellows. Now the least you're going to face is an additional €1.03 reimbursement, and quite likely an €2.02 one. Good.

Cheers ^:)