Is it just me, or...

Lightbringer · 2018-07-16T21:34:27.000Z

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Not really poking fun or anything, but I was going through the collection of nigh-daily emails to trash all the outdated ones, and each one seemed to sound like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

X31 · 2018-07-16T21:40:39.000Z

Screenshots or it didn’t happened !

klrman · 2018-07-16T22:03:24.000Z

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.

Lightbringer · 2018-07-16T22:04:51.000Z

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

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

Lightbringer · 2018-07-16T22:06:14.000Z

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

I go and look, and, uhh, no. Just no…

klrman · 2018-07-16T22:51:07.000Z

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.

Barkuti · 2018-07-17T00:30:28.000Z

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 ^:)