abcdefz
12-14-2005, 02:04 PM
Just curious.
So the deal at a thrift shop where I spend loot is: buy a twenty dollar gift certificate, get a $5 off coupon free. Cool.
So I go to the "special register" to do so (the line I was in didn't offer them -- only Lane One).
Twenty dollars, please. Okay -- here ya go.
Now:
the five dollar off coupon can't be used with a gift certificate.
Oh. Drag. But, yeah, okay.
And it's only good on purchases of at least twenty dollars.
Wow. Yeah, okay; I get it.
And it can't be combined with other sales.
-- so even on days when everything's already half off, I'd have to pay full price to use my five dollar off coupon?
-- and buy at least twenty dollars' worth of stuff --
--which would be ten dollars if everything were half off --
-- which means spending fifteen dollars to get ten dollars' worth of stuff.
Yeah. Okay.
:confused: :confused:
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...in realted news: my usual bus route just didn't run the other day. No bus. Had to wait 45 minutes for the next one. An entire busload of people swarming up to BART was anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes late to work (or whatever) because a bus just didn't show up.
I wrote the transit authority with suggestions about how to make it right with people, because that's seriously messed up. (They DO have "rescue busses," so to have the first major commuter bus out of the city just NOT RUN and decide to NOT send a replacement bus is pretty whack.)
So the lady said they could send me two day pass tokens.
I explained that
1) I have to buy a monthly pass, so unless tokens may be traded toward the cost of that pass, they're of no use to me, since I ALREADY HAVE A PASS;
2) Even if I DIDN'T have a pass, the day tokens are only good for local busses, NOT THE BUS LINE WHICH DIDN'T RUN. It's like saying, "Oh, I'm sorry we charged you for a steak and didn't give it to you; how about a nice dash of salt on the house? :rolleyes:
...the lady said it was all she could do, so I said sure. The next time my driver (one of them -- not the cool guy in the morning who was on vacation during the no-show) -- the next time my afternoon driver gives some poor ESL rider a hard time about correct change, I'll just --
-- no I won't. IT DOESN'T COVER THE EXPRESS BUS FARE. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH :mad:
So the deal at a thrift shop where I spend loot is: buy a twenty dollar gift certificate, get a $5 off coupon free. Cool.
So I go to the "special register" to do so (the line I was in didn't offer them -- only Lane One).
Twenty dollars, please. Okay -- here ya go.
Now:
the five dollar off coupon can't be used with a gift certificate.
Oh. Drag. But, yeah, okay.
And it's only good on purchases of at least twenty dollars.
Wow. Yeah, okay; I get it.
And it can't be combined with other sales.
-- so even on days when everything's already half off, I'd have to pay full price to use my five dollar off coupon?
-- and buy at least twenty dollars' worth of stuff --
--which would be ten dollars if everything were half off --
-- which means spending fifteen dollars to get ten dollars' worth of stuff.
Yeah. Okay.
:confused: :confused:
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...in realted news: my usual bus route just didn't run the other day. No bus. Had to wait 45 minutes for the next one. An entire busload of people swarming up to BART was anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes late to work (or whatever) because a bus just didn't show up.
I wrote the transit authority with suggestions about how to make it right with people, because that's seriously messed up. (They DO have "rescue busses," so to have the first major commuter bus out of the city just NOT RUN and decide to NOT send a replacement bus is pretty whack.)
So the lady said they could send me two day pass tokens.
I explained that
1) I have to buy a monthly pass, so unless tokens may be traded toward the cost of that pass, they're of no use to me, since I ALREADY HAVE A PASS;
2) Even if I DIDN'T have a pass, the day tokens are only good for local busses, NOT THE BUS LINE WHICH DIDN'T RUN. It's like saying, "Oh, I'm sorry we charged you for a steak and didn't give it to you; how about a nice dash of salt on the house? :rolleyes:
...the lady said it was all she could do, so I said sure. The next time my driver (one of them -- not the cool guy in the morning who was on vacation during the no-show) -- the next time my afternoon driver gives some poor ESL rider a hard time about correct change, I'll just --
-- no I won't. IT DOESN'T COVER THE EXPRESS BUS FARE. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH :mad: