I need to vent!

[Zippo]

Another vent... Are Toyworld always such jerks. For one, my local store seem to have insane prices, I mean $139.99 for ROTF leader class Megatron. And the prices very between the same toys, the price changes across all the deluxe reveal the shield toys. My main complaint today is that I went in to cancel a layby that I'd only had on for a month, the lady charged me
$20 in fees, claimed she had stored it for "so long" (a month, wtf?) and she was generally just very rude. I had to spend the other money from the layby as a store credit so I bought some kitbashing stuff for future attempts but I'm still peeved at the $20 of fees just to cancel a layby! Seriously, no wonder there's never anyone shopping in this particular Toyworld.

Probably because you are in the middle of nowhere, and there is no competition. So the store can do basically what ever it wants and if you want toys they have you have to agree to THEIR terms.

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Must be something in the air- had a guy in a store swear at me this morning.

[SkyWarp91]

Must be something in the air- had a guy in a store swear at me this morning.

was he working there?

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was he working there?

Yeah, wasn't impressed at all. It's bad enough happening at the best of times- let alone when you have a transaction worth hundreds of dollars you're in the middle of with them and you're actually trying to facilitate a bulk buy of stuff they're so keen to sell off that they're thinking of selling it off at half price.

I suspect when I call the manager/owner tomorrow he'll be less than impressed by it.

[jena]

Probably because you are in the middle of nowhere, and there is no competition. So the store can do basically what ever it wants and if you want toys they have you have to agree to THEIR terms.

It's just too bad you don't get to see their layby terms and conditions until after you actually create the layby, if I had of known the cancellation fee was so ridiculous I probably wouldn't have bothered. It wouldn't have been so bad if the woman wasn't so damn rude. They have a model kit of RMS Titanic that I want but I don't want to give that woman any more of my money! Such an old goat.

[jena]

Yeah, wasn't impressed at all. It's bad enough happening at the best of times- let alone when you have a transaction worth hundreds of dollars you're in the middle of with them and you're actually trying to facilitate a bulk buy of stuff they're so keen to sell off that they're thinking of selling it off at half price.

I suspect when I call the manager/owner tomorrow he'll be less than impressed by it.

Quit skimping on the details, I'm a girl, I want details! Why did he swear at you? Don't these people understand customer service...

[bowspearer]

Thoroughly disgusted and furious right now and I'd laugh at the irony if it weren't so blatantly offensive. On tonight's episode of Highway Patrol, one of the officers referred to a suspect on camera and before approaching them as acting like a "spastic".

It's bad enough that so much neo-Nazi bigotry exists in society, but to have it come from a member of the Police force who are meant to be the upholders of Law and Order is nothing short of inexcusable and depraved.

It's ironic- Highway Patrol is meant to be a PR stunt for the Victorian police, yet all comments like that do is paint the entire Victorian Police Force as a pack of neo-Nazi pigs.

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Quit skimping on the details, I'm a girl, I want details! Why did he swear at you? Don't these people understand customer service...

I'd spoken to the manager when putting a deposit down on all his vintage MOTU figures but not his 200x figures a few weeks back. At the time he'd said to me if I was buying the lot, that he'd have given me a discount.

I went in on Friday to let him know that I was going to be slightly short on picking them up on Thursday (between $50-$100, which I was going to be fixing up the following fortnight) and we made arrangements on that. In that conversation, he'd mentioned he might be reducing his 200X figures to half price as the store is changing ownership at the end of the month.

At the time I thought nothing of it, but last night I got an idea to see if I could get a bulk buy on here, which would clear out his unwanted stock, get people on here a bargain and get me a reduction in price on the stuff I had.

So I go in this morning to ask the guy working there (not the manager) who fobbed me off about price claiming they had no control over prices (clearly a lie based on what the owner/manager said), which I pointed out was not what the owner had said, and asked him about calling the manager quickly, which he made an excuse not to. I then said that I was pretty sure that the manager would be interested, explained what the manager had said about the half price and what I was proposing if I brought a bulk buy into the equation where the lot went.

To which I got words to the effect of "look, you've got your $#!+ here which is going to be sitting here for months" and yes he did swear at me. At which point, I cut him off and in a raised and assertive voice told him that I had spoken to the owner twice about things and I was picking up most of them next week. At which point he told me to calm down and claimed ignorance. When I brought up that I would be complaining to the Manager because of how rude he'd been, I was told "go right ahead" in a "screw you" tone of voice.

If it wasn't for how the manager has been which is awesome, I'd be cancelling the whole deal after what happened and spreading the word about this store.

[valkyrie_76]

And whats wrong with the car, I'm a 6foot 2inches, 97kg male, built like a brick dunny and I drive a 2003 silver 1.6L Holden Barina....

Am I the only person who thinks "Beep-beep" when ever someone says/mentions the word Barina?

Small cars aren't girly at all; Hell, I'm 6ft 2inches also and weigh 115-120kg and I want a bloody '60s Mk.III Mini Cooper S!
(Though, according to wikipedia, that may be a little hard with only 1,570 ever produced )

Now now......Im 6ft and 110kg and I drive a Ford Fiesta and I know I can escape from people who chase me through the shopping mall by baddies in a Corvette and conduct beach landings with British Marines.

So nah nah nah

[KillinSpoon]

Now now......Im 6ft and 110kg and I drive a Ford Fiesta and I know I can escape from people who chase me through the shopping mall by baddies in a Corvette and conduct beach landings with British Marines.

So nah nah nah

I'd prefer the ZR1 to be honest :P