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May 31, 2006
Make it stop...Please
If I have to hear that Home Depot Jingle one more second, I think I just may hurl.
I just spent and hour and a half "on hold" with them. They apologized for the time frame due to their high volume of calls...more than once....recorded...over...and over....and over. Well that doesn't help me any now does it. If your website was working properly, then maybe I wouldn't have been onfreakinghold at all thus reducing your call volume by at least one!! ::::calming:::: At least I have ascertained I do have an order number which had concerned me in the first place. They show my shower door has been shipped...we'll see.
At least I had the foresight to use the speakerphone...while on hold, I read blogs, answered email, IMed, cleaned the kitchen, made some breakfast, cleaned the kitchen again, emptied the dishwasher, cleaned the litterboxes, emptied the trash, did my Iron Sudoku (I'll have 72 points as of tonight), did my USA Today Sudoku, harrassed Leo, looked for shower piece alternatives, won an eBay auction for a brushed nickel toilet tank lever, paid for that...
busy busy busy.....
Hhhhmmm....Leo is short one bullnose tile...actually 3/4 of a bullnose tile. sigh...
Oh yeah...my experiment at Barnes & Noble. Well, I certainly wasn't expecting to recoup much of the money I initially spent on the books and CDs but since I was going to buy some more books and CDs, it worked out reasonably well. I walked in with a bunch of books and CDs and I walked out with a bunch of books and CDs. I think in the future, I will do my trading at my used booked store, though. Bev is not only a small local book dealer but she's also an old neighbor and friend. I think if I'm essentially only going to recover a small fraction of my costs, I'd rather deal with her.
So now that I can move about more freely since I'm no longer "onfreakinghold", I'll go about my business. If I don't go out shopping, there will be a real cat food dish emergency!
Have a fine day all......
Posted by frani at May 31, 2006 11:58 AM
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Hey Fran,
Did you finally get off "hold" with Home Depot?
I didn't know B&N buy back books. Do they only buy back books that were bought from B&N? I normally donate the books that I have read to the library, but if I can do what you do..sell and buy more..then that is better.
DA
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at May 31, 2006 06:48 PM
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