Shit that annoys you

[evdog]

This morning's annoyance. Go to pour milk into a bowl of cereal and the milk that was totally fine yesterday is now lumpy goo.

[mtnjam]

Considering I can't reply with a quote anymore due to a glitch in the matrix.

The convenience fees are from a professional licensure organization for my medical imaging licensure. Why exactly is a convenience fee necessary for a professional organization? Fuck it, I'm just sending them a check so I don't have to pay the extra $5 for my convenience and make it a pain in the ass for them. Too bad.

[halliday]

Convenience fees should be BANNED. why don't they just call it a "charge for nothing other than charging you more money". I can see a convenience fee of some sort when you would call TicketTron and order over the phone for concert tickets. Somebody answered the phone and completed the transaction and they need to be paid. Convenience fees are like account maintenance fees. If everything is automated and computerized why are you charging me $1.50 a month maintenance fee on my EZ-Pass account? To change the oil? WTF?

[anotherVTskibum]

Credit card fees in general. In Europe these are limited to about 0.3%. Often 2-3% here.

Yeah, but you can usually get between 0.5% and 1% (on average) kicked back to you in the form of rewards.

[m2711c]

If there’s an increase to the cost, just increase the fucking cost. Why does it need to be called a fucking added fee. Why you need to draw my attention to the fact that you’re charging me more than what you advertise that you’re going to charge me.

[evdog]

Yeah, but you can usually get between 0.5% and 1% (on average) kicked back to you in the form of rewards.

Yeah I do pretty good with my costco card. They now pay 5% on gas purchases at Costco, 4% elsewhere on gas (my biggest expense on CC) and 1% on most other purchases. But I'd much rather trade no perks for no fees.

[evdog]

Considering I can't reply with a quote anymore due to a glitch in the matrix. The convenience fees are from a professional licensure organization for my medical imaging licensure. Why exactly is a convenience fee necessary for a professional organization? Fuck it, I'm just sending them a check so I don't have to pay the extra $5 for my convenience and make it a pain in the ass for them. Too bad.

Click multi-post reply, then click Reply to Thread at the bottom. Always pulls up the correct quote for me. (web browser only)


I recently paid my CPA dues. CC was the only option but impressively there was no fee.


Also paid my vehicle registration with CA DMV. They used to have an option to pay by e-check with no fee. Now the only option is CC, with a 2% fee. Assholes.

[gravitylover]

With the world melting down people are quickly becoming even more difficult to work with. Whining is a new critical skill. I do not have much patience to begin with, it's just a matter of time until I tell off a customer.

[old goat]

If you're talking about the fee a merchant charges to take credit cards I have no problem with it. I see it when paying things like property taxes--so I do echecks instead. No reason the vendor should have to pay for my air miles and other rewards. If you're talking about the fee charged to merchants, yeah, way too high, but a lot of that does go to paying out rewards.

[singlesline]

The shop in Alta that wouldn’t do a base weld without me paying for a full tune for the core shot I picked up on the first day of my trip.

MFers, I’m just gonna hit more rocks…and I just tuned up the edges how I like them and waxed the day before the trip. If I did a base grind every time I hit a rock I’d have no ski left.

And then they did a shit job anyways. Didn’t put enough material in the hole so it wasn’t flush after the grind and looks like ass compared to my DIY base welds.

I know some shops have that policy but I talked to multiple people who work at shops down valley that would have done it (and not sucked).

[ötzi]

It has been cold and grey for as long as i can remember. A little while ago the sun came out and I thought Id take the dogs for their walk. We got about a half-mile from the house, the sun went away, the temp dropped (it was only 45 to start with), the wind kicked up and it began hailing like crazy. It was raining ice on my head and down my neck. wtf. Annoying.

[El Chupacabra]

It has been cold and grey for as long as i can remember. A little while ago the sun came out and I thought Id take the dogs for their walk. We got about a half-mile from the house, the sun went away, the temp dropped (it was only 45 to start with), the wind kicked up and it began hailing like crazy. It was raining ice on my head and down my neck. wtf. Annoying.

Too bad you're not iceman anymore.

[riser4]

Too bad you're not iceman anymore.

The iceman is dead! Long live the Iceman!

[evdog]

Ever increasing subscription costs. Got an email from Microsoft that my Office subscription is going from $69 to $99. Then the annual F you email from Sirius. Made the usual call to threaten to cancel but they held tight at $6-something a month. I think it was $4 last year. They called my bluff so I went through with cancelling. Haven't listened to it much anyways.... Think MS will budge?

[singlesline]

Ever increasing subscription costs. Got an email from Microsoft that my Office subscription is going from $69 to $99. Then the annual F you email from Sirius. Made the usual call to threaten to cancel but they held tight at $6-something a month. I think it was $4 last year. They called my bluff so I went through with cancelling. Haven't listened to it much anyways.... Think MS will budge?

SiriusXM has an AI chat tool on their website now.

Our conversation went about like this:
"I'd like to cancel as it is too expensive"
"Ok how about service X for $7.99?"
"Can you do better?"
"Ok, how about more limited service Y for $6.99?"
"Lower!"
"Ok, actually we can do service X for $5.99?"
"How about $4?"
"No, we can go ahead and cancel your account unless you would like the $5.99 offer"

Took all of a minute to do.

[evdog]

So did you cancel or go with $5.99?

[singlesline]

So did you cancel or go with $5.99?

I took the 5.99.

It gets used constantly in my wife's car. Local radio station selection sucks and we do pretty frequent driving in places with no radio and spotty cell service so it is nice to have.

And sometimes I just prefer the "channel flipping" experience of having someone else choose my music for me. My own offline playlists can get old and the auto-generated stuff just doesn't have the same feel and cohesion of the XM channels (many of which still employ real live DJs to select your music).

[easyrdr]

I got served today. And I shit you not the guys knocks on my door all smiley as he hands me the papers then actually does a double point and says "you got served" as he trots off. Funny thing, it's my name and address but beyond that it has nothing to do with me. I call the law firm on the papers and tell them they got the wrong guy. They tell me not to worry about it. I'm not fucking worried about it but put something in writing asshole. Says I need to go to court in two weeks and I want a paper trail that clears me. For you lawyer guys how the fuck does this even happen. The case is in Salt Lake, I live in Durango, I don't know anybody involved. It's like my name was drawn out of a hat or something.

[Danno]

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I got served today. And I shit you not the guys knocks on my door all smiley as he hands me the papers then actually does a double point and says &quot;you got served&quot; as he trots off. Funny thing, it&#39;s my name and address but beyond that it has nothing to do with me. I call the law firm on the papers and tell them they got the wrong guy. They tell me not to worry about it. I&#39;m not fucking worried about it but put something in writing asshole. Says I need to go to court in two weeks and I want a paper trail that clears me. For you lawyer guys how the fuck does this even happen. The case is in Salt Lake, I live in Durango, I don&#39;t know anybody involved. It&#39;s like my name was drawn out of a hat or something.

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You got served to your name at your address.&nbsp; I would not ignore it.</p>
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I have no idea how that happened, but it seems likely that the case somehow involves someone with your name.&nbsp; I would ask the law firm to send a letter. (I&#39;m a lawyer but I don&#39;t deal in this kind of shit so that is just a guess)</p>

[MakersTeleMark]

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IAAL who has people served all the time. Ignore it. Send the firm an e-mail and then let them be embarrassed. And burn the papers. End with, &quot;you&#39;ve been schooled&quot;.</p>
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The attorney(ies)&#39; who filed the action should have their e-mail address on the caption and/or in the signature block.</p>

[Djongo Unchained]

I took the 5.99. It gets used constantly in my wife&#39;s car. Local radio station selection sucks and we do pretty frequent driving in places with no radio and spotty cell service so it is nice to have. And sometimes I just prefer the &quot;channel flipping&quot; experience of having someone else choose my music for me. My own offline playlists can get old and the auto-generated stuff just doesn&#39;t have the same feel and cohesion of the XM channels (many of which still employ real live DJs to select your music).

I got a 3 year deal last summer for $82. By phone as I recall.

[TBS]

Yeah, I’ve been renewing with Sirius for $80-something per year for the last five years. When I get the notice I just call them up and say I’ll renew at the current price and they say OK.

[KQ]

Urgent care is where ppl go to die.

3hrs in the waiting room

[evdog]

My shitty luck with batteries continues. After 5 years of owning it, got a low battery warning recently for the key fob in my truck. Picked up some new 2032 batteries at the store and put one in. Two days later, get a low battery warning again.

[mcski]

Urgent care is where ppl go to die.

3hrs in the waiting room

Doc in a box.