The Uniter, and Overstock Blows
So, I got a new TV for the living this past week and I've been wrestling with some issues. After a few days, the buzzing and the sparkle issues have been a little less noticeable, and for the first time ever, all of the people in our apartment were in the same room playing Super Smash Bros: Melee on the Wii. It's amazing progress for a group of people that rarely if ever came out of their rooms, but its terribly distracting. It's like going to KTYD's apartment, but every day and two feet away. Still, they're bad at SSB, so I win(and kill more) more often than not and it makes me feel better than when I lose to David after being up 3 to 1.
A quick note on the GC functionality of the Wii. Once you're in GC-mode, the Wii doesn't let you back into the Wii menu and the Wiimotes don't work. Anyone know a way around it without a hard shutdown using the console buttons?
Now, all this unity and group bonding is great, but what we're missing is still finality in keeping the TV. With all my dealings with Overstock, what ended up happening was that they weren't going to charge me for the TV, but they were going to send a guy to pick it up and delivery me the correct item. I'll quote some of the email I got to demonstrate how ridiculous their response was:
Thanks for shopping with us. I apologize for the delay in getting your Vizio 50-inch Widescreen Plasma HDTV picked up.
I would also like to apologize that this Vizio 50-inch Widescreen Plasma HDTV was received instead of the 42-inch television you ordered. I was sent a request to have the Vizio 50-inch Widescreen Plasma HDTV picked up. The freight carrier will contact you to set up a time to come by and pick that up. It will need to be boxed back up before they can pick it up. Due to this being a large item, we will need to have a large item freight carrier pick this up, but it can take up to 10 business days.
The warehouse will be delivering the correct television at the same time as picking up the 50-inch television. Please inspect the 42-inch television thoroughly before accepting shipment, including plugging in the item to make sure it is working. If you find any damage to the item, please refuse shipment, and call 800-843-2446 immediately.
Once again, I apologize for the inconvenience we may have caused. Please visit us again soon for great savings on name-brand products.
Yeah, like you're doing me some great service by taking away the one good thing that's happened to me in awhile. Saying your sorry for sending a better TV. That it's an inconvenience that I have 8 more inches. That we're sorry it's taking so long to get the return, even when I never explicitly asked for a return. Seriously, this fakeness is killing me. I hate it. And I'm worried their gonna try to take it away from me. Of course, if I don't authorize a return, can they really just assume they made a shipping error? Or maybe I was "mistaken". I don't know.
The real problem is that I won't be able to get the receipt or conformation fixed, which means my warranty with Vizio and my warranty with Overstock is pretty much null. But this one is so much better than what I was supposed to get that it might just be worth the risk...
What do you think I should do? Keep the TV, or let Overstock off the hook and get service on what I bought in the first place?
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