Pet Peeves

[The Great Cull]

Lean in really close to them and inhale loudly and tell them they smell gorgeous. I actually saw a lad do this to a one in a pub one time after she stole his seat when he was at the bar. Needless to say he had his seat back rapidly 

[Ducky]

Once saw a lad "fend off" a fella about to fight him by whipping his dick out and running at him with it.

Worked a treat, the would-be assailant legged it 

[Sworntothecans]

Once saw a lad "fend off" a fella about to fight him by whipping his dick out and running at him with it.

Worked a treat, the would-be assailant legged it 

Ah, a student of not knowing Karate, but knowing CA-Razy!

A fantastic deterrent for urban combat!

[Circlepit]

He must have had a serious weapon.

[mickO)))]

One that get's mentioned on here a lot but the continued decline in customer service. I want to buy an item from CEX. Nowhere in the republic currently sells this item only a few English stores have it second hand. When you ring what you think is the customer service number all it is, is a recorded message telling you to contact customer service by email.

I emailed and asked can they send the item for me to collect to an Irish store and the answer was no. So, I then suggested what about sending it to the Belfast or Newry stores for me to collect the answer was also no we don't do that but here is the link to the Irish site check that out.

Last week I discovered a store up the North with the item. It's a good 2 hour+ drive from the house I found a number online which I tried ringing to confirm they definitely have it in stock as I don't fancy that drive for nothing and again the store number is just an answering machine message telling you to email the customer service for help which I did and they again said no we can't contact an individual store to confirm stock levels. Just ridiculous and I am not risking that drive because if I turned up and they didn't have it I would just lose it. How hard can it be to just contact the store and confirm the item is there when they have actively stopped me from being able to that myself.

[The Heretic]

One that get's mentioned on here a lot but the continued decline in customer service. I want to buy an item from CEX. Nowhere in the republic currently sells this item only a few English stores have it second hand. When you ring what you think is the customer service number all it is, is a recorded message telling you to contact customer service by email.

I emailed and asked can they send the item for me to collect to an Irish store and the answer was no. So, I then suggested what about sending it to the Belfast or Newry stores for me to collect the answer was also no we don't do that but here is the link to the Irish site check that out.

Last week I discovered a store up the North with the item. It's a good 2 hour+ drive from the house I found a number online which I tried ringing to confirm they definitely have it in stock as I don't fancy that drive for nothing and again the store number is just an answering machine message telling you to email the customer service for help which I did and they again said no we can't contact an individual store to confirm stock levels. Just ridiculous and I am not risking that drive because if I turned up and they didn't have it I would just lose it. How hard can it be to just contact the store and confirm the item is there when they have actively stopped me from being able to that myself.

A lot of companies don't give a fuck nowadays about customer care, just give us the money and fuck off with asking us to go the extra mile attitude

[mickO)))]

A lot of companies don't give a fuck nowadays about customer care, just give us the money and fuck off with asking us to go the extra mile attitude

I know sure during the pandemic AIB got rid of it's 24 hour banking phone line and cut back to only having people answering phones 9-5 Monday - Friday while at the same time they put the banking fees up. The excuse was the 24 hour response wasn't possible with people working from home. Here we are 5 years later and they still haven't gone back to the 24 hour.

[Mooncat]

On a similar note I've been caught with the AI bot with a few places now. The only way to contact is an online chat and it's a bot. Of course if your question is any way out of the ordinary or specific (which it often is if you've felt the need to contact them) the bot just sends you round in circles, unable to answer the question. No other way to contact the company. As cost-cutting measures continue it's only going to get worse.

[Bürggermeister]

Just ask to speak to a human. I had an issue on Reverb recently and, same thing, was going round in circles with the robot so just typed "Can I please speak to a human" and got sorted within a couple of minutes with a real human.

[Eoin McLove]

Not being able to take to a human when you have queries or complaints is a mind fuck.

[Ducky]

CeX don't have a phone number for their individual stores because you'll have every mouth breather ringing up asking how much will they get for a jam-encrusted copy of FIFA 04, and their dead gran's Wii.

[Sworntothecans]

CeX don't have a phone number for their individual stores because you'll have every mouth breather ringing up asking how much will they get for a jam-encrusted copy of FIFA 04, and their dead gran's Wii.

Still annoying that stores don't have a customer email. Quick auto response would kill off fuckers looking for trade rates.

[leatherface]

It's the post pandemic effect. Companies went out of business then back again, with even less fucks given this time around, and this is now acceptable. Don't like it? find another company.

[Mooncat]

Just ask to speak to a human. I had an issue on Reverb recently and, same thing, was going round in circles with the robot so just typed "Can I please speak to a human" and got sorted within a couple of minutes with a real human.

Funnily enough it was Reverb I figured that out on too, but not all companies do that. Most I've found don't. Quite a few just have a preset list of questions and answers and it's like playing a choose your own adventure game, accept nothing is relevant to what you actually want to talk about.

[astfgyl]

Just ask to speak to a human. I had an issue on Reverb recently and, same thing, was going round in circles with the robot so just typed "Can I please speak to a human" and got sorted within a couple of minutes with a real human.

Funnily enough it was Reverb I figured that out on too, but not all companies do that. Most I've found don't. Quite a few just have a preset list of questions and answers and it's like playing a choose your own adventure game, accept nothing is relevant to what you actually want to talk about.

I dunno about all of them but the crowd I'm working for seem to have some sort of legal requirement where they have to offer you a human.

I'm certain they wouldn't do so if they didn't have to though so be careful of referendums and such like