Wow. Idiotic journalism at its worst. :|
Earlier this month, Jim Youll, a 39-year-old CTO from Cambridge, Massachusetts, signed up with a virgin e-mail address and within hours started receiving spam.
“This is not an encouraging trend,” he said, “and these are not targeted ads. They are garden-variety junk spams.”
That’s what that Junk Mail folder in your e-mail is for, moron.
Aaron Shier, a 19-year-old student from Hamilton, New York, sent numerous unanswered queries to the company while waiting nearly 40 days to receive his iPod. When he did get it, it was from Hewlett-Packard, not the Apple Computer one he ordered.
“I am still getting spammed and so are the people who signed up for me,” he said. “They stay true to their word that they will get you out a product, but their customer service is miserable.”
1) You got an HPod because you CHOSE it, dumbass; don’t complain because you got something for free with a better customer support system and warranty, douche.
2) Yeah, customer service sucks, but can you really blame them? They’ve been bloody swamped for a couple of months now.
“The terms and conditions are absolutely incredible,” said Richard Strauss, who investigated the site before signing up. Strauss said the contract allows Gratis to substitute products, ignore complaints and change the number of required referrals.
“In other words, they can pretty much do, or not do, anything they feel like doing,” he said. “Pretty amazing.”
Uh, isn’t that like just about ANY Terms and Conditions? They can do nearly whatever they want?
Christ, I can’t believe people still complain like little pussies just because of spam and the fact that they got a FREE HPod instead of a FREE iPod. :|
IT. WAS. FREE.
I’m bloody thankful that I’m getting an HPod. The spam? I don’t even notice it. It’s only 3 or 4 mails every other day, so why should I?
*sigh*
Stupid spoiled unappreciative pricks.
