Duse to what I believe to be an unfair comment, with insults, based on reading just one posting I have decided to do a series of diagrams.
These are in FOUR PARTS and this one I have done first is PART THREE and on the RETAIL side of things and explains WHY you have to use anger when your being defrauded out of your money...
Unless your just going to lie there and let them do what they are doing as well as conning people out of cash then there simply no other way and this is by THEIR design and not mine.
I had Argos on the phone as I think I previously stated. Right afterwards I walked into my friends store where he had a species of frog he knew interested me. This is the Cranwell's Horned Frog, Ceratophrys cranwelli, from South America which has a nasty bite and can eat rodents even RATS.
One in the video is only a youngster but could still put away MICE!
Now rather surprisingly Argos Customer Services phoned me up and a lady was very nice on the phone and asked me to return the camera to the store from whence it came. SHe asked me if I had any communication with Olympus and my words were 'yeah I did talk to some idiot ...but it did not go well'.
After walking back inside the shop, barely having time to say hello to the store owner friends of mine, I now say hi and try to take photographs of this frog. Only all of a sudden something starts to happen and after a couple of shots the CAMERA is now refusing to take more than a couple of shots?!
What was happening is after the second shot or so pressing the shutter release button would result in a monitor screen going dark and the telephoto lens returning to normal!
Oddly the very, VERY first thing I noticed with THIS camera is a loud noise compared to other cameras I have owned when the auto-focus or telephoto was operating which sounded more like a grinding. In fact after the Nikon fiasco I then immediately filmed it with my OTHER faulty and refurbished electronic device, my Motorola Atrix phone from Very Catalogue?! LMAO!
Now I hope this goes well and after their app saying they had my camera avaiable still and then there website saying last night they did not and this morning YES they do I have decided I do not want another of the same type and model, as before.
This leaves me with an either an alternative BRIDGE camera with the one I wanted originally with the NIKON P520 COOLPIX (was orginally going to get cash for NIKON L810 and go nest door to PC World and buy the P510) or go for an SLR!
The only thing is that despite lots of wildlife photographers and enthusiasts thinking you have to have an SLR, and with the completely WRONG lenses to boot 99% of the time, this is a weight that would be a pain in my ar....BACK!
I would need a macro and a telephoto and both fast too. This would be an extra expense for lenses too!
However as the temperature has cooled I plan to travel more on TRAINS to venture further afield so may not be a problem if I FORCE myself to do that?
Now what I wanted from day one is big telephoto, large aperture, optical viewfinder and hinged monitor as it is wildlife, lol.
So I do not know but I have given Argos food for thought as this has cost me money and time thus far and hundreds if not THOUSANDS of photo opportunities lost!
Being conned over advertising and blogging has not helped matters either!
SO I am popping to my friends store with the camera back in its original packaging and with receipt and an email printed out. I will have a coffee/tea and chat for an hour and then mosey on over to Argos and see of I can get some return for all my troubles.
Oh yes I need to remember both my PHONE and my WAV RECORDER TOO!!!
That REMINDS me I need to email Bionaire and B&Q too?!?!
Now here is a good one, I am about to to get two payment but wanted to go out and get more of those camp chairs for £1 each. I checked to see if another payment has gone in from B&Q over that Electronic Fan I bought that failed.
It has...ONLY IT IS CURIOUSLY £5.00 SHORT?!
Now here is a picture of the transaction via my Bank Statement, as they probably have the original receipt now the cheeky bastards, and here is the RECEIPT they gave me...
Hmm what do you pay a surcharge of RENT on the refurbished goods now then?!?! LMAO!
Well I did a liitle spot about my camera taking time to record photos and video to memory and talked about how it had overheated yesterday and shut down?!
Bare in mind that it might have been hot but this is the UK?!
AS well as filming this I was preparing to return my Bionaire fan which had also packed up working! I have also just realised I was meant to film it in its box prior to me leaving the house while doing a litlte explanation?! DAMNI IT!! LOL.
Now B&Q head office phoned me about this and I was sitting in a bird hide at the time in Lea Valley Park with another gentlemen I was chatting to about bird watching. They told me I had better be quick bringing it back as I had bought it on the 13th August and I suddenly wondered what the rush was for. It was guaranteed for two, maybe three years so did not matter. I then wondered that had I gone over the date of one year would they now BOTH refuse to honour the warranty because it packed up PRIOR to the year deadline but I did not take it into the store until AFTER the year deadline?!
BIZARRE!
SO the girl said 'why have you bought that in?' and I said 'well because it does not work anymore' and I did think at that point this is not going to go well.
I told her that her head office had phoned me and had rang ahead and informed them I was coming in so they were ready to refund me. She failed to bat an eyelid over this and said 'Well WHO did they talk to because I am not aware of you coming in?' I said 'Now how would I know that? No wait she did say the MANAGER! to which she replied 'BUT WHICH ONE' and I looked at her with a look like Peter Griffin from Family Guy when the Evil Monkey and Chris just come back from Monkeykid?!
I said look I am only telling you what they said to me! They rang ME, I did not ring them!
SHe says that she can do the refund and asks for my VISA and I say 'bit I want the cash as I want to go to Maplins and get another fan, as after FOUR WEEKS you still do not have any, right?!' to says no and starts speaking about company policy to which I interject as I just do not want to her spiel and they get so offended when I stop them from doing a ten minute speech about BULLSHIT they believe. I said 'Look, it is money. Money is money! Or are you saying their are TWO types of money and that Digital VISA money is not worth as much as REAL money?! Or maybe it is DIFFERENT money?!'
She goes to repeat the spiel and I say 'DON'T!!! I do not want to hear it, just refund the card! I have bought an item OFF you and I had had to DRAG it back here because it is CRAP and sub-standard like everything else in this country, I wanted to go and pick one up at Maplin in the town but now cannot do that as I have to wait for the money to clear?! Baring in mind I am standing here with a walking stick and you have not once glanced at it at all' in other words saying you do not give a shit.
Then the machine refuses her the refund and she has to call someone to authorise it and I suddenly see someone standing behind and move to one side so that he can be served and I apologise for not seeing him. I then realise I may as well put my uadio recording app on and do exactly that.
When I look at the man what has he bought in to return? Well none other than a ELECTRIC FAN?! We get talking and it turns out this tall Tower Fan saying Force One on it and likely costing over £100 does NOTHING. It lights up and makes a noise but that is about it. Now if I was this man I would be even more annoyed but he just takes it in his stride and keeps thanking the girl every time she pulsates a muscle. I then hearing talking to someone else and I catch him saying....'Well I would not mind but this is the SECOND FAN and the other one did not work'?!?!
I turn and say 'what? This is your second fan out of here that is faulty?!' and yes inside one month it turns out.
I then realise why they have not replaced the electric fans they have sold out of, because with REFURBISHED stock there will only ever be limited quantities unlike brand new stock direct from the manufacturers?! I did indeed as the head office how is it that after THREE WEEKS of no fans at all and you cannot tell me when you will get any in stock?! Not even a ball park figure on the date?!
Another man brings in a tin of Dulux paint or something and says he found it £10 cheaper and I thought how ridiculous that was! He sees this guys Tower Fan and blurts out 'Oh they are CRAP! I was given TWO of them for free and they did bugger all and ended up in the garage!'?!
I tell them about Argos and my two cameras from Argos.
