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The London Drugs Double Standard

If you read my post yesterday, you would know that I had a copy of Windows to return to London Drugs today. Well, guess what? They would not allow me to return it. Fuckers. It appears as if I have to beg Nicholi for a small pay advance (actually it would be a loan, seeing as I am getting the money soon, just not before it’s due) on my rent while I scramble to collect the rest of it. However, I know one thing is for certain, London Drugs has lost my business indefinitely.

I like to online shop. That’s because I hate waiting forever for a bus to come and take me to the LRT station so I can head on down to Chinook to purchase a DVD. I would much rather purchase one online but there is one factor that prohibits that. When I want something, I usually want it now and not in a few days. This is unfortunate because I am certain that Amazon.ca has a bit more credibility than London Drugs. And it is unfortunate that they have decided to violate their own guarantee, the guarantee on the packaging AND federal law.

However, I take solace in the fact that not all business are as bad with customer service as London Drugs or Subway are. MediaTemple, my current web host, gave me $40 in credits to my account for the outages in November. I am happy that at least THEY know how to act honourably.

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 30th, 2006 at 3:01 am and is filed under Compy, Events, Nonsense, Programs, Protection, Rants, Stupidity. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “The London Drugs Double Standard”

  1. Ralph Dagza Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 3:14 am

    I love (mt) are you on gs? or dv?

  2. Kyle Says:
    December 30th, 2006 at 3:18 am

    I am on (gs) GridServer and it has been pretty good. I have had a couple of MySQL outages but I am not too angry about that.

  3. me Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 6:36 pm

    why not just return it to london drugs, claiming that you disagree with the licencing agreement?

    call microsoft and tell them your story too

  4. Kyle Says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    That’s exactly what I did, I even poi shown them a printout of my partition table, the message on the box stating that I should return it if I did not agree with the terms of the licence and a couple of printouts from the Canadian Government website about the Competition Act and a couple of other acts as well.

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