Yeah so even if you talked to them on the phone the same day it may still be going through, as banks are VERY slow this time of year.
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Apple is stealing my Money! I never buy Apple product anymore!
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Yeah so even if you talked to them on the phone the same day it may still be going through, as banks are VERY slow this time of year.
Are you implying that ViewSonics are bad displays?
Also, have you not considered that perhaps your creditors are adding to the delay?
I buy iPod; he buy iPod Mini. Ha, ha. Everyone knows iPod Mini is for girls!
Regarding the topic....stop whining, you sound like a 5 year old. You act as if using a CRT for a week is such a bad thing, it isn't. Get over it. And credit card companies are a lot quicker to take your money than they are to refund it. I've had refunds on my debit card take a week whereas with purchases, they take it the next day.
If I had unlimited amounts of desk space... I probably would prefer a high-end CRT.
EDIT: Geez I haven't checked up on CRT technology in years... look at the crazy resolution this 20" ViewSonic supports - 2048x1536!
It's not that, it just they put my money on hold that causing me to buy a new LCD with discount. Since if I don't see a Credit within 3 more days, I have to pay a lot more for another LCD because it's no longer on sale.
Yeah let see what happend when they take your money someday you Apple Fanboy! So many Apple Kiss Ass people on here, but I should have known when I post on a Mac forums. Damn, and to think I buy a Mac because I join this forums. Guess biggest mistake I have ever make! Who want to buy my Mac Pro? I throw in the ViewSonic monitor as well.
Yeah let see what happend when they take your money someday you Apple Fanboy! So many Apple Kiss Ass people on here, but I should have known when I post on a Mac forums. Damn, and to think I buy a Mac because I join this forums. Guess biggest mistake I have ever make! Who want to buy my Mac Pro? I throw in the ViewSonic monitor as well.
So because the opening of the e-mail said "Dear Cash Payer" that means that he paid by cash, case closed?
What amazing reasoning skills.
READ the E-mail:
I find a lot of peoples' responses downright despicable. If you believe in this person's plight, then please be constructive. If you don't and just want to criticize this individual, then do yourselves a favor and take your comments somewhere else.
I was explaining this thread to my partner and he said maybe it should have been titled "LEARN HOW TO COUNT".
Based off the Apple email you posted, TODAY is the fifth business day. If so, Apple isn't even late with your refund, much less "hasn't stolen your money".
On top of that, even if they do issue the credit today, it can still take one or two business days for your credit card company to post the credit to your account.
Since Apple isn't yet late with your refund, I don't see how you can dispute the charge.
ATTEMPT TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE (which can be hard to do in a thread where the OP is being wildly emotional and slanderous towards a company that doesn't yet appear to have done anything wrong):
Maybe you can call your credit card company, explain the situation, and see if they can temporarily increase your credit limit to allow you to float buying the monitor now until when your Apple credit posts to your account.
Based off the Apple email you posted, TODAY is the fifth business day. If so, Apple isn't even late with your refund, much less "hasn't stolen your money".
On top of that, even if they do issue the credit today, it can still take one or two business days for your credit card company to post the credit to your account.
Since Apple isn't yet late with your refund, I don't see how you can dispute the charge.
ATTEMPT TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE (which can be hard to do in a thread where the OP is being wildly emotional and slanderous towards a company that doesn't yet appear to have done anything wrong):
Maybe you can call your credit card company, explain the situation, and see if they can temporarily increase your credit limit to allow you to float buying the monitor now until when your Apple credit posts to your account.
So because the opening of the e-mail said "Dear Cash Payer" that means that he paid by cash, case closed?
What amazing reasoning skills.
READ the E-mail:
I find a lot of peoples' responses downright despicable. If you believe in this person's plight, then please be constructive. If you don't and just want to criticize this individual, then do yourselves a favor and take your comments somewhere else.
OMG. What I am trying to say is that Apple for some reason believe he is a CASH paying customer, but he is NOT. He is a CARD paying customer. The reason why the refund is ****ed up is because they believe he is a CASH paying customer. And so they will most likely send him a check as that is how they refund CASH paying customer, unless he mentions to Apple that he is infact a CARD paying customer.
Cmon people its all in the email.
I know they now know he is a card customer. I was trying to clear up confusion around my original post.
*shakes head then leaves*
I phone AppleCare yet again today. I explain my situation to him and he appologize it's taking so long. He review over and say they did received back the Display on December 14. Despite I call many times, he then tell met yet again I will be Credit back for the refund in 3 - 5 business. Uh huh! So frustrating, but it must be Christmas going on? Still, it's still ridiculous!
Ah well, the good thing is though because they hold my money I didn't invest on a BenQ LCD. It look rather ugly. Now I will have time to think over an alternative LCD.
Just don't order anything on Holiday, it take ridicolously long for you to get a Credit back. And yeah, check back it been 1 weeks not one and a half. I aggregate a little...
Ah well, the good thing is though because they hold my money I didn't invest on a BenQ LCD. It look rather ugly. Now I will have time to think over an alternative LCD.
Just don't order anything on Holiday, it take ridicolously long for you to get a Credit back. And yeah, check back it been 1 weeks not one and a half. I aggregate a little...
Yes ViewSonic are ****** monitor! I have 3 of them gone bad in 2 years. All are 19 Inch CRT sitting down at my Garage. Even this one I'm using doesn't work. Brightness have to be down at 30 or it flicker repeatedly and just shut off. Other one suffer from blurriness render it useless. Don't buy ViewSonic!
First, seam like you didn't read every post here but just jump to conclusion and post. Read all the damn post first before you flame me! You sound like an ass yourself thinking you all know all the detail. I don't even have a monitor and have to use a 15 inch that brightness have to be turn down to 35 and it's very dark or it flicker and turn off. And I'm not whining, I'm just tell loving Apple fanboy like you to be on a lookout because Apple is not your perfectionist god here.
Sorry man ,I understand your plight.. but when you said 'aggregate' instead of 'exaggerate' it just made me spill coffee all over myself
And you hate Viewsonic, and Dell.. and Apple. Pretty soon, there will be no brands left for you to buy.
I bought a camera and lenses worth $12,000 from B&H photo video. They didn't have stock (which they informed me after 3 days) and it took 12 days to get my refund back. i.e. they issued a refund when they called me and told me they had no stock.. but the actual refund took so long to show up on my card. No, I did not complain about it here.. nor did I launch any kind of ihatebhphotovideo.com forum.
So, for God's sake stop whining about Apple, and start whining about your credit card company (they all take long for refunds btw) I never app-lie two kredit card any moar!!!!
Nobody's being a fanboy here.. I didn't see one comment about 'Your 8 dead pixels are perfectly ok.. its an apple monitor.. cherish it' You can't even differentiate between simple reasoning and fanboy comments.. you're just making a fool of yourself, so quit.
I bought a camera and lenses worth $12,000 from B&H photo video. They didn't have stock (which they informed me after 3 days) and it took 12 days to get my refund back. i.e. they issued a refund when they called me and told me they had no stock.. but the actual refund took so long to show up on my card. No, I did not complain about it here.. nor did I launch any kind of ihatebhphotovideo.com forum.
So, for God's sake stop whining about Apple, and start whining about your credit card company (they all take long for refunds btw) I never app-lie two kredit card any moar!!!!
Nobody's being a fanboy here.. I didn't see one comment about 'Your 8 dead pixels are perfectly ok.. its an apple monitor.. cherish it' You can't even differentiate between simple reasoning and fanboy comments.. you're just making a fool of yourself, so quit.
So 8 Stucks pixel is ok for a $1,000 LCD? The Dell one is ugly, but yeah in term of qaulity it's better then Apple, the only reason I only return it because it does not match my Mac Pro. I love my Mac Pro, it's expensive but yeah it work correctly. Shouldn't I expect the same with Apple Display? If you buy a Mercedes, do you expect it to work like a Mercedes. Or buy a Mercedes and expect it to work like a Camry? Hmm...
I just want an Apple 23 LCD for the price I pay for man. I don't hate Apple LCD. It's just they make it expensive then all the rest, I would expect to get atleast a panel that have less then 3 stucks pixels. And for your information, my Credit Card have alway been great to me. I get refund from any Company such as DELL in 4 Business day once they said the payment is Credit. Which meaning Apple here is messing up, so it's not my Credit Card company. Apple fanboy are people who think Apple are perfect so they would obvious say this is my Credit Card fault. Or they thought I was a Cash payer, etc. This is what I met when I say Apple Fanboy.
To you $1,000 may not be a lot, but to me it is. Since you say you buy a Camera Lense for $12,000 but it take me 2 years saving to buy a Mac Pro and the Apple 23 Cinema Display $3,699.99 and $300 lost in restocking fees for the Apple 23 Display. Not everyone is rich like you.
Dude, are you dense? You bought ONE lcd and it came with 8 bad pixels.. does that mean that all of them come with 8 bad pixels? Sheesh! I bought a $2400 Muse Receptor (a hardware VST plug-in player) and guess what? It was dead.. it booted up.. loaded a sound.. and then went crazy. Does that mean that all receptors are like that? No, the company exchanged it for another unit.. works fantastic. It took them 3 weeks to carry out the whole exchange procedure. I was patient, and I did not go ballistic on a forum trying to crank out my story.
I expect a $2400 product to be absolutely fine out of the box.. but its electronics.. sh*t happens.
All the macs that I have ever purchased have been absolutely perfect. My MacBook had a staining issue on the palm rest and Apple replaced the casing. If I receive a dead macbook pro or mac pro or whatever.. that doesn't mean I'm going to hate the company.
Oh.. and the Camry's reliability is far superior to the Mercedes.. so you might want to hop on about that as well. A friend of mine had a top of the line BMW crap out on her in a week. So all BMWs suck..
Mature up a bit, and maybe the stuff you buy will respect you in return.
Oh, and it's not about how rich or poor I am. I work my a$$ off, the same as you do. That doesn't mean that if I get a dead product, I throw it in the trash and buy another one! I get pissed off, stressed out.. but I don't downright hate the manufacturer.. and make a fuss about it in a forum. That is just lame.
I expect a $2400 product to be absolutely fine out of the box.. but its electronics.. sh*t happens.
All the macs that I have ever purchased have been absolutely perfect. My MacBook had a staining issue on the palm rest and Apple replaced the casing. If I receive a dead macbook pro or mac pro or whatever.. that doesn't mean I'm going to hate the company.
Oh.. and the Camry's reliability is far superior to the Mercedes.. so you might want to hop on about that as well. A friend of mine had a top of the line BMW crap out on her in a week. So all BMWs suck..
Mature up a bit, and maybe the stuff you buy will respect you in return.
Oh, and it's not about how rich or poor I am. I work my a$$ off, the same as you do. That doesn't mean that if I get a dead product, I throw it in the trash and buy another one! I get pissed off, stressed out.. but I don't downright hate the manufacturer.. and make a fuss about it in a forum. That is just lame.
PAST TENSE! \o/
Anyways, no one else has mentioned this, but, is your (or your employers) name A/S CAMPUS DIRECT? That could be the problem here.
Neonguy, I can't see that you've responded to Counterfit's point... are you associated with Campus Direct? Could it be a simple administrative error that's causing you so much trouble?! i.e. the email was sent to you in error?
I sympathise with your problem, really, but if you are so incensed by this, take it up with your bank. Otherwise, it just looks like you have come on to an APPLE rumour forum to incite a reaction.
That's not what he's saying at all. He's just saying that credit card companies suck at returning money and that's life. TBH though Apple have made a mistake here with the refund, they shouldn't have thought you were a cash customer, though personally I would accept that people make mistakes, if you need to buy another display I'm sure your credit card company will raise the limit, especially if they know you have a pending refund.
I think the lense is for his job and isn't a personal purchase. One thing you have to accept in life is that some people are richer than others, some people here have more money than others. Some people on this board probably earn $100 000 a year (or more) and some earn $10 000, the people who earn more aren't better than those who earn less and vice versa.
I am sorry, but if the OP does business the way he does grammar/spelling, therein lies the problem.
Hey OP. Quit freaking. You aren't going to lose your money. In the meantime, get a good old-fashioned book of proper English usage. You may then realize that you are misreading/misinterpreting/misunderstanding much of what appears to be your second language.
Goodnight.
Hey OP. Quit freaking. You aren't going to lose your money. In the meantime, get a good old-fashioned book of proper English usage. You may then realize that you are misreading/misinterpreting/misunderstanding much of what appears to be your second language.
Goodnight.
You are right, you shouldn't put any more money into Apple. I'd reinvest in Sylvan Learning Center instead.
Merry Christmas my friend.
I'd actually expect a Mercedes to act like a Camry, considering that Toyota has unbeatable reliability and Merc leaves much to be desired
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