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NutmegCT

NutmegCT

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I'm sure this never happens to you.

Call a local shop for something. Leave message on machine. No reply after 3 days. Call again, get answer, but it's just "the help", who takes message. No reply after 3 days. Call again, this time get called back within an hour by the actual shop manager - but he's using a cell phone and the signal keeps dropping out. Plus, he's talking with two other people in the shop, and keeps getting my conversation mixed up with someone else's. Finally takes info, orders part I need, but puts wrong digit in part number, so wrong part arrives a week later.

This is course is the only shop within 50 miles that handles what you need.

Good grief.

Find shop website. Use Contact Us form to send info and click Submit.

Message:

404 Error page not found. Email website manager at <whatever email address>

Copy email address and send email - and immediately get reject "no such address".

Drive to shop. Find that manager is "out", the system is "down", and all I can do is leave details with "the help", who has problems with words of more than one syllable, and experiences intermittent hand tremors.

Decide to sell [washer, computer, car, boat, etc.]

:wall:

I'm sure this never happens to anyone else, right?

grumble grumble
 
You are more tolerant than me. I will not make multiple calls when I'm looking to buy a product or service. I expect a return call; if not they are not worth my business.
That's what the internet is for.
 
"That's what the internet is for."

Well, that's what we *hoped* it's for! I find most phone numbers from websites, and resort to the phone if the site's email or "Contact Us" form doesn't work. Which is at least 75% of the time.

Sometimes I wonder if the businesses are swamped with walk-ins, calls, and emails, *because* of the internet. The 'net makes it easy to "find" someone/something. Maybe too easy?
 
Have you tried Amazon for what you need?
 
Yep - I often use Amazon for small items. But recently I've been calling roofers - need new shingles on the house. "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Amazon hasn't quite hit roof delivery yet - tho' soon they may start dropping new roofing from drones, directly onto houses (or cars, or people ...).
 
I've been waiting to get my two watches back from the jewelery shop that
that I took them to on November 27th.One was a brand new Seiko that I won in a raffle
at a car show near Williamsburg,VA,that needed a smaller band,& the other was my Dad's
retirement watch (Bulova Accutron) that needed a speciakl battery.
The owner retired right before Christmas,& she returned a call a couple of weeks
ago,saying that she'd drop them off,& I could pay her then.I called her number again,& got a
recording that the "Mailbox is full".
Had I known this,I would have never dropped them off in the first place.
 
Originally the Accutron 214 was built to run on a 387 and the 218 on a 343 battery. Neither of these are made any longer but there is a decent replacement for the later, the 344. It is a 1.5v battery but I have had no issues using one in my 218 over the past three years. If your dad's watch is a 214 there is something called the accucell, which uses a 1.5v 395 with circuit board reducing the voltage to 1.35v, and is available here: https://www.accutron214.com/AccutronParts/Pages/Batteries.htm ,and here: https://oldfathertime.com/accutron_parts.htm . The later site has the 344 batteries for the 218 and the accucells for the 214. I haven't used one of these as I don't own a 214 but it is about the only thing I have seen to correctly power the 214 movement.
 
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