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These persistent emails requesting you to give a review on some insignificant thing you bought at Lowes, or Home Depot, or AutoZone, asking you to review the brake pads that you haven't even had a chance to install, let only have an opinion about? If I buy a major appliance for $3000, and have had a chance to use it for a couple years, I 'might" take the time to write a review, but write a review on the hamburger press I just bought 1 day ago?
 
So what do you think of your new hamburger press? Would you recommend it? 😏
 
I got one of those emails from O'Reilly Auto asking me to review the single hose clamp I bought. I was tempted to reply with something like, "This is the finest hose clamp I have ever owned. The workmanship is of the finest Chinese quality. Bravo to the engineering team. I liked how it accepts either flat blade or Phillips screwdrivers and even a nut driver. An all arounder for sure! etc, etc. But then I figured, why waste my time?
 
Wow - same thing happens whenever I have my Nissan serviced. Day after, I get an automated phone call, plus two emails. Then a week later a postcard - all asking me to give the same feedback. Then a human phone call asking the same questions.

(I'm also getting more and more steamed with all the websites hitting me with Sign up for our Newsletter!, then Accept our cookies!, then a popup with "Articles you might like", then "Sign up for Premium Plus to read background info on the articles. And you can't see the original page unless you "use" those popups.)

yeesh
yeesh
 
The constant need for affirmation, am I doing great, hey!! you're doing great and so on. I get stuff from everyone I deal with asking how good a job their folks did. I even get things from some asking why I didn't have work done and what can be done better. Plus I see more and more automated messages at places telling me what a great customer I've been. Stopped the other day to get a drink, went through McDonald's drive through. After ordering a message came up on the board, "Wow, what a great order you made". It was a Coke, not brain surgery. I don't need some automated process telling me everything I do is wonderful.
 
What makes me crazy is that not only do I get the 'review' requests but, now I am also told that anything less than a perfect review is a failure - this for a 2 star motel on the highway, or 'any 5 star reviews will be entered in a draw' - this the local car dealer who work on my car - and do a great job but I refuse to leave a review - which would likely be 5 star - and have told them repeatedly.
 
I get these emails from everything that I do. I assume that it is just a way to fish for positive reviews to be used for advertising. The company that you review probably never sees the replies.
 
I suspect many of the reviews are tied to employees getting bonuses, pay increases or booted out the door.
 
I don't ever give out my email to those folks. I was unaware that O'Reilly's sent spam emails until today.
 
After servicing, I always get multiple "how'd we do?" emails, postcards, etc. from the shop.

There are usually five choices: (1) poor, (2) ok, (3) acceptable, (4) meets expectations, (5) exceeds expectations.

For 30 years they've always met my expectations - so saying they exceed my expectations is pretty much impossible. They're excellent, and they're always excellent. Every time I report they have met my expectations, I get a follow up asking why I didn't say they exceeded my expectations.

yeesh
 
Basil said:
These persistent emails requesting you to give a review on some insignificant thing you bought at Lowes, or Home Depot, or AutoZone, asking you to review the brake pads that you haven't even had a chance to install, let only have an opinion about? If I buy a major appliance for $3000, and have had a chance to use it for a couple years, I 'might" take the time to write a review, but write a review on the hamburger press I just bought 1 day ago?
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You have posted a new topic opinion on this forum.
Please can you spare a few minutes to provide other forum users with feedback on how helpful and supportive they have been for you?

Can you recommend what improvements can be made to give added value either to you or them?

Thank you
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Thank you for requesting my opinion of this fine Charlotte Pipe 1-1/2-in black ABS Cap fitting.
I purchased two of these caps to temporarily block off my drains at the sanitary Tees for my two new vanity sinks. Measuring with a micrometer, these caps are well within the specifications for ABS pipe. They capped off my drain pipes perfectly, almost as if they were made for this purpose.
With these caps in place, sewer gas odors are kept out of the house until such time as I am ready to install the new Sanitary Tees and p-trap assemblies for the new sinks.
These are hands down the finest ABS caps I have ever seen. I would definitely buy them again.
 
This isn't really anything new - only the mechanism has changed. They used to do it in person at the stores-or demand you phone number (in 1993 or 1994 Animaniacs had an entire episode making fun of the absurdity of it). Its worse now because the internet lets AI and scammers do it for them, but the concept isn't exactly new unfortunately.
 
I ordered a coffee and the young lady asked me for my name to enter in the computer. I looked left, then right then said “I’m the only one in the store”. “All you have to do is pour my coffee and hand it to me”
 
One of my very favourite Comedians of all time. John Pinette (RIP)

 
We get those review things from the GP.
When it can take 2 months to get an appointment to see a doctor. And you have already fixed yourself or died. Seems a little pointless.
 
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