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Letters about Soap (1997)

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Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by InCityDreams »

b112 wrote: post #9

Part of me thinks this was faked/exaggerated at the time, except... Once on Amazon, I ordered an open tent. Basically, it is just an aluminum frame, 12 feet×12, 8 feet high, with canvas, to keep the sun off when presenting things at outdoor events. The one I received took 5 weeks to arrive, and was supposed to be new. But it was used, with scruff marks on the posts. I sent pics, and said "Hey, this is supposed to be…

Very USA... >Really, all I wanted was a discount, mostly to compensate me for the paint I needed to buy.

Ad the time to seal off an area, shake the cans....

Jack up the price, 3 for the price of two, when it all fucks up, give 20% off...they fucking love it.

Save 8.1%. Sold. Save $10.00 if you buy 3. Sold.

Return the fucking thing. It's not what you wanted. Or, start the haggle BEFORE you enter into the negotiation.

Thankfully, a company i just dealt with explained/ replied to every question very clearly that if i got fucked, they will pay. Ha. I doubled my order. But, if i need to paint anything....it goes back (the items have to be failsafe). Or, i would have requested 'sub-standard paint job...no problem".

My credit card/ bank do not understand 'quality', or 'taste', or 'dissatisfaction'. I do, and I'm the customer.

Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by xen2xen1 »

I would 100% start collecting these in a bag somewhere and not bother contacting anyone. Things like this are why. Only contact the front desk for immediate, large problems which can be taken care of by immediate personnel.

Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by InCityDreams »

UglyToad wrote: post #15
acqbu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did anyone else click on the link expecting a rant about the soap protocol?

I clicked on it expecting effusive praise of SOAP. Disappointed to find it's still only me, there must be tens of us who like it.

Are you talking about 'soap' the tv series? That fucker took me years to understand, but when i finally did get it, Barney Miller suddenly made a lot more sense. Especially that one-eyed green guy.

Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by derefr »

InCityDreams wrote: post #21
b112 wrote: post #9

Part of me thinks this was faked/exaggerated at the time, except... Once on Amazon, I ordered an open tent. Basically, it is just an aluminum frame, 12 feet×12, 8 feet high, with canvas, to keep the sun off when presenting things at outdoor events. The one I received took 5 weeks to arrive, and was supposed to be new. But it was used, with scruff marks on the posts. I sent pics, and said "Hey, this is supposed to be…

Very USA... >Really, all I wanted was a discount, mostly to compensate me for the paint I needed to buy. Ad the time to seal off an area, shake the cans.... Jack up the price, 3 for the price of two, when it all fucks up, give 20% off...they fucking love it. Save 8.1%. Sold. Save $10.00 if you buy 3. Sold. Return the fucking thing. It's not what you wanted. Or, start the haggle BEFORE you enter into the negotiation.…

Sending the item back requires more effort than painting it. If you don't own a car (which is one of the main reasons you would order things like a tent for online delivery instead of going to your local outdoor/sporting/camping goods store where you could inspect them personally) then you need to somehow get a tent-sized and tent-massed box to the post office. (Remember, this isn't an ultralight-camping backpack tent; more a piece of yard furniture. It isn't necessarily portable.)

Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by derefr »

UglyToad wrote: post #15
acqbu wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did anyone else click on the link expecting a rant about the soap protocol?

I clicked on it expecting effusive praise of SOAP. Disappointed to find it's still only me, there must be tens of us who like it.

My company has been scaling its way into the realm where the use-cases for things like workload managers and enterprise service busses are just starting to make sense to me. Can you ELI5 the (presumably very enterprise-y) niche where SOAP really shines, above-and-beyond just building regular REST APIs with OpenAPI schemas?

Re: Letters about Soap (1997)

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Post by dreamcompiler »

b112 wrote: post #9

Part of me thinks this was faked/exaggerated at the time, except... Once on Amazon, I ordered an open tent. Basically, it is just an aluminum frame, 12 feet×12, 8 feet high, with canvas, to keep the sun off when presenting things at outdoor events. The one I received took 5 weeks to arrive, and was supposed to be new. But it was used, with scruff marks on the posts. I sent pics, and said "Hey, this is supposed to be…

My brain just flashed on packets and time-to-live and ACKs getting out of phase. Which doesn't happen in TCP.

Moral: Always use sequence numbers in customer service communications.

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