I would like to stay indoors all day today and prepare myself for going to the office for the first time in over two weeks, but I have to go back to Circuit City to make one more return. And thus prefaces my Rant of the Day:
On Christmas Day, a few gifts to me and my nephew (DVDs from my mom) were duplicated by other givers. I took it upon myself to return the extra copies. Well, after standing in a long, slow moving line at Best Buy, I was told that, even though I had a receipt, the South Park Season 6 DVD set could not be returned because it was not purchased there. Evidently, Best Buy has its own propitiatory barcodes printed on its merchandise and they will not accept anything else in return, even though it is the same exact thing that is sitting on their shelves. Well, I thought that since I had the other copy of South Park at home, that it wasn't worth making a fuss over and I left the store.
I then had to return a copy of SpongeBob SquarePants at Circuit City. Another long, slow moving line--same deal. I had brought back the copy that was not bought at the store and they refused to return it. This time I tried arguing with the clerk but she wouldn't budge and started getting snippy. I left the store fuming, because this time I had to call my sister and tell her to not let my nephew open and play the SpongeBob set until New Years Day when we would be able to exchange copies. And so I return there today to finally get rid of it.
What gets me in the damn inconvenience of it all! They can claim that having their own barcodes aids in managing their inventory, but what ti is essentially is setting up another roadblock in customers making a return.
End of rant.
