10.19.07
Posted in Uncategorized, credit cards, Appliances
at 11:14 pm
It has become a routine that we as consumers come across huge numbers of faulty goods. And the thing is not about the money we have spent on them (though it is very important, too) and not even about the time we have lost buying those goods. It is about the attitude of the companies and stores that provide such products of poor quality. It seems like they do not have any policy concerning the settling of the complaints, concerning the refunds and exchanges. And any employee or manager act like they want, undertake some false decisions or tell you that they have no authority to make them, which is even worse. And they frazzle our nerves and health. This is just the same in this case with purchase of GE refrigerator.
Poorly built refrigerator. This is about the refrigerator GE sells to their unsuspecting customers. How it often happens, people have bought a GE refrigerator but in four months it just stopped cooling. So, the repair tech was needed. But in some weeks the situation came up again. And this is not just an annoying thing, but also the food is spoiling and the family can abruptly be out of food. Then it was found out by the next tech that the refrigerator had a leak and it some parts had to be changed.
Be careful: Freon. If the refrigerator stops cooling it means that there is so problem with the refrigerant. And this thing is very dangerous for your health. That is why the broken part with freon has to be removed. Besides, when there is a leak of refrigerant it is very harmful and it destroys our protective ozone layer.
GE attitude. But the essence of that situation is not the faulty GE refrigerator , this is the company itself. How in many other cases, they just did not want to solve the problem and did not care what their refrigerator has caused. Their client service is horrible and everything they can give is a number of run-arounds. So, keep away from them!
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10.14.07
Posted in Uncategorized, Fitness/Gym
at 3:30 pm
Sport is like a breath of some fresh air in our lives. It helps us to get back on our feet when something goes wrong and we feel blue and depressed. They say there is no better low spirits medicine than to delve deeply into work. We may say that sport is even better. That is why so many people are signing contracts and joining different gyms and sports centers. But not always this is a total satisfaction and joy. Some organizations do spoil our lives instead of being a remedy. And one of them is All American Fitness centers.
What they offer. Their advertisements are blazing with different offers, and we have to warn you against them. All American Fitness suggests “Today Only – No Contract, $ 15 a Month” and you have to prick up your ears at ones. They say that free cheese is only in the mouse trap and that is really true. All American Fitness states that you will be able to cancel a contract if being ill or injured. And they suggest you a freeze on this period. But all this is not in compliance with the reality. Furthermore, it is much worse.
What can happen to an unsuspecting customer. Before signing a contract, especially if you are purchasing a life time membership, they require to provide an access to your bank account for an automatic debit of monthly membership. And that can be your biggest mistake after the first one: coming there. All American Fitness will be trying to get every opportunity to charge you extra and there a re too many examples to describe it here. Besides you have to read the contract very carefully to know all the interesting details and there are lots of them. And never throw it away, because you will most probably need it.
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Posted in Uncategorized, AUTO, money, credit cards
at 3:27 pm
You have to be very careful while choosing an auto-financing company for your auto loan. That is not so hard to make a small research to find out which company is reputable and which is not. But it is absolutely another thing when it comes to non-prime auto-financing. That means that you do not have a varied option of companies that would be able to issue a loan for a person with some financial hardships or ruined credit record. But at least, after the research you would be aware what to expect and would be ready to react, because there could appear a number of troubles. Let us see it by the example of Drive Financial auto-loan.
Problems with making payments. Usually people who involve themselves in auto-financing with Drive Financial are out of money or really short on it. But that does not mean that they want to meet some more troubles. But in case with Drive Financial it seems to be impossible to avoid them. Everything starts with them missing your payments or delaying them. In this way they mess up all your finances. You could have never been late on payments before and you could have rather good credit but they would state that your payments are overdue and charge your account late fees. And finally, they just charge your account off.
Debt collection tactics. After having stated that you are late, Drive Financial starts taking actions how to pull the money out of you. Usually they do not come to know the particulars of the situation, they do not take into account how to act or that it was probably their own mistake. They start on calling your home up to 5-6 times a day, and not only your home. Drive Financial rejects to make any arrangements with their “defaulter” customer. In such a way they keep on threatening you that they will repossess your car until one bright day (or even night) they just send people to pick it up.
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10.04.07
Posted in Uncategorized, mobiles, IPhone
at 11:25 pm
People using hearing aids are usually suffering from hearing loss seniors whom our democratic society actually has to protect. Then, why do they encounter so many troubles? And what is actually a hearing aid, which these people so desperately need?
Hearing Aid.
This hearing aid is actually a device for assisting the hearing of partially deaf people (people suffering from hearing loss) and usually it consists of a small battery-powered electronic amplifier with microphone and earphone, worn by a deaf person in or behind the ear. This means that these partially deaf people are dependent on this device, without it they are unable to hear, which means – unable to react adequately to the things which happen around them. And this is actually a rather wide-spread problem, because according to different researches, there are more than 30 million people who are deaf, partially deaf or suffering from some kind of hearing disease, only in the USA.
Hearing aids problems.
The first and the most important problem concerning hearing aids is that they cost too much. And not every deaf senior is able to buy it. Modern, top-of-the-line device costs nowadays $2000-4000 at the average. But that is not the highest price which actually reaches $6000-7000. And how an average retired person can pay such a sum? But all medical equipment stores share the conviction that all seniors are pretty wealthy segment of our society and they are able to buy such an expensive device if they really need it. And that is why they are trying to sell only the most expensive hearing aids, so that if a deaf person comes to them, he or she does not have any other option than to buy a hearing aid at a high price or to leave without it. That is why people who share the same hearing problem have to stick to such providers of medical equipment who are interested not in the profit only but also in supporting their customers wealth and health.
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