Posted By: long_lost_corleone
Venting Some Frustration - 08/27/05 07:42 AM
I'm a little pissed off about this... It's a rather small thing, but still enough to anger me considering the situation.
So get this. Two weeks ago I head out to Suncoast to buy Magnolia. For some ungodly reason, Suncoast, a store that focuses completely on selling DVD's and related inventory does not have Magnolia, the movie that won more awards than almost any other film of 1999. So the tell me to come back in a week, that they'll be getting a new shipment in then. So I come back in a week, and they still don't have it. They tell me I could have them order it in for a five dollar down payment. So I do that as well... I even pay $27.99 for the DVD itself right there.
Then today comes, and they call me up. They finally got it in, and I can pick it up when I'd like. Paul Thomas Anderson being my favorite director, I'm real excited about it, and I head over immediately. I get the DVD, I bring it home, and I remove the plastic packaging. With a smile on my face, I open up the case, and look inside, confused as to what just happened. It would appear the cunning workers or machines, or whatever do the work at the New Line factory decided not to put disk one in the case. So, I just paid about $30 for a DVD case, some trailers, a music video, and a documentary. That's all fine and dandy, but what about the three hour film I was initially interested in purchasing?
Now, don't get me wrong, humor is my self-defense mechanism. I'm a generally relaxed guy, I can see the humor in this. I have a chuckle over it. But what annoys me, is now I have to go back tommorrow morning (Has to be the morning, before he leaves--And I'm not a morning-person, to say the least) and explain my situation to the manager, which will deffinately not be the high-light of my day...
So get this. Two weeks ago I head out to Suncoast to buy Magnolia. For some ungodly reason, Suncoast, a store that focuses completely on selling DVD's and related inventory does not have Magnolia, the movie that won more awards than almost any other film of 1999. So the tell me to come back in a week, that they'll be getting a new shipment in then. So I come back in a week, and they still don't have it. They tell me I could have them order it in for a five dollar down payment. So I do that as well... I even pay $27.99 for the DVD itself right there.
Then today comes, and they call me up. They finally got it in, and I can pick it up when I'd like. Paul Thomas Anderson being my favorite director, I'm real excited about it, and I head over immediately. I get the DVD, I bring it home, and I remove the plastic packaging. With a smile on my face, I open up the case, and look inside, confused as to what just happened. It would appear the cunning workers or machines, or whatever do the work at the New Line factory decided not to put disk one in the case. So, I just paid about $30 for a DVD case, some trailers, a music video, and a documentary. That's all fine and dandy, but what about the three hour film I was initially interested in purchasing?
Now, don't get me wrong, humor is my self-defense mechanism. I'm a generally relaxed guy, I can see the humor in this. I have a chuckle over it. But what annoys me, is now I have to go back tommorrow morning (Has to be the morning, before he leaves--And I'm not a morning-person, to say the least) and explain my situation to the manager, which will deffinately not be the high-light of my day...