Main > Main Forum

HAPPCONTROLS redeems themselves: Read first post (thread was Hijacked).

Pages: << < (7/15) > >>

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: knave on February 20, 2008, 05:49:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: TheShanMan on February 20, 2008, 05:39:24 pm ---FWIW I'm here in the US (west coast though, not an east coast yankee) and as far as I can remember I've never heard of moon pies! I was thinking the same thing - what the hell is a moon pie? ;)

--- End quote ---

I think it's also an age and exposure thing...being middle aged and living on the west coast I just have heard of moon pies.  I even saw a special on the food network about them once.  Just dont ask me where you could find one out here. (I do think you can mail order them though)

We do have RC cola though. 

--- End quote ---

It is because Moon Pies are mainly a Southern U.S. thing. They certainly don't sell them in Maine. The first time I ever heard of them was in the early or mid-'90s Country song "Lifestyles Of The Not So Rich And Famous" (Tracy Byrd):


--- Quote ---Yeah, our idea of high-class living
Is sitting on the porch on a cool night
Our Champagne and caviar
Is an RC Cola and a Moon Pie
--- End quote ---



ahofle:

Didn't the game "Redneck Rampage" have moon pies around the map that gave you 'health'?  :laugh2:

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: ahofle on February 20, 2008, 06:01:09 pm ---Didn't the game "Redneck Rampage" have moon pies around the map that gave you 'health'?  :laugh2:

--- End quote ---


--- Quote ---Like most first-person-shooters, [Redneck Rampage] offered a variety of ways for the character to regenerate health or hit points. These power-ups consisted of the allegedly redneck related moon pies, pork rinds, beer and liquor.
--- End quote ---

LOL!

u_rebelscum:


--- Quote from: nipsmg on February 20, 2008, 04:25:02 pm ---I placed an order for the following:

27" monitor bezel

They were to be shipped ground.  .... (Maybe this is why, so they can completely rape their customers for shipping charges).

To my horror, I got an order confirmation telling me I was charged $62?!??!??!???!? for shipping ... was told "that's just the way it works, the bezel is an oversized item, sorry".

--- End quote ---

Blame UPS.  Even DM would have charged the same (at least he'd tell you) if he sold it:

--- Quote from: ahofle on February 20, 2008, 04:42:15 pm ---Divemaster won't even ship those bezels anymore because of the shipping rates on them. 

--- End quote ---

Go to ups.com and look it up yourself.  Be sure to do the detailed time & cost, as your package is "oversized": your 27" bezel outside size is 29.5" x 29.25" according to happs (assuming crt bezel), and a 30x30x6 package (ie bezel with no padding) will be changed by ups as if it's 29 lbs.  Add the rest of your order and any needed padding, and the size and thus UPS cost will go up.

Side story: when I worked for a small online store, we intentionally didn't give shipping estimates because we didn't know how many of each product could fit in the different boxes.  We knew the product weights, but that was (and still isn't) enough to calculate the actual shipping costs.  And the costs for a 4 lb package vs a 4 lb package @ 30 lb dimensional weight is huge (as OP found out).


I do feel for you that they don't give a shipping cost estimate, and you guessed the shipping cost wrong.  And if they packaged in a box bigger than needed, then you can really blast happs.  But happs at least now lists the outside dimensions of the bezel, so you could have (should have) estimated the cost yourself by going to ups.com before ordering.

Ken Layton:


--- Quote from: shardian on February 20, 2008, 04:42:34 pm ---There needs to be a warning somewhere that is easily readable here that says DO NOT ORDER DIRECTLY FROM HAPP!!!!!!!!

This has been covered a million times.



--- End quote ---

Yes indeed this is well documented here and other forums.

Pages: << < (7/15) > >>

Go to full version