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Friday, February 12, 2010

Skullcandy is No Bueno

Gather ‘round, let’s have a conversation about the woes of crappy products, and the bad customer service of said products.

I found this great blog that really puts into words how big companies don’t give a flying rat’s ass about you, or me, and they will sell whatever crap they have in stock, and ignore any customer feedback, good or bad.  Before I share this blog with you, let me say first of all that this is not the first time I have heard of this issue from Skullcandy, and subsequently I will not buy their products as they don’t seem to care about having customers anyway.

The blog I’m referencing is: The Good Ol’ Days.

In this post, she talks about her brand new Skullcandy ear buds shocking her ears.  Literally electrocuting her ears.  I could not believe it when I heard of this happening.  What kind of company puts out a product that is hazardous in this way?  In this post this chick says that she even contacted Skullcandy’s customer service and they completely ignored her email.  If there was a product malfunction, that would definitely be something I would want to look into, rather than ignoring it all together.

Skullcandy is like the ostrich of the business world; burying their head in the sand and pretending like it’s not really happening.  Good one, Skullcandy.  Way to own up to your mistakes.

I’m here to spread the word; we as consumers shouldn’t have to keep these types of companies in business.  There are headphones from different brands that we can buy that will not cause us to lose brain cells, and that will listen to our feedback should we provide it.

So suck it, Skullcandy.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Box

So if you are planning on watching the movie the box, please don’t read any further, because I’m going to do 2 things Number 1. I’m going to spoil it for you, and number 2.  I’m going to save you time and money.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/

This is my take on the movie, and what I remember.

1.  The movie starts out with a family that is living a normal life 2 working parents. and trying to make it with their income.  They get woken up at 5:45 in the morning with a random box on their porch with a button to push.  5:00 in the afternoon some random stranger comes to visit and explains that the purpose of the box does 2 things if they push the button they get 1 million dollars, and someone in the world, someone they don’t know dies, simple as that.  If they don’t push the button no one dies, and they don’t get the money.  He gave them 24 hours to make the decision.  long story short they push the button, and get the money, and someone dies.  You would think thats the end of the movie, but it goes on. They start by telling the police, which in turn makes this random stranger come after them, and threaten them and come after them.  Turns out this stranger worked for the military, and died and came back to life and started “testing” people with the boxes.  They spend the whole movie trying to stop the stranger from coming after them, and at the end of the movie he is in their house and said your son is deaf and blind, and the only way to fix him is for the father to shoot and kill his wife (the mother) and so ends the show.

I hope this all made sense.

2. now that you know how the movie goes you don’t have to waste your time, and money to see it.  You will be much better off without it in your life.