STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

I had the same problem with a local Staples - got the store number from my reciept - got a $10 gift certificate and an apology from HQ by mail a week after my emailed complaint. Had a problem of DHL screwing up shipping on an online order, that I paid extra $$ to get it here quick, they refunded all the shipping and sent me 2 $10 gift certificates and an apoloogy from HQ by mail after I called to make a verbal complaint and inquiry of the delay/loss. It helps to mention that you're taking your business in the future to Officemax, Office Depot or Quill.... => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Fred Cisin => (XenoSoft) => Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:02 PM => To: Classic Computer => Subject: Re: STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS => => => > >I went to their web site and searched for all stores in and around => > >Houston within 100 miles and got zero hits? => > There are NONE in Houston or the surrounding 100 miles?!? => consider yourslef lucky. => > Man... I have 2 in Paramus and 1 in Ramsey... all within 5 minutes of => > each other! And other 3 more that I can think of within a 15-20 minute => > drive. => > You poor Texans must feel left out (now I see why my mother => left TX and => > came to NJ) => => You can HAVE the ones around here! => Item (external PCMCIA interface CD-ROM) at about 80% of going => rate; they would not honor the sale price (saying it was a typo), but => would also NOT post anything saying it was a typo on the display copy of => the flyer posted at the front door. => FIVE out of FIVE times that they have had good deals, they have been out => of the items (never had them?), with no rainchecks. => Some sort of extremely obnoxious alarm bell ringing in store; clerk's => response to complaints: "Yeah, I wish that somebody would turn it off." => Response to request for specs on a product: "It's really good." => WHILE getting something from the back room, the time for a clerk's => scheduled break came, . . . => Answer to "what is the angle of directionality?" of a directional => microphone (Sony MC-100): "That means that it only picks up what you aim => it at." => => "Yeah, we don't got that." => => => They suck so much that I'd rather go to FRY'S! => =>