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Do Not Buy ANYTHING from HAIER

Posted by 42jeff on Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I recently have had a nightmarish experience dealing with Haier, a home appliance company, and trying to get a dishwasher that broke a week after installation repaired.  Enjoy.  Dammit

After the experience I've had with Haier over the last two months, I assure you I am going to do everything I can to divert customers away from purchasing your products. Your customer service call center is either unreliable or incompetent. Your parts department is just as bad. And your "customer contact request form" through your website is seemingly broken. "Shall I elaborate?" he asks as if anyone will even respond or read this thing to begin with.
Now I understand I "only bought a dishwasher". But that's beside the point. The point is it broke within a week of bringing the thing home. Then it took over a week for somebody to come look at it and have the control panel declared "bad". Okay. Two weeks for that, fine. So three weeks after the part is ordered I have someone from the servicing company call to tell me they can't find the part; if it's not found within 30 days I will receive a new dishwasher. "Fantastic" I think. My wife echoed the sentiment and the hemming and hawing she gave me about getting a dishwasher from such an unheard of company seemed to fizzle away.
 
 That is until a week later when I call back to ask about the part and am told the part is STILL not available and that I'll have to talk to Haier because A&E has no idea what I'm talking about. So I call Haier who of course has to do their own research into the part. Five days later the part is miraculously found and on order and they'll have a shipping number for me in two business days. I call back THREE business days later, and wouldn't you know it...the part isn't shipped yet. And you know...at this point I'm just not suprised anymore. So finally I get to talk to Brody and he assures me the thing is "on the truck and on its way". Brody DID go so far as to give me hope that MAYBE he could "get somebody out there" quicker than the every two weeks A&E services runs. You think I held my breath?
 
On the 22nd of April I'm even told by "Ari" at the call center that he would put in a request to have a superviser call me "within 2 business days...so Friday." No call. So finally I call today and wait on hold for 20 minutes for a supervisor who then tells me that A&E is going to be at my house May 2nd to install the part. That would have been great to know that because you know what? I can't be there between 8 and 12 on May 2nd because NOBODY freakin told me they were coming and we have plans.
 
And as for your "Request Form", I called your corporate warranty call center to ask why the numerous submissions to said form have gone ignored. "We'll check into it" was the answer I expected and was not disappointed. This will be the last you hear from me. I am very disappointed and had been on the verge numerous times on taking the thing back to Menards...but then THEY would have to deal with you too. Doing a Google search would have saved me lots of hassle as I see I am not the only one regretting having purchased one of your products. And as I stated before, I will not recommend anything from your company to anybody...but will in fact be doing quite the opposite.
 
Good day,
 
Jeffery Thomas
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Letter to Congressman Pomeroy

Posted by 42jeff on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 2:18:56 PM
I just sent this letter to Congressman Pomeroy. I don't expect a response...but will post it here if he does.
 
Congressman Pomeroy, I, as are many Americans, am in need of an explanation. When I was a kid, I was taught to be responsible. "Do the crime-do the time." Pay your bills on time and in full. Help little old ladies across teh street. All that jazz. I have also tried to instill those same values to my own children. Explain to me how I am to tell them their country is spending BILLIONS of dollars paying off debts of companies and people who got themselves in trouble. How do I justify to them that we can't go out to eat as much as we used to because I have to pay OUR bills?
 
 I was trying to explain the bailout to one of my kids and he asked what was in it for us?
So I ask...what is in it for us hard working folk who pay our bills on time. What happens to those of us who had the sense NOT to get into a mortgage that I couldn't afford? As for the impending "Stimulus" package...I commend congress for wanting to get all these wonderful things done. But you see, we can't afford it-and by "we" I mean "America".
 
Yes. SOME of this money is going to good causes. But the trouble is, I could have the best house on the block if I was fine being in debt for the rest of my life. Me and my wife would love to drive the nicest cars in town. We would even be sure our kids would fully appreciate going to the best colleges in the country. But you see, we can’t afford all that stuff…much like our cannot afford this stimulus package. Nor can our children. Or our children’s children.
 
 I will stop there Congressman since I know you have better things to do with your time than to listen to yet another rant, but please, do what is right and don't vote for this monster when it comes back around. Sincerely, Jeffery Thomas
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Great...change...now what?

Posted by 42jeff on Monday, February 09, 2009 1:18:18 PM
Oh the dilemma we all face. Do we support the new regime in Washington DC and this insane stimulus package they’re trying to force down our throats or do we continue standing up for what is right and go down kicking and screaming? Yes. SOME of this money is going to good causes. But the trouble is, I could have the best house on the block if I was fine being in debt for the rest of my life. Me and my wife would love to drive the nicest cars in town. We would even be sure our kids would fully appreciate going to the best colleges in the country. But you see, we can’t afford all that stuff…much like our cannot afford this stimulus package. Nor can our children. Or our children’s children.
What motivation is there for honest, hard working folks to stay financially responsible? And by financially responsible, I mean paying our bills, mortgages and taxes on time and in full. Why should we bother? When people can get appointed to Cabinet posts having not payed their taxes, does that mean it’s then optional for the rest of us as well? And what message is it sending to Americans when failing companies are given millions of dollars only to turn around and blow it on resorts and CEO bonuses? And on those failing companies…tell me again why those CEOs still have jobs? Doesn’t it make sense that if their company is THAT bad off that maybe a change in leadership may be needed? Oh we’ve got change now. The only question now is into what?
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Crapola

Posted by 42jeff on Tuesday, November 04, 2008 11:37:40 PM
So of everything I voted for today...ND should retain Hoeven as governor, Measure 3 passed and the 2 budget increases that Ward County wanted got defeated. 
 
And now I'm going to be part of a socialist government that I cannot support.  How do I do this and not hate my job every day of my life?  I am going to be working for a man that stands for everything that is evil in the world.  I cannot retire under this man yet I cannot work for him.  Do I leave the country like I am STILL waiting for Alec Baldwin and so many other celebrities to do?  Do I bite my tongue for FOUR freakin years until MAYBE there's a new President for me to retire under?
 
I know for one thing...come January 20th, 2009, my flag will spend the next four years at half-mast because America as we know it is dead and gone.
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Election Eve

Posted by 42jeff on Monday, November 03, 2008 4:36:57 PM
So the election is tomorrow.  I have this long shot hope that the polls were a little skewed as they usually are.  The fear I have that Obama is going to be my Commander-in-Chief for the next four years just makes my skin crawl.
 
How can I in good faith follow the orders of a man who couldn't care less about me?  Especially once he gets this Civilian Defense Force or whatever the heck it is he's calling it.  Will I then be out of a job?  If he promises it will be just as well funded as the military that we already have, how much more will his budget balloon to?
 
I cringe at the thought of having that name, "Barrack Hussein Obama" on my retirement certificate from the United States Air Force...or the People's Air Force...or whatever it is we'll be in three-ish years.  If I even HAVE a job.  If there's even a United States by then.
 
We're going to become one big welfare state like has never been seen before on God's green earth.  Ugh...my poor kids....
 
 
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Minot Daily News Letter - Obama NOT a socialist?

Posted by 42jeff on Friday, October 31, 2008 10:25:04 AM
So a letter was written to the Minot Daily News that I just HAD to respond to
 
 
 
How can people just be so assinine? ..  
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Who cares?

Posted by 42jeff on Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:47:49 PM
So Grace Jones has endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.  Matt Damon.  Pretty much all of Europe.  The LA Times... and my question is, "Who cares?"  Whoopdie freakin do!
 
Am I supposed to be such a Matt Damon fan that I say to myself, "OH!  Well if HE'S voting for Obama...then he's my guy!"  Give me a freakin break.  The main stream media these days thinks people really are so stupid that we can't make a decision for ourselves.  I for one am personally offended by that. 
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Polls Shmolls

Posted by 42jeff on Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:00:55 AM
Polls Shmolls
It seems everybody's got a poll these days. And with the coming election and the ever-present media bias, you can predict what they're going to say without even having to see them. Polls are not as objective as the pollsters want you to believe they are.
 
After the three presidential debates and the VP debate in jotting down what I thought the spreads were going to be on the three major polls. Imagine my suprise when I was pretty close on them. CNN, MSNBC, AP you can pretty much be assured they're going to give Obama/Biden about a 15% spread every where you look. FoxNews only gives about a four to six point spread. Brietbart, BBC and most international groups tend to be about 10%.
 
 When you look at these things you have to take into consideration the source. You KNOW the slant of most of the major networks so the results of their polls are really no suprise. Sure, if you say you took a poll of a thousand people...but they were all in California...or the Northeast, you know it's going to be liberally slanted. Take a poll in the midwest and it will go back the other way.
 
 I hope with the coming election, people will look away from the polls and vote with their minds instead of what they think the rest of the country is going to do.
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Will Atlas shrug?

Posted by 42jeff on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:44:14 PM
Will Atlas Shrug?
 
What are businessmen to think if a substantial tax hike is put on them at the same time the low income bracket is given a large tax reduction? What if those driving forces in our country that worked hard to be successful suddenly realize they’ve had enough of being taken advantage of and close their doors?
 
What then?
 
 Redistribution of wealth is not what this country was founded on. “Socialism” is defined as “the stage following capitalism in the transition of a society to communism, characterized by the imperfect implementation of collectivist principles.” It needs to be understood that it’s the big companies that decide whether or not to build a new store or factory. If they are suddenly burdened by a heavier tax load to “spread the wealth”, won’t they just lay people off or increase prices rather than see diminished profits? Some goods will get more expensive meanwhile there are more people out of work. How does this help the economy? How is this “patriotic”?
 
 Another candidate says he wants across the board tax cuts and is criticized for giving larger breaks to the rich. Only that’s fair, see? An evenly applied tax break will benefit the more wealthy because they’re already paying a larger share of the tax load.
 
I saw a story once about six men who dined regularly at a restaurant and divided the bill up proportionately by income. The one making the least ate free while the wealthiest paid the most. One day the waiter gave the men a 10% refund for their faithful business. The men decided to split up the discount by the same ratio that they paid by. The next poorest wound up eating free while the one paying the most got the largest refund. The other men were angered at their smaller refunds and the one eating free to begin with was upset because he got nothing.
 
 If the wealthier in America do finally decide they’ve had it and either leave the country or close their doors, the economic downturn we’ve experienced the past few months will be nothing in comparison. The jolt the nation will feel when Atlas does finally shrug will resound around the planet and for years to come.
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Isn't pork supposed to be healthy?

Posted by 42jeff on Monday, October 20, 2008 8:10:13 AM

I thought pork was supposed to be healthy? How is it then that with all the pork the American taxpayer has been forced to swallow for several years, our economy is as unhealthy as ever? Look at the Economy Rescue Bill that passed last week with the bloated "extras" included to "convince" some senators to give their support. I've been trying to figure it out, but how exactly does a Mental Health Initiative, subsidies to wooden arrow manufacturers and wool research have to do with bailing out failed banking institutions? How exactly do tax incentives to rum manufacturers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands fix the collapsing stock market?
 
 I know these senators and representatives need to keep their posts somehow. Where else can you get $170,000 per year, an excellent health plan, and work nine months out of the year if you aren't a pro athlete? That doesn't include the perks. It seems that maybe saving the taxpayers - our country - several billion dollars a year would go further toward job security-and maybe even help out national security.
 
 I realize a lot of things are accomplished by cramming that junk onto the tail ends of these bills. I tried my hardest to read the whole bailout bill and wound up getting so frustrated, I had to quit and get some Motrin. President Clinton removed several items he saw as "excessive for the short time he had the Line Item Veto. How much money could be saved every year if our legislators didn't waste time and effort shoving all kinds of extras onto everything that's passed? How much more informed would the average American be if everything that Congress voted on was made public rather than as paragraph b of subsection 14, line 19, item number 7b of Section III?
 
Alas, until our legislature decides to treat their jobs with the respect and responsibility their positions deserve, we will have to pay millions of dollars every time a bill is signed to get enough "Yea"s. Either way, we should be glad they're at least making a decision and doing more than just being "Present."
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Where's my bailout?

Posted by 42jeff on Monday, October 20, 2008 7:54:01 AM
Where's my bailout? Hey, Congress! Hey, House! Where's mine? I am your typical American. I hold a job. I got in debt providing a good life for my family and renovating my house. I have a mortgage on that house, kids, pets, and a big screen TV. Where's my bailout?
 
Only, you see, I know where my bailout is. It comes every two weeks when my paycheck comes in. Most Americans have to work for our bailouts. Most of us live day to day being pretty happy with ourselves for making our bills. Most of us have taken the foresight and consideration for our own well being to not get into a mortgage that we know we cannot afford. So. For those of us responsible enough to take care of our own financial well-being, why should our tax dollars be spent getting those who didn't out of trouble? Why should our tax-dollars go to paying CEOs off for screwing up our economy? Why not let those who screwed up learn their lesson? Why make everybody else pay for it? I think the "Crap Sandwich" that us responsible American's are being forced to swallow should be on the ballot this November. Let those of us that are going to be paying for it have sort of say.
 
I know a few people who might have issue with that though. There will be no "Present" on the ballot this November.
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Thanks for nothing...

Posted by 42jeff on Monday, October 20, 2008 7:35:10 AM
After several years of just being pissed off and bitching to anybody who'd listen to me for a minute, I finally decided to do something about it.  Though it is "just Minot" I started in the letters to the Editor column and just started here.  I'll post my first three letters just for posterity's sake.
Thanks for nothing Congress. In a glaring display of why the 2006 elected Democratic congress has the lowest approval record ever, they have decided to bow out of trying to do anything to right the financial emergencies being experienced on Wall Street this week. It's good to see that even after taking a summer break and finally coming back to work, that you're hard at work figuring out when to quit working.

Thanks for nothing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for letting your Congress continue to do nothing besides declare another day in recognition of left-handed, redheaded taxi drivers named "John." Since you took over nothing has gotten accomplished besides a lot of finger pointing and screaming for the heads of our current administration.

Thank God the elections are only a few weeks away. With any luck we'll get people in there again who will work for the country rather than on opportunities not to. By the way...to any left-handed, redheaded taxi drivers named "John," no offense intended.
 
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