About a year and a half ago, I went to BestBuy and bought an iPod compatible alarm clock. It’s called the iHome IH5 and was a great idea. Not a great product though. It had 2 major flaws in it:
- You could only hit snooze 5 times and then the alarm clock would just shut off. So, those mornings where you are having a really hard time getting up… you might hit snooze one too many times and end up sleeping right through that 8:00 AM meeting you were supposed to attend.
- It had dials, mimicking the iPod scroll wheel, allowing you to change the volume and set the time/alarm. The problem was the scroll wheels in this version were crap. It eventually lost responsiveness and it would take me literally 10 minutes to set the alarm.
Knowing this, and getting so sick of dealing with it, I decided to take advantage of that $9 extended warranty I paid for.
I went to BestBuy and they looked up my order history. Found that someone messed up the original order, put the wrong warranty on there, and I wasn’t covered! There was nothing they could do for me. Well, they probably could if I raised enough hell over it, but I didn’t feel like going through a giant battle over it.
I was still pissed off, so I said “this is the 3rd time you guys have messed up my warranty plans. “YOU’VE LOST MY BUSINESS!” I tossed the alarm clock across the customer service desk and ended with “you figure out, I don’t want your piece of sh*t anymore!” I huffed, and I puffed, and I walked right out the door.
After all this, I drove away and, a couple miles down the road, realized… AH CRAP! THAT WAS MY ONLY ALARM CLOCK! It did work somewhat… and I just shot myself in the foot by throwing it away.
Of course, my pride didn’t let me go back to BestBuy and retrieve my alarm clock. Dammit.
With pride intact, I went to the Apple store and found a much better version of the alarm clock, the iHome IH9, that had all the kinks worked out, based on user reviews.
What did I learn from this whole experience? Well, one might ask, “what does pride cost a man?”. Turns out it is $161.00 after tax.
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