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PCIntern (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 07:43 AMOriginal message I want to talk about some of the worst M-----F------'s with whom I've had to deal: The individuals who sell, rent, and buy back stair chairs and lifts for the infirm.I don't know if anyone else here has had the unfortunate situation of having a parent or other relative require home health care and physical assistance, but if you ever do, be very wary of these bastards who sell and rent these lifts.Years ago, before my mother of blessed memory passed away, she bought a stair lift for 2600 dollars. she had trouble from the company from the beginning after the initial installation and they were hesitant to come by and adjust it. Finally, I had to do this and, as an amateur, had a difficult, but successful outcome. Of course, now that I'd adjusted the machine so she wouldn't fall out and break her neck, they would no longer service the chair under any circumstances, since they said that I fouled the machinery. Which was BS since I adjusted a couple of nuts and retightened them fully.After she died, I contacted the company to see if they would buy it back and they literally laughed at me on the phone. So it sat in her home, which I've maintained since it's at the Jersey shore for years.So I'm sitting in a restaurant the other day and on the place mat I see an ad for new, used, and rental of stair lifts. So I call the number and ask the gentleman if he buys used stair lifts. His response was, "Why do you think I'd do that?" I said, "Because your ad says that you sell used lifts, and it would be my assumption that you would have to get them from somewhere."So he says real sarcastically, "I would only buy the ones I sold - it makes sense, what's the matter with you?" He then proceeds to explain to me the economics of the industry, real condescendingly. I waited for him to finish and then said to him, "So you're running a perpetual motion machine for the dying and the dead, right? Why wouldn't you buy someone else's and sell it?"He gave me a bunch of BS as to how he would need to make sure that it was first quality and other crap and then he basically told me that I was an uninformed moron.Big mistake on his part. I said to him, "Look sir, I'm sitting in a diner and see your ad on a ****ing placemat...you're not exactly running Tiffany's here, and I simply called you with a question. You have called into question my intellect, my business sense, and my morality. All I'm trying to do is find out if you buy chairs - and you've taken it upon yourself to be a Professional Prick. So, since I'm tired of talking to you, Goodbye." and I hung up the phone.All this guy had to do was be polite and say, "No sir, we don't do that."This is a business for real creeps and they are able to treat sick people and their families as suckers, because the sick are scared and cowed. Beware!
deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 09:43 AMResponse to Original message 13. From your posts, it appears you have blowups with virtually everyone you deal with. I suggest you take the arrogance down a notch.
Bunny (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 07:54 PMResponse to Reply #29 31. Didn't realize you were a shrink, too. Well, whatever floats your boat, doc. Keep sticking it to the man. Or woman, as it were. I don't think I've ever had a DU stalker before, this could add some interest to my dull, frustrated, tired and angry life. I'll be seein' you!
QuestionAll (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 02:50 PMResponse to Original message 20. our experiences were quite the opposite. my father-in-law passed earlier this year, and had a stair lift-chair. i dismantled it and took it to my parents house for MY father to use.it seemed like a fairly straightforward procedure to install it- but ultimately we had a pro do it for $400. the installer was a real nice guy, and my parents haven't had a single problem with it.Why do you broad-brush an entire industry just because you had a difficult time with one person in the field...?seems like a fairly narrow-minded attitude- does it carry over to other aspects of your life?
deaniac21 (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 07:08 PMResponse to Reply #20 26. PCINTERN likes to imagine that the sky is falling and Chicken Little isn't available. The posibliity that pcintern has ever been even slightly worong on any subject is not possible. Pcintern gets enjoyment out of anger and outrage. Look up Histronic Personality Disorder....
QuestionAll (1000+ posts) Tue Nov-25-08 09:47 PMResponse to Original message 33. whatever...
