Wilbur Corncob's Blog April Archive

Invitation to test Vbuzzer Fax over Instant Messaging

By Wilbur Corncob at 04/20/07 13:33

Now, I am a customer of vbuzzer and mostly a happy customer (though their rates have gone through the roof on calls to Colombia).

I am even happen to received emails from them because they are always somehow relevant to their service(s) and are plain text.

However, this one falls into the category of a really stupid email, as I have highlighted below they are actively seeking my feedback. That is great!

However, if you try to offer your feed back it goes to "noreply" and comes right back to you! I would think if they actually wanted someone's feedback they would offer a valid email address or other means of communicating it to them!

From: noreply@vbuzzer.com
Reply-To:
To: Stupid.Wilbur@wilburcorncob.com
Subject: Invitation to test Vbuzzer Fax over Instant Messaging
Date: Fri 04/20/07 11:19 AM Hello,

As you may know, Vbuzzer has been working to change the way people communicate worldwide, one of the major initiatives is to include faxing into its instant messaging and internet telephony software, so people can IM, call, and fax within one single application.

We'd like to invite you to test the new beta version of Vbuzzer Messenger, we would greatly value your opinions, and we hope you'll participate actively by giving us your feedback. This is a private test invite and each invitation recepie nt is given 60 pages faxing priviledge within US & Canada. If you would still get a fax number on your Vbuzzer Messenger, please write us an email and we will try to accomodate your request. Please note that we have only a limited amount of fax numbers available now.

You can download the Vbuzzer Messenger by clicking on the link below

http://www.vbuzzer.com/download.php

We look forward to seeing you at Vbuzzer!

Best regards,
The Vbuzzer Team

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Really Stupid Customer Service

I saw an interesting post on another blog about customers at Walmart so I decided to email Walmart about it. Below is a transcript of the email exchange.

Basically they are asking me to contact again with the same information I contacted them with the first time. Option #2 is how I contacted them the first time.

They conclude the email saying that I should replace to it. So should I reply to the email or use their website to contact them?

Should I assume if I contact them again I'll get a different answer. If I had made a purchase would I need to go through the same contact them twice the same way procedure, or is it more than twice?

I really wanted to contact their media department, but they only offer phone numbers and no email addresses. I don't do customer service of any kind via telephone.

I am glad that I have not entered a Walmart store in over 5 years!

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Thank you for your message.

It is important to us that we address any customer concerns that are brought to our attention. If you would like to contact us, we would encourage you to do so by any of the following means:

1) Call 1-800-Wal-Mart

2) Log on to www.walmartstores.com, Click on Contact Us (located at the bottom left hand corner of the screen)

3) Write to us at the following address: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Attn: Customer Relations
702 SW 8th Street
Bentonville, AR 72716

Thank you,
Customer Relations

For further correspondence regarding this issue, please reply to this email.

----Your Original Comments Were----

I would be interested in your comments on one of our bloggers feelings about the manners of Walmart customers.

http://blog.get2buynow.com
Why are People so Inconsiderate?
By Lexie Elaine at 04/13/07 11:33

I find it highly aggravating that some people while shopping have so little manners.

I guess it is like driving or anything else, it is just bad manners. While shopping at Wal Mart the other day, simply navigating the aisles was a nightmare because that is where people:

* Socialize with friends they haven't seen for at least a day
* Talk on their cell phones while their cart is parked in the MIDDLE of the aisle
* Allow their children to run wild, and force you to put on your cart brakes to avoid impact
* Stand and look at a section of products for half an hour, and when people are behind them, and OBVIOUSLY want to grab something from that section, refuse to move over
* Refuse to stay on their side of the street (aisle)

I wish people would simply just have some respect for fellow shoppers, or just exercise some good manners and common courtesy.

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Any excuse to spam

Below is a slightly editted email I received from some really stupid people. Just because you can stretch a balloon until it breaks doesn't mean it is a good idea. Just because I might own a reallystupiddomain.ORG doesn't mean I want junk email about a reallystupiddomain.COM.

Maybe you do can you can contact these really stupid spammers, and help them in their quest to stop cyber squatters! I would also like to sell you the brooklyn bridge.

I am sure we could come up with a list of 10 better ways for them to promote their service without waking me up with their stupid emails. Yes, Wilbur does have an alarm clock buzzer hooked to his inbox so he never misses an email.

Dear Stupid Wilbur,

I am writing to inform you youarereallystupid.COM is expiring and may be = released to the public within the next few days. =20 There is a good chance that there will be several interested parties = attempting to capture this domain when it is released, these will vary = from parties with a genuine interest to domain name speculators = otherwise known as cyber squatters who often put large price tags on = such domains. =20 We are domain acquisition specialists and I felt that as the owner of = youarereallystupid.org you would have a much more genuine interest in = acquiring youarereallystupid.COM. =20 If you would like us to try and acquire this domain on your behalf then = please let me know by 7th April 2007.

This is a genuine service and we do not charge any money upfront. If you = receive emails from any other companies claiming to own the domain = before 8th April 2007, please do not send them any money.

If you would like our help to acquire the domain for you as it expires = then please reply by email or contact me on the numbers below.=20 =20 Kind Regards =20 Stephanie van der Westhuizen Tripod UK Ltd www.tripoduk.com UK +44 (0) 870 808 0073 USA +1 310 601 8248