posted on November 23, 2000 04:12:22 PM newcelebrityskin
Sorry, I should have made myself more clear. (Had a three year old on my lap trying to help me type)
Yes, they will change the actual name of the street. This helps assure only one street with any given name. In my relativly small response area, we had three Maple streets, four First streets, Highland Ave, Highland Street, and Highland Court. None of which were anywhere near each other.
They are still in the process (after 5 years!) of changing some of the names in my response area. After living with certian street names for 25 years of emergency services, it can be real frustrating when 911 gives you street names you have never heard of. [grr]
It can be a real pain, and hard to get used to, but believe me, it's worth it in the long run. When you need help, you want it then, not after they drove across town to the wrong address.
Hope this helps.
Tim
edited for a "oops"
[ edited by honaker5 on Nov 23, 2000 04:13 PM ]
posted on November 23, 2000 07:23:31 PM new
I live on just such a street in a small town where the neighbouring town has a street the same name. They changed the name of our street so that emergency services could find us, the only problem is that they didn't change the maps, so delivery men have a hell of a time finding where we live!
PS - Thanks for the urls for the history of THanksgiving... cleared up a few things - I think the first thanksgiving in Newfoundland in 1593 was in October, which is where I got the idea that was the original date...
posted on November 23, 2000 07:32:51 PM new
I dealt with two similar customers last week. The first I had to snail mail because he included no info other than his return address. Upon receipt of my letter, the guy emailed me every two hours over Saturday and Sunday, finally resorting to threats and calling me a crook. (I only read the emails on Monday.) Jeez, you try to help someone out and they end up accusing you of being a crook. The second moron forgot to include his shipping address. We emailed back and forth. Instead of just sending the freaking address, he kept arguing that I already had it. Then he demanded a refund and left negative feedback. How do people like this survive without the brains God gave a flea? I dunno.
posted on November 23, 2000 07:42:15 PM new
Yup these 911 people are good ones for changeing addresses this system they have works so well when they are done makeing changes to addresses the guy who lives next door to you could get a fire call to go to the house next door and not know it.
I have lived in the same house for 38 years all that time had the same street and house number.
along comes 911 to change things now we have three house numbers here mind you a single family house one family they sent me one house number my wife another and yet even another.
one house one family 50% of the members in it have a different address the same post office the same mail box.
not to mention the numbers they changed our house to belong to three houses on the other end of the street for the last 30 some years so we now get all the mail address to them as well as some of our own.
posted on November 23, 2000 08:02:38 PM newcelebrityskin
I had the same thing happen a couple of months back. When the high bidders check arrived, it had a different first name, and his home addy. I asked & he said "send it to the addy I emailed you", which was his work addy.
After a week or so he starts sending "where's my item" email to me, after 2 weeks he's calling me a crook, after 3 weeks he's calling me every name under the sun & stating he's going to contact ALL of my bidders to let them know what a con man I am.
I had told him repeatedly that if after 30 days his item hadn't arrived that I would gladly refund the full amount including shipping. That wasn't enough to calm him down. After he threatened to contact my bidders I decided no more Mr. Niceguy & gave him both barrels straight to the head. I told him I would be forwarding his email to a n eBay rep I know, and also to my US partners attorney in NYC. I also told him a refund was in the mail & that if the item did eventually show up, to keep it & the refund as this would be my last contact with him, and my partners attorney in the US would be handling the matter from here on in.
Of course I was bluffing, but it worked.
Turns out the dork sent me the wrong work addy, [it was incomplete] & the parcel came back to me on week 4.
I resold it for more $$$ the next week.
