Originally posted by: FunkierThanU
Okay this is just wrong.
I decided I didn't want to wait for the freebie downloads for Mandrake Linux 10.0 for AMD64. I also thought "what the hell, I'll help support an outfit making a nice product". So I got on their direct store, and order me a copy on disk. $120.32 seemed a little step for a distro, but again, I figured it's for a good cause and I'd like a hard copy without the hassle.
Imagine my surprise when my Debit Card gets dinged to the tune of $12032.00!!!
Now, I'm a patient individual for the most part, and I understand that someone just screwed up and didn't hit the decimal point when entering numbers. Fine, my bank's cool and they immediately see what happened and can correct in 5 business days. Granted it sucks cause it's 7 days of no cash, since my bank account is a little overdrawn.
Well, today I received my TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR operating system... and it's the wrong frickin' version! They sent me a stale copy of 9.2 for 64bit instead of the 10.0 that it says on the receipt the disks came with.
Man. I hope they write code better than they enter numbers or pack stuff.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEdiots!!!!!!!!!!
Ya know, I was a little disappointed that I couldn't talk to an actual human at Mandrake. No numbers listed anywhere. I did FINALLY get a "yeah, we know there's a problem with the credit card charges, sorry..." -type e-mail. Maybe it's just me but if you overcharged someone ELEVEN GRAND wouldn't you try and make just a little effort to show you give a s***?
The wrong product showing up is just classic, after the first screwup. Am I stuck in "The Keystone Kops make an OS" this week.
Jeez.
that is just terrible, for a lot of people, including me, the bank would go nuts and we'd be doing crap forever just to get it off our credit.. 12k is more than my account has ever had @@!