On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:56:09 +0000, SonomaProducts.com wrote
(in article
):

However, I won't put up with stupidity very well. I was helping my
sister buy a laser printer way back when they were really something
special. It was supposed to be maybe $1,000. It wouldn't scan and the
clerk tried 3 times to enter the sku number by hand to no avail. Her
supervisor came over to see what was the hold up being very rude to
the poor gal. The sup enters a number and it comes up as the same
brand but it is like a toner cartridge or something for about $50 and
starts to walk away. We called her back and pointed out the error, she
was insistent it was correct and straight out asked us if we wanted to
pay the $50 for the item or not. We did. Then as we are exiting the
store we figure the gig is up, the big security guard stops us, looks
at the recipet and the item, marks it with his pen and says "have a
good day". Sheesh.

I never felt good about it and honestly that printer started breaking
down soon after and we didn't have a reciept to use for return or
anything. Karma?

Yes, but not in the way you're reading it.

The printer _was_ a lemon, independently of the personalities involved in
your purchase and the price you paid for it. There's no cause and effect
relationship here

If you'd paid full price for it, it would _still_ have broken down but you'd
then have the hassle of trying to sort out a replacement/refund from a store
supervised by pedantic stupids and you'd probably have been without a printer
for two years while it was being sorted out and while you were writing
frustrated letters every few days and while you were a thousand bucks down
for the duration.

You did all you reasonably could to do right by everyone and you avoided the
worst-case scenario while learning something valuable about the store and the
printer brand.. Don't beat yourself up because you didn't suffer enough.
Guilt is never a virtue.

I think the universe unfolded as it should




(Hey - celebrate!!)