{"id":5673,"date":"2017-01-11T11:30:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T17:43:46","slug":"businesses-that-i-love-to-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5673","title":{"rendered":"Businesses that I Love to Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"

[yesterday’s run: 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n

I’ve been running out of checks over the last few weeks.\u00a0 I don’t write a lot of checks, maybe 5 a month for our church contribution and another 5-10 each month for bill paying.\u00a0 Buying checks is one of those things where I always feel like I’m getting ripped off.\u00a0 It’s just a pad of paper.\u00a0 Ok, so I have “duplicate” checks so there is a bit more complexity to it.\u00a0 But it is not rocket science.\u00a0 And the business of publishing checks must be decreasing since fewer people are using them.<\/p>\n

But the check publishing companies don’t care, they still whack you for as much as they can get.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the last time I ordered checks it was from ChecksUnlimited.\u00a0 I get their promotional emails about once a week.\u00a0 Today’s email said I could get BOGO\u00a0 (buy one, get one).\u00a0 That sounded like it may actually be worthwhile.\u00a0 I went to their web site.\u00a0 I found the cheapest checks I could get.\u00a0 I fended off their attempts to sell me identity theft insurance and fancy checkbook covers and address labels and all sorts of other junk.\u00a0 I got to the very last page where I can give a final look-over and push “Submit Order”.\u00a0 And here I see that they have added $6.90 in unexplained “handling charge.”<\/p>\n

So I called up the 800 number and the nice customer service lady says they have a “standard handling charge” of $3.45 per box no matter how the order is made (web, phone, blah blah).<\/p>\n

They don’t just add the $3.45 into the\u00a0 listed cost of each box, no.\u00a0 They tack on a fee on the last screen just because of the love between us;\u00a0 not!<\/p>\n

So I’m going to shop around and see if I can do better, which I probably can’t.\u00a0 And I most likely will be back at this screen in a week or so and push the “Submit Order” and get my checks and just build up more disdain for their\u00a0 low-down, dirty, sneaking, underhanded, smells-like-a-skunk, snakelike behavior.<\/p>\n

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