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Mike_213
May 28, 2011
Medical Insurance
Staples has decided after 14 years to drop all of it's PPO and HMO Medical Insurance plans for it's associates. The only two choices for this enrollment period are two savings type insurance plans w/ very high Medical, and drug coverage deductibles. For those of us who rely on life saving medications to keep us around every month, this plan will not allow us not so rich folks to purchase our medications; or see a doctor every 6 month's as needed. None of these concerns are an issue for the stuffed shirt overpayed Starbucks coffee drinking clowns we have making the good salaries, we are just the ones doing all the work and holding the retail stores together. James 5:(1-6) Says it best...NOW LISTEN YOU RICH PEOPLE WEEP AND WAIL BECAUSE OF THE MISERY THAT IS COMING UPON YOU - YOUR WEALTH HAS ROTTED AND MOTHS HAVE EATEN YOUR CLOTHES YOUR GOLD AND SILVER HAVE CORRODED THEIR CORROSSION WILL TESTIFY AGAINST YOU AND EAT YOUR FLESH LIKE FIRE YOU HAVE HOARDED WEALTH IN THE LAST DAYS LOOK! THE WAGES YOU HAVE FAILED TO PAY THE WORKMEN WHO HAVE MOWED YOUR FIELDS ARE CRYING OUT AGAINST YOU. THE CRIES OF THE HARVESTERS HAVE REACHED THE EARS OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. YOU HAVE LIVED ON EARTH IN LUXURY AND SELF INDULGENCE YOU HAVE FATTENED YOURSELVES IN THE DAY OF SLAUGHTER. YOU HAVE CONDEMNED AND MURDERED INNOCENT MEN WHO WERE NOT OPPOSING YOU! ...YOU TOO, BE PATIENT AND STAND FIRM, BECAUSE THE LORD'S COMING IS NEAR.
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HanF59
November 18, 2009
Bait and switch scam
Yesterday, November 16, 2009, I decided to buy a replacement TN-350 black toner cartridge for my Brother laser printer. I checked staples.com and found that the price of the Staples-brand remanufactured cartridge was not that much less than that of the original equipment cartridge, made by Brother. The latter is Staples Item #585456 and the price shown for this item was (and, one day later, still is) $66.99. I clicked the "Check in Store Availability" link, entered my zip code and found that the item was "in stock" at my local Staples store (5680 Broadway and W. 234th St., Bronx, NY). When I found the item in the store, though, I got an unpleasant surprise. The displayed price was $76.99! I complained about the discrepancy to a salesperson, who directed me to the store manager. He went to a computer, brought up the Staples web site, saw that I was correct and agreed to charge me $66.99. When I asked for an explanation for the higher price in the store, his response amounted to no more than hand-waving. I pity the unsuspecting customer who enters the store without having looked on line or who is not as assertive of his/her rights as I was.
This dual pricing amounts to a bait-and-switch scam by Staples. They should be forced to end this disgraceful practice.
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