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Hanh Takoszja! We received an order dated May 12, 2012 after the mail had gone out. That being a Saturday & there being no mail movement on Sunday, we shipped - with Delivery Confirmation - by USPS First Class Pkg service on May 14, 2012.  It was scanned in as delivered on May 16, 2012 - light speed!, from ND to FL!  And it wasn't even snowbird season.  !QQ!

We heard nothing until July 23, 2012 when the buyer emailed us, "where's my stuff?"  We emailed back immediately that we were horrified, the pkg was delivered according to the tracking data, and since it was in his local PO area, he would have to contact his PO to find out where it was delivered.  We asked him to keep us posted.

We heard nothing until August 27, 2012 when he again asked "where's my stuff?"  We emailed immediately asking what his PO said.  No response.  But a couple of days later, if I recall right, we had an A-Z Guarantee claim from him!  Amazon ignored our response & refunded his money, taking everything we had in our account & leaving a -$90++ balance.  They refunded shipping to him, which we do not charge, taking his refund to $197++! 

We told our Postmaster & he reminded me that back in July he said, "Turn it in to the Postal Inspectors Fraud Division.  This smacks of fraud."  This is why we all hate "I told you..."  So we turned it in 'now'.

There's information we're not including here about the buyer, but there is definitely fraud & we have ample proof of that.  The Postmaster, the Carrier Supervisor in FL, & the Postal Inspector all chuckle at Amazon's stance, which is: (1) 'it is Amazon's policy to never take the Sellers word for anything'; and (2) it is Amazon's policy not to take the USPS' word for having delivered, either!  Recently, Amazon added that "if you had gotten signature confirmation" we would refund your money.

My reply was, "Idiot - your village misses you.  Go report in there.  Since you don't take the Sellers word OR the USPS word for delivery, then you would claim a signature was forged.  This is a tails you win, heads we lose proposition & we're not suckering for it."

Takoszja, the USPS is a federal agency.  Or quasi-agency.  No matter.  It gets its funding from Congress & that makes it "some kind of federal agency".  Therefore, all of its employees are automatically taken by the courts to be unimpeachable sources of truth.  Besides, the carrier scanned the package as delivered.  Electronically whizzed to the USPS computers somewhere - so, better than a signature.

We are blogging this 'everywhere'.  We have spent our lives fighting abuse & taking abusers down.  Amazon is a bully; it is bullying & slandering the Sellers who make money for it.  NO ONE 'HAS' TO TOLERATE - LET ALONE ENABLE - ABUSE OF THEMSELVES! 

Please pass the word!  Boycott Amazon & tell them why.  & If you want to buy from us, look for Indian Maid Don Croft Zapper on the Internet & you will find us on Addoway, Bonanza, ebay, & ecrater, to name a few.  NO BULLYING ALLOWED! 

My ancestors are some of those who gave Custer what he so richly deserved.  Amazon is putting itself in the same leaky canoe.  Take Amazon down!  Pilamiyaye / Thank you!

Talk About NERVE!

I got an email the other day that claims that Wal-Mart has been holding "mandatory" meetings for their employees, both management & 'staff', in which Wal-Mart has told them they "are not to vote for Barack Obama & Joe Biden or any other employee-friendly or union-friendly candidates for political office".
I asked a couple of people I know who work at Wal-Mart, and they said it's true.
As a sometime employer, I am appalled that any company's senior management would try to pull a stunt like this. I'm not particularly surprised, but I am definitely appalled.
(a), it's no one's business who any of us vote for; bumper stickers notwithstanding. Under law, an individual's vote is automatically taken to be private. That means it is off-limits to anyone to try to influence another's vote.
(b), the intimation here is that if Wal-Mart senior management "finds out" that any of their employees voted "for the Obama-Biden ticket, or any other employee-friendly or union-friendly candidates for political office", those employees are ripe for retaliation or "discipline" of some kind. NOT ACCEPTABLE!
And, I suspect, illegal. But even if it's not clearly illegal, it's definitely unethical.
If you want to raise stink about this to Wal-Mart, you can go online & email under their "contact" list, OR you can call 1-800-WAL-MART & tell them by phone. I've done both, and I hope you will, too.
And remind them that they are nothing without you, the customer, and that you will be boycotting Wal-Mart - maybe permanently. I don't go to Wal-Mart any more unless I absolutely can't find what I need somewhere else, & that includes online. My purchase dollars at Wal-Mart have gone from about $3,000 annually to less than $500, & that is dropping fast.
I complain to local store managers when I can't find something & point out to them that I really don't want to go to Wal-Mart, but if they refuse to stock a thing, they force the loss in sales.. it isn't about simple preference.
That gets management attention & it gets results in that they stock whatever I'm after.
Please join me now - there are only 16 days left to voting day.

Newest Wal-Mart Outrage Outrages Me

Yesterday I saw an article online that says Wal-Mart is suing a former employee - who is permanently brain-damaged and in a nursing home for the rest of her life - for close to $400,000 in repayment for monies paid out when she was hospitalized after a car crash. This redefines "outrageous", in my opinion, and takes it to a new low in 'art forms'.
But wait! We aren't finished! This woman's husband is just finishing treatment for prostate cancer, so he isn't exactly solid in the make-a-living / pay-the-bills department, either.
And in the This-Wasn't-Needed-Either category, we have some brainless twit of a judge deciding to award Wal-Mart $277,000. Wal-Mart's spokeman said "Wal-Mart feels terrible on behalf of (this woman and her husband) - "but" - the paperwork sez...."
In this Indn's opinion - screw the paperwork! Wal-Mart's profits last year were $90 BILLION!
I divided $90 billion by $400,000, and came up with 225,000 : 1 in favor of Wal-Mart and against this pitiful, sad couple. Therefore, I repeat, to Hell with the paperwork.
I think it's time Wal-Mart heard from YOU who read this. They've already heard from me..
As a business person, this kind of don't-give-a-damn attitude on the part of big corporations embarrasses me. We who do care look bad by association. We who are small corporations - mine is about the size of the period at the end of a sentence - look even worse, simply because we are corporations and we want to grow.
The difference is, some of us - like mine - work to honor Affirmative Action, hire the handicapped, promote and follow Indian Preference, and plan our activities to include handicapped access - because that's real "good business practice".
Last but not least - just because "the paperwork" includes a clause that says Wal-Mart "can" sue one of their employees or former employees to recoup monies paid out for hospitalization, does not mean it "must" or even that it "should". When a company makes 225,000 times the amount involved in the lawsuit, I believe that company has a bigger responsibility to not sue and thereby to help the injured employee.
Call 1-800-Wal-Mart and tell them what you think of this outrageous lawsuit of theirs. Or go to Wal-Mart.com and email them through their Contact Us link. Let them know the "massa / slave" mentality was outlawed when slavery was - in 1862. And then join me in boycotting Wal-Mart until they stop this outrageous kind of action.