What REALLY grinds your gears?

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I bought 2 tickets to a concert the face value of the actual ticket to the show is $56.00 apiece so $112.00 for the pair. Ok, im good with that, the advertised price. Ok so there is now a $8.00 charge called a "facility charge", ok gears are starting to turn...facility charge? Thats not parking, ill pay that the day of the show. Now there is a "convenience charge" of $20.20...gears fully grinding...whats the convenience? U f*cking found a another way to charge me something? WTF!!! And at the end there is a $3.55 "order processing charge". Are f*cking with me? So the $56.00 ticket is actually a $71.87 excluding tax. And the industry complains that tour attendance is down...really?

This is why I don't attend many live events unless I'm supporting a local band. **** the music industry.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

This is why I don't attend many live events unless I'm supporting a local band. **** the music industry.

if music concerts were cheaper I would easily see more shows. I wanted to check out a relatively small band called Lotus, it was $30 just to get in the door. $30 on a concert ticket is just the starting price. Drinkings, parking, gas(sad to include this now) and maybe a meal before the show...doubles the expense. Concert events are just way too expensive these days. Ill also travel sometime to see a concert because Richmond just cant attract big artists. Overnite stays not cheap these days.

Beers inside a venue is bullshit. I try to hit up Merrieweather Post Pavillion once a summer for a show, last year it was like $10 for a borderline decent dark beer.

[MTK]

The fees on tix are BS, no doubt.

The music industry is just full of fail at the top.

[DFlo]

Monday mornings

[los panda]

if it was springsteen it was worth it. i got mad when i had to pay $15 to see buck 65

[Chico23231]

costco and walmart...i go to costco for the pharmacy for my dog's anti sezure meds...who the f*ck needs 50 frozen burritos? Wouldnt you get tired after 2 of those? A walmart is located by my work, civilization just goes there to die.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

A walmart is located by my work, civilization just goes there to die.

when i was out here in 2011, before i moved, i was witness to a man smoking a cigarette in walmart. nobody else seemed to notice let alone care

[mooby]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

costco and walmart...i go to costco for the pharmacy for my dog's anti sezure meds...who the f*ck needs 50 frozen burritos? Wouldnt you get tired after 2 of those? A walmart is located by my work, civilization just goes there to die.

My dad has a Costco membership, and it's very useful. I have a card there as well, and I use it fairly often. I bought a pair of new glasses there that were very cheap, and before I switched to a Brita water pitcher I used to buy bottled water there, along with paper towels, toilet paper, garbage bags, fiber bars, the one-a-day i take with breakfast, occasionally bulk gatorade g2 (I drink mostly low-cal gatorade and water, depending on the mood/situation), and they also have good deals on other things depending on what you're looking for. The only thing I don't like about them is I can't use my card from Navy Fed there so I have to withdraw cash before I go.

[los panda]

Originally Posted by mooby

The only thing I don't like about them is I can't use my card from Navy Fed there so I have to withdraw cash before I go.

i heard about that but i didn't know if it was true, why is that? i'm assuming your navy fed card is a visa

[mooby]

Originally Posted by los panda

i heard about that but i didn't know if it was true, why is that? i'm assuming your navy fed card is a visa

No, I haven't had time to look up the difference or switch but I have what Costco calls in laments terms "the red" check card, and Costco only accepts the Navy Federal CUCARD. I've been meaning to read up on the differences and eventually I'll probably switch to the CUCARD, but for now I'm making do.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

A walmart is located by my work, civilization just goes there to die.

Whenever Bloomingdale's holds their semi-annual sale and poor people are allowed in I feel that somewhere an angel is is being gang-raped by Ooompa-Loompah's.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

A walmart is located by my work, civilization just goes there to die.

Last fall I went to the Walmart in Columbia for the first time to get some cheap food/last minute gear for a camping trip and I seriously thought I was going to get knifed. I considered grabbing a baseball bat from the sporting goods section just to protect myself.
The weird thing is, I go to the Target that's basically right across the street all the time and it's fine.

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

The weird thing is, I go to the Target that's basically right across the street all the time and it's fine.

Yeah, but the people from the Walmart across the street feel like they are going to get stabbed etc when they go to your Target.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Last fall I went to the Walmart in Columbia for the first time to get some cheap food/last minute gear for a camping trip and I seriously thought I was going to get knifed. I considered grabbing a baseball bat from the sporting goods section just to protect myself.
The weird thing is, I go to the Target that's basically right across the street all the time and it's fine.

Agreed. I don't know what it is about people and Wal-Marts. I avoid that place like the PLAGUE if I can. My wife will say something like, "This is the only place we can get _________." I just tell her that she can go alone.

If it's not for the people, it's the crowds. It's like all courtesy and common sense go out the door at that place. I go to Target, no problem. Wal-Mart is like you let a couple thousand people in there and just told them to act like freaking animals. I've been walking down the long aisle and someone came out of one of the side ones with smashed my cart and acted like they wanted to fight.

HATE that place.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

Last fall I went to the Walmart in Columbia for the first time to get some cheap food/last minute gear for a camping trip and I seriously thought I was going to get knifed. I considered grabbing a baseball bat from the sporting goods section just to protect myself.
The weird thing is, I go to the Target that's basically right across the street all the time and it's fine.

My mom lives in Columbia so I frequent the area, I hate the Walmart. I mean getting into the parking lot is just a bitch itself. The Target is really nice, I hadn't been there in awhile and they moved everything around. I mean how does that happen though? Target is nice while Walmart is shitty?

Granted though, I live near the Target at PG Plaza and between the college kids (University of Maryland), and being located smack dab outside of a lower income area (Langley Park, Hyattsville), that place is a STY. Parking is a cruel test of patience and sanity, between the thugs meandering the street and not getting out of the middle of the street and people willing to run you over, regardless of if you're in your car or not, to get the parking place closest to the entrance. The store itself is usually a hole. I've always said I've felt bad for anyone working there. But then again a lot of the workers themselves aren't even that pleasant.