Disintegration

Lie, lie, better next time, stay on my side tonight.

Best Buy Still Sucks and another reason I am a hypocrite.

Product replacement plans, extended warranty, whatever you call them are bullshit.

A few months ago, I bought myself some Apple iPod headphones. These ones to be exact:



Usually, I don't spend money on headphones over 15 bucks because none of them last very long. Which I don't quite understand because it's not like I fucking swim with them but whatever.

I got pretty sick of having to head to my local Best Buy every 2 months to buy new headphones because my shitty budget ones stopped working, so I shelled out 30 bucks (I'm a cheap fuck so this is a big purchase), on the aforementioned headphones thinking that if I actually bought some slightly more expensive ones, they'd actually last. When the purchase came, I was asked if I wanted to buy the Product Replacement Plan for 10 bucks.



Now I've been bent over and fucked with no lubrication by this very same Product Replacement Plan before but the cashier assured me that with a lower priced item like say $30 headphones, I could just bring them in and they'd replace them right there no problem.

Now for 10 bucks, I figure if anything went wrong with them in 2 years (or I could just make up something before it expired) I could bring them in and get a brand spankin' new pair. Done deal.

So fast forward a few months to today, and while lying in my bed this morning listening to my iPod, the left headphone shorts out. Why it's ALWAYS the left one with every single pair I get, I have no idea.

I instantly remember that I bought the Product Replacement Plan for this now piece of shit, and head to Best Buy to do just that, get them replaced.

Now rewind again to a year ago, where I was in a similar position with my $120 over-the-head headphones I used for school. The left side cracked and basically fell off. I head to Best Buy hoping I can get a replacement because I had some commercials to do the next day. They told me I needed to call some number on the back and they'll send me some papers to put in and on the box I put said headphones in and mail it to some depot in the States (why the fuck doesn't Best Buy CANADA have a depot in..umm..CANADA??). These papers will apparently cover the cost of shipping.

So I head to UPS and they charge me for some bubble wrap and to put it in a box. Best Buy won't cover that. Whatever.

They mail it off and I get a gift card for $120 bucks a few months later. Key words here: FEW and MONTHS.

I also get a letter from UPS saying that I owe them 30 bucks as shipping costs for sending it to somewhere I don't remember in the States. That letter went straight into the garbage.

Fast forward again.

So I bought yet another PRP because the girl at cash told me that I could have these replaced IN STORE.

I go today to do just that, and they tell me call the number, yadda yadda yadda.

So to the bitch who essentially lied to me months before, I hope you were/will be hit by a GO Train.



So because I'm absolutely broke, I'm going to have to go until my next cheque until I can listen to my iPod outside of my house again (I'm not walking around with over-the-head headphones), because I may or may not get my $30 gift card before the second coming of Christ.

Not even the headphones, a gift card, meaning I have to walk into Best Buy again and buy another pair and resist the urge to punch the cashier in the mouth when they ask me if I'd like to buy a Product Replacement Plan.

Here comes the part where I'm a hypocrite.

I work in a similar retail store where I'm required to at least try to sell other people extended warranties. So I have to try to get people to spend their money on something I rarely get myself.

Yeah, I'm one of those very people that make my job more difficult.

Other than these two incidents, I typically never buy into the whole extended warranty, replacement plan bullshit because:

1. I take care of my shit for the most part and
2. I'm a cheap fuck.

This probably why I'm so bad at selling those because asking someone if they'd like to get the extended warranty sounds like "would you like to be fucked against your will for a price?" to my ears.



Is it just me, or are we paying more for things of shittier quality nowadays?

Far

I welcome this pain
beating down on me
Is it your eyes
that choose not to see?

All I would do
if only you knew
All of my trust
was given to you

Oh, please, this is what I can give
What else do you need from me?
I might be sick, broken, torn to pieces
So, whatever this is, this thing that now I've become,
you hate it so much, you keep on running from it
No matter the distance, no matter how,
no matter how far

I buried this hurt,
concealed in this heart
Go lock all your doors,
these cold steps will warm

Oh, please, this is what I can give
What else do you need from me?
I might be sick, broken, torn to pieces
So, whatever this is, this thing that now I've become,
you hate it so much, you keep on running from it
No matter the distance, no matter how,
no matter how far

No matter how far

This is what I can give
What else do you need from me?
I might be sick, broken, torn to pieces
So, whatever this is, this thing that now I've become,
you hate it so much, you keep on running from it
No matter the distance, no matter how,
no matter how far

No, no matter how far
No, no matter how far
No, no matter how far
No, no matter how, no matter how far