{"id":22923,"date":"2011-04-28T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T19:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22923"},"modified":"2011-04-28T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T02:39:14","slug":"snowboard-shop-customer-service-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22923","title":{"rendered":"Snowboard Shop Customer Service Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/function4sportsadvertscan.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/function4sportsadvertscan.jpg','popup','width=350,height=529,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/function4sportsadvertscan-tm.jpg\" height=\"302\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Function4Sportsadvertscan\" \/><\/a><strong>David Throne<\/strong>, the creator of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.27bslash6.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">27b\/6<\/a><\/strong> site and author of the book <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1585428817\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1585428817\" target=\"_blank\">The Internet is a Playground<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has made a career out of often caustic, always hilarious email exchanges with friends, business associates, and random people he encounters. His most infamous post involved Thorne being asked to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.27bslash6.com\/p2p2.html\" target=\"_blank\">design a logo with pie charts for free<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, for all of us, Thorne has recently taken up snowboarding and made the unfortunate purchase of a pair of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.180s.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">180s Gloves<\/a><\/strong> from Harrisonburg, Virginia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/function4sports.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Function 4 Sports<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s how he described it to a shop employee via email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Assuming the gloves would be waterproof for use in the snow (possibly due to being told &#8220;these are waterproof gloves for use in the snow&#8221;) I was surprised to find they became soaked within seconds and bled black ink down my sleeves and all over the front of my jacket. . . Returning to the store immediately, brandishing both the result and receipt, I politely stated that I was not seeking compensation for the ruined jacket, just simply wished to exchange the gloves for a pair not designed to destroy everything they come into contact with. . . I was told, &#8220;Fuck off. You&#8217;ve worn them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to Function 4 Sport&#8217;s stunning customer service it appears that <em>someone<\/em> created an ad for Function 4 Sports offering a &#8220;Free Burton Snowboard With Ride Boot And Bindings. . . only 4,800 Packages available, no purchase necessary&#8221; The ad resulted in over &#8220;5,000 calls&#8221; to the store according to a quoted mail. From there things only got worse. Click the link for a little reminder that you never know what a customer is capable of especially after telling them to &#8220;fuck off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.27bslash6.com\/f4s.html\" target=\"_blank\">27b\/6<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Throne, the creator of the 27b\/6 site and author of the book The Internet is a Playground has made a career out of often caustic, always hilarious email exchanges with friends, business associates, and random people he encounters. His most infamous post involved Thorne being asked to design a logo with pie charts for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22923"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22934,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22923\/revisions\/22934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}