ref this article:
Best Buy offering Nexus 7 for $199 with $25 Google Play credit | Android Central
begin rant in 3...2...
At 9AM on new years day, i buy the 16gb Nexus 7 with the "free bonus content" of a $25 Google play credit, for the wife.
Call #1: 1-1-14 they said it could take a couple hours for code to show up.....ok
i also notice that the page is now different...no "free bonus content"
(good thing i took a screenshot)
Call #2: 1-1-14 i never got the email with a code and spent 45 min with various folks and 3 botched transfers only to get a person saying they will call back in 24 to 48 hours and have the credit sent......we will see.
Call #3: 1-2-14 still do not have a code and no call back from them like they said. "i am going to escalate this to the "back office software codes dept" where the code must be approved and issued.... here is your ref number for this case" "it will be resolved in 24/48 hours"
again?!? ok, i think.
got too busy on Friday to call so i will give them the weekend to resolve.
Monday comes and goes with still no code in my email box.
Call #4: 1-7-14 4:45PM i'll give them the weekend and Monday to get this done..right?...WRONG
talked with someone who "3way'd" me on the phone with one of the folks (from the "back office software codes dept") that would be issuing the code (finally!.........?)
could not understand what their name was or that they even understood what i was saying......but i did hear "google play credit....$25....email to XXXX@gmail.com"
YES!!
at 6:09PM 1-7-2014
YOU HAVE MAIL! yay!.........but wait, it is for $25 windows app store credit for purchasing a Microsoft Touch device....AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!
Call #5: 1-7-14 6:15PM 2 more botched transfers......" i see you have not yet received the $25 Google Play gift card code yet, we will have to send this to our "back office software code dept" to be approved. you will need to wait 24/48 hours for any email codes to be generated." WHAT!!!?!?!
(apparently, no one has been updating the case with info that they have already done this)
FFFFUUUUUU!!!
as of 7:48PM CST 1-7-2014, i am waiting to call them again tomorrow (a full week after purchase) to try and get this resolved again.
they can have their damn Microsoft code...i have nothing to use it against
have a good chuckle, i am sure i will at some point :-\
after all of this is done my best buy card will be mailed to the with my final bill in pieces (not sure why i still have one).
i sure don't want to cancel the card yet, that may delay something i had not even foreseen
:endrant
phew
Best Buy offering Nexus 7 for $199 with $25 Google Play credit | Android Central
begin rant in 3...2...
At 9AM on new years day, i buy the 16gb Nexus 7 with the "free bonus content" of a $25 Google play credit, for the wife.
Call #1: 1-1-14 they said it could take a couple hours for code to show up.....ok
i also notice that the page is now different...no "free bonus content"
(good thing i took a screenshot)
Call #2: 1-1-14 i never got the email with a code and spent 45 min with various folks and 3 botched transfers only to get a person saying they will call back in 24 to 48 hours and have the credit sent......we will see.
Call #3: 1-2-14 still do not have a code and no call back from them like they said. "i am going to escalate this to the "back office software codes dept" where the code must be approved and issued.... here is your ref number for this case" "it will be resolved in 24/48 hours"
again?!? ok, i think.
got too busy on Friday to call so i will give them the weekend to resolve.
Monday comes and goes with still no code in my email box.
Call #4: 1-7-14 4:45PM i'll give them the weekend and Monday to get this done..right?...WRONG
talked with someone who "3way'd" me on the phone with one of the folks (from the "back office software codes dept") that would be issuing the code (finally!.........?)
could not understand what their name was or that they even understood what i was saying......but i did hear "google play credit....$25....email to XXXX@gmail.com"
YES!!
at 6:09PM 1-7-2014
YOU HAVE MAIL! yay!.........but wait, it is for $25 windows app store credit for purchasing a Microsoft Touch device....AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!
Call #5: 1-7-14 6:15PM 2 more botched transfers......" i see you have not yet received the $25 Google Play gift card code yet, we will have to send this to our "back office software code dept" to be approved. you will need to wait 24/48 hours for any email codes to be generated." WHAT!!!?!?!
(apparently, no one has been updating the case with info that they have already done this)
FFFFUUUUUU!!!
as of 7:48PM CST 1-7-2014, i am waiting to call them again tomorrow (a full week after purchase) to try and get this resolved again.
they can have their damn Microsoft code...i have nothing to use it against
have a good chuckle, i am sure i will at some point :-\
after all of this is done my best buy card will be mailed to the with my final bill in pieces (not sure why i still have one).
i sure don't want to cancel the card yet, that may delay something i had not even foreseen
:endrant
phew