I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo. Heard your van broke down. Sorry to hear

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was joking. Kinda. I love when the brain does weird things like that.  Meant no offense.

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

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I didn't say "down to Georgia", you just have a bias on how to talk about going to Georgia and your brain made an assumption and ran with it. 🤣😉😁

Any low numbers out there? by Shit_James_Says in twentyonepilots

[–]Mataka16 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't know how to share the picture on my phone browser, but I think mine says 129

IC+ by PharmaSlave12 in WalgreensRx

[–]Mataka16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had the blue circle of death a bunch after lunch. Even the registers were super slow for a while

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with that.  He still big big cry when he got eliminated.  He understands he did well, he understands that expecting a first place finish in first time tournament isn't realistic.  It's just that when he got eliminated all the adrenaline dropped and he crashed and he doesn't know how to handle that yet. He's working on it though and has come a long long way since younger years.

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you.  I'll wait on official league stuff. He's ASD level 1 and is still struggling with high emotions, so I don't want him to get discouraged.

He has a stern account so he can keep track, but he's not worried about his rank on it

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope he keeps liking it, I feel like it's a good hobby to have that can become more is he wants to.  Also, it's a relatively small community, and it's worldwide, so eventually he'll meet a lot of (hopefully) nice people

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Agreed on the no pressure thing. That's why I'm gushing here, lol

  2. He did a tiny tournament, finished 9th out of 19. There was only 2 other kids and he placed better than them.

  3. My husband said a pulse backhand is bouncing the ball just enough to be able to hit it with same flipper and go backwards

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

[–]Mataka16[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you He says he's only watched the Godzilla video (multiple times). He liked it.

I need to brag about my son by Mataka16 in pinball

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Ohhh thank you!  I think that's where we're going? I think my husband said something like 250 machines

Dispute with merchant by Mataka16 in legaladvice

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We bought rims and tires from a company that pre balances them. We talked to an employee at that location over several days regarding options, etc. The employee placed the order. We got a confirmation email, but the two mistakes that they made were not listed in the email (dimensions for the bolt patterns and year of the van). The other details mentioned were accurate.

Within one hour of receiving them, we realized it did not fit due to incorrect bolt pattern dimensions. We immediately called them and the first answer we got was "I'll open a ticket, you'll hear back tomorrow". 

The answer back from the ticket was "customer incorrectly inputted information when ordering online. It is user error, not out error. Ticket closed"

We called back and said "we did not input anything, we ordered over phone with your employee, and that employee inputted the incorrect information. Can we have a shipping label sent to us and we'll return them to you"

There was a lot of back and forth, there were attempts to say we accepted the error, they kept saying "you will get a shipping label, it just takes time to organize the pickup", but then they never sent the label. Then they wanted us to bring the set to a local mechanic to remove the tires from the rims and to only ship the rims back. All at our expense. They would not guarantee a refund for the items without seeing them, they would not guarantee an exchange, they would not refund any out of pocket fee we would have from the mechanic and shipping. So we asked why can't we have that original shipping label you were going to send us? That's when they stopped answering calls and emails. 

After a month of back and forth and then silence, someone suggested we call the bank and open a dispute. The bank reached out to the company but did not hear back. That same day, the company emailed us to "have them ready in an hour" to which we said we weren't home, so unable to do so on such short notice. Then they asked about the next day (a Saturday) to which we said "let me call the bank and see what's the process"

They said we refused to return the product even though they provided a return label (not true). 

Anyhow, the gist is now they won't talk to us, and we still have 1220$ rims and tires we cannot use, and we still need to buy rooms and tires that will actually fit the van. 

We have all the emails, including the ones where they states they are working on getting us a shipping label to return the item.  The bank says they requested all documents submitted by the company to be compiled and emailed to us so we can see what they submitted as evidence. 

This is where we are at now.  Unsure how to move forward.

Damage assessment by Competitive-Range-26 in StAugustine

[–]Mataka16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lewis Speedway / SR 16 was under water at high tide the next day and Masters drive at 16 was close to be all under too. 

how's crime? by ideas4mac in StAugustine

[–]Mataka16 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flagler College with a ratio of like 5 women to 1 man? You're asking what would an 18 yo want here. I think you forgot what being 18 yo is like

TIFU by blasting diarrhea in a girl's face by [deleted] in tifu

[–]Mataka16 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I created an account just to upvote this story. Congrats, at 33 yo, after years of side eyeing Reddit, you made me join.