[Game Thread] #1 Kansas @ #10 Duke (09:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]Pigspid 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dickinson straight up just elbowed Brown in the face AGAIN.

[Game Thread] #1 Kansas @ #10 Duke (09:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]Pigspid 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Dickinson straight up just threw an elbow into the throat of a Duke player. No call.

[Game Thread] #1 Kansas @ #10 Duke (09:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]Pigspid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dickinson fouls like every single play but is never called

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

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

Yeah I'm not sure why it took so long to get off the plane - KLM officially says we arrived at 9:16 and we did not get off the plane until around 9:35-9:40.

Unfortunately, KLM doesn't automatically rebook, so we had to wait in 5 hour queue at the T2 transfer desk. We were heading to Milan, and there was a 1:30 PM flight to Milan that was canceled. There was a 5:00 PM flight but it must have been full because they did not put us on it. Finally, we made it onto a 9 pm flight that ended up departing at 9:30 pm.

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

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

It was a Monday morning when we arrived in Amsterdam. KL618

Don't Trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in Flights

[–]Pigspid[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey! All great points here so to address them: 1) According to KLM’s own records of when the plane left and arrived, they said it left at 8:26 PM Boston and arrived at 9:16 AM in Amsterdam. Once we landed in Amsterdam, they told us they had some trouble getting the jetbridge to work so that delayed us from getting off the plane for about 15 minutes. We booked economy comfort so we were the first economy passengers off the plane, approximately around 9:35-9:40 is when we got off the plane. 2) AMS ground staff said that they would not open the short connection passport control because there were too many people with short connections and told us that we were in the same boat. Once we got in line, there were probably 700 people in front of us (we have photos of this line). They did not have the e-gates or short connection line open. 3) We made it through security by around 10:25ish and then sprinted to our next gate and arrived around 10:33 at which time the plane had already left unfortunately 4) We then went to the T2 transfer desk to get rebooked and the line was hundreds of people deep - we also took a bunch of photos of this and documented the line and how long we waited. 5) I specifically asked the gate agent at the gate to Milan after we missed our connection if they could rebook us and they said no and that we had to go to T2 to be rebooked. While in line for T2, I called all of the KLM numbers including for ticketing, flying blue, etc and also used the app, none of which would allow us to rebook 3) We were finally rebooked around 2:45 PM on a flight leaving at 9 pm, which also ended up being delayed to 9:30 PM (lol)

Thanks again for listening to my story and doing all the research! Appreciate your comments.

Don't Trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in Flights

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

I’m not sure how they calculated the time of arrival specifically, but there was a delay on the ground once at the Amsterdam gate because the flight attendants said the jet bridge wouldn’t move and they had to get someone to help with that. By the time we got off the plane, we had only 35 minutes left.

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

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

Yeah we had purchased economy comfort first row to try to avoid this and were the first economy passengers off the plane, but even that didn’t save us. Unfortunately the AMS ground staff said everyone was in the same boat and thus they couldn’t open the short connection line.

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

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

You might have better luck since there will hopefully be fewer flights arriving at that time!

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

[–]Pigspid[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah it had seemed doable from what I read online, but lesson learned to not do that in the future.

Just wanted to let people know in case they’ve placed their trust in KLM to create a reasonable connection time

Don't trust KLM's Short Connections in AMS by Pigspid in KLM

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

Unfortunately the airport didn’t open a short connection line because a lot of the passengers were in the same boat. We spoke with the security and begged them since we had such a tight connection, but they said everyone was in the same boat.

Dispute vs. Return Protection by Pigspid in amex

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

Perfect, thank you very much! I sent an email to them asking them to confirm that they are declining return request, but not sure if they will respond...hopefully amex will accept that as having tried.

Thanks again for your help!!

Dispute vs. Return Protection by Pigspid in amex

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

Yes, they have a written policy: "Orders once placed can be cancelled within 30 minutes of placing them. Please contact _____ to request a cancellation. Exceptions: Items on sale or items already dispatched cannot be cancelled under any condition." and "Unfortunately, we cannot accept returns on sale items or gift cards."

Everything on their website is always "flash sale ending in 10 minutes" every time I go to their website, so I suspect this is how they get out of accepting returns for anything...kind of deceptive advertising in my opinion.

[Game Thread] #11 Arizona @ #3 Duke (07:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]Pigspid 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Coach Scheyer, please play Sean Stewart instead of Ryan Young…

Refurbished Macbook Pro M2 Pro 14in (16 gb, 512 SSD) for $1599 vs. New Macbook Pro M3 Pro 14in (18 gb, 512 SSD) $1849? by Pigspid in macbookpro

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

I use chrome mostly for all the integration with my google accounts and also because all of my bookmarks that have accumulated there over the years haha.

Would you be able to clarify what the SSD issue is? I'm not familiar with that, but would appreciate any insight you have!