Ordered it about a week ago, and it arrived today. The box was really quite damaged – apparently Bed Bath & Beyond doesn’t ship items with packaging they just throw the item in the truck. Macy’s however has shipped everything in a box even if the item comes in a box – so you have some extra packaging.

After the pictures were taken of the box, we opened it up and started putting it together. The directions are just horrendous. A diagram with no lines showing you what goes were, nor anything about what order to do anything. I’ve put together my fair share of put together furniture and this is by far the worse! The furniture from www.ikea.com/ has awesome directions with neat cartoons.

We found out that one of the drawer fronts was broken – where you have to attach the screw – so we set that aside. Continued putting it together – the back of the drawer has no pre drilled holes – so you are kind of guessing on getting it all lined up.

When it came time to attach the side to the base – the cam locks are made out of such cheap metal that when you turn them (so they lock into the wood) – the cam locks bent instead of going into the wood. These are definitely the cheapest quality cam locks ever – I highly doubt they would have held up even if you could get it together.

So now I have a partially put together Wine Bar Pacifica that I have no clue what to do with, I will never be able to get it back into the box. So I guess I’ll call them tomorrow and see what they want me to do with this hunk of junk that they sold us. The packaging from this by the way was excessive and made with lots of that cheap Styrofoam that gets the little white bits all over your house.

Overall this experience has made me think twice or maybe more before ever ordering any sort of furniture from Bed Bath & Beyond. Frankly the really cheap stuff from Christmas Tree Stores has been of way better quality than this.

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The third location then explained that if you do not want to use a credit card – and would rather use a debit card, then you have to provide them with your utility bill and pay stub – and have the address match your license. In addition they put a $300 hold on the debit card plus the cost of your rental.

Clearly something has gone horribly wrong in this country when companies are penalizing people and businesses who choose to pay for what they need with cash / debit card instead of making the credit card companies even more money. Requesting that people show a rental car company their utility bill and pay stub is terrible. Shame on Enterprise Rent A Car.

It’s not a matter of not having a credit card, its the point that you should be able to pay with cash, credit or debit without having to give someone a utility bill and a pay stub.

Hopefully other rental car companies are not this rude to their cash paying customers.

Then they transferred the domain name out of the account to a protected name service at name.com

That was over 3 months ago. GoDaddy never emailed to say "are you sure you want to change all your account info, or email address, or transfer this domain". Instead he was left blind sided by all this. Until the hacker changed his password – then he realized that something was up.

When he did discover that all this had happened – and contacted GoDaddy – they said that there was nothing they could do.

I’m pretty stumped as to how all this happened without GoDaddy so much as notifying the customer that their account information had been stolen. But this certainly doesn’t make me think too highly of GoDaddy.

I am still hopeful that they will be able to recover the domain name.

He spoke with someone who looked into it all and found out that the registrant info was never changed before they transferred the domain. This was likely because of the icann rules that say that you can’t transfer a domain name within 60 days of changing the registrant info.

I called and setup Onstar on Friday and yesterday they sent me an email with my car information including the mileage, tire pressure, etc about my vehicle. I went to the website to login and it said that it couldn’t find my account number.

So I did what it said – called OnStar Service and Support. I was directed to someone and after a 10 minute phone call it was determined that I could not login to my account because it was too new. The Onstar Rep told me that it can take 3 weeks to get my online account setup.

They said that because OnStar works with a third party vendor for the OnStar website, it can take three weeks for the account to get setup. I have no idea why this is going to take three weeks to create a login unless they are sending the information via smoke signals.

We build websites all the time that have databases that need to be sync’d up and it doesn’t take three weeks like OnStar does. Instead its done either instantly or nightly.

After questioning the OnStar Rep as to why it was going to take three weeks for them to create my account, I got nothing other than the standard response of that is what the third party said it would take.

As to why OnStar can send me an insane amount of information about my car – including my car’s phone number – it can’t create a login for a website in less than three weeks. This is why OnStar went from being really cool to really bad.

Update 2011:
sure it was nice at first… but the brakes had issues until we put after market ones on (3 different dealers couldn’t figure it out). The emission sensors started to fail around 3 years. The door locks have issues, and the heat doesn’t work when the car is idling (you have to be moving). Overall it’s a pretty poorly built piece of american engineering. It runs like a tank in the snow though.

after seeing all of the issues with onstar and their privacy issues, still makes me question whose running govstar.