As for my Denver trip last week, I would recommend that if anyone needs to rent a car there, do not use "Payless". The first car they gave me started making a beeping noise about ten minutes after I left the parking lot, but since it was a little later and I didn't know where I was going, I went ahead and kept going to the hotel. As I was pulling in the hotel, a yellow light with an exclamation point (in the dash) lit up. I figured I would go to my meeting the next morning and then take the car back. Of course, when I got up to leave in the morning, the driver's side front tire was flat. Luckily the hotel had a shuttle bus and they were able to take me to my meeting. There was a lady there staying at the same hotel so she gave me a ride back at the end of the day. I had called "Payless" in the afternoon telling them the issues and they were going to bring me a new car at 4:30 that night. They did, but the next day, the same yellow exclamation point light came on, but my tires weren't flat, so I decided just to drive it that way. When I dropped the car off on Friday morning, I unloaded my bags, and went inside, but they told me I needed to go back outside for someone to check me out. They watched me pull up, they were just standing around when I went in and could have come out when I pulled in their driveway. I told the guy checking me out about the light and he said I could talk to them inside if I wanted. I declined and just made a comment about them checking it and that's it probably not a good thing to allow customers to drive cars like that. But the best part was when I took the shuttle bus to the car rental place when I got to Denver. The driver actually held his had out looking for a tip when he took my bag off the bus. I will not use them again.
Showing posts with label Garage Sale Shopping. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
More Garage Sale Shopping
We're back from garage sale shopping and K2 spent about $33 today. She got some "Melissa & Doug" puzzles for a $1 each; a baby wipe warmer for $2 (probably not something you would pay full price for, but $2 was a good deal). A shopping cart cover for $1. An umbrella stroller for $5 (and it was clean, which used to be my criteria, but now K2 doesn't even want to look at places where the stuff is filthy. I told her she was getting picky now). The books were fifty cents a piece and the baby Einstein dvd's were $2 each. The best deals were in a subdivision wide garage sale, but each house that had baby stuff only had girl items.
As for my Denver trip last week, I would recommend that if anyone needs to rent a car there, do not use "Payless". The first car they gave me started making a beeping noise about ten minutes after I left the parking lot, but since it was a little later and I didn't know where I was going, I went ahead and kept going to the hotel. As I was pulling in the hotel, a yellow light with an exclamation point (in the dash) lit up. I figured I would go to my meeting the next morning and then take the car back. Of course, when I got up to leave in the morning, the driver's side front tire was flat. Luckily the hotel had a shuttle bus and they were able to take me to my meeting. There was a lady there staying at the same hotel so she gave me a ride back at the end of the day. I had called "Payless" in the afternoon telling them the issues and they were going to bring me a new car at 4:30 that night. They did, but the next day, the same yellow exclamation point light came on, but my tires weren't flat, so I decided just to drive it that way. When I dropped the car off on Friday morning, I unloaded my bags, and went inside, but they told me I needed to go back outside for someone to check me out. They watched me pull up, they were just standing around when I went in and could have come out when I pulled in their driveway. I told the guy checking me out about the light and he said I could talk to them inside if I wanted. I declined and just made a comment about them checking it and that's it probably not a good thing to allow customers to drive cars like that. But the best part was when I took the shuttle bus to the car rental place when I got to Denver. The driver actually held his had out looking for a tip when he took my bag off the bus. I will not use them again.
As for my Denver trip last week, I would recommend that if anyone needs to rent a car there, do not use "Payless". The first car they gave me started making a beeping noise about ten minutes after I left the parking lot, but since it was a little later and I didn't know where I was going, I went ahead and kept going to the hotel. As I was pulling in the hotel, a yellow light with an exclamation point (in the dash) lit up. I figured I would go to my meeting the next morning and then take the car back. Of course, when I got up to leave in the morning, the driver's side front tire was flat. Luckily the hotel had a shuttle bus and they were able to take me to my meeting. There was a lady there staying at the same hotel so she gave me a ride back at the end of the day. I had called "Payless" in the afternoon telling them the issues and they were going to bring me a new car at 4:30 that night. They did, but the next day, the same yellow exclamation point light came on, but my tires weren't flat, so I decided just to drive it that way. When I dropped the car off on Friday morning, I unloaded my bags, and went inside, but they told me I needed to go back outside for someone to check me out. They watched me pull up, they were just standing around when I went in and could have come out when I pulled in their driveway. I told the guy checking me out about the light and he said I could talk to them inside if I wanted. I declined and just made a comment about them checking it and that's it probably not a good thing to allow customers to drive cars like that. But the best part was when I took the shuttle bus to the car rental place when I got to Denver. The driver actually held his had out looking for a tip when he took my bag off the bus. I will not use them again.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Garage Sale Shopping
These are the bargains we found garage sale shopping this morning:
K2 paid $3 for the ball (on the left, in the clear, square shape) and when we got home, I looked it up on Amazon and it retails for $50, so good deal there. She also bought a sound machine that projects images on the ceiling (in the middle) and few other things, like bottles and movies. All totaled, she paid $16.75 for her finds.
The biggest pet peeve we have is people who don't put prices on their items and people who don't clean their stuff up. We're probably missing out on some good deals, but scrubbing things to make them useful is not anything I want to do.
We hit the road at about 6:45 am and got home around 10:45, which is a lot longer than we are usually out. We have also found that church rummage sales don't seem to be worth our time.
That was our morning today.
K2 paid $3 for the ball (on the left, in the clear, square shape) and when we got home, I looked it up on Amazon and it retails for $50, so good deal there. She also bought a sound machine that projects images on the ceiling (in the middle) and few other things, like bottles and movies. All totaled, she paid $16.75 for her finds.
The biggest pet peeve we have is people who don't put prices on their items and people who don't clean their stuff up. We're probably missing out on some good deals, but scrubbing things to make them useful is not anything I want to do.
We hit the road at about 6:45 am and got home around 10:45, which is a lot longer than we are usually out. We have also found that church rummage sales don't seem to be worth our time.
That was our morning today.
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