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when i asked them if putting defective merchandise back in stock is usually what they do,there was an uncomfortable silence

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Make 'em squirm! Glad things worked out.

Great, now I'm gonna have to put a cd player and rims on the darn thing.

LOL, rollin' with the homies...

Does this mean we'll have to start calling you HomieDad?

LOL, only if I lower it

You can get around the lowering requirement by simply adding an obviously out of place spoiler.

I have bought DieHards my whole life. Last time I went to Sears they wanted to charge me $18.95 to check out my weak battery. That must be a new policy. They never have charged me to see if my battery was good when it was still under warranty. They would not budge.

Read my consumer reports and found that Wal-Mart's batteries were rated as good as Sears and they do not charge me to check a battery even if it's not their battery.

Sears just lost a life time customer.

I always go the local Kmart because it's small, has a comfortable, old downtown aura about it and old crippled people don't have to walk the distance of Giants stadium 3 times just to find the one thing they need. The local Walmart is configured so one has to pass by every single item in the store just to find the one thing they came for, or, at least, it feels that way. Since Kmart now owns Sears, unless I've got that wrong, it's probably Kmart that's behind that battery testing fee. Yesterday, my GF bought a brand new consumer reports rated Kenmore canister vacuum. She just loves Kenmore canister vacuum cleaners. While there, I joked around with the 65+ year old sales clerk who is only there because he can't afford to retire and seemed to know alot about every vacuum in stock, to his credit. It went something like this: I looked at the GF and said, "Make sure you select the one you want because Sears now has a restocking fee", and then I looked at the old guy and said "it's good they make them in Mexico now and pay the people that make them $2.50/per day because it they made them in the United States and paid their employees a liveable wage they couldn't attract workers because everyone knows Americans won't do those kind of jobs.", I think, or maybe it should be a .