11-23-2009, 16:52
|
#1
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Red State
Posts: 3,774
|
"Happy Eid-al-Adha"
Did anyone catch this in Sunday's Best Buy ad??
Only reference to Thanksgiving Day is their store's would be open.
BMT
__________________
Don't mess with old farts...age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience.
|
|
BMT (RIP) is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 16:55
|
#2
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Red State
Posts: 3,774
|
__________________
Don't mess with old farts...age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! Bullshit and brilliance only come with age and experience.
|
|
BMT (RIP) is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 16:59
|
#3
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: America, the Beautiful
Posts: 3,193
|
|
|
Warrior-Mentor is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 17:52
|
#4
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 3,045
|
Here's my complaint
Quote:
I was looking at your online ad located at http://bestbuy.shoplocal.com/bestbuy...h&adref=header.
There is no mention of a Happy Thanksgiving greeting but in the lower left hand corner you have an image that says "Happy Eid-al-Adha". You have to put your mouse over this terrorist oriented islamic holiday to see a TRUE AMERICAN holiday.
What's up with that? Are you not proud to be an American company? Who proofed this ad?
I think I'll take my business to Walmart or Target. At least they still use AMERICAN greetings.
|
__________________
"Are you listening or just waiting to talk?"
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
"Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing."
Optimus Prime
|
|
Kyobanim is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 18:32
|
#5
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
Posts: 11,901
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kyobanim
"Happy Eid-al-Adha".
|
Using your link, I get the add for Florida City,,
and "Happy Eid-al-Adha" in not on the page??
The ad must be looking at a stored cookie on your system to get your zip code..
At the top of the ad it has "Preview our Thanksgiving Doorbusters"
__________________
Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
|
|
JJ_BPK is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 18:41
|
#6
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
Posts: 6,698
|
Complaint filed........ Even with a KY or TX zip-code the Eid-al-Adha comes up..... 
Next thing we will not be able to have a X-Mas of Hanuka sales add with out a Middle east add tacked on top. We are a country of immigrants but I think we should start selecting who we let in.....
No More of my money for Best Buy......Walmart or other's will now get it..... 
|
|
SF_BHT is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 17:57
|
#7
|
|
Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona
Posts: 138
|
Thank you for the link and complaint filed. I find this to be in extremely poor taste given the times in which we find ourselves. This is yet another example of PCness going overboard.
|
|
azmg is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 00:30
|
#8
|
|
Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
Posts: 6,922
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Warrior-Mentor
|
W-M,
Complaint filed .......................
Big Teddy
__________________
I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
|
|
greenberetTFS is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 01:16
|
#9
|
|
BANNED USER
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Under a rock.
Posts: 72
|
Disgusting. I usually throw the "junk mail" out,so missed this.
Complaint filed.
|
|
dirtyshirt is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 05:43
|
#10
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Northeast Utah
Posts: 1,712
|
Filed my complaint this morning. I received an automated response stating they have a "large volume of emails" and recommended I call their help line if I wanted a response. It went on to state that if calling was not convenient I should reply to the email if I wanted my concern addressed. It did sound as if "inquiries" would not be addressed withotu a follow up email.
Needless to say, I emailed back to say to let them no there was no rush in addressing my complaint as I'm taking my business elsewhere.
I figure if they're busy reading/addressing my concern before someone else's (I did respond to their email after all), it might further hurt their profit margin. 
__________________
"The dignity of man is not shattered in a single blow, but slowly softened, bent, and eventually neutered. Men are seldom forced to act, but are constantly restrained from acting. Such power does not destroy outright, but prevents genuine existence. It does not tyrannize immediately, but it dampens, weakens, and ultimately suffocates, until the entire population is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid, uninspired animals, of which the government is shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville
Last edited by PedOncoDoc; 11-24-2009 at 05:43.
Reason: spelling
|
|
PedOncoDoc is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 18:04
|
#11
|
|
Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: OK. Thanking Our Brave Soldiers
Posts: 3,614
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BMT
Did anyone catch this in Sunday's Best Buy ad??
Only reference to Thanksgiving Day is their store's would be open.
BMT |
Thank you Sir, for this information!!!
POS comany, doing POS PC crap!
Holly
|
|
echoes is offline
|
|
|
11-23-2009, 20:36
|
#12
|
|
Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Alaska
Posts: 777
|
If you're as offended as I am, feel free to copy (or change) the letter below and send it to everyone on your email list. I composed this letter with some help from Warrior-Mentor's Happy Thanksgiving thread and a phrase from Kyobanim. I hope you gentlemen don't mind my use of your words & ideas.
Quote:
Best Buy wishes Americans a "Happy Eid al-Adha" during Thanksgiving week; fails to mention our own National Holiday.
Take a look at Best Buy's Sunday, November 22, 2009 advertisement circular inviting Americans to shop the electronic retailer's pre-Thanksgiving Day sales. In the lower left-hand corner of the advertisement’s front page is this chirpy little wish: Happy Eid al-Adha. Conspicuously missing is any mention of our National Holiday unless this directive counts: Shop Thanksgiving Day at Bestbuy dot com.
What is Eid al-Adha? It's a Muslim holiday. Best Buy wants to wish someone (certainly not patriotic Americans) a happy terrorist-oriented Islamic holiday.
Thanksgiving Day, in President George Washington's words, is a day to give thanks for: the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; For the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed...
Americans have a much to be thankful for, a great deal of which is in direct conflict with the Islamic beliefs. Take a good look at the words of George Washington again and then ask Best Buy why it wants us to celebrate a holiday from a culture directly opposed to the civil and religious liberty we cherish?
Boycott Best Buy and take your business to a company that is Proud to be American.
|
|
|
Requiem is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 07:08
|
#13
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: America, the Beautiful
Posts: 3,193
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Requiem
If you're as offended as I am, feel free to copy (or change) the letter below and send it to everyone on your email list. I composed this letter with some help from Warrior-Mentor's Happy Thanksgiving thread and a phrase from Kyobanim. I hope you gentlemen don't mind my use of your words & ideas.
|
In the Army, there's no such thing as plagiarism (unless your in an academic environment).
It's amazing how much you can get done when you don't care who gets the credit.
DRIVE ON RANGER!
|
|
Warrior-Mentor is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 09:25
|
#14
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,585
|
After about a 5-10 minute wait, I was able to register a verbal complaint. The official line from a customer representative is that Best Buy celebrates diversity.
Customer service number:
1-888 BEST BUY
1-888-237-8289
__________________
Ubi libertas habitat ibi nostra patria est
I hold it as a principle that the duration of peace is in direct proportion to the slaughter you inflict on the enemy. –Gen. Mikhail Skobelev
|
|
SF-TX is offline
|
|
|
11-24-2009, 09:28
|
#15
|
|
Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: State of Confusion
Posts: 5,925
|
ha...
I celebrate diversity also
WalMart
K-Mart
Target
AAFES
__________________
Opinions stated in this post are solely those of the author, and in no way reflect the opinions or policies of The Department of Defense, The United States Army, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The Screen Actors Guild, The Boy Scouts, The Good, The Bad, or The Ugly. These opinions are provided purely as overly sarcastic social commentary and are not meant to be used for mission planning or navigation.
"Make sure your own mask is secure before assisting others"
-Airplane Safety Briefing
|
|
Box is offline
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:24.
|
|
|
Hybrid Mode
