Glorioski!!!!

[katallison]

The Season Three dS DVDs Are Shipping!

*dancing, jubilation, declaration of National Holiday, etc.*

In other news, I just spent twenty minutes on the phone with the most sweetly inept market survey guy ever. He had a fairly thick accent, so I often had trouble understanding him; he had considerable difficulty reading the questions; and he seemed (understandably) unhappy with his job. The survey concerned Yellow Pages--which kind I have, which kind I use and for what, which kinds I've seen advertising for, etc. etc. etc. and you would not *believe* how many inane questions it is possible to ask about Yellow Pages.

I am a product of the olden days when there was only one Yellow Pages and that was *it*, so I totally do not track on Dex vs. Yellow Book vs. whoever-the-hell-else publishes these things. And the questions were so maladroitly framed -- "Now, I'm going to read some personality traits, and say yes or no if you associate these with Dex Yellow Pages: 'Friendly'." And I'm sputtering with laughter and saying "Dude, it's a Yellow Pages, it's a list of names and addresses, 'friendly' doesn't enter the picture," and then he got sad because I wasn't answering in a way he could code on the form.

The funniest part was when the survey required him to ask me if I'd seen various TV commercials for Dex Yellow Pages, and then he had to laboriously, haltingly, read through these insanely long and detailed descriptions of what sounded like completely asinine commercials ("A lady is sitting in a cu .. cue ... cubicle, and Mr. Dex is sitting on the file cabinet, he is eating a doooo ... a donut, and then a gentleman comes in and asks 'Where did you get that donut'" and on and on and ON).

I always try to answer telephone market surveys, because I have several friends who've done that work at times, and it is a grim job indeed. But, oy.

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

Where did you order yours from? Amazon seems to be clueless about Season 3.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Try amazon.ca -- that's where I got mine. They should be able to use your same account info as amazon.com, and I've had good experiences with them in the past.

[evilprettykitty.livejournal.com]

Chapters.ca has it too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

> The Season Three dS DVDs Are Shipping!

OMG ROCK. Thank you for telling us!

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Finally! I've been through two credit card numbers and an address since I first had them on order. I didn't think they'd ever really come, but now it says they shipped! I'm so happy.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

You are a wonderful person. It's so true, even the most articulate respondent is going to look at you like you have two heads when you ask them, "If Old Navy was a person, what would that person be like?" And I have to do that ALL THE TIME. You get a million karma points for plowing through and answering anyway. :D

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

I always talk to them, too, because I'm giving them a break and mostly I'm the best laugh they get all day, you know? Because I get them laughing about the questions, too. They know these questions are idiotic and the minute I say "who the hell made these up?" we bond, and they actually seem to relax a bit.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

Bless you for suffering through a bad phone survey. I can't begin to tell you the bizarre topics of which I've had to do market research. Commercial toilet seats was a good one. However, I'm a weirdo and really like to conduct phone surveys, and I'm damn good at it.

Hey, those Due South dvds, will they play in my normal, average, nothing special dvd player? If they do, I know what I'm asking Pete to get me for my birthday! I would finally be able to vid Due South!!!

[transtempts.livejournal.com]

::joins you in squee-mode'::

of course i want messages that say - "they are going to arrive v. soon, be patient."

i keep coming home from and hoping that they will have arrived.