People defending Oscar the last 8 months: "You'll get your $1.50 piece of plastic when you get it, grow up"
People defending Oscar now: "You're shit out of luck"
I think the defense at that time was both unwarranted and
harmful.
It was obvious what was happening. And instead of this being a growth moment for a young adult and addressed, it bought goodwill to let this drag out further and worse - I get giving grace, and I'm so thankful for everyone who has ever given me grace - but you have to be some kind of stupid to white knight in an example where someone is literally in the midst of continually fibbing with documented proof over months on end. There were a million missteps and poor actions, not limited to listing and selling classifieds (and shipping them) while this GB fell apart (the audacity).
That being said, people should once again read between the lines.
The time to be upset is over, there is no fixing this. The amount of time that’s passed, the amount of changes to cards, the amount of conversations had with vendor, through diff people, and restarted, the number of revisions on designs. There is no, “let’s see where we went wrong on XYZ and fix it”. There is no way to go the vendor demanding fixes and replacement - people are out of their minds thinking that’s possible.
I guarantee anyone handed all communications, emails, spreadsheets of total buy by card/pcfer, etc. has ZERO shot at “fixing” it. Meanwhile the guy is flailing, has no clue how to remedy this, is watching the issues pile up, his WIFE is watching this go down in real time and the stress and anxiety it’s causing and he can’t begin to explain, new job, new kid, I mean his pet ruined cards. Not sure what could cause more stress.
I’m out a whole $30ish bucks (maybe less since I didn't have to pay rereshipping). Boo hoo. This dudes every day life right now is messed up. I think the majority of issues you won’t even hear about and they’ll write it off as a loss. Some people will be rightfully upset and ask for their purchase cost back.
That's it. Finito. If you're pissed, ask for your $10 or whatever. Or don't. There is no audit trail, there is no demanding Oscar to answer in detail the specific issues that occurred and the root cause of each, as much as folks want. This has never happened before, this will never happen again until someone tries to run a GB with 200 designs. That is the lesson PCF gets, accept it or don't.
