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Anyone know what the import taxes are when buying a phone from the UK?

So yesterday I was just minutes from getting out of this hell hole...When I get a call from a man and a woman who kept passing the phone back and forth, I had no idea who I was talking to...they wanted to order a battery for their phone, no big deal...So I'm speaking with the gentleman and he wants to pay for it with a CC, so I ask for the name on the CC, and its a females name the card, and she isn't there give me her credit card info....so flags go up...then I inform the customer he can bill to the acct...when I pull up the acct, its under the same ladies name whom he had just given me, so I explained, YET AGAIN, he would need the acct holder to verify acct..."Well she is deceased" he says...I am speechless, I have NO idea what to say...so...
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Alright all you radioshack employees, Do you agree with me that this whole new promotional campaign is designed to break us of our self awarness and have us completely assimilated into "the shack" I used "the shack" as a joke with my boys, as to where I am, and now they're using it as some promotion 😕

To all the customers out there:
I understand that you do not have enough money to pay your bill. I understand that you have been a customer for years. However, this is not the only month you've been late, and the fact that your social security check doesn't come for a week is not going to make me give you another extension. Here's a crazy idea; GET A JOB. Or pay on time. Or, you could even (gasp) pay it before it's due! Just stop coming in my store and telling me that your child support is sucking you dry, so you couldn't pay your bill. Please manage your finances.


Best part of this: this customer is standing right in front of me saying these things as I type them. 😈

quit calling me to see if you can get free ****, cuz you won't...sorry that your blackberry didn't come with the usb cable when you ordered it 4 months ago, or your g1 didn't come with the adapter 9 months ago!!!! Get over it! 👿

Alright, I have searched around for this info and I am quite sure they are not doing the Samsung Rewards program again this year, or probally ever again, but I just figured I would ask if anyone has some other information. I just got an e-mail for their training and it made me think about it.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

anybody know about this??

So, it has just been an all around bad day for me so far, and I've been awake for not even an hour.

Last night I went to bed a little late, but still early enough to get at least 7 hours of sleep, my fault I know. Then I wake up this morning at 10, throw my clothes on, and get ready to head to work.

Well, first thing's first, I can't find my tie. Oh noes! So I'm looking around, and know I've got a black one in case I can't find my red one, but then I'd be wearing all black and scaring away the custies, jk. So I finally give up on it and just decide to wear the black one.

I walk out my door, and to my suprise, I have no car keys. So I start to freak out, 'cause I have no idea where they are and I was 110% I had left them on my bed-si...
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I'm helping a hispanic custy and can't understand him very well.... trailor trash pops in and gets right up next to this hispanic guy and start to look at me like, "I'm white please help me and kick this guy out" the hispanic guy gets creeped out that they are so close to him and he says something funny in spanish, waves his hand in front of his nose in a "they smell bad" motion and walks out the door. I laugh.
The trailor trash look at me like, "was a mexican really just in here? Did you really try to talk to him?"
I say, how can I help you FINE ladies, as sarcasticly as I can.

Custy: I need to change my phone number and add min
Me: ok
I try to do it several times and no luck so I call custy service, get transfered five times till I ...
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How I'm supposed to know your son is slightly disabled? When he demands I sell him an ATT go phone, and when you have your mommy come in and raise hell cause you blew through $50.00 worth of minutes in a few days cause you didn't listen to me...it's my fault!? Phuck that. If your son is "disabled" why do you give him money and have him roll around the mall shopping? Am I supposed to belittle him and say "no buddy, you can't get this cause you're not smart enough for a phone" no. So this is definately a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenerio. It's not like I gave him a 2 year contract, it's a phuckin GO PHONE.

It does not matter how many times you pull on the door. It does not matter how many times you get your greasiness all over the windows when you cup your hands on the glass and "peer" into the store as if looking closer will magically open the store. It does not matter how many times you knock. It does not matter how many times you give me a dirty look. I will open at the posted time.

If I tell you I don't have something in stock, I don't have it in stock. Yes, I know you use your phone for business. You're obviously a very important person. However important you may be, it will not cause me to generate whatever item you may need and **** it out my ass.

Yes, jackass customer, your services will be disconnected if you do not pay your bil...
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Every Friday morning at 9, my company has conference call with all the store managers and the corporate staff. I sit in front of my computer and follow along with the agenda on my email, and a customer comes up to the door wanting in. I don't open til ten, so I just continue listening in on the call. I go out front just now to put out a sign and the customer has written profanity on the sidewalk in front of my store with ashes from their cigarette.

That's the folks in this town, though. Real klassy-like.

Not to mention it's the 31st and I'm 10 phones from goal. I need the nearest corner and a bottle of my Captain friend.....

i've been on this call for about half an hour because of a stupid phone that we're trying to get a comparable model. i'm hungry and have had to pee since i started the damn call! eee... 😕

I WANT IT.

PLEASE WRANGLE YOUR KIDS AND MAKE THEM SIT DOWN. 👿

i got a call from a lady that has came from austria. she decided to chose att. she got three brand new lines and only took one phone from the store!
she paid for the added lines and has been paying 10.00 for additional lines, im not too sure what the policy is for her leaving the store with three brand new lines and only one device. the store rep infromed her that she was able to come back whenever she can to chose the two other phones she would like ( she wanted to go online and see which ones she wanted) she goes back 7 months later and says that she is ready to decide which phone she would like.
store rep says he will have to change her number and give her two new phones. what the rep didnt tell her is that he is not changing the...
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If you bring me two phones and ask me to swap the numbers on them, PLEASE do not sit here and make calls from both phones as I'm trying to process the swap. If you don't hang up soon, I WILL cut off your call out of spite. 😈

i'm sick. like f'reals sick. been throwing up all morning...dizzy/headache..the whole 20 yards. i tried to call out but none of the managers are answering their phones. the other employees suck and "cant come in"..i'll remember that...

finally...manager calls.."out of town"...BS...total BS.

slow day and apparently, I (who is on OJT and doesn't know where she will be next week) am supposed to call businesses and ask them if they want to setup business lines. BLAH. 👿

So we have a radio in our store and in our cluster of small cities, we have about 4 good stations. One of which is mainly for rap and r & b. And I can't stand it. BLAH!! Thank god for my IPod.