It happened to me too. But I never raised an issue. I ordered a rainbow cake and specifically told them it's for pride event and I needed it in a specific color. The person on the phone was nice and took down the details.
But on the day I went to pick it up I met this angry looking woman who was probably the owner and she handed me a cake that had the colors all messed up and did not resemble a rainbow.
I asked her for a refund because she didn't deliver as we asked and it got into huge argument and she eventually threw the money at me and said they don't serve 🚬 she must have intentionally fucked it up in some weird form of protest and thank God I didn't take the cake god knows what she must have put in it.
I felt so powerless at the time. All I could do was write a review about and which she responded to saying it's not true and I was the one who was making things up.
For people who don’t wanna look it up, gonna censor it in case it bothers someone.
Some people say that it’s because queer people in the UK were burned (some even specify rolled in carpet and burned) though this isn’t substantiated. It actually is thought to have come from the term being used to refer to underclassmen in British boarding schools who were forced by upperclassmen violently to do favours for them, both sexual and non-sexual. This process was called f@gging and it was literally an official structure at these boarding schools, it wasn’t student bullying it was faculty enforced. It’s incredibly disgusting no matter which you subscribe to.
Not the same really but I ordered a Vr headset from a guy on ebay. He looked up my socials, saw that I was queer, called me the f slur and proudly proclaimed he would not send me the headset, while pretending to be dumb as if he never received payment. Customer service did practically nothing aside from telling me to "resolve it with him". Had to dispute it with my bank and won't be using ebay anymore
That's weird because eBay almost always sides with the buyer. Like, almost to a notorious degree where people who sell things through multiple channels tend to avoid eBay because of a frivolous dispute comes up, they'll likely lose.
Unless the buyer themselves has a bad rating, usually all it takes is saying the item never arrived or was in poor condition and eBay will cover them. Having explicit proof that seller isn't working should be a cakewalk.
Hell, I tried to dispute a payment for an expensive book that I never received, and eBay sent me money almost immediately. A month later the book actually turned up and I tried to reach out to the seller to explain/apologize/see if I needed to send them anything to make it right, and they said it was cool and just said that's their risk for using eBay.
Not related to commerce, but a woman got hired at my job and I was assigned to be her trainer. Before her shift she looked me up online and was greeted with a very queer banner. She very promptly called the company owner and said she "won't support that degenerate lifestyle" and "doesn't feel comfortable working with ONE OF THEM" lmfao, I laughed, my boss laughed, we all laughed together
Presumably it was paid in advance by credit card. They asked for a refund. They got the refund in cash instead. So nothing stopping them from doing a chargeback to get the card refunded as well therefore getting twice the refund. Unethical life pro tip.Â
Why is that presumed? Order something on the phone right now 99% of places you're going to pay when you get there. When paying over the phone you're giving the individual on the other line every piece of information they need to make online purchases with your card with none of the security in place of a POS or online purchase.
Just as easily they could have paid with a credit card at the store-front on the POS when they arrived to pick up the cake. When they saw it they asked for a refund and that's when the owner opened the till and threw the money rather than refunding the card.
But wouldn’t she have seen the cake before paying? From my (limited) experience, most places open it to let you check that everything looks correct before you go to the register/pay
That's a better question, and would be good business practice but I doubt that's common. When I order a pizza they don't open the box for me when I pick it up. I've gotten out to the car or even home without looking and had to take it back because it wasn't acceptable.
Bro call and make and order just about anywhere that takes orders over the phone, you're going to pay when you get there, obviously you've only ever ordered something online.
Yeah but when you order stuff like that generally you receive your order before you pay, they're not going to make you pay before they go back to grab the order. It gives you an opportunity to inspect the order, which is pretty common for bakeries.
We went through this 3 times with our small business.
The problem is, us queer people don't want the attention. We often don't want to raise a stink because that means the media could pick up on it. If that happens, say goodbye to your normal life because you're about to be inundated with hate. And when I say "hate", I mean having people sending you white powder in the mail, vandalizing your property, calling your phone and screaming about how they want to kill you, and so on and so on. I've seen it happen more than once, and have even had to temporarily protect a family after Greg Abbot started targeting families of trans "kids" (that "kid" was already 18, but the state wanted to go after her for letting her kid transition before 18).
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u/RumouredCity 9d ago
I had a friend order the Satanic Bible from Amazon, and he received it torn in half. This sort of shit happens more than we think.