"I don't have room for your PDF"

15 years ago

That's priceless!

I would love to know what else is filling up his 1 meg hard drive..

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

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Dan C. Rinnert

15 years ago

Seems fishy to me. Maybe they are a serial refunder and that was the best excuse they could think of.

I mean, if you don't have at least 500k of free space on your hard drive, save some stuff to floppies.

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nick1123

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Seems fishy to me. Maybe they are a serial refunder and that was the best excuse they could think of.

I mean, if you don't have at least 500k of free space on your hard drive, save some stuff to floppies.

Sounds very fishy. Who doesn't have room for a 500k file?

It's probably best to just refund them and move on.

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Robyn8243 15 years ago

Reasons for refunds can be pretty amusing...and it helps to look at
them that way instead of allowing yourself to get aggravated.

Perhaps you should have offered to sell him a
PDF space saver to solve their problem for future PDF purchases,
or sent a link to one of those new fangled printer thingies.

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leonardpayne

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert

Seems fishy to me. Maybe they are a serial refunder and that was the best excuse they could think of.

I mean, if you don't have at least 500k of free space on your hard drive, save some stuff to floppies.

pray, what is a floppy?

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Ken Strong 15 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

That's priceless! I would love to know what else is filling up his 1 meg hard drive..

Well, you gotta leave room for DOS...
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- Jake03 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by KenStrong
  
  Well, you gotta leave room for DOS...
  
  That cracked me up.
  
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tknoppe

15 years ago

LOL Yep, that's a keeper for sure. They must be a PDF collector.

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

That one is good, but I'd love to see some of the other gems from your collection.

All the best,
Michael

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fletch32

15 years ago

Ha, ha, that really is a classic some people just don't get it do they!!

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Dally137

15 years ago

That is one mighty hard drive that I would never want to have. I would say that, I learned a trick from here but I feel ashamed to tell someone that I don't have 500k in Hard Disk. I guess they mean business.

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

Hey LB,

Just thought of a way you can overdeliver on customer service.

Send them a copy if this classic email (dates changed), and let them know how to fix their problem....

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This year, the cleaning process will take place from 23:59 pm (GMT) on July 31st until 00:01 am (GMT) on August 2nd. During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find.

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Please pass this message on to other sysops and Internet users as well.

(This is Real! They Also Delete Sites With Hit Counts under 100! I know It seems stupid, but last year they deleted my webpage!)

They are sure to thank you for it!

All the best,
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dunno

15 years ago

send it to them on a cd, cheap, plus you have physical proof that you sent it

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Dan C. Rinnert 15 years ago

Originally Posted by dunno

send it to them on a cd, cheap, plus you have physical proof that you sent it

If they don't have 500k available on their hard drive, their computer might not even have a CD-ROM drive.

And, I can say that from personal experience too. Up to about two or so years ago, the boot drive on my main computer would frequently run out of space and I'd have to clean it up by moving files to one of the other two internal drives. It had three internal hard drives because the CD drive had up and died previously and the power supply on an external hard drive burned up (literally), so I took that external and made it an internal, putting it where the CD-ROM drive had been.
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phylma

15 years ago

Too funny. I do like your idea of saving the outrageous requests. May try that my self. Can always use it as a pick-me-up when I need a laugh.

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Howdy Doody Banned 15 years ago

Maybe he's accessing it from a mobile device ?
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macD231

15 years ago

Get them some floppy drives so that they can have some space to save the pdf. Otherwise they can not save your file. LOLs. Really funny to heard about it.

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Shane Hale

15 years ago

haha WTF , He must be on a old Commodore 64 with a tape drive with a tin can and string for a modem haha

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John Hixson 15 years ago

A quality excuse - I certainly think you should share some more with us!

Originally Posted by Shane Hale

haha WTF , He must be on a old Commodore 64 with a tape drive with a tin can and string for a modem haha

Man I used to love my Commodore 64. The Dizzy games and quest for the golden egg cup especially (never did complete that). Got an emulator on here somewhere I think - you've inspired me to hunt it out and have another play tomorrow!
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AverageGuy

15 years ago

you should send him an usb driver.

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babushka99

Banned 15 years ago

Should have opened up a free Gmail account for him, mailed the PDF there and sent him login credentials and not refunded the sale.

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LB

15 years ago

I could have told him to print it out on his dot-matrix printer.

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Mmfh

15 years ago

Send him a 500k pdf with instructions on how to get a refund. If he is able to read the refund instructions than he has room for the original pdf

Mm

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Shana_Adam

15 years ago

Jesus! That a classic one.

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John Dufresne

15 years ago

May be able to create a new ebook from those. "The Greatest Refund Excusses Of All Time" - Vol. 1

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marciayudkin 15 years ago

My least favorite one was "I'm returning this because I just got a big tax bill."
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- Dan C. Rinnert 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by marciayudkin
  
  My least favorite one was "I'm returning this because I just got a big tax bill."
  
  Did you reply with "I cannot accept your return because I just got an even bigger tax bill."?
  
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Gabe77

15 years ago

Lame, lame. He must've been one of those serial refunders.

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TheGodfather

15 years ago

you know what guys... you might have just given me an idea for a great product with this topic

so i just wanted to say thanks

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John Atkins

15 years ago

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

This must be the most pitiful excuse that I've ever heard. I get crazy refund requests too, but this is way beyond unbelievable!

There are some people that are serial refunders. They search for products that have a full refund guarantee, they buy them & they ask for a refund. :/

Currently I'm running an adult WSO. The refund requests were very few because the product is quite good. But the one thing that kept bugging me was that almost all of the people that requested for a refund told me the same thing which is:

"I'm sorry but I don't think that this industry is for me"

*Sigh* And I clearly state in my thread that this is an ADULT WSO... so if they think that this industry is not for them, they should've bought another WSO instead of this one right?

Oh well, better give off a few refunds that destroying your reputation I guess...

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TyBrown

15 years ago

You should send them a link to this thread

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kenboss 15 years ago

Hey! Why is everyone laughing? This kb-challenged individual needs his product!
Time for some serious practical suggestions:

1. Ask him for his number and offer to read it to him over the phone.

2. Instruct him to delete Adobe reader from his hard drive. That way he'll have room for the pdf!!!

3. Cheerfully refund his money, and as compensation send him 2 gb worth of Paris Hilton videos!!!

Ok, I'm gone!:rolleyes:

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Stefan Vee

15 years ago

And I thought I heard just about any reason to get a refund.
INCREDIBLE and SHAMELESS!

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Michael Oksa

15 years ago

No offense, but would it be too much trouble to actually read the OP? LB isn't asking if a refund should be given. It's already been done.

Hello!

Ok, I feel better now.

~Michael

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

Just sayin'

LOL

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kenboss

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Michael Oksa

No offense, but would it be too much trouble to actually read the OP? LB isn't asking if a refund should be given. It's already been done.

Hello!

Ok, I feel better now.

~Michael

Just sayin'

LOL

Yeah, don't worry, we read that! We just can't resist having fun with it!!! Tee Hee :p

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Makabongwe Maseko

15 years ago

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

LOL, I got a similar one 2 weeks back.

This person said he is having a problem downloading the pdf so he wants a refund.

The guy asked for the refund the same time he purchased the ebook. Like the same minute.

I was like one minute happy I made another sale, next minute was fuming.

Anyway I told him that its people like you who deserve a refund because its show you just wanted my product for free.

I didn't want anything else to do with him and just refunded him.

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Kirahster

15 years ago

Sounds like instantaneous buyers remorse. You know the kind where you spend money that you shouldn't have and then feel guilty as soon as you press the buy button!:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Makabongwe Maseko

LOL, I got a similar one 2 weeks back.

This person said he is having a problem downloading the pdf so he wants a refund.

The guy asked for the refund the same time he purchased the ebook. Like the same minute.

I was like one minute happy I made another sale, next minute was fuming.

Anyway I told him that its people like you who deserve a refund because its show you just wanted my product for free.

I didn't want anything else to do with him and just refunded him.

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CliveG

15 years ago

Just interested. Do you block such people from future sales because they are just too much hassle?

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linkbeasts

15 years ago

that is funny , I mean id hate to get a request like that ....but it still made me laugh ..... hard.

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Vince N

15 years ago

Originally Posted by LB

I love crazy refund requests...I print them out and save them. They bring me joy.

I got a great one today, "Please refund this sale, I don't have room on my hard drive for your download so I cannot use it".

500k PDF.

I thought about offering to send them a USB drive...but I just refunded it.

lol.. thats quite funny

the guy took the No Questions Asked Money-Back guarantee to the extreme i guess..

nice of you to have refunded though

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embrown

15 years ago

Seriously? I just didn't like a WSO I ordered. Maybe I should get a refund.

Anyway, I have a funny story - well at least it was to me at the time. I used to work as a Sprint customer service agent. I got this caller who wanted a refund for some games and music that he downloaded. I could tell this story quickly, but its funnier when you read exactly how our exchange went.

Him: I'd like a refund because some stuff got purchased by mistake.

Me: A mistake? Sir, I'm happy to look into this and possibly give you a refund as a one-time courtesy, then I can show you a few ways to avoid that in the future (we have to outline the call and make sure this isn't gonna happen again. meanwhile we check to see if they are serial refunders)

Him: Ok. I'd like a refund for the stuff downloaded on the 5th.

Me: (pulls it up) Sir, that's about $100.00 worth of files. Meaning, you downloaded several files. You'd like a refund on all of that?

Him: Yes, all of it please.

Me: But, that would have meant that you made this mistake repeatedly.

Him: Yes, several mistakes.

Me: But, sir. When you start a download, you actually have to press a button that says purchases this. You go to a screen that outlines the prices and then you have to manually accept this purchase. You are telling me that you went through this process at least 20 times without noticing that at least once?

Him: Yes. It was a mistake.

Me: Ok sir, what I'm going to do for you is open a case for your 'mistake'. If it were one of two files, then I can do the refund myself, but because this is such a large amount I have to take other actions. I can't promise a full refund, I'd say the first few at the most. But, I'll open the case for you anyway. Also I'll cancel all of your recurring subscriptions

Hey, if he can BS than I can, too. I did give him a refund on the very first download and opened up a DO NOT REFUND THIS DUMMY case. I went on to inform him how to block purchases and how the purchase process works. I made thorough notes to back this discussion up, too. Because just in case he wanted to pull this again.

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Rezbi

15 years ago

I had someone buy one of my products, ask for a refund because it was 'zipped'... and then buy it again through clickbank under his affiliate ID.

I guess he found out I had it on clickbank, too.

Can't blame him, I guess, but a better excuse maybe?

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mikeyman120 15 years ago

If the persons computer still boots up and works then he has room for a small pdf.
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Bova 15 years ago

My best ever refund excuse was;

"I really love your program it helped me get in great shape, but I need the money for a new fishing rod."

I had a 12 month guarantee and the guy refunded after about 9 months. I wonder if the fishing rod came with a guarantee as well?
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