u/Montanabioguy

You might even say, they're a bit Grimm

So I'm ready to pull the trigger (pun intended) on my first PCP in the good ol USA, where it's far easier and cheaper to buy a real gun than one of these.

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I've settled on the Beeman Chief 2 plus for $188 sold on amazon in .177 for my backyard plinking needs at about 50 ft.

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Reviews give it the most shots for fill and pretty good groups at that distance.

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With all that said, don't understand the differences between pumps, how they work, what to look out for, why some of the units have external components that look like power supplies for a computer, and trying to find one under $200.

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This is all going to be my backyard. Not going to a competition. Not even pest control.

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Just a dad passing the time in the summer heat.

I've had a PlayStation account for 25 years.

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I've had untold amounts of games, I've had PlayStation online since it was first launched.

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On 25 May my PlayStation online subscription call PlayStation Plus Auto renewed.

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Except, there is no way on Earth I did not turn auto renew off. I always do. Because I can always find the subscription plan cheaper online somewhere else or wait for a sale. This year it was $80.

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The transaction posted on the 25th of May and on the 26th I called and asked for a refund. Playstation has a 14-day return window on requesting a subscription refund.

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The virtual agent in the chat told me that it had already been 14 days. It had not. I sent them screenshots proving to them that it had only been a day and a half.

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The agent disconnected the chat and sent me an email with my case id.

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I did the only other option left to me. Initiated a chargeback with my bank. They asked for proof, I showed them proof. The bank awarded my charge back today.

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Also today, PlayStation permanently suspended my account.

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After spending over an hour with them on the phone and over 45 minutes on hold, they told me the only way my account was being turned back on was if I sent them $80 via a PlayStation gift card to a specialized link they sent me an email for.

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All of my games have locked me out. All my licenses for those games seemingly suspended, even ones that I have discs for.

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They told me that they had already awarded me a courtesy one time in 2021 and they could not do so again. This isn't a courtesy. This is a refund within the refund window. Still, they kept telling me I was outside of the window and had always been outside of the window.

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After over 25 years as a PlayStation customer, I'm finished. Done.

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And further? Somehow they were able to charge an expired credit card so I'm still trying to figure that one out.

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Next year the steam console releases and I won't look back. But I will never, never be a Sony PlayStation customer again. They charged me when they shouldn't have, denied the refund when I was well within the time frame, literally trying to gaslight me that I was past the window.

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Their agents on the phone would not deviate from the script.

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Gaming PC is out of the question, so I just have to wait for the steam machine.

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TL;DR

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PlayStation denied my refund request after only 2 days into a 14-day return window, claiming that I was outside of the return window. On a transaction I never approved and on auto renew that I turned off. After 25 years, they lost a customer forever.

Having trouble with that neighbor? HOA president? No problem.

Just so you know, most houses such as your own, has a water shut-off valve at Street level. You can buy a key from Home Depot for just a few bucks.

It will shut off the water to the whole house.

It's usually a little panel on the ground near the sidewalk somewhere. Lift that off, insert the key, turn, panel back on.

You shouldn't do this. But, you should probably test it out on your own house.

Just wanted to see if somebody has made a discord server for wine making or Mead so I don't clog up the server with a dumb question

I often tell my dog to fuck off.

Right now, my 2 year old daughter is running up and down the hallways exclaiming "FUCK AWAY!"

Chasing the dog.

A sprinkler system that you can control on demand and revert back to automatic patterns.

So you have a sprinkler system. Turn it in, set a timer, whatever.

It works by doing "zones" in set spray patterns. Right?

But what if you get a salesman or other at your door?

Anything from a salesman, or a door to door campaign, to a cop looking to bother you.

Press a button on your app and have all of the jets of water redirect to a single point: the front door. Drench the uninvited person at your doorstep with enough water to be soaked.

As soon as it's achieved, press the button again and resume it's normal pattern like nothing happened.

If they call or are the police, tell them not to stand in the stream when it's clearly going. And show that it's just it's random pattern as it normally does.