Cigarbid.com stole my money

[Emperor Zurg]

Here's a few points I expect you to disregard

I want to be nice and be friends too. I'm only not when it becomes impossible to do so.

Your original post was very sketchy as to 'proof' that you'd been robbed; there was a shipping delay, you called back after hours and they were closed. Big. Forking. Deal. Then you went on their boards and bitched about them in public so you were rightfully banned. None of this adds up to 'I was robbed'

I do take the side of the retailer, I openly admit that. The reason being that if a company has risen to multinational (as you put it) recognition, 99% of the time, they haven't done it by screwing people or treating them badly. The types that do usually fold pretty early in the game. I am also in business myself and I know that for one - sometimes shit happens. For two - I will do everything in my power to make it right. ...oh and for three, I also know that some customers have a chip on their shoulder and these you can't possibly please. We refer to these types of customers as 'Assholes'. It's a business term. Even in the end C-bid did you right. After all the bitching, threats and vitriol they STILL shipped you the cigars. That's more than I would have done.

I am not kissing anyone's arse. I'm also not choosing my allies/enemies by either trashing a company or sticking up for them. How could I? I don't use my real name on the internet and I will never post a pic of myself or any of my family so how the hell would this work? Or did you think 'Emperor Zurg' was my real name? I will trash a company if it deserves trashing but I will not trash a company who, in my experience (Disclaimer: with CI mind you, never had dealings with C-bid) bends over backward to make things right... and I especially wouldn't trash them based on some sketchy circumstance brought to the board by a guy with an anti-business chip on his shoulder.

Edit...

To clarify: I am not calling you an asshole. I am simply pointing out that once the company you are dealing with relegates you to asshole status, all is lost and they will usually do very little to help you at that point. A chap will catch far more flies with honey than vinegar.