Doing Business with a Bad Business is Just Bad Business.

Doing Business with a Bad Business is Just Bad Business.
In my life, I come across different businesses. Some are unthrifty to do business with them due to high cost to deal with them and I do not just mean the price tag you pay at the counter. K-Mart® is a thrifty business to deal with in the bottom line due to the fact you go in and buy something and out the door you go and use the product.

1 – 2- 3 and you using the item you bought and that is the way that most places of purchase works, not so with a calling card company called Pringo.com owned by ibasis.

I have to call my family in Philippines and the thriftiest way for others and me is to use a pre-paid calling card. Calling cards are wonderful things you pay $20 and you can phone up to $20 in phone time. You do not get a bill at the end of month and no surprises. You pay how much you need then when the card is empty, the card is empty.

Last Saturday I paid for a $20 card and they gave me $5 card as a bonus. What I did not know is that it was a sham. They hold your money via your debit or credit card until who knows when and then and only will they release the card so you can use it saying they investigate your credit history and other things that they have not listed on their website etc. This is what is called fraud. They have had my money for 5 days and I did not get my 3 hours of talk time like their website promised.

The morel of the story besides never use Pringo.com is being thrifty is not just low of the shelve cost it is also the low cost of easy access cost.

You can get a product from K-Mart® and the cost of time to acquire the product as well plus the gas it tock to get the product etc. that is why buying music on the web can be thrifty due to the fact that you didn’t have to drive to the store and get the product you go to Apple’s® Music website buy a song via your debit or credit card and with in seconds you are listening to music.

With Pringo.com that is not true, you have to wait days before you get the card to make a call.

Reasons why doing business with a place like Pringo.com are just bad business:
1. Misinformation and no disclaimer revealing what hoops you have to jump over to use their product.
2. The department you have to use is only open a short time. 8am – 5pm (most people work during those hours.
3. Dual competing departments and the one doesn’t know what the other one is doing but gets all the complaints but can’t help the customer only the closed department can.
4. The customer is at the will and mercy of the company. Whoever said, “The customer is always right”, did not know about Pingo.com part of ibasis.
5. Not customer friendly but is they are themselves friendly.

Bottom-line is not to do business with companies like Pringo.com that have to many hoops to jump through to use their product.

Your time is worth money. Let say you make $10 an hour at the job you work at. Your other time/free time etc. is also $10 an hour. You time is worth money at work, home or play etc. So let say to do something takes you two hours to use a product your bottom-line cost is $20.

My bottom-line cost for Pringo.com is over $1,200+ due to the fact they have held my money for over five days and yet to give me the phone card.

Be thrifty with your money and do not do businesses that are like the five+ reasons of not doing business with Pingo.com.

Mazal Tov,
Rabbi Dale
I hope you all a Thrifty life that Yeshua/Jesus promised in John 10:10 if you have any questions or comments you and email me at wmsblog”AT”yahoo.com

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