amalone1013
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- Jan 15, 2016
The Plastiq thing hurts me though, soooo maybe I will be looking for something to keep paying off that auto loan in the new year. Of course the day before that came out I decided to try buying the last $400 I needed for DHs CIP MSR on Staples in MCGCs, because RMN had 10% back (which is pending!). And they haven't shipped yet and say expected Jan 2, and the pending charge has fallen off I can spend them organically if needed, but just annoying! Has me considering grabbing a few MCGCs at the grocery store this week though on the AMEXs to put towards the loan before the end of the year.
This is from my MSR Sunday post just before Christmas. OMG the saga these MCGCs have been. So I ordered them on Dec 16, and the Plastiq email came out Dec 17. Booo well they should come in time right? And DHs last day for his CIP MSR was Dec 27 so it should be fine. Uh no, realized when I posted this that Sunday the pending charge fell off! So I tell myself, I'll keep an eye on it and if it doesn't post by Christmas Eve I'll run and grab some GCs from the grocery store. Well of course I got caught up in Christmas festiviiteis, woke up on Dec 26 and thought to check... pending charge has fallen off AGAIN! And now I need $395 by Dec 27 for DHs CIP MSR So I jump on and make a Plastiq payment because those have always posted by the next day for me. Thankfully it worked, it actually posted as the 26th and when I got on on the 28th it said the SUB was pending. Phew!
My Staples order STILL just says order placed at this point, so I figure why not, let me try and cancel. If they haven't shipped and haven't been charged, this shouldn't be a big deal. After getting the run around from the reps on chat and on the phone, the best I got was a stop delivery request. Seriously I wanted to beat my head against the desk talking to them, they DID NOT listen/read. I would say I ordered Dec 16, they've never taken more than 7 days to come even over a holiday and since these are taking so long I had to buy them somewhere else and now I don't need these... And they'd be like, There is a cancel order button on your account you can use within 30 minutes of placing the order! Um I ordered these 11 days ago... like I said... And then, Your order will arrive Jan 2nd! Ok... but... can we look at the possibility of cancelling due to the reasons I told you originally that you completely ignored... Then it went pending AGAIN on Dec 31... so I figured great, I'm screwed. Not the end of the world if I have to spend them organically but just annoying overall especially as I don't want them anymore. Order is still just showing as Placed. Well got on today and order status now says cancelled! Woohoo! It's not over until the fat lady sings, or until the pending charge drops off again, but I'm very hopeful at this point that I'm not getting unnecessary MCGCs!