u/GoodPointSir

Sooo terrorism

Everything that pays taxes directly funds the US military, including property taxes from private houses. By that logic there is nothing that is off limits.

This is irrelevant to OP's situation though. In OP's case, Gmail actually verified through DKIM that the email was sent from the google.com domain.

If it came from Gmail, it should be mailed and signed by gmail.com. google.com is Google's internal domain.

This was not sent from a Gmail account, it was sent from a google.com account. Only google employees should have access to the google.com email domain

Everyone seems to be missing the point of the post, the email claims to come from a google domain, not a Gmail domain. No one should have access to @google.com emails except google employees, and Google should have DKIM records to authenticate real google.com emails.

Just pointing this out, no idea how a spam email got through DKIM checks.

I have been using freedom's cheapest yearly prepaid plan. $99/year. Receives texts no problem, and I think you can even use wifi calling if you wanted, but I have not tried.

Less than $10/mo and I don't need to worry about 2fa codes being blocked for being a VoIP number.

Supports esim, and since it's prepaid, you don't need to worry about accidentally racking up roaming charges.

It's a very limited plan for use in Canada (no data or outgoing texts), but I'll just use my us number in Canada too.

Download Goodlock from the galaxy store.

Download Multistar from Goodlock.

In Multistar, turn on "Multi-Window Screen Zoom"

https://preview.redd.it/qha1pr48gs8g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd3a082e83592dcc9bdd286fef3c8b22ce71df78

Edit: you made your window really really small though, it still might not be able to zoom out enough to be comfortable.

Whataboutism

Hi, I am an account with history! I share OP's sentiments completely. Wealthsimple's customer support was bad even when I could get a person on a phone, and worse now. I have already moved my chequing to EQ, and will likely be moving my investments to questrade.

Actually, I just looked at OP's post history. This is literally clearly and blatantly an ad.

I can't be the only one that thinks this post is an ad

Here is my Google home, responding the exact same way. Verbatim.

https://imgur.com/a/KkOLemL

I work in computer networking, and can attest that my internet is fine. Additionally, google is hitting their servers regardless of if the answer is right or not. If the wifi sucks, it'll either take longer, or never respond. A wrong answer is not the wifi's fault.

I didn't even process that you were in Ottawa. Here's my speaker responding:

https://imgur.com/a/KkOLemL

This post triggered my Google home, and it legit said the same thing, verbatim. Just in a different voice. Hilarious.

Definitely! I always try to separate the agent from the company they work for, and I have no love lost for most companies I call, but I get that y'all are just doing your best with what they give you.

Best of luck dealing with this holiday season! Hope it's not too stressful!

Yeah, it seems that the first level agents don't really have the resources to deal with higher level / more technical issues, which I can imagine is very frustrating when you probably have countless impatient people on the phone.

Actually, they called me back today and said they would refund me the watch in the cash I paid, plus points at 0.1cpp,

So I'm getting 320k points back and around $140. Allegedly.

This technically means I redeemed my points at 2.7x value.

I don't know if it's too good to be true yet, there's a pretty high chance the customer service person just didn't know what they were talking about, but I have it recorded.

Copy pasted from my response to another comment. If what they did with me is their standard response to this, I think you'll be pleased with the outcome.

Well, they just called me back. I think I just got the best possible outcome I could get. If anything, this is better than if my watch wasn't out of stock.

So they said they would refund me the price of my watch, first the portion paid my my credit card, then the rest in points, at the standard 0.1cpp rate. So I am supposedly getting 320k points. And around $140 refunded back.

This means I will have spent 180k points, on the rest of my order, worth around $577 worth of items, so I ended up getting a 2.7x redemption value.

This outcome was well worth the time spent on the phone. I am exceptionally pleased. Now I just have to see if they will follow through. Hopefully they do the same thing for everyone else impacted similarly to me, as again, this was 100% their fault to begin with.

Well, they just called me back. I think I just got the best possible outcome I could get. If anything, this is better than if my watch wasn't out of stock.

So they said they would refund me the price of my watch, first the portion paid my my credit card, then the rest in points, at the standard 0.1cpp rate. So I am supposedly getting 320k points. And around $140 refunded back.

This means I will have spent 180k points, on the rest of my order, worth around $577 worth of items, so I ended up getting a 2.7x redemption value.

This outcome was well worth the time spent on the phone. I am exceptionally pleased. Now I just have to see if they will follow through. Hopefully they do the same thing for everyone else impacted similarly to me, as again, this was 100% their fault to begin with.

I had to hang up because I had a meeting coming up and they hadnt picked up yet at like the 1h15m mark. Will try again tmrw.

I think the lesson this black Friday weekend is never buy stuff from shoppers unless it's in person. And even then, not unless you have to.

Same thing happened to me. Called customer support and they basically said they didn't know how to help. They said they would have a supervisor call me within 24 - 48 hrs. No supervisor called me within 24 - 48 hours, I called back and I'm listening to hold music again now, 42 minutes into this call. This is truly a horrible store run by a terrible company.

I've read on other posts that shoppers can't refund points, and will give you a gift card instead, but that would mean I still get the lower value of the products. I'll still try though if I need to

PC world elite MasterCard, PC financial chequing account, and buying my groceries at RCSS because it's close to where I live. I think I get around 10k points per month from PC financial just by direct depositing and paying my bills using that account. That alone is 120k points per year. I haven't spent any of my points for around 3 years, just waiting to accrue enough points to spend in a good bonus redemption event. Alas, after 3 years, ended up getting scammed by shoppers.