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Old 07-07-2002, 09:27 PM   #1
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P*tco story...


I'll keep this short and sweet,

One local P*tco employee here told a lady that "as long as you don't have inverts" (but didn't know 'exactly' what invert meant ) you can treat your 125g reef with copper. She did. killed everything. She found someone to quote her $11 a pound for new LR. Then she sued P*tco. Now P*tco has to pay her

..... (insert drum roll) .....

$9000!!!
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Old 07-07-2002, 09:53 PM   #2
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DOh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pay her pay her!!!!!!!!
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Old 07-08-2002, 11:48 AM   #3
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Sigh.

On the one hand, I feel bad for the woman who lost everything in her tank. On the other hand, anyone who would take the word of one person, working for minimum wage in a store that does not specialize in salt water, on what to put into a tank with $$$ invested...well, that was a disaster in the making.

On the one hand, I feel bad for that person making minimum wage, who might have been transferred over from the reptile department for the day, and had no clue what she/he was doing. On the other hand, if they didn't know, they should have said "I don't know." (I've come to the conclusion that most people find that phrase harder to say than "I'm sorry" and they'd rather say "I'm sorry" later than admit to ignorance.)

My hand is played out I don't feel sorry for P*tco at all. They need to train their people better.

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Yeah, bad for her, BUT $9000???? It's not like copper treatments don't warn people right on the bottle. This lady was a bonehead, a bonehead with a good lawyer.
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Very true Chris.
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