Why can't my camera remember anything?

Just recently I purchased  new digital camera.  A technology growing ever so fast, and changing as many other products in retail.  For a first time shopper in the camera industry, you will come to find many options and features.  Most of these features the typical shopper most likely will have no idea what they mean or do for the camera.  Along this list of foreign details one that can easily be overlooked is the camera memory space.

After a day spent learning what headline features for most cameras on the market today entail, I then chose which one suites my needs and budget.  The following morning I left on vacation, ready to start snapping off my pictures.  Upon the fourth shot the camera memory was full!!

I was shocked to think of all the things I learned, not once was I informed of the camera hard disc memory.  I then had to take the time on my vacation to locate a camera store and find the right memory card.  

Where was my Memory, and why does it need to be sold separately?

 - Wade Cromer

Paying for Convenience

Last week I hopped online to buy a concert ticket from Ticketmaster for a show that was playing that same night.  Anyone familiar with Ticketmaster is well aware of the ridiculous service charge they tag on to the price of the ticket, but the fees don't stop there.  There is an additional "Convenience fee" of $2.50 to print your tickets at home. 

$2.50! Isn't online purchasing more cost efficient for them?  No staffing, no overhead and I print the ticket out on my own paper.  Now you don't have to pay the fee, you can have it mailed to you or pick it up from the ticket window at the venue for free.  But the show was that night so I couldn't have it mailed to me, and I didn't want to wait in the box-office line once I got there.

So Ticketmaster won.  I paid their ridiculous price for the sake of convenience.

Submited by:  Brandon

Industrial Strength Inconvenience

What I feel is a big inconvenience is the industrial strength plastic that now envelopes many of the products we buy.  You can't open these packages.  You have to go to the garage and find a heavy duty blade to open them. 

It is also difficult to try and short-cut by slicing open a small area and then attempting to rip open the package by hand.  This can result in severe hand damage.  

If the product you bought turns our to be wrong, or does not work, you can't just box it up and take it back.  You have to gather all the plastic pieces, the owners manual (which you cut through when trying to get through the plastic), put all this in another plastic bag so you can take it back to the store and return it.

If only the item you were buying were half as durable as the plastic fortress that surrounds it...

Submitted by:  JR