Comments on: Radio commercials…and Staples sucks

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:28:15 +0000

I’m pretty sure that commercial (which I heard once – and laughed out loud at) was INTENDED to be self-depricating. Obviously (duh) Staples doesn’t think their offer was as important as the frickin moon landing. Ninny. THAT’S what made it funny, and that’s what made me go there just yesterday.

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:03:07 +0000

The Staples add that makes me l.o.l is the one were the lady announcer says three times”we’d smatch it”.
She seems to have some kind of a speach problem?

By: Bob Bastard

Bob Bastard — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:32:40 +0000

Staples tried to rip me off for an office chair that cost $104.99. The chair broke but was under warranty. When I called for a replacement, Staples tried to charge me over $200! The laugh is on Staples, though: my bank’s security and fraud division has refunded my money and referred the matter over to the Federal Corporation Commission. When they discover impropriety, which they will, the Federal Corp. Commish will probably fine Staples upwards of $20,000. See? Justice does work sometimes.

By: Pissed Employee

Pissed Employee — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:45:11 +0000

I have some fun for any current disgruntled Staples employee. There is a serious and largely unknown glitch in the Gift card/money card process that will allow any employee to create a gift card for themselves for any amount without paying for it at all. This gift card will not show up on any report in the system anywhere. Here goes: signon to a register and ring a gift card for any amount, let’s say $500. swipe the card to load it and leave that transaction alone. Go to another register and ring a Snickers bar, subtotal and pay for the Snickers with the gift card you just loaded at the other register. Go to the previous register and press the VOID key to void the transaction. The purchase of the Snickers will LOCK the $500 amount to the gift card. When you void the first transaction, you erase the record of that transaction, but the card is still loaded with $500 because you locked it in at the other register. You will have a $500 gift card for free. The transaction will NOT show up on the post void report, the gift card report, or the cash over/short report or any other report. You will have a gift card for any amount you want for free and there will be no record of it. Have fun stealing from those pricks at Staples. By the way, this may also work at Office Depot, that is where I learned of the glitch several years ago, tried it at Staples just recently and it works there as well. Probably because they use the same vendor to fund and service their gift cards. Pretty cool huh?

By: James

James — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:33:14 +0000

I dont think Mr. Armstrong is really that upset about the commercial…he obtained his momumental moment out of the ordel…also, I work at staples, and I think you should boycott, they dont need your money and honestly I wouldnt want to waste my time and effort trying to help someone who is trying to “breakdown” the staples system bc of a commercal…thats pretty boring

By: Zeb

Zeb — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:42:04 +0000

Please………someone that gets upset about something as trivial as a Staples commercial should focus on something more important…….get a life go to the losers office depot, number two

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:52:35 +0000

Dude, are you kidding me? Go out and get a hobby or something. If you’re that offended by a Staples commercial, I truly feel sorry for you

By: bdobbs

bdobbs — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:53:01 +0000

Jesus christ…we officially have “offensitivity” as predicted by Berke Breathed….

…the entire point was that the Staples announcement was trivial and the moon landing was important and Staples acknowledges that too….hence the joke….

Besides the owner of this blog as well as the other blogger who said they won’t ever shop at Staples is so full of crap. The first time they are pressed for time and need some office widget or paper or whatever, they’ll forget all about it. There are reams and reams of studies on that very topic, and as much as we like to think we’ll be the next ghandi and stick to our values, 99% of people just plain forget every little stand they took on the internet 5 years ago…

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:04:06 +0000

I suggest a boycott

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:46:37 +0000

Who is this bob, LOL? I have a sense of humor too, however….I don’t see the humor in that one. I think it’s in poor taste, and just plain stupid!!