Future Shop Wants My Money
I really don’t need two Future Shop cards as it appears I’m having a hard enough time just trying to manage the first, obsolete account. I bought my Macbook on the card, along with a few other goodies and shortly after I sent them a check for $1500. Well it seems as though a month too many has gone by and they called me today to ask for a payment of $30. I guess I didn’t send them a payment last month so they’re a bit cranky. Oh but it’s not Future Shop, because their card doesn’t exist anymore, it was some strange bank of out the States calling me to say ‘give us money’.
So I literally said “oops,” and that I would make a payment ASAP either through online banking or at store-level. This seemed to appease the man on the other side of the phone until he asked me, “So what caused you to get behind a payment?” A little blindsided I just said, “Uh I guess I forgot”. He still wanted more saying, “I see, but you are behind,” to which I replied “well I guess I just remembered sending that big fat check and forgot how long ago that was.” He says “Okay so I’ll mark that down as an ‘oversight’ on your part then.” I said, “Sure yeah, just do that.”
Um… I’ve never had someone talk to me that way before, like they were my parent and I was coming home an hour after curfew. Is this normal protocol? Seemed very strange. I’m going to go pay my non-existent Future Shop card off as soon as possible cause I just don’t want to be contacted by a guy like that ever again. Creepy.
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July 29th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Almost there.
July 29th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Blasted collection agencies!!
Only 10 more to go!
July 29th, 2007 at 12:48 am
I mean if he was from the FOOD BANK I’d be more than happy to pay… Future Shop’s shady ex-Future Shop card is just trying to scam me… yeah… that’s it… my fingers feel heavy
July 29th, 2007 at 12:54 am
I just bought a 42″ tv from them using the FS Card and no problems for me!
July 29th, 2007 at 12:56 am
They told me the kind of card I had was “discontinued” and then I got the letter saying to sign up for the “new” one. Something is afoot.
HAHA oh I also got a “certificate of insurance” from them too. They decided my card needed to protect my life and limbs for $14/month, you know, without asking, just preventative.
July 29th, 2007 at 1:05 am
C’mon Rebecca, you can do it! If I can (and God knows I’ve had my issues, particularly with access to reliable Wi-Fi), of course you can! We are so close! Only 12 more posts! (I think. My brain is fried at the moment).
July 29th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Can’t say I’m all that surprised. FutureShop is a cesspool of sharks and morons. You only have to go into one of their stores to get a taste of what I mean. I can count on one hand the amount of times that I’ve actually received some constructive, non-sales-pushing assistance from someone in one of those stores - it’s crazy.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Hey folk’s. I was curiuos if anyone knows how easy it is to be approved for a Fs creditcard ? I havn’t established credit yet and I dont have bad credit. My chances still half decent ?
Thank you for your time,
Jeff.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:27 am
So, just thought i’d share some REALLY BAAAAD story of my ‘old’ or shall i say ‘NEVER-EXISTENT’ wells-fargo future shop card. i got a future shop card like 3 years ago now. i got it in the store on the stop when i was about to pay and the sales person convinced me to get one for it’d gimme some discounts. i offered to pay it off right after in the shop. they told me i had to wait for my statement. which NEVER arrived. nor did the real card. nothing ever came in the mail for me from FS, so my fam. couldnt forward my mail since i wasnt living home. then finally i got a “collection notice” from wells fargo when i went home for xmas. it was a “FINAL collection notice” for Nov. 30. which was obviously totally too late. since i only got home for xmas! so i called wells fargo, the lady told me, “sorry, we don’t take care of FS payments anymore, you have to contact them.” but on the FS website, they advise people to contact wells fargo. so. as of now, i owe them friggin’ $2,000+ and unimaginable interest. and i have NOWHERE to pay since i lost my replacement card and i never got a statement and they filed a credit report against me!!!!! but seriously. how was i supposed to pay for the statement that never arrived and i kept contacting them but they refused to give me my info since i didn’t have an acct # that i didnt receive!!!! what a bunch of pricks. and now i still dunno what to do with my $2,000+ OLD FS-WellsFargo debt!!!!
May 30th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I’ve been trying to pay mine for ages and they keep reporting me but they won’t send me a statement saying how much I owe and the only time they wells-fargo is open is when I’m at work! It’s all a bunch of crap it takes forever to change your address with them and I have seriously ruined my credit waiting around for bills, sometimes getting 3 months behind and I am really ready to kill someone over this but I still owe more than half of my computer I bought more than a year ago!