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Costco Railroading Member Fees
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Apr 19, 2008 Costco complaint |
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When checking out of Costco there was a lady there who wore a bunch of bead necklaces. She came at us talking frantically to persuade us to upgrade to a higher level of Costco membership. We told her that we don't have any use for the services offered but she just kept at us. She said it was guarented that we would get the money back if we didn't show its benefite by the end of the year. Sure, we would spend enough on foods but the new upgraded card wouldn't give us anything we didn't already get which was 1% on our purchasing of groceries. We don't stay in motels, don't fly, don't eat in restaurants anymore and have our car insurance through AARP etc. Now I have to call up this morning after I came to my senses and reverse the process we were talked into. Each time she would "sink" another card holder to the upper level she got a necklace. Well, she "sunk" another pig.
I am going to call up and discontinue my membership after 26 years. It cost me $10 in gas to get there from where I live plus $100 a year membership. You have to buy a lot of stuff to make up for the money spent in membership alone at a 1% kick back.
I have written in and called them in the past few years to ask for things to be changed and have never gotten anyone who cares to write back. Costco has gotten tooooo big. I'M GONE. Then I found out I could have stayed home and paid less for gas than I paid at Costco!!!! Plus our local store had chicken for 20 cents less a pound-Grown in Washington.
I am so mad right now that I am going to take another $10.00 in gas and drive back to the store. The packaging at Costco is usually too big for us to use. You have to buy a 10 foot refrigerator to house the big container packaging they sell. I end up throwing things away because the two of us can't use a two quart jar of mayo. before it goes bad. In all their candy selection they don't have sugar free for the millions of us out here who can't eat sugar anymore. Do they care? NO!!!!
Then when I tried to find the peanut butter I usually get they had only Jiff which has Crisco in it. I found the other peanut butter on an isle in the midde of the store. It was being featured. I told the clerk I was not pleased as I almost went home without any. She said it was a game that Costco played to get people to circulate around the store in hopes they might find something else they might see. I told her if I want a game I will go to Safeway or some other store. When I come to Costco I want to shop and get out of there. I don't want any Easter egg hunt.
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1. Written by Beck, on 22-07-2008 22:50
With the executive membership you actually get 2% back on all your purchases.
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