October 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Online ordering is commonplace nowadays. It's the way many of us shop and purchase items. It's convenient with the busy lives many of us live and Dan is no different. When ordering something online this past weekend, Dan had an experience he never had before and shared his story with the audience and gave some consumer advice. Do you prefer online shopping or in person shopping? We talked about the ways that society shops today compared to the past.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I tell you Boston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, there were. There's one other thing here from this
tracking company. It says UH. It's very official looking info received.
Your package is waiting to be picked up by the
carrier intransit. Your package has been shipped from the originating
country and is en route to its destination pick up.
(00:24):
Your package has arrived at a nearby pickup point. Please
pick it up soon to avoid being returned. But they're
not going to tell me where that pickup point is.
Out for delivery. This is out. Your packages out for delivery, undelivered.
Your package was attempted for delivery but failed. This may
(00:47):
do no no vowel, no word in here, no verbon here.
This may due to several reasons. I think that's coming
directly from UH from China delivered. Your package was delivered
successfully to the address. See then an alert. Your package
might not to go unusual shipping. Get this these are
(01:09):
this is all in sequence. This may do to several reasons. Again,
no word be must Maybe may do most likely package
returned to center, Customs issue, lost damage, et cetera. Well
they've covered the waterfront there and then expired. Your package
was in transportation period for a long time. Still has
no delivered results that I know. Again the mistake I made.
(01:36):
You gotta talk to an American. You gotta have a
phone number. Let's go to the phones and see what
people have to say. Helen in Canton, Massachusetts, Helen, you're
gonna start us off tonight. Goright ahead. I dam I
turned that radio down, Helen, you know that. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm in the car going a world.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, we'll forgive you this time.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Go ahead, and thank you. I I've gotten package just
before in the past through Amazon and there I always
try to see where that. I always look to see where.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They're coming from.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I always make sure and then I google where this
company is from, and if it says anything from Asia
or China, whatever, I usually won't get it. But sometimes
I forget and I just order it and it comes
to my house. But then it doesn't fit, so I
try to return and I have no way to return it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well for more reason, it's crazy, I do, my dear.
This is my fault. Okay, it's my fault. I should
have figured out. But it looked like an American company. Uh.
And I didn't find a phone number. I didn't call.
I just went in and here it is order one fine,
you know, no big deal, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yes, just yea and the voice in the package. There's
no invoice to even return it anywhere. And on the
outside there's all the Asian letters, so you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You don't know who to goes well, so then you
are backing me up one thousand percent because I will
never again order something over the internet. I will go
to the internet and I will find a phone number,
as I did over the weekend. I spoke to a woman.
I said, what state do you in? And first of all,
you could I could tell she was she had, you know,
(03:28):
pretty good American college jails, and she said Florida. But
I wasn't satisfied. I said to her, what city are
you near? Fort Lauderdy. I was convinced I placed the order,
and I'm sure that in due time I will get that.
And if I don't, I have a phone number I
can call back.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know sometimes on your credit card it will it
will show you a phone number when there's a charge.
There was no phone number with discharge. Who am I
supposed to call?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's like, oh, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I guess I should have I should have called Donald
Trump and said, Hey, when you're over there with pre
g G, will you do me a favor and ask
him about my package? Where is it?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh my gosh, that's funny, Yes, because I never I
like to see what it's made in the USA. I
love made in USA, you know. But yeah, I'll never
going through that again.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
With you, and I hope that this sends a strong message. Again.
We're just one talk show and you're one consumer. I'm
another consumer, and we've had the same experience, which which
is good.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Absolutely, which is good.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And we're extracting a little bit of uh, you know,
we're getting a little bit of revenge tonight. But I
don't look at it like that. I look at it
not as revenge because I don't want to hurt this company.
I have no reason to hurt the company. I'm not
even going to mention the company. I could do that.
But I do want people to know that when they
start dealing with companies overseas, the communications are extraordinarily.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Difficult and absolutely unless they have I'm helping people learn
from that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I hope that's why I'm doing it. I'm a little embarrassed,
to be really honest with you. I'm a little embarrassed,
but I'll take some embarrassment if I can save some people. Someone.
What am I listening to? Some aggravation? Look at it? Hell,
best of luck. Going to work. Where do you work at?
Where you had it tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm at I work at bring A Woman's Hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, I loved your work as a nurse.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm in radiology. Actually, well, coment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's I love people, you know. I love the doctors,
don't get me wrong, but I think the people who
are there supporting the doctors, the nurses, the folks like you,
technical people. You're so important. Thank you, thank you so much.
Absolutely okay, and you're working, thank you an overnight shift.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So please, I'm hoping to see you this year again.
Last year I wasn't able to go to the dinner,
but usually we meet you ever at the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh yeah, well we did. We did a breakfast, a brunch.
Don Yeah. Well, we'll do something again. Maybe we'll wait
until the good weather, though, I think come up with something.
Maybe we'll get the Winnakers to perform for us again.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That was a great, wonderful I had a great event.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
We'll do it again. We'll pick a different locale. Maybe
we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. That's Helen.
Please keep keep listening and keep calling. Okay, thank you
so much. I appreciate it. All right, gonna go from
Helen in Canton. Uh No, what we're gonna do. We
gotta take a break. We're gonna take a break. And
when I get back, we got Maureen in Brocton is
leading off. I have Steve and fall River and George
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and Bridgewater, and I have room for you at six.
Have you had a smooth go on the internet? Never
had a problem. Tell me what your secret is. If you,
like me, didn't do your due diligence, please explain, because
maybe we can save some other's aggravation. It's as simple
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as that. The Internet truly is wonderful, but it's the wild,
wile West. I don't know why anyone would buy clothes
on the internet. I really don't. I have a lot
of friends of mine who do. But that's not my
that is not my my my idea. It's like, hold
your breath on that. But this was not closed. This
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was this was simply an item that I would have
liked to have received. I'm not going to receive it.
And if I do if all of a sudden it
shows up on my doorstep miraculously, which I don't think
it is because all of the the tracking information says
undeliverable bad address. Back on night Side six one, seven,
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nine three. If you want to get through back on
Nightside after.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm telling you BZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Right back to the phones you go. Let me go
to Maureen and Brockton. Maureen, welcome next on night Sanny.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Thanks for calling him, Maureen, Hi, Dan, thanks for taking
my call. I have to tell you my when my
sister in law was pregnant with her first thought of
I want to say, twenty four years ago, I decided
to order a digital camera. Now the details are, you know,
my memories, you know, not that great. But I was
(08:26):
very concerned, very cautious. Do I want to put my
credit cad out on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The understand that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And and honest to goodness, I mean there was no glitch.
I don't remember what country it was shipping from. I
picked it up at the post office when I was
in Brighton and everything was wonderful. But but you know,
you you you really have to there's good experiences there's
not so good experiences. My husband seems to be very
(08:55):
fortunate when it comes to like if he orders clothes online,
he but but but again, but again, I think that
that these are he's ordering, but they're they're they're actually
coming from Massachusetts, so you know, we know that it's
within the US. But when you get but when you
get those you know, delivery, he'll say, oh, it'll be
(09:17):
delivered between eight and five, you know, and it's just like,
so you're planning your whole day, is the mailman coming?
Is it ups?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
But then I was mentioned in to Marita. My mother
was a big you know, stop and shop peapod, you know,
order her you know, she didn't she didn't have a
vehicle to go out and drive, et cetera. So the
convenience for ordering grocery shopping for her was great. My
sister had the same experience when she was a.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Friend of mine who orders from Roach Brothers. And it's
like clockwork. But that's I don't have a problem with
that at all. Because you have a phone number, you
know what story's coming from. I'm totally blind to this.
I couldn't I'm pretty good. There's no phone numbers at all.
I got more advertisements from this company for other products.
(10:07):
It just seems to me. Again, I don't want to
say I'm scammed here because it might be a legitimate company.
But I would never ever again deal with some company
like this halfway around the world. I should have been smarter.
It's my fault, not their fault. And they don't care.
They're getting probably a thousand orders a day, and if
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half of them get fulfilled, they're happy. Most people aren't
going to go back to their credit card company and say, hey,
I never got my product. I was on the phone
with my credit card company on Saturday, actually, and they
were available on Saturday, Saturday afternoon to be precise, and
they said to me, well, we will give you a tentative,
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you know, refund, and we'll make it permanent on Monday.
And I gave them all the information. I said, I
have documentation here, and I said, what do you know
about this company? I think there's so many companies around
the world. There's no track record. There's no way that
they were going to say to me, oh, this is
a horrible company, because they probably don't know. But guess what,
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I'm not going to be scammed. I don't know if
I may not have been scammed. It might just be
I was dealing with a bad company that's incompetent and
is sending stuff and they have no idea where it's going.
How would I send something to China? When you think
about it, if I had a friend in China and
I wanted to send a card or a gift, I
would want to say to that friend, Hey, send me
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whatever your address is. You know a label in Chinese
so that I can put it in the mailbox. Here.
Probably some pointy puschmark was reading the address that what
is this Massachusetts? I don't know what Massachusetts is, and I.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Would bet that it's happened to quite a few people.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
We'll see if they have the courage. Again, I'm a
little embarrassed by it because I should have known better.
But I just thought to myself, Hey, this will be great.
I'll get this. It had all the appearances of an
American company. It never came to my mind that that
might must be a company halfway around the world. Now,
people smarter than me, or who tell me they're smarter
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than me, will say, well, you should have known. That's okay,
I'll take the criticism. If I can prevent some of
my listeners from from getting into this situation by doing
this tonight, it's well worth it, well worth it, and
thanks for back of me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
But how could it not drive you crazy? Because, like
you said, you're getting you're getting all this communication and
which is very miscommunication. And hey, it's on it. You
know when you get the message. You know, like I said,
my husband will have an Amazon order and it'll be
nine forty five at night. Oh, it'll be delivered by
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ten thirty pm. And he's like, that's not gonna happen. Yeah, no,
I know, but but I but but I echo what
Helen said, because you do. I mean you you'll you know,
where is the product? A lot of times I'll check,
I'll do the review and I'll check where is it
manufacture or something?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But it's a learning experience. But but but you're doing
us all favor because especially with the holiday season coming up,
people are going to be ordering and you know, oh, yeah,
I'm going to have this before Christmas. Steve, well maybe
not Christmas Eve twenty twenty five exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
They didn't tell you what year.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And it's great to talk great to.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Talk to you. Thanks so much for your friendship. Thank
you so much, Murray, thank you so take it all right,
let me get one more in here before the break.
Gonna go to Steve and fall river. Steve. I'm gonna
get you in before the break at the bottom of
the arm. Go right ahead, Steve. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Stephen Waite, how are.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You, hey, Steven? How are you, sir? I know exactly
who this is. You ran a business for many years
and it's it's a great business. Stephen Lee Jewelers. People
if they weren't satisfied with the product, they knew where
you were. You were a brick and mortar store. I
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think we got to get back to that. I mean,
I like the convenience of the internet. Have you had
bad experiences like I've had? I have had some.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
But I did a little research for you while I
was waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yep, and I.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Believe that jd W. Every airport has a code around
the world, right ad W is associated with a radio
interceptor beacon and an associated airport for the international airport
to start the Arabian Great. I don't know if you
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ever looked it up.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No, I didn't. I didn't know what it was. I'm
assuming that JDW was the name of the company, but
those I think it's JD Worldwide, but it says no phone.
And then they have a thing that says chat g
GPT about JD Worldwide. I've never heard of JD Worldwide.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Yeah, I wouldn't get involved with it because it was
going to get deeper into the woods with problems.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Absolutely, Steven, did you tell me that you did you
contract to your credit card company? Already did it and
I reversed the charge.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Okay, so hey know you may never get it. You
may get it, but I will tell you quickly that
I did get involved with something that it had to
do with Alzheimer's because my mother passed away from it
and I didn't know if it was going to pass
on to my brother and myself.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
So I went in for this.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Thing that I saw, and I think AI got into
it and showed a doctor who who went on and
talked about all these the pros and cons, and then
they had people from Hollywood and movies that were backing up,
and I found out that it was a scam and
I had it stopped. But it's a out dollars worth
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of pills. Yeah, and I stopped it, but eventually the
pills were delivered to Time out.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well on that, I've seen some of that stuff that
is AI generated stuff. So you have it looks like
George Clooney or some famous actor is telling you all
about this that might have been what you were talking about.
Or they'll have a famous television anchor and it looks
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as if they're speaking the words and you look at
it and you say to yourself, wow, that's that's amazing.
But then you realize there's no way that these well
known news anchors would allow them to be involved with
any of this stuff. It's everywhere.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Those people were called back to say did you ever
give permission? Did you ever do this? And the answer
is absolutely not right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And of course you and I don't have the abil
I mean, they could put Walter, they could put video
of Walter Cronkite, because all they need is the actual
voice pattern, and they enter the words and they use
the voice pattern and they sink the words up through
AI and you think you're looking at Walter Cronkite. And
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of course Walter Cronkite's been dead now for what forty
years thirty years exactly, But they're not using Walt, They're
using current anchor people that basically are ripping off their identity.
This is really some wild, crazy stuff. Steven. Thank you
for calling and thank you for doing the research here.
(17:39):
But I'm out and I'm just I'm doing a little
by Paul Revere things saying from now on, if I
need to go to the internet to buy a product,
you see it advertise all the time if you watch
any of the cable channels. And I saw something over
the weekend, but I made sure it was an American company,
and I'm made sure that they were located in America
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and that it was coming to me from from the
good old US of A.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Exactly. Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Absolutely, Thanks for bringing up that stuff, because there's so
much on the internet here that I see which I dismiss.
But I look at it and I say, well, that's
not real. That George Clooney is not out you know,
pumping up uh you know, you said Alzheimer appeals or
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whatever it is. But a lot of people they're desperate,
and they say, well, if George Clooney's doing it, but
to someone who's who's using his image and his voice pattern,
that's what's going very dangerous.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You bet you, Steven, Thank you so much. Thanks for
joining me.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
And yes what I lost some time and I and
I got aggravated, and I finally said to myself, I'm
giving up on this because what would happened is every
day you go to the front door and kind of
peek out, where's that package?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Has that package come? You know, I've ordered sneakers the internet. Yeah, no, please,
I've ordered recently ordered a pair of New Balanced sneakers.
I have an account of New Balance. I know what
I'm dealing with. This in an American company, and I'm all
set and they arrive right on time and they're all set.
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But I'm never going to deal with any company overseas again. Period.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
It's thanks thanks Steven.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh no, I'm glad it happened because it's going to
allow me to help other people, simple as that. Steven.
I loved your company, you know that, and everything that
you're involved with. You've been a great friend. Thank you,
my friend.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Great you take care of Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Thanks Steven, Stephen Lee or Steven Lee Jewelers. All right,
I've got to take a break bottom of the hour.
We're a little bit late in the news. I apologize
for that, Shane. That's not your fault, it's my fault.
We'll get back right after. I have one line at
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, and I
have two lines at six one seven, nine three one
t easy lines to get through if you want. Have
you had problems with purchasing things on the internet. I
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told you my story. I'm not proud of it. But
guess what, It'll never fool me once. Your fault fool
me twice, my fault not gonna happen a second time.
Coming back on night.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Side, You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Now, does anyone out there who's never had a problem
ordering online? I love to hear from you, but I
think the key is make sure it's a US based company.
That was my experience over the weekend. Call me x
Enopholic if you want. Would I order from Canada? Yeah?
I probably would if I had a phone number. But
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with these foreign countries, you try to get an international
number to a company in China or a company in Romania,
not gonna happen. George and Bridgewawn, Hey, George, welcome, How
are you tonight.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Dan better tonight than I was over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Yeah, some of the same things that I very rarely
order from the internet. But I saw this product on
YouTube and I really wanted It's the oxygen masks that
you put over your face, but it has a plunger
that you pull up and it'll pull food out of
(21:29):
a choking baby's Oh I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that's the sort of thing
that if I if I thought about it, i'd say, yeah,
I got a couple of grandchildren, so I get all
of Yeah, I get all of that. Is that a
US company?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
No, that's the problem. I need to take your advice
and look the telephone numbers. Thought I was ordering from
an American company, and it ended up after I gave
him my forty nine to fifty bus whatever it was.
You know, they in a day with me trying to
buy ten more other items and then they get they
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get so aggravated. I I wanted to cancel the order,
but of course you can't do that. So I mean,
I mean the Chinese are relentless, So.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So this is so you found out it was a
company from China to yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well, after I saw it was u u un air
freight something like that. I know my wife's Chinese. I
know some Chinese. I said, oh my god, I'm ordering
from China.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But here's here's what you can do. Here's if When
did you order the product?
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I ordered it six months ago. I got no, I
got I got it. I got it. I didn't have
your problem. I did get it, but I was not
too happy that it was coming from China because I
just don't trust some of their products.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But one of the let me ask you this, Okay,
does the product seem to work? Did you try it
on anybody?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
I did?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I almost show you. I almost choke you death on
a couple hot pills I take and uh and motivated
me to buy it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It came in handy then.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
You bet it did right, Okay, that's great. And you
having two little kids that come over once in a while.
It's a great product for all your you and all
your listeners.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So have seen that product advertise. It's like a little
plunge that they put it over the mouth and the
thing pops out and it worked. What did you do
use it on yourself?
Speaker 10 (23:41):
I did it myself. Yeah, my wife's up there then
and snows them while I'm choking the death down here.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Okay, so that's great news. So let me ask you
there must be an American version of that product. I
mean unless, uh, if anybody out there tonight says, hey,
I heard George mention the product and it worked, they
may got to make sure. It's how long did it
take to get to you, George?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
It took about ten days, and I bought it from.
You mentioned the company. I think you mentioned the company
you bought you got to scam from. I bought it
from Saved sa ve l i X. You know, even
though it's Chinese, that they may be reputable and you
get your product, you know you well.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, look if if if you had a good experience,
that's great, and I would still prefer to if I'm
going to go out and get that product, having been
through my experience with this Chinese company, I will try to.
If I'm going to get that product, and based upon
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your recommendation it sounds like a good product, I'm going
to try to find it from an American company because
I want to get a phone number that I can
call if after two weeks it hasn't arrived at my house.
I want to be able to call and the only
way to do that is when you're on the internet.
If there's no American phone number, don't deal with the.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Company exactly, and that you taught me something and all
your listen listeners look for that telephone number. There was
obviously no telephone number. One ordered from save licks and uh,
but I still got my product. But I'm gonna you know,
I don't know that much, but if I do, I'm
looking for that telephone number.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I want an American telephone number. And look right now
if if when I call, for example, the Boston Globe,
if I missed my newspaper the morning, I get somebody
in the Philippines. And and I really am very upset
with American family, with American companies learning American families and
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sending jobs overseas. The Globe. I used to there this
service area. They had a they had a telephone bank
in Watertown, so if you were missing a phone, if
you were missing a newspaper, you could call them. You
can't call anybody. Try calling the Boston Globe. You can't
reach a person. I'm old fashioned. I dealt today with
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two or three people who had issues and problems, and
I called them back. You know, Now there are people
who have called me before several times that I haven't
been able to help them, and after like two or
three times, I can't calling people back. Okay, but but
I want from now on, I want a phone number,
and I want to make sure it's an American company. George,
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thanks for your call. That was really good.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Oh you're very welcome, man. Thanks, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah, thank you appreciated. George. Be well. Okay, so there's
a kind of a quazy successful story. Let me go
to uh, you know what. I don't want to short
change Lola or Florence. So I will get to both
Lola and Florence on the other side of the break.
I have one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty, and I have two lines at
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six one, seven, nine, three one ten thirty. And I'm
more than happy to take this into the next hour
because I think we're helping each other. And if you
follow us on this one, follow our advice. You heard
what George had to say. I think everybody so far
has agreed with me. Now, I know some are going
to say, well, there's Dane upset. No, I know how
to work on the internet, trust me, okay, but I
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got lazy the other day, well the other day, over
two weeks ago, I got lazy and I was able
to get my money restored, which is fine, but the
stuff that they sent me just totally fractured any confidence
I had in that company to be able to deliver
the product to me. Simple as that. Coming back on
(27:41):
Night's side, the bottom line on the internet. Only deal
with American onshore companies, preferably in the forty eight states,
but I'll throw Hawaii and Alaska in there as well,
and always have a phone number and someone who you
spoke to make sure they are located in the United States. Uh,
(28:02):
call me xenophobic. I'm not, but go ahead, six six,
seven nine, let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's nice with Dan Ray and Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Back we go, gonna go cross country. Lola is in
San Diego, San Diego. I wanted to do my Ron
Berger the imitation San Diego. Hi, Lola, how are you?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Oh Dan? I'm good? Nice weather here today, Well, it was.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Pretty nice over the weekend here, but we're still be
going a couple of rainy days coming in so you do.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
And the temperature is nice and chilly over there.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, well it got a little a little touch of fall,
that's for sure. So what's your Internet stories? Have you
had good luck or bad luck?
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Okay? So I today, I'm listening to you, and I'm like,
with my package.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
From the United States Post Office coming to.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Deliver, and once from Macy and once from this place
called Pure Smile in Florida.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And I'm waiting and I'm waiting.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And I'm listening to you, and I get a text
from the Post Office access denied, and I'm like, what
they can't deliver my product because access that's all it says,
access denied. And I'm like, my street's not blocked. What
are they talking about? So this is us products? And
(29:37):
it's the post office, it's the post office.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well maybe the post office in your situation. Obviously at
this point in California, it's what ten minutes of eight,
so then the post office isn't open. But knowing Lola,
as I know, Lola, you're going to be in the
phone or you're going to be down at the post
office tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Because I'm just say, you know, we have to think
about something there's little to no manufacturing anymore in this country,
and anybody who's anybody that has a business wants high
profit margin. So that's why the Globe sends their phone
bank to the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Oh I get it. No, I understand there. However, however,
it makes me less anxious to be a Globe subscriber.
I mean, it's it's like the restaurant. I was at
a restaurant last night with a friend of mine, used
my credit card, and I noticed on the bill there
(30:40):
was a four percent credit card charge. Yep, so that's
something that is now creeping in. Guess what, I don't
know I'm going back to that restaurant.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Or if I gout, I know I'm going.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
To just use cash, and I'm not going to be.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Take if they take cash. There's places that will not
take cash. They only take credit backs.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh yeah, we've talked about that as well, and that
I guess they have a reason for that. But guess what,
we're consumers and consumers should be king. I'm king in
terms of I'm not wandering anything from anywhere outside the
United States. Maybe Canada. I will make an exception because
I like Canada.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
But yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well, I know we have to pick and choose. But
if there's some place is here, they'll take cash, but
we don't give back change.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, I've heard of that. Or if it comes down
to you know, nine fifteen, or we roll it up
to ten dollars. What are you talking about? You're rolling
up to ten dollars?
Speaker 6 (31:43):
You know, you know they're not given out they're not
given out change. Then there's another restaurant I went to.
There's a health convenience speed because yep, yep, I mean,
you name it, it's on it. You really have to look
at the bill before you even you have to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
What we could We could spend the whole hour on
that as well. But I think again, I get it. Uh,
the businesses loved credit cards because people would would you know,
if you have to reach in your pocket and put
cash on the table, it hurts a little bit more
than a credit card. None of us think about credit cards,
but it needs the consumers. We need to have a
(32:25):
revolution in this country and say guess what, you're gonna
start charging four percent. I'll find other restaurants, simple as that.
All right, Lola, I gotta run. I got two more.
I gotta get in here. Do me a favorite, call
me back later this week. Let me know that you
got your packages. You're waiting, you're waiting for for it.
None have been delivered.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I will let you know. And remember that challenge you said,
reach out to somebody who you had a filing out
with due to you know. Yeah, yeah, no reply nothing.
I already knew that. I already knew. I tried.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But thanks, all right, thank you. Let me go to
war and Fall River Warren next on Nisager.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Right ahead, Hey Dan, I got a story for you ahead.
You know that I'm my music guy. I like my music,
and like this time last year, I had a I
got I can you know, like an email on a
post on Facebook about a fiftieth anniversary of an album
coming out. So you know, I kind of sent it
(33:31):
onto my forwarded it onto my wife, you know, and
unberknownst to me, she ordered it all right, and you know,
all of a sudden, we're getting emails, Uh yeah, do
the production problems. This is not going to come out
until March, and then it was June, and then it
was by and it didn't come out until like three
(33:54):
weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
So I finally get it, and I ended up having
to pay. You know, she ended up paying one hundred
and fifty dollars for this thing, and with the tariffs,
we ended up paying twenty four dollars more in tariffs,
So it ended up.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Costing me one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well that's a that's a Trump issue because obviously when
you ordered it a year ago or whatever it was,
the tariffs weren't in place. Trump wasn't even the White House.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But in fact, the fact that they delayed, I'll tell you,
I would have probably pulled my I would have gone
to my credit card. Was this an overseas company that
was producing This.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Was an overseas company? Is this someone from England?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
England? Yea?
Speaker 5 (34:41):
And yeah. So it was just like, W want to
tell us who the group? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
One of the time the group group was? Is that
I want to tell us who the group was? Who?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Wash?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Yeah, it's from Genesis, Okay, an album called the Limb
Life down the Broadway.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All right, Well, thanks, thank you man, thank you.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
That's that. But it's just it was just it was
just funny.
Speaker 11 (35:10):
Though they kept on getting delayed and delayed and delayed
and ended up costing me more money in the end.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I probably would have. I probably would have pulled
it and out. And I'll bet you that a month
from now they'll they'll reduce the price you watch.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, but there's a lot of buzz about it
or amongst my friends and aff like that.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And music means a lot to you, so I understand it. Warren.
Thank You're going to try to get will and really
appreciate you. Thank you, my friend. Thank you much. Let
me go to Florence and Groveland, Florence. You're gonna wrap
the hour first, go right ahead, Florence.
Speaker 12 (35:42):
Yeah, I've had good luck. I deal with the company
that it's a catalog company, yep. And I don't order
over the internet. I order over the phone.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's important.
Speaker 12 (35:59):
I think only with them for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
What's the catalog company?
Speaker 12 (36:04):
It's called Genies g I and why Carson during Wisconsin.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
Okay, Well that's.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
A good plug for them. Then that's good. Thanks for calling.
That's really good.
Speaker 9 (36:19):
What do you get for them?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
What?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What sort of products did they sell?
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Everything?
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Everything from agency? Okay? Okay, And I've ordered like a
household I isn't or piece of clothing over the years.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Florence, over the years, give me an estimate, how many
times have you ordered from them?
Speaker 12 (36:41):
Oh, take your guests, come on over one hundred and how.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Many times was the order fulfilled properly?
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Every time?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Ginny's is the catalog G I N and Y apostrophe
s out of Wisconsin.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
What they do is you talk to a customer service person,
you order the item, you've given the audor itim the
the order number and uh dyll you have the phone number.
You have their first name, so if you have any problem,
you can call back your customer service your order number,
(37:22):
bill track it and you're fined and they give you
the data what it's going to be delivered perfect.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I'm up against the eleven, but you have just done
a big service to this company Genny's G I N
Y posts in Wisconsin. They should send you a free gift. Okay,
thank you so much. Here comes the eleven o'clock news.
Get out of the way, everybody. We could stick with
(37:51):
this if you like. Back after the eleven
I tell you Boston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, there were. There's one other thing here from this
tracking company. It says UH. It's very official looking info received.
Your package is waiting to be picked up by the
carrier intransit. Your package has been shipped from the originating
country and is en route to its destination pick up.
(00:24):
Your package has arrived at a nearby pickup point. Please
pick it up soon to avoid being returned. But they're
not going to tell me where that pickup point is.
Out for delivery. This is out. Your packages out for delivery, undelivered.
Your package was attempted for delivery but failed. This may
(00:47):
do no no vowel, no word in here, no verbon here.
This may due to several reasons. I think that's coming
directly from UH from China delivered. Your package was delivered
successfully to the address. See then an alert. Your package
might not to go unusual shipping. Get this these are
(01:09):
this is all in sequence. This may do to several reasons. Again,
no word be must Maybe may do most likely package
returned to center, Customs issue, lost damage, et cetera. Well
they've covered the waterfront there and then expired. Your package
was in transportation period for a long time. Still has
no delivered results that I know. Again the mistake I made.
(01:36):
You gotta talk to an American. You gotta have a
phone number. Let's go to the phones and see what
people have to say. Helen in Canton, Massachusetts, Helen, you're
gonna start us off tonight. Goright ahead. I dam I
turned that radio down, Helen, you know that. Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm in the car going a world.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, we'll forgive you this time.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Go ahead, and thank you. I I've gotten package just
before in the past through Amazon and there I always
try to see where that. I always look to see where.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
They're coming from.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I always make sure and then I google where this
company is from, and if it says anything from Asia
or China, whatever, I usually won't get it. But sometimes
I forget and I just order it and it comes
to my house. But then it doesn't fit, so I
try to return and I have no way to return it.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well for more reason, it's crazy, I do, my dear.
This is my fault. Okay, it's my fault. I should
have figured out. But it looked like an American company. Uh.
And I didn't find a phone number. I didn't call.
I just went in and here it is order one fine,
you know, no big deal, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yes, just yea and the voice in the package. There's
no invoice to even return it anywhere. And on the
outside there's all the Asian letters, so you can't.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You don't know who to goes well, so then you
are backing me up one thousand percent because I will
never again order something over the internet. I will go
to the internet and I will find a phone number,
as I did over the weekend. I spoke to a woman.
I said, what state do you in? And first of all,
you could I could tell she was she had, you know,
(03:28):
pretty good American college jails, and she said Florida. But
I wasn't satisfied. I said to her, what city are
you near? Fort Lauderdy. I was convinced I placed the order,
and I'm sure that in due time I will get that.
And if I don't, I have a phone number I
can call back.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know sometimes on your credit card it will it
will show you a phone number when there's a charge.
There was no phone number with discharge. Who am I
supposed to call?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It's like, oh, it's awful.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I guess I should have I should have called Donald
Trump and said, Hey, when you're over there with pre
g G, will you do me a favor and ask
him about my package? Where is it?
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Oh my gosh, that's funny, Yes, because I never I
like to see what it's made in the USA. I
love made in USA, you know. But yeah, I'll never
going through that again.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
With you, and I hope that this sends a strong message. Again.
We're just one talk show and you're one consumer. I'm
another consumer, and we've had the same experience, which which
is good.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Absolutely, which is good.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And we're extracting a little bit of uh, you know,
we're getting a little bit of revenge tonight. But I
don't look at it like that. I look at it
not as revenge because I don't want to hurt this company.
I have no reason to hurt the company. I'm not
even going to mention the company. I could do that.
But I do want people to know that when they
start dealing with companies overseas, the communications are extraordinarily.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Difficult and absolutely unless they have I'm helping people learn
from that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I hope that's why I'm doing it. I'm a little embarrassed,
to be really honest with you. I'm a little embarrassed,
but I'll take some embarrassment if I can save some people. Someone.
What am I listening to? Some aggravation? Look at it? Hell,
best of luck. Going to work. Where do you work at?
Where you had it tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I'm at I work at bring A Woman's Hospital.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, I loved your work as a nurse.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm in radiology. Actually, well, coment.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's I love people, you know. I love the doctors,
don't get me wrong, but I think the people who
are there supporting the doctors, the nurses, the folks like you,
technical people. You're so important. Thank you, thank you so much.
Absolutely okay, and you're working, thank you an overnight shift.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So please, I'm hoping to see you this year again.
Last year I wasn't able to go to the dinner,
but usually we meet you ever at the ballpark.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh yeah, well we did. We did a breakfast, a brunch.
Don Yeah. Well, we'll do something again. Maybe we'll wait
until the good weather, though, I think come up with something.
Maybe we'll get the Winnakers to perform for us again.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That was a great, wonderful I had a great event.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
We'll do it again. We'll pick a different locale. Maybe
we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. That's Helen.
Please keep keep listening and keep calling. Okay, thank you
so much. I appreciate it. All right, gonna go from
Helen in Canton. Uh No, what we're gonna do. We
gotta take a break. We're gonna take a break. And
when I get back, we got Maureen in Brocton is
leading off. I have Steve and fall River and George
(06:42):
and Bridgewater, and I have room for you at six.
Have you had a smooth go on the internet? Never
had a problem. Tell me what your secret is. If you,
like me, didn't do your due diligence, please explain, because
maybe we can save some other's aggravation. It's as simple
(07:03):
as that. The Internet truly is wonderful, but it's the wild,
wile West. I don't know why anyone would buy clothes
on the internet. I really don't. I have a lot
of friends of mine who do. But that's not my
that is not my my my idea. It's like, hold
your breath on that. But this was not closed. This
(07:25):
was this was simply an item that I would have
liked to have received. I'm not going to receive it.
And if I do if all of a sudden it
shows up on my doorstep miraculously, which I don't think
it is because all of the the tracking information says
undeliverable bad address. Back on night Side six one, seven,
(07:47):
nine three. If you want to get through back on
Nightside after.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
This Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm telling you BZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Right back to the phones you go. Let me go
to Maureen and Brockton. Maureen, welcome next on night Sanny.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Thanks for calling him, Maureen, Hi, Dan, thanks for taking
my call. I have to tell you my when my
sister in law was pregnant with her first thought of
I want to say, twenty four years ago, I decided
to order a digital camera. Now the details are, you know,
my memories, you know, not that great. But I was
(08:26):
very concerned, very cautious. Do I want to put my
credit cad out on.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
The understand that? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
And and honest to goodness, I mean there was no glitch.
I don't remember what country it was shipping from. I
picked it up at the post office when I was
in Brighton and everything was wonderful. But but you know,
you you you really have to there's good experiences there's
not so good experiences. My husband seems to be very
(08:55):
fortunate when it comes to like if he orders clothes online,
he but but but again, but again, I think that
that these are he's ordering, but they're they're they're actually
coming from Massachusetts, so you know, we know that it's
within the US. But when you get but when you
get those you know, delivery, he'll say, oh, it'll be
(09:17):
delivered between eight and five, you know, and it's just like,
so you're planning your whole day, is the mailman coming?
Is it ups?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
So?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
But then I was mentioned in to Marita. My mother
was a big you know, stop and shop peapod, you know,
order her you know, she didn't she didn't have a
vehicle to go out and drive, et cetera. So the
convenience for ordering grocery shopping for her was great. My
sister had the same experience when she was a.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Friend of mine who orders from Roach Brothers. And it's
like clockwork. But that's I don't have a problem with
that at all. Because you have a phone number, you
know what story's coming from. I'm totally blind to this.
I couldn't I'm pretty good. There's no phone numbers at all.
I got more advertisements from this company for other products.
(10:07):
It just seems to me. Again, I don't want to
say I'm scammed here because it might be a legitimate company.
But I would never ever again deal with some company
like this halfway around the world. I should have been smarter.
It's my fault, not their fault. And they don't care.
They're getting probably a thousand orders a day, and if
(10:31):
half of them get fulfilled, they're happy. Most people aren't
going to go back to their credit card company and say, hey,
I never got my product. I was on the phone
with my credit card company on Saturday, actually, and they
were available on Saturday, Saturday afternoon to be precise, and
they said to me, well, we will give you a tentative,
(10:53):
you know, refund, and we'll make it permanent on Monday.
And I gave them all the information. I said, I
have documentation here, and I said, what do you know
about this company? I think there's so many companies around
the world. There's no track record. There's no way that
they were going to say to me, oh, this is
a horrible company, because they probably don't know. But guess what,
(11:16):
I'm not going to be scammed. I don't know if
I may not have been scammed. It might just be
I was dealing with a bad company that's incompetent and
is sending stuff and they have no idea where it's going.
How would I send something to China? When you think
about it, if I had a friend in China and
I wanted to send a card or a gift, I
would want to say to that friend, Hey, send me
(11:38):
whatever your address is. You know a label in Chinese
so that I can put it in the mailbox. Here.
Probably some pointy puschmark was reading the address that what
is this Massachusetts? I don't know what Massachusetts is, and I.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Would bet that it's happened to quite a few people.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
We'll see if they have the courage. Again, I'm a
little embarrassed by it because I should have known better.
But I just thought to myself, Hey, this will be great.
I'll get this. It had all the appearances of an
American company. It never came to my mind that that
might must be a company halfway around the world. Now,
people smarter than me, or who tell me they're smarter
(12:21):
than me, will say, well, you should have known. That's okay,
I'll take the criticism. If I can prevent some of
my listeners from from getting into this situation by doing
this tonight, it's well worth it, well worth it, and
thanks for back of me.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
But how could it not drive you crazy? Because, like
you said, you're getting you're getting all this communication and
which is very miscommunication. And hey, it's on it. You
know when you get the message. You know, like I said,
my husband will have an Amazon order and it'll be
nine forty five at night. Oh, it'll be delivered by
(12:57):
ten thirty pm. And he's like, that's not gonna happen. Yeah, no,
I know, but but I but but I echo what
Helen said, because you do. I mean you you'll you know,
where is the product? A lot of times I'll check,
I'll do the review and I'll check where is it
manufacture or something?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I didn't do that.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
But it's a learning experience. But but but you're doing
us all favor because especially with the holiday season coming up,
people are going to be ordering and you know, oh, yeah,
I'm going to have this before Christmas. Steve, well maybe
not Christmas Eve twenty twenty five exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
They didn't tell you what year.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
And it's great to talk great to.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Talk to you. Thanks so much for your friendship. Thank
you so much, Murray, thank you so take it all right,
let me get one more in here before the break.
Gonna go to Steve and fall river. Steve. I'm gonna
get you in before the break at the bottom of
the arm. Go right ahead, Steve. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Stephen Waite, how are.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You, hey, Steven? How are you, sir? I know exactly
who this is. You ran a business for many years
and it's it's a great business. Stephen Lee Jewelers. People
if they weren't satisfied with the product, they knew where
you were. You were a brick and mortar store. I
(14:13):
think we got to get back to that. I mean,
I like the convenience of the internet. Have you had
bad experiences like I've had? I have had some.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
But I did a little research for you while I
was waiting.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yep, and I.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
Believe that jd W. Every airport has a code around
the world, right ad W is associated with a radio
interceptor beacon and an associated airport for the international airport
to start the Arabian Great. I don't know if you
(14:46):
ever looked it up.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
No, I didn't. I didn't know what it was. I'm
assuming that JDW was the name of the company, but
those I think it's JD Worldwide, but it says no phone.
And then they have a thing that says chat g
GPT about JD Worldwide. I've never heard of JD Worldwide.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Yeah, I wouldn't get involved with it because it was
going to get deeper into the woods with problems.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Absolutely, Steven, did you tell me that you did you
contract to your credit card company? Already did it and
I reversed the charge.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Okay, so hey know you may never get it. You
may get it, but I will tell you quickly that
I did get involved with something that it had to
do with Alzheimer's because my mother passed away from it
and I didn't know if it was going to pass
on to my brother and myself.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
So I went in for this.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Thing that I saw, and I think AI got into
it and showed a doctor who who went on and
talked about all these the pros and cons, and then
they had people from Hollywood and movies that were backing up,
and I found out that it was a scam and
I had it stopped. But it's a out dollars worth
(16:02):
of pills. Yeah, and I stopped it, but eventually the
pills were delivered to Time out.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well on that, I've seen some of that stuff that
is AI generated stuff. So you have it looks like
George Clooney or some famous actor is telling you all
about this that might have been what you were talking about.
Or they'll have a famous television anchor and it looks
(16:32):
as if they're speaking the words and you look at
it and you say to yourself, wow, that's that's amazing.
But then you realize there's no way that these well
known news anchors would allow them to be involved with
any of this stuff. It's everywhere.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Those people were called back to say did you ever
give permission? Did you ever do this? And the answer
is absolutely not right.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
And of course you and I don't have the abil
I mean, they could put Walter, they could put video
of Walter Cronkite, because all they need is the actual
voice pattern, and they enter the words and they use
the voice pattern and they sink the words up through
AI and you think you're looking at Walter Cronkite. And
(17:18):
of course Walter Cronkite's been dead now for what forty
years thirty years exactly, But they're not using Walt, They're
using current anchor people that basically are ripping off their identity.
This is really some wild, crazy stuff. Steven. Thank you
for calling and thank you for doing the research here.
(17:39):
But I'm out and I'm just I'm doing a little
by Paul Revere things saying from now on, if I
need to go to the internet to buy a product,
you see it advertise all the time if you watch
any of the cable channels. And I saw something over
the weekend, but I made sure it was an American company,
and I'm made sure that they were located in America
(18:02):
and that it was coming to me from from the
good old US of A.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Exactly. Just be careful.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Absolutely, Thanks for bringing up that stuff, because there's so
much on the internet here that I see which I dismiss.
But I look at it and I say, well, that's
not real. That George Clooney is not out you know,
pumping up uh you know, you said Alzheimer appeals or
(18:29):
whatever it is. But a lot of people they're desperate,
and they say, well, if George Clooney's doing it, but
to someone who's who's using his image and his voice pattern,
that's what's going very dangerous.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
It's very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You bet you, Steven, Thank you so much. Thanks for
joining me.
Speaker 8 (18:47):
And yes what I lost some time and I and
I got aggravated, and I finally said to myself, I'm
giving up on this because what would happened is every
day you go to the front door and kind of
peek out, where's that package?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Has that package come? You know, I've ordered sneakers the internet. Yeah, no, please,
I've ordered recently ordered a pair of New Balanced sneakers.
I have an account of New Balance. I know what
I'm dealing with. This in an American company, and I'm all
set and they arrive right on time and they're all set.
(19:22):
But I'm never going to deal with any company overseas again. Period.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
It's thanks thanks Steven.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh no, I'm glad it happened because it's going to
allow me to help other people, simple as that. Steven.
I loved your company, you know that, and everything that
you're involved with. You've been a great friend. Thank you,
my friend.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Great you take care of Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Thanks Steven, Stephen Lee or Steven Lee Jewelers. All right,
I've got to take a break bottom of the hour.
We're a little bit late in the news. I apologize
for that, Shane. That's not your fault, it's my fault.
We'll get back right after. I have one line at
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty, and I
have two lines at six one seven, nine three one
t easy lines to get through if you want. Have
you had problems with purchasing things on the internet. I
(20:07):
told you my story. I'm not proud of it. But
guess what, It'll never fool me once. Your fault fool
me twice, my fault not gonna happen a second time.
Coming back on night.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Side, You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Now, does anyone out there who's never had a problem
ordering online? I love to hear from you, but I
think the key is make sure it's a US based company.
That was my experience over the weekend. Call me x
Enopholic if you want. Would I order from Canada? Yeah?
I probably would if I had a phone number. But
(20:46):
with these foreign countries, you try to get an international
number to a company in China or a company in Romania,
not gonna happen. George and Bridgewawn, Hey, George, welcome, How
are you tonight.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Welcome.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Dan better tonight than I was over the weekend.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Yeah, some of the same things that I very rarely
order from the internet. But I saw this product on
YouTube and I really wanted It's the oxygen masks that
you put over your face, but it has a plunger
that you pull up and it'll pull food out of
(21:29):
a choking baby's Oh I've seen that.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, that's the sort of thing
that if I if I thought about it, i'd say, yeah,
I got a couple of grandchildren, so I get all
of Yeah, I get all of that. Is that a
US company?
Speaker 10 (21:43):
No, that's the problem. I need to take your advice
and look the telephone numbers. Thought I was ordering from
an American company, and it ended up after I gave
him my forty nine to fifty bus whatever it was.
You know, they in a day with me trying to
buy ten more other items and then they get they
(22:04):
get so aggravated. I I wanted to cancel the order,
but of course you can't do that. So I mean,
I mean the Chinese are relentless, So.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So this is so you found out it was a
company from China to yeah.
Speaker 10 (22:19):
Well, after I saw it was u u un air
freight something like that. I know my wife's Chinese. I
know some Chinese. I said, oh my god, I'm ordering
from China.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
But here's here's what you can do. Here's if When
did you order the product?
Speaker 10 (22:38):
I ordered it six months ago. I got no, I
got I got it. I got it. I didn't have
your problem. I did get it, but I was not
too happy that it was coming from China because I
just don't trust some of their products.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But one of the let me ask you this, Okay,
does the product seem to work? Did you try it
on anybody?
Speaker 5 (23:04):
I did?
Speaker 10 (23:05):
I almost show you. I almost choke you death on
a couple hot pills I take and uh and motivated
me to buy it.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It came in handy then.
Speaker 10 (23:17):
You bet it did right, Okay, that's great. And you
having two little kids that come over once in a while.
It's a great product for all your you and all
your listeners.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
So have seen that product advertise. It's like a little
plunge that they put it over the mouth and the
thing pops out and it worked. What did you do
use it on yourself?
Speaker 10 (23:41):
I did it myself. Yeah, my wife's up there then
and snows them while I'm choking the death down here.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Okay, so that's great news. So let me ask you
there must be an American version of that product. I
mean unless, uh, if anybody out there tonight says, hey,
I heard George mention the product and it worked, they
may got to make sure. It's how long did it
take to get to you, George?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
It took about ten days, and I bought it from.
You mentioned the company. I think you mentioned the company
you bought you got to scam from. I bought it
from Saved sa ve l i X. You know, even
though it's Chinese, that they may be reputable and you
get your product, you know you well.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, look if if if you had a good experience,
that's great, and I would still prefer to if I'm
going to go out and get that product, having been
through my experience with this Chinese company, I will try to.
If I'm going to get that product, and based upon
(24:46):
your recommendation it sounds like a good product, I'm going
to try to find it from an American company because
I want to get a phone number that I can
call if after two weeks it hasn't arrived at my house.
I want to be able to call and the only
way to do that is when you're on the internet.
If there's no American phone number, don't deal with the.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Company exactly, and that you taught me something and all
your listen listeners look for that telephone number. There was
obviously no telephone number. One ordered from save licks and uh,
but I still got my product. But I'm gonna you know,
I don't know that much, but if I do, I'm
looking for that telephone number.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I want an American telephone number. And look right now
if if when I call, for example, the Boston Globe,
if I missed my newspaper the morning, I get somebody
in the Philippines. And and I really am very upset
with American family, with American companies learning American families and
(25:48):
sending jobs overseas. The Globe. I used to there this
service area. They had a they had a telephone bank
in Watertown, so if you were missing a phone, if
you were missing a newspaper, you could call them. You
can't call anybody. Try calling the Boston Globe. You can't
reach a person. I'm old fashioned. I dealt today with
(26:10):
two or three people who had issues and problems, and
I called them back. You know, Now there are people
who have called me before several times that I haven't
been able to help them, and after like two or
three times, I can't calling people back. Okay, but but
I want from now on, I want a phone number,
and I want to make sure it's an American company. George,
(26:32):
thanks for your call. That was really good.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
Oh you're very welcome, man. Thanks, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Yeah, thank you appreciated. George. Be well. Okay, so there's
a kind of a quazy successful story. Let me go
to uh, you know what. I don't want to short
change Lola or Florence. So I will get to both
Lola and Florence on the other side of the break.
I have one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty, and I have two lines at
(26:58):
six one, seven, nine, three one ten thirty. And I'm
more than happy to take this into the next hour
because I think we're helping each other. And if you
follow us on this one, follow our advice. You heard
what George had to say. I think everybody so far
has agreed with me. Now, I know some are going
to say, well, there's Dane upset. No, I know how
to work on the internet, trust me, okay, but I
(27:20):
got lazy the other day, well the other day, over
two weeks ago, I got lazy and I was able
to get my money restored, which is fine, but the
stuff that they sent me just totally fractured any confidence
I had in that company to be able to deliver
the product to me. Simple as that. Coming back on
(27:41):
Night's side, the bottom line on the internet. Only deal
with American onshore companies, preferably in the forty eight states,
but I'll throw Hawaii and Alaska in there as well,
and always have a phone number and someone who you
spoke to make sure they are located in the United States. Uh,
(28:02):
call me xenophobic. I'm not, but go ahead, six six,
seven nine, let's keep it rolling.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It's nice with Dan Ray and Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Back we go, gonna go cross country. Lola is in
San Diego, San Diego. I wanted to do my Ron
Berger the imitation San Diego. Hi, Lola, how are you?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Oh Dan? I'm good? Nice weather here today, Well, it was.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Pretty nice over the weekend here, but we're still be
going a couple of rainy days coming in so you do.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
And the temperature is nice and chilly over there.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, well it got a little a little touch of fall,
that's for sure. So what's your Internet stories? Have you
had good luck or bad luck?
Speaker 6 (28:51):
Okay? So I today, I'm listening to you, and I'm like,
with my package.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
From the United States Post Office coming to.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
Deliver, and once from Macy and once from this place
called Pure Smile in Florida.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
And I'm waiting and I'm waiting.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
And I'm listening to you, and I get a text
from the Post Office access denied, and I'm like, what
they can't deliver my product because access that's all it says,
access denied. And I'm like, my street's not blocked. What
are they talking about? So this is us products? And
(29:37):
it's the post office, it's the post office.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Well maybe the post office in your situation. Obviously at
this point in California, it's what ten minutes of eight,
so then the post office isn't open. But knowing Lola,
as I know, Lola, you're going to be in the
phone or you're going to be down at the post
office tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
Because I'm just say, you know, we have to think
about something there's little to no manufacturing anymore in this country,
and anybody who's anybody that has a business wants high
profit margin. So that's why the Globe sends their phone
bank to the Philippines.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Oh I get it. No, I understand there. However, however,
it makes me less anxious to be a Globe subscriber.
I mean, it's it's like the restaurant. I was at
a restaurant last night with a friend of mine, used
my credit card, and I noticed on the bill there
(30:40):
was a four percent credit card charge. Yep, so that's
something that is now creeping in. Guess what, I don't
know I'm going back to that restaurant.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
Or if I gout, I know I'm going.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
To just use cash, and I'm not going to be.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Take if they take cash. There's places that will not
take cash. They only take credit backs.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Oh yeah, we've talked about that as well, and that
I guess they have a reason for that. But guess what,
we're consumers and consumers should be king. I'm king in
terms of I'm not wandering anything from anywhere outside the
United States. Maybe Canada. I will make an exception because
I like Canada.
Speaker 6 (31:22):
But yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Well, I know we have to pick and choose. But
if there's some place is here, they'll take cash, but
we don't give back change.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, I've heard of that. Or if it comes down
to you know, nine fifteen, or we roll it up
to ten dollars. What are you talking about? You're rolling
up to ten dollars?
Speaker 6 (31:43):
You know, you know they're not given out they're not
given out change. Then there's another restaurant I went to.
There's a health convenience speed because yep, yep, I mean,
you name it, it's on it. You really have to look
at the bill before you even you have to.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
What we could We could spend the whole hour on
that as well. But I think again, I get it. Uh,
the businesses loved credit cards because people would would you know,
if you have to reach in your pocket and put
cash on the table, it hurts a little bit more
than a credit card. None of us think about credit cards,
but it needs the consumers. We need to have a
(32:25):
revolution in this country and say guess what, you're gonna
start charging four percent. I'll find other restaurants, simple as that.
All right, Lola, I gotta run. I got two more.
I gotta get in here. Do me a favorite, call
me back later this week. Let me know that you
got your packages. You're waiting, you're waiting for for it.
None have been delivered.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
I will let you know. And remember that challenge you said,
reach out to somebody who you had a filing out
with due to you know. Yeah, yeah, no reply nothing.
I already knew that. I already knew. I tried.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But thanks, all right, thank you. Let me go to
war and Fall River Warren next on Nisager.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Right ahead, Hey Dan, I got a story for you ahead.
You know that I'm my music guy. I like my music,
and like this time last year, I had a I
got I can you know, like an email on a
post on Facebook about a fiftieth anniversary of an album
coming out. So you know, I kind of sent it
(33:31):
onto my forwarded it onto my wife, you know, and
unberknownst to me, she ordered it all right, and you know,
all of a sudden, we're getting emails, Uh yeah, do
the production problems. This is not going to come out
until March, and then it was June, and then it
was by and it didn't come out until like three
(33:54):
weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
So I finally get it, and I ended up having
to pay. You know, she ended up paying one hundred
and fifty dollars for this thing, and with the tariffs,
we ended up paying twenty four dollars more in tariffs,
So it ended up.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Costing me one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Well that's a that's a Trump issue because obviously when
you ordered it a year ago or whatever it was,
the tariffs weren't in place. Trump wasn't even the White House.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But in fact, the fact that they delayed, I'll tell you,
I would have probably pulled my I would have gone
to my credit card. Was this an overseas company that
was producing This.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
Was an overseas company? Is this someone from England?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
England? Yea?
Speaker 5 (34:41):
And yeah. So it was just like, W want to
tell us who the group? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:49):
One of the time the group group was? Is that
I want to tell us who the group was? Who?
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Wash?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Yeah, it's from Genesis, Okay, an album called the Limb
Life down the Broadway.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
All right, Well, thanks, thank you man, thank you.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
That's that. But it's just it was just it was
just funny.
Speaker 11 (35:10):
Though they kept on getting delayed and delayed and delayed
and ended up costing me more money in the end.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, I probably would have. I probably would have pulled
it and out. And I'll bet you that a month
from now they'll they'll reduce the price you watch.
Speaker 11 (35:23):
Yeah, yeah, but there's a lot of buzz about it
or amongst my friends and aff like that.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
You got it.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
And music means a lot to you, so I understand it. Warren.
Thank You're going to try to get will and really
appreciate you. Thank you, my friend. Thank you much. Let
me go to Florence and Groveland, Florence. You're gonna wrap
the hour first, go right ahead, Florence.
Speaker 12 (35:42):
Yeah, I've had good luck. I deal with the company
that it's a catalog company, yep. And I don't order
over the internet. I order over the phone.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
That's important.
Speaker 12 (35:59):
I think only with them for twenty five years.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
What's the catalog company?
Speaker 12 (36:04):
It's called Genies g I and why Carson during Wisconsin.
Speaker 11 (36:14):
Okay, Well that's.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
A good plug for them. Then that's good. Thanks for calling.
That's really good.
Speaker 9 (36:19):
What do you get for them?
Speaker 2 (36:20):
What?
Speaker 6 (36:20):
What?
Speaker 2 (36:21):
What sort of products did they sell?
Speaker 7 (36:23):
Everything?
Speaker 12 (36:24):
Everything from agency? Okay? Okay, And I've ordered like a
household I isn't or piece of clothing over the years.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
Florence, over the years, give me an estimate, how many
times have you ordered from them?
Speaker 12 (36:41):
Oh, take your guests, come on over one hundred and how.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Many times was the order fulfilled properly?
Speaker 12 (36:51):
Every time?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Ginny's is the catalog G I N and Y apostrophe
s out of Wisconsin.
Speaker 12 (37:00):
What they do is you talk to a customer service person,
you order the item, you've given the audor itim the
the order number and uh dyll you have the phone number.
You have their first name, so if you have any problem,
you can call back your customer service your order number,
(37:22):
bill track it and you're fined and they give you
the data what it's going to be delivered perfect.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
I'm up against the eleven, but you have just done
a big service to this company Genny's G I N
Y posts in Wisconsin. They should send you a free gift. Okay,
thank you so much. Here comes the eleven o'clock news.
Get out of the way, everybody. We could stick with
(37:51):
this if you like. Back after the eleven
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