Image Designer Archive
Thread: Things you hate to hear Customers say.
Things I hate to hear.
6. Make me look like Darth Maul!
5. 2k?! My friend would do it for free!
Yippe Skippee, if you want it for free why don't you go see your friend then? I'm not your friend I'm the person you ask for help with your Avatar's looks, if I were running a charity service I would advertise it.
4. Change my species.
Come on now folks, it's been said time and again, IDers cannot, and never will be allowed (according to the devs) to change your species.
3. Change my gender.
As with species, we're not allowed to, this has been known since the beginning, do atleast a little research before you go to a IDer.
2. I don't know what I want, do what you think is best.
I like this, to a point, some people say it and mean it. Most people though, say it, and then when you do what they think's best they get mad cause they wanted something completely different. If you knew what you wanted WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SO?
1. I need an IDer and will pay for services.
Pay for services? I HATE IT when customers say this. It's so derogative, it's liek they think you're jsut a soda machien for their convenience. We aren't bots designed to design you, we're PLAYERS, not only that we're human beinds, and we deserve just as much respect as the Doctors, Commando's and Jedi you encounter when you're running around shooting small creatures with your boom stick. If you want our help you shouldn't come up and say "I'm willing to pay". You should ASK "How much do you charge?" By saying you're willing to pay it makes it sound like you're saying "I don't have to pay, but I can if I want too." New flash folks, you DO have to pay if you want our help, some of us have prices, some of us work on tips from your generosity, but we do NOT appreciate it when you come in and start talking to us like we're robots that are built to serve you.
As you may be able to tell from my number one complaint, I had a customer do this to me today, and felt quite insulted by it.
Anyhoo, rant over, what about everyone else, what have customers said to you that really pushed your buttons?
FuschiaD wrote:
Here's another thing I hate: someone sending me a tell saying "I need an ID really bad, can you help me PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ"
It's like fingernails on a chalkboard... I HATE abbreviated chat with an absolute passion. And saying "please" over and over and OVER is going to guarantee only one thing: my telling you to get out of my face before I run over you with my AV-21. I don't need your money, I don't need the experience, and I don't need your atrocious grammar and spelling. Kindly find another ID with a lower IQ who will not be made dumberby being forced to spend 20 minutes with you.
Wow... I need sleep. LOL
LOL
Don't get me started with my rant about the internet's role in killing the English language as we knew it!
Mawie wrote:
LOL
Don't get me started with my rant about the internet's role in killing the English language as we knew it!
Please... feel free to expound! Here, I'll start.
I don't mind things like: LOL, BRB, AFK. They STAND for something. They're not abbreviated words, they're acronyms, that have become common in Internet speak. And sometimes, when you gotta pee, typing in BRB is SO much quicker than saying "Pardon me, I must retire to the bathroom before I have an accident."
HOWEVER....
Things like: plz, u, r, n e way. These make me grit my teeth. More often than not they make me yell. I absolutely laid into a poor guild member today for saying n e way. That one bothers me more than any of them, for one simple reason.... *draws a deep breath*
IT'S ONE LETTER LESS! ONE TINY, INSIGNIFICANT LETTER! ARE YOU REALLY SAVING TIME BY DOING THAT? NO! I DON'T THINK YOU ARE!
I'm done now. And I really am going to bed, LOL.
*laughs* It's kind of like how I hate having to work OT right now ... but I'll take the check just fine.
SilSablWing wrote:
I REALLY hate it when I geta tell from a possible customer asking me if I will travel to Coronet just to stat migrate them and they want to pay 100k per toon cause they havent been able to find an ID in a month of searching.
*I just hate that*
but I went
FuschiaD wrote:
Mawie wrote:
LOL
Don't get me started with my rant about the internet's role in killing the English language as we knew it!
Please... feel free to expound! Here, I'll start.
I don't mind things like: LOL, BRB, AFK. They STAND for something. They're not abbreviated words, they're acronyms, that have become common in Internet speak. And sometimes, when you gotta pee, typing in BRB is SO much quicker than saying "Pardon me, I must retire to the bathroom before I have an accident."
HOWEVER....
Things like: plz, u, r, n e way. These make me grit my teeth. More often than not they make me yell. I absolutely laid into a poor guild member today for saying n e way. That one bothers me more than any of them, for one simple reason.... *draws a deep breath*
IT'S ONE LETTER LESS! ONE TINY, INSIGNIFICANT LETTER! ARE YOU REALLY SAVING TIME BY DOING THAT? NO! I DON'T THINK YOU ARE!
I'm done now. And I really am going to bed, LOL.
OK, quick story (then I need to go to bed, too!)
Last semester I student taught 7th grade language arts. So, my first week, I took home almost 120 papers with me to read over. No lie, nearly 80% of the papers had SOOOOOOOOOO many of those lazy abbreviations in them, and a good 10% didn't use CAPITALIZATION or any discernable amount of PUNCTUATION.
SEVENTH GRADERS. 
I can forgive the occasional comma splice or homonym, but darn it, type "you" rather than "u", don't use acronyms like LOL, and for heaven's sakes, CAPITALIZE THE FIRST LETTER OF THE FIRST WORD IN EVERY SENTENCE!
AIM/AOL has made kids (and lots of adults) lazy beyond belief!
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