MESSAGE: "Don't invest your money, time, gifts and talents where you're not honored, valued and respected!!!"
At beginning of February 2021, I called 'Play It Again Sports' (32nd St & Greenway Pkwy, Phoenix) and apprised Chris of my Treadmill need. Chris apprised he'd call as soon as one came in that met my specs. I called Chris 25 March, as I'd not heard from him. He apprised that he had a foldable, 3 horsepower treadmill. I stated I'd be in the next day, and arrived to Play It again Sports @ 140pm Friday. The NordicTrack C970 PRO treadmill was larger than I planned. I asked him if he'd allow me a few hours to go home & measure my space. He agreed, told me they close at 6pm, said he'd put my name on the treadmill and that he'd look into getting me a better price.
As promised, I called Play It Again Sports the same day @ 505pm, was left on hold for 22 mins., in which time I sensed something was wrong. Chris answered the phone and gave a hurried, half-ass apology stating that his brother sold my treadmill without him knowing two hours earlier. Then said, 'this happens often'.
..WHY AM I WRITING THIS REVIEW: Because This Is BULLSHIT!!! There's no way - in a storefront smaller than a one bedroom apartment w/o walls, that Chris didn't know his brother was selling my NordicTrack C970, which he'd committed to me less than 2 hours earlier. Because the store front is very small, I believe he had to have been complicit in the sale of my NordicTrack C970 PRO to another!!!
WHY AM I WRITING THIS REVIEW: Last June 2020, I paid $100.00 for an item at the 'Christian Family Care Thrift Store', which happens to be in the very same complex as Play it again sports. I returned one day later as scheduled with a truck to pick up my item, and they actually SOLD THE CHAIR I'D PAID FOR utilizing the same lame ass explanation, 'O, another employee sold it without me knowing,' said Leonard, the manager. BULLSHIT!!! A few 'sold' tags were on the item. BESIDES, I'm definite that neither store can recall reselling a white customer's previously paid for product, or selling a product to another they'd previously promised a white customer.
YES, It's about race!!! And if it's not race, it's about getting more money. I don't believe either store was ignorant of the sale of my product... they made no attempt to retrieve my product... gave lame explanations as to how my product was sold, and gave insincere apologies. WHY? Because they saw no value associated with my black face!
OUTCOME: I'm reporting 'Play It Again Sports' unethical practice and racial discrimination to B.B.B. In the interim, this has once again taught me to find somewhere else to spend my black dollars... MESSAGE: "Don't invest your money, time, gifts and talents where you're not honored, valued and respected!!!" 786 read more