Steveweiser
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Post by Steveweiser on Sept 18, 2013 16:12:15 GMT -5
FANS GETTING PPV REFUNDS DUE TO THE FINISH AT NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS by Dave Scherer @ 5:05 PM on 9/18/2013
An Elite member wrote me to tell me that he called Cox Cable and asked for a refund due to the finish of the Night Of Champions PPV being overturned. He said that Cox eventually gave him and the representative told him that other people had asked for a refund for the same reason.
Cox is my cable company as well so I called my representative and was told that indeed other people have already called and gotten refunds, feeling that by invalidating the finish of the show that they paid for, they deserved it. This could become a slippery slope for wrestling companies.
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Burst
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Post by Burst on Sept 18, 2013 16:13:47 GMT -5
Oy vey. This is something I'd expect of a stereotypical mark, not of someone who's clearly smarky enough to be an elite member, but yeah, this could get interesting if this takes off...
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Shark
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Post by Shark on Sept 18, 2013 16:13:52 GMT -5
Technically the finish is still official. Bryan was just stripped of the title the following night.
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Bam Neeley
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Post by Bam Neeley on Sept 18, 2013 16:19:37 GMT -5
It's a good thing this wasn't the practice when WCW was around.
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PKO
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Post by PKO on Sept 18, 2013 16:20:07 GMT -5
Stupid. That's not a legitimate reason to get a refund because you didn't like the way the next part of the story turned out 24 hours after the show ended.
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Post by Bootista on Sept 18, 2013 16:21:53 GMT -5
Lame.
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Sparkybob
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Post by Sparkybob on Sept 18, 2013 16:22:10 GMT -5
What Marks.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Sept 18, 2013 16:23:14 GMT -5
Wow. I really don't even know what to say.
Maybe I should demand a refund from the pizza place I ordered from last night since I shit it all out this morning...
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Post by slappy on Sept 18, 2013 16:23:17 GMT -5
So could I buy a TV show on DVD and then demand to return it if the next season doesn't go the way I want it to?
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Post by BRAINFADE on Sept 18, 2013 16:23:47 GMT -5
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JCBaggee
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Post by JCBaggee on Sept 18, 2013 16:24:11 GMT -5
Wow, that's pretty terrible. I guess you couldn't justify spending a dime on the rest of the show, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 16:24:20 GMT -5
I remember watching the Tyson/Holyfield match where Tyson bit Evander's ear off and my grandfather tried to get a refund and was basically laughed at. This is a curious development that a scripted form of entertainment can warrant refunds for a reversed finish.
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Post by Hit Girl on Sept 18, 2013 16:24:44 GMT -5
I want a refund because the Rebel Alliance didn't win in "The Empire Strikes Back"
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Sektor
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Post by Sektor on Sept 18, 2013 16:24:58 GMT -5
What an asshole. He sounds so proud of it, too.
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Post by Been burned too many times on Sept 18, 2013 16:25:10 GMT -5
Hope stuff like this doesn't become the norm. Just don't buy the ppv if you're gonna do that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2013 16:27:06 GMT -5
are we sure this isn't an Onion article?
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Sept 18, 2013 16:27:39 GMT -5
Oh you are f***ing kidding me.
This isn't just a slippery slope for wrestling, it's a slippery slope for everything. Don't like how a plot twist in a movie or television show negates something before it, demand money. People who went to the 2005 Orange Bowl between USC and Oklahoma, demand your money back since USC was stripped of the title.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 18, 2013 16:29:39 GMT -5
Odds are, they threw a big enough stink that the company just said f*** it, and gave 'em the refund.
Bogus of the customer to do, and Cox to comply, but it happens all the time in retail.
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Post by CM Parish on Sept 18, 2013 16:32:16 GMT -5
So can I get a refund because I don't like the end of a movie? Hell, what about a movie which doesn't give you a definitive ending, like {Spoiler} Inception, or Life of Pi . I demand refunds unless someone can answer me some damn questions.
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Post by kamero00 on Sept 18, 2013 16:35:18 GMT -5
The WWE title is supposed to be The Super Bowl trophy of the WWE, if you paid money to watch the SB on TV and saw one team win, and then it suddenly did not count, would you be happy?
If Triple H is the one booking this feud, I expect him to get a lot of heat over it. PPV's are pure revenue, and they just lost a good chunk of that, due to bad booking
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