DSW Coupons are Worthless and They Know It

My wife earned a coupon from DSW rewards for $30 off any purchase of $49 or more (some exclusions apply). I needed some shoes too, so we went to DSW.

I picked out a pair of shoes for $75 and she found a pair for $69.99.

When we got to the register, we could not use the coupon at all. My shoes were excluded because they were Nike. Her shoes were 30% off of the $69.99, which after the discount came out to... wait for it... $48.993, what a coincidence, just shy of the $49 minimum.

What a bunch of malarkey. I went home and bought my shoes on the internet for the same price.

Instead of "$30 off one item" the DSW coupon should really say "Come to the store and buy something for full price and get angry and disappointed at checkout"

I have no sympathy for these fraudulent and deceptive stores going out of business.

NVIDIA GeForce Experience is Lame

 

Dear NVIDIA,

How about taking some of your huge AI earnings and investing in some of your other products?  Your GeForce Experience tool is lacking in a major way.

GeForce Experience recently invited me to download new GeForce Game Ready Drivers for my NVIDIA graphics card, which immediately failed to install.  Why did it fail?  No clue is given by the generic "Error installing drivers"  message displayed.

The reason is that my GeForce Experience tool needed to be updated first.  How do I know this?  Not because GeForce Experience checks for updates, or tells you that new ones are available.  I had to figure it out on my own by going to the NVIDIA website and downloading a newer version manually.  After I did that, the newer GeForce Experience version was able to successfully install the new drivers.

This is simple to fix and unfathomable behavior from the NVIDIA GeForce Experience tool.

This really ruins my NVIDIA experience.

Venmaybe

 I don't understand Venmo.  Why does it exist?  Why do people use it?

One thing that is an absolute must for a financial service is that it has to be reliable.  Venmo is anything but reliable.  I will give a recent example from my experience.  I just moved to a new home.  I used Venmo to pay the movers 50% of the cost when they picked up my stuff.  When I went to pay them the remaining 50% on delivery, Venmo refused to make the payment.  Explanation given:  none.  I contacted Venmo customer support, and this is what they said:

I can see that you’ve attempted a payment, but our system will not be able to process this transaction. 
 
Although I don’t have a specific reason for why declines like this happen, it’s typically for the safety of our customers. 
 
It’s worth noting that this decline is only impacting this specific transaction, so you may not encounter this problem with future transactions.
 
If this issue continues, your next best option will be to work with the recipient so you can send this payment outside of Venmo. Keep in mind you can still receive payments and transfer any funds in your Venmo account to an eligible bank or card if needed.
 
If you have any additional questions, please let me know! Looking forward to hear from you.

If you can't trust Venmo to make a payment when you need it, and you aren't given any explanation for why the transaction was denied, it seems like a useless service to me.

 The other thing I don't get is the social aspect of Venmo.  Why do I need to see what my friends are using Venmo for?  I really don't care to see that "Bob paid Jerry for H
hemorrhoid cream".