Comments on: Gourmet Food Store Strikes Out Again

By: Anaru

Anaru — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:14:29 +0000

I think that Margarets argument is well founded and I admire her courage in dealing honestly and directly with the matter instead of hiding behind niceties and so called ‘professionalism’.

By: storm boy

storm boy — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:26:47 +0000

Based in Sydney, and having become aware of her original email last week I wrote to Margaret, and here is her response (with my email included):

From: Gourmet Food Store [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, 18 February 2008 3:04 PM
To:
Subject: Re: Have a look at the customer service from this lady: Read from the bottom upwards.

Thank you so much for keeping in I thought you had all left me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Home Page Gourmet Food Store website and I “quote”

PRICES SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT MANAGEMENTS DISCRETION AND WITH OUT NOTICE TO MEET RISING COSTS. end of “QUOTE “

I hope this settles your confusion, shame you don’t have enough work to do, although it is nice to know someone is out there looking after my best interest. English is still the first Language of Australia I believe ?????

—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: Have a look at the customer service from this lady: Read from the bottom upwards.

Dear Margaret,

I note that your website does have different prices advertised than what you actually quoted to Hayley. You might want to change your website and actually advise clients of the difference when you quote them in future.

Oh, Margaret!

This woman has serious problems… Her business is ruined, simply because of her own stupidity and lack of good old fashioned hospitality – yet still she continues on with her defenseless behaviour.

Pity I’ll never sample her delightful menu.

By: Becks

Becks — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:23:21 +0000

I can’t believe she did this twice publically!! And I bet it has happened alot more that we don’t know about…I mean can she get any stupider! I have to disagree however on some comments made about Kiwis “enjoying” others failure this woman does NOT deserve your sympathy and if she wasn’t such a creton and didn’t speak to people like something on the bottom of her shoe then nobody here would be basking in the glory of her failure! She has brought this shame on herself and can blame nobody else but herself.

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:59:17 +0000

What an idiot!! the more people that see things like this, the better-business should stop overnight!

By: GavinDamage

GavinDamage — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:40:19 +0000

hahahah pretty sweet England aye, I love it when muppets try to criticise someone else’s use of the English language, then make an absolute balls-up of it.

“May I suggest in closing you spend a little more time in finding the word your were looking for in English relating to the orange so I can ask my supplier to remove it before he sends them to me in future.

Kind Wish, Margaret”

ill just go and look for it in English..

does she know what a comma looks like? magic.

By: Bob Bob

Bob Bob — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:34:10 +0000

You know she is quite right when she says she is the boss, but she is quite wrong about loosing her job, typical baby boomer.

By: cass

cass — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:26:10 +0000

ok, so I just read the recent article on this woman in the Herald. I take back my comments. What a fcking BEE-ATCH.

By: john doe

john doe — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:14:11 +0000

Well Cass you should know by now that we as NZ are the biggest sore losers alright and we just love to bring each other down whenever theres a chance. This women’s done a terrible thing and it will obviously bite her back big time.

By: Nikki McLay

Nikki McLay — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:26:23 +0000

Ahahahhaa!

By: cass

cass — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:16:06 +0000

To reiterate what everyone else has said, I think her emails were extremely rude, stupid, and patronising. She likes a total defensive bee-atch.

BUT I do think the consequences are disproportionate to the conduct.

AND it makes me feel quite sick how so many people are really relishing her downfall. Sure, she is a cow but the way people are almost jumping for joy that her entire business is ruined is pretty awful. Who knows, she could be going through some terrible personal issues this year and (obviously) taking it out via email. Why are people (especially New Zealanders it would seem) so delighted by people’s downfall?

By: C.S

C.S — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:01:12 +0000

When i emailed her she forwarded on the following email (LOL):

—– Original Message —–
From:
To:
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:31 PM
Subject: Emails

Hi Margaret

Just wanted to congratulate you on your email and hope that this doesnt leave you feeling that everyone in the real estate industry is like that! I’m sure that poor young lady is just dying of embarrasment now that her lazy antics have been exposed to the nation!

Good for you and I’ve saved your website to my favourites as we often require catering at our office for various functions and your food looks great value.

Regards

By: Pamala

Pamala — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:31:22 +0000

Is anyone else who emailed her being spammed now? LOL! Well I can spam with the best of them!

By: Pamala

Pamala — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:38:00 +0000

Couldn’t help it, I emailed her. That website is hideous! I told her to redo her website and change her motto towards the bottom to say that you’ll receive good food and hostile emails! We’ll see if she responds. Since this made digg I wonder how many people will continue to email her.

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:48:50 +0000

Margaret was a Queenstown deputy mayor. Scary.

The Gourmet Food Store’s website runs a 5 year old version of Apache: how long before it gets defaced, me wonders?

Please, hackers — stop it from burning our retinas!

By: Philip S

Philip S — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:09:07 +0000

What a crack pot