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Tanya M.

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6 Reviews by Tanya

  • Trader Joe's

2/2/23

This is a review for the watermelon jerky only. I was on vacation and made plans to go to trader joe's since there isn't one here where I live. For the most part I love the products that they offer but there were a few things that I would suggest you not buy when you're there. The first one is the watermelon jerky. It is by far one of the worst things I bought from Trader Joe's. It's BAD! Tastes stale, flavor is off, texture is off and it had a slightly "wet" feel to it. It was gross. Something else you shouldn't buy from there is the pre-cut fruits in containers. I bought 4 of those and when we opened them up it was smelled like it was already rotting. The weird thing is that it looked ok. The fresh whole fruit was fine. By the way this was the Trader Joe's in San Jose area.

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  • Airbnb

12/28/22
Verified purchase

This was the first time I used airbnb, the person I was travelling with told me to try it. We were going to San Jose for a game in October and thought I'd give it a try since it was a bit cheaper than staying at a hotel. BIG MISTAKE. The post that I saw was a total and complete lie. First of all, this person was listed as a super host did do jack when she was contacted about issues we had when we were there. Secondly, all the photos of the place that were posted on the website was a lie, the place was filthy as hell when I got there. My check in was after 7pm on Oct. 21,2022, but because the flight was late I didn't make it there until a little after 9pm. When I arrived, I was greeted by Mingjing, who showed me to my room. While rolling my luggage in the door all of host's family shoes were lined up right by the door making it difficult to roll my luggage to the room. When I walked in the room I noticed the beds didn't look like it was freshly made, the room was dark, and the bathroom was dirty with no curtains or bathmats. After flying for over 6 hours I wanted to take a hot shower before driving to SFO to pick up my travel companion, so I informed the host that there was no shower curtain or bathmats and I wanted to shower. The host, her husband and their kid was sitting at the table eating and her husband said, "See I told you about the shower curtain." That told me that she knew about is and didn't make sure it was ready before I got there. She looked at me and said, "Oh just shower like that." And I said, "Like what? With no shower curtain or bathmats? And what. Get water on the floor and slip while getting out and crack my head open?" She get's up to come to the room and said, "If you want to shower use the bathroom in the hallway." I told her that I paid extra for the room we had because it had a private bathroom. Then she said she would think of something.

She comes back about 10 minutes later and put the shower curtain from the hallway bathroom and put it up in my bedroom bathroom. Then she folded a towel and dropped it on the floor and said that will be the mat. I asked her if the owner will be fixing this issue with the bathroom and she said, "Yes, but not right now." Before she left the room I told her that the lights didn't work and the tv wouldn't turn on. She looked at the lamp by the bed table and acted like she didn't know how to turn it on. When she saw that the tv didn't turn on she kept mumbling that the previous renter always played video games so they must have done something. It took her 10 minutes to figure out how to work her own tv. After she left the room I had a hot shower and laid in bed to relax a bit before my long drive to SFO. I felt stuff on the bed that felt like sand, when I rubbed my hand on the bed to pick up what I was feeling I saw that it was like little black dirt/sand all over the bed. I got up and dusted the whole bed and when I laid back down I noticed the odor of another person on the pillowcases. I got up and asked the host if she changed the sheets and she lied straight to my face and said yes. I told her wanted new pillows and that the bed had little black sand like stuff all over it. She did went and got a new pillow and said nothing about the dirt on the bed. After an hour of rest I left to pick up my friend from the airport. When we came back we dinner in our room and went to bed. When I woke up the next day I smelled something so bad wafting in the room, when I opened the window the stupid host thought it was a good idea to hand dirty wet bathmats and trash right outside the window. At that point I had it and called airbnb to report what was happening with the place, so I called them while we were out shopping for the day. Customer service said that they will work on getting a new place for us. I said that was fine as long as they refund the money, or automatically transfer my refund to the new place, he said they will figure something out and call me back. The whole day went by and I didn't hear anything from them so I called back and they informed me via email that they will refund the cleaning fee and 30% of one day. I said no, that I wanted a full refund and another place to stay. They said they would get back to me. When we got back from shopping the stupid hosts decided to park in our space, the listing stated that parking on property was included. When I got inside I saw the host in the kitchen and told her that they parked their other car in our space. She said that we can park our car somewhere on the street. I told her no, that I was a disabled person and that I part of why I chose to rent the place was onsite parking close to the door. She went back and forth with me about it and I told her I have a handicap card and placard so her husband needs to find parking elsewhere, not me. Then she said ok.

We bought food to for our 3 day stay and the host did not make room for us in the kitchen, even though it stated that the kitchen was shared and we would be able to use it. It was also filthy as hell. They didn't even bother cleaning up after themselves. They made stir fry when I arrived the night before and when I went to the kitchen the stove was covered in oil and grease. When I opened the refrigerator the inside was messy and no place to put our food. When I tried to cook a frozen pizza I wasn't sure how to turn on the oven she had and when I asked her she acted like she didn't know how to turn it on either. It wasn't till I asked my friend if she knew how and she did but when she opened the oven door said, "She needs to clear out the oven." When I looked inside it was full of dirty pots and pans. Then I looked at her and she said, "Oh my mom just put all the stuff there to get it out of the way." I just closed the oven door and went to my room and waited for the oven to heat up. I was talking to my friend and she told me the place is filthy. I called Airbnb again and they again said they would call me back. When the oven got hot a strong burning smell came from it and the host came out sniffing the air like a dumbass. I asked her why the oven had a burning smell coming from it, she opened the door and I saw left over food and spilled liquid smoking at the bottom of the oven. She went and got a metal scraper to scrape the bottom of the oven to get all the old food that was there. It was an ordeal just to make dinner for one night there. After she cleaned out the old food I put our pizza in. When our dinner was ready we went out to eat but the table was littered will all their food from that day. It was all sticky and gross. I had to move all their stuff to one side and wipe down the table before we could sit down and eat.

The next morning we got ready for the game we came there to see, after a shower I need a hair dryer so I went outside and asked the host where the hair dryer was and said on the hallway shelf, then on my way back to the room she decided to confront me about the complaints I made. I told her everything I told airbnb was true and had pictures to prove it, then she demands to see the pictures. She said that the back yard was clean now, I said ok but it wasn't when we got here and all the stinky odor was coming in the room. When she asked why I complained about the kitchen I told her the place was filthy and pointed to all the grease and oil and dirty pots and pan everywhere, and the dirty sticky table. She then tells me that it was dirty because they were not done using it. I look at her and said they were outside bbqing and left the mess in the kitchen and she again said, "Yes but we were not done using the kitchen yet. I told her that she needs to make sure to clean up after themselves so that we can use the kitchen too and reminded her that use of the kitchen was a part of the rental. She shot back at me with, "Oh I thought you guy were just going to eat out." I told her we will eat where we want to and for her to make sure the place is clean for us to use, then walked to my room.

That night when we came back the host and her family stayed out of our way, which was a good thing for them because I was sick of them at that point. Their daughter was yelling and screaming and slamming doors during our entire stay, but that evening she finally shut the hell up. We were leaving the next morning so we spent the night eating what we could of our food. In the end we couldn't finish it all so we ended up leaving some fruits for the next renter of the place. The night before our flight I tried to wash our clothes, washer and dryer included with the rental, but again the stupid lazy hosts left wet towels and blankets in the washer and dryer. I was happy to get the hell out of there. When I got home I called Airbnb and complained about how this was handed and what the hell were they thinking telling the hosts of my complaints while we were there. I told them they didn't know if the hosts were crazy people or not, and that I was confronted by the hosts about the complaints. Then asked customer service what they would have done if the hosts tried to get into a physical altercation with us, and they said, "They wouldn't do that." I told them I wanted my money back and they said no, when I asked why they said that the house is shared so it's okay that it's dirty. Total joke! Total paid for the stay at the pig sty for 3 days - $242.03, total refund for nightmare vacation - $37.49. Never again will I use airbnb, they don't give a crap about the customers, they will side with the hosts every time. Please don't stay at this place, reviewers lie about it, I was tricked into thinking that it was like what they said. See attached pics of the real rental.

FYI Sylvia is the mother of MingJing and doesn't live there or even take care of the place, she let's her lazy filthy daughter handle all that. Before I even got home Sylvia left a nasty review of stating that I was so demanding wanting to stay in the clean safe place. Let me give you a picture of how lazy these people are, the previous renters checked out at 12pm that day, I didn't get there until after 9pm, which means those worthless hosts didn't clean anything, wash any sheets, or go to Walmart right down the road to get things that were needed for the bathroom for 9 hours before we got there. Their names are Sylvia (mom) and Mingjing (daughter)@ 1272 Fulbar Court, San Jose, CA *******.

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Tell us honestly about your experiences and pictures always help.

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We rented a room in a three-bedroom home in San Jose for 3 days.

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  • Palmresortvacations

9/12/22
Verified purchase

So I got a cold call from this company offering vacations packages because I am a Sam's Club/Costco member. They quoted a great price for two vacations, grand Cayman all inclusive for 2 adults and 2 children for 6 days 5 nights and a cruise for 8 days 7 nights mid-level cabin for 4 people for $938 plus one time $99 reservation fee. When they tried to run the payment a fraud alert came through and I contacted my bank about it. I tried looking up information about the company online and found no info at all. The only info I had was the one they sent. I immediately spoke with someone at the bank to not allow the payment to go through. The bank told me to speak with the person I was dealing with and let them know not to put the payment through. So I spoke to the Daniel Sanchez who booked the appt and told him I was not interested and to not put the payment through. He said he did already and it went through. I told him to cancel and that he wasn't supposed to put it through. He told me that I can cancel the transaction within 14 days and said that he would send something to me via email. I called back to speak with Daniel and everyone who answered wouldn't put me through, instead a manager named Oscar Ochoa got on the phone and when I told him that I was calling Daniel to cancel the package he began yelling at me and calling me names, like I'm stupid and I wont get a refund then hung up on me. About an hour after that call I got an email from Oscar stating that if I wanted to cancel the package I would have to sign a document that he sent, then they asked for an photo of my ID but to cover all info and picture except for my signature, they wanted a clear picture of my signature only. That email was shady as hell, so I contacted my bank and opened an investigation. 2 months later I am still dealing with this crap because they lied and said that they told me there was no refunds or cancellations and that they had my signature. These thieves forged my signature and lied that they didn't give refunds or cancelations.

If you ever get a call for these scammers save yourself the headache that I am going through right now and hang up on them. They lie and will steal your money, then make you jump through hoops to get your own money back. I should have done more research, don't make the same mistake as me, I thought this was real but there is absolutely no info of this company online.

Attached are the fake website they sent me and instructions on how to send my ID info to them.

Tip for consumers:
Do your research first! I didn't and got screwed because of it. Now I'm out $418.16.

Products used:
None, I never got anything from them.

  • Goverden

9/16/21

I bought goverden avocado cups from the local Sam's club here and let me tell you the product SUCKS! I used only 5 of the cups of the big bag I bought and in 4 of them they all had the avocado rinds in them. I looked up their info online and they had a US number and Mexico number. I called the US phone number and the person I spoke to said they are just the warehouse that holds the product and if I had any complaints I would have to call the Mexico number. I asked her if she had any US contact number and she gave me one she said she used all the time. When I called it was a disconnected number.

So here are the take a ways from my experience:
1. They don't have any contacts in the US.
2. The people who are listed as contacts don't/wont help you.
3. This company doesn't care about their customers. Full stop.

I spent almost $10 on a product that had rind debris in it and wasted time trying to tell a company that didn't want to hear about it.

  • Stash

6/19/21

So I started using stash a couple of months ago and it's been nothing but BS dealing with them. Customer service is unprofessional and unfriendly, when they were unable to help me I said to close my account and transfer my funds to my bank account. They come up with "since you haven't been with us for at least 90 days you forfeit all funds in your account. I had over $40 bucks in there. I contacted my bank and they will get the funds back for me. These people are cheats! Don't invest with these losers, Robinhood is far more better.

Tip for consumers:
Don't use this site, it's not even live trading like Robinhood and they don't give back your money when you close your account.

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  • InboxDollars

8/20/20

I joined inboxdollars about a year ago and I've completed surveys, watched videos, signed up for new products, etc, to get as much money as could to cash out. Yesterday my balance was over $74 and today my account was deactivated. I've read all these reviews and people with lower balances who have tried to cash out were not able to. I thought this site was legit but it's a scam site. Don't waste your time, they took almost $100 from me.

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