Comments on: Bernie and Phyl Heading Toward Sunset http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:08:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: AlexM /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-9172 AlexM Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:26:48 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-9172 )) ))

]]> By: Jack /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-8601 Jack Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:37:09 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-8601 All readers, I want everyone to know what kind of company policies Bernie + Phyl's furniture store is enforcing. My wife and I purchased a sectional sofa last year. After making minimal payments for months on their recommended B+P credit card program we were kind of pissed that after the promotional period was up they charged 23.9% interest not just on the remaining balance but the entire purchase price. After seeing this we decided to pay off the balance because the new balance was only $200.00 less than the original purchase price! What a scam! But that's not all,the best is yet to come. Feeling totally screwed,my wife and I took our whole economic stimulus check and decided to end all ties with this parasitic company. Through many attempts to speak with a human being and being hung up on by their dead end automated service we felt burned by the company. All we wanted to do was try to get our interest rate reduced and maybe make the balance a bit easier to swallow, considering the amount of money we had already paid them, but after many tries we finally had to just go to their website. On the website we paid what was listed as the full balance. To our surprise we got a statement for the next billing cycle. On the statement it listed the amount that we paid the previous month and then there was finance charged listed for the next month!!! Unbelieveable! WE paid the whole balance as listed on the website! How can you charge 23.9% interest on a bill that has already been paid? Their customer service representatives were unhelpful and rude and I hate Bernie + Phyl's and will continue to tell everyone who will listen about this greedy bloodsucking company. By the way, they lied about adding my scotchguard but charged me anyway, and the recliners in the sectional do not work right-since day one. We were told there was nothing they could do about it. How convenient! Remember this the next time you feel like shopping for furniture-DON'T TRUST BERNIE+PHYL'S!!!! All readers,
I want everyone to know what kind of company policies Bernie + Phyl’s furniture store is enforcing. My wife and I purchased a sectional sofa last year. After making minimal payments for months on their recommended B+P credit card program we were kind of pissed that after the promotional period was up they charged 23.9% interest not just on the remaining balance but the entire purchase price. After seeing this we decided to pay off the balance because the new balance was only $200.00 less than the original purchase price! What a scam! But that’s not all,the best is yet to come.
Feeling totally screwed,my wife and I took our whole economic stimulus check and decided to end all ties with this parasitic company. Through many attempts to speak with a human being and being hung up on by their dead end automated service we felt burned by the company. All we wanted to do was try to get our interest rate reduced and maybe make the balance a bit easier to swallow, considering the amount of money we had already paid them, but after many tries we finally had to just go to their website. On the website we paid what was listed as the full balance. To our surprise we got a statement for the next billing cycle. On the statement it listed the amount that we paid the previous month and then there was finance charged listed for the next month!!! Unbelieveable! WE paid the whole balance as listed on the website! How can you charge 23.9% interest on a bill that has already been paid? Their customer service representatives were unhelpful and rude and I hate Bernie + Phyl’s and will continue to tell everyone who will listen about this greedy bloodsucking company. By the way, they lied about adding my scotchguard but charged me anyway, and the recliners in the sectional do not work right-since day one. We were told there was nothing they could do about it. How convenient! Remember this the next time you feel like shopping for furniture-DON’T TRUST BERNIE+PHYL’S!!!!

]]> By: atticus /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-8012 atticus Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:33:40 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-8012 Wow, drom, what nasty, miserable comments. At a time when there are so many truly evil things happening in the world, why such venom toward a family that earns an honest living selling furniture and donates part of their earnings to charity? Maybe it's time you rethought your priorities. Wow, drom, what nasty, miserable comments. At a time when there are so many truly evil things happening in the world, why such venom toward a family that earns an honest living selling furniture and donates part of their earnings to charity? Maybe it’s time you rethought your priorities.

]]> By: drom /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-5945 drom Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:37:32 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-5945 Bernie and Phyl are just pathetic. Phyl evidently has some kind of palsy that makes her head shake uncontrollably like a dash board bobble head doll on a bumpy road. But never mind, Bernie drags her out in front of the camera anyway like Jerry Lewis used to drag out a kid in leg braces during the Muscular Dystrophy telethon. Neither of them appear to have actual lips. Their vacuous theme song pervades their commercials. Their two glassy eyed, doughy, thirty-something community college educated sons, being otherwise unemployable, have latched onto the family business. They stare blankly into the camera looking like perfect clones of their parents. They mumble through their lipless mouths in their heavy Boston accents something about their great deals, as I the viewer wonder why Bernie and Phyl never practiced safe sex. Bernie and Phyl are just pathetic. Phyl evidently has some kind of palsy that makes her head shake uncontrollably like a dash board bobble head doll on a bumpy road. But never mind, Bernie drags her out in front of the camera anyway like Jerry Lewis used to drag out a kid in leg braces during the Muscular Dystrophy telethon. Neither of them appear to have actual lips.

Their vacuous theme song pervades their commercials. Their two glassy eyed, doughy, thirty-something community college educated sons, being otherwise unemployable, have latched onto the family business. They stare blankly into the camera looking like perfect clones of their parents. They mumble through their lipless mouths in their heavy Boston accents something about their great deals, as I the viewer wonder why Bernie and Phyl never practiced safe sex.

]]> By: Charleston Sarjeant /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-3398 Charleston Sarjeant Sat, 08 Dec 2007 15:58:55 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-3398 I have too noticed parkinson like tremors... I can't seem to find anything that confirms this though. I have too noticed parkinson like tremors… I can’t seem to find anything that confirms this though.

]]> By: pat mcdonald /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-3234 pat mcdonald Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:46:11 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/12/bernie-and-phyl-heading-toward-sunset/#comment-3234 I have been watching the Bernie and Phyl commercials for years. I noticed lately that Phyll seems to have a parkinson like tremor. Is she okay?? It will be sad to see them fade off...they have become Icons of the furniture world. I wish them well. A loyal viewer... Pat McDonald I have been watching the Bernie and Phyl commercials for years. I noticed lately that Phyll seems to have a parkinson like tremor. Is she okay?? It will be sad to see them fade off…they have become Icons of the furniture world. I wish them well.
A loyal viewer…
Pat McDonald

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