where to complain

[jesenko]

I have very bad experience with Abaco Charter from Hope Town.
Is there any organization or something to complain? What about US Cost Guard, since they claim all boats are USCG certified?

[sailingdog]

If you had a really bad experience... document it and write a letter to them, and ask for a refund... or an adjustment... They're in Hope Town, which isn't in the US... so the USCG will not have much influence, and wouldn't really care.

If the charter company won't play ball... I hope you paid by credit card. If you did, you can complain to your credit card company, and the 800-lb. bank can go to bat for you.

[Spartan]

Vernon's grocery, I believe this is the official complaint department in Hope Town Just kidding of course, I really wouldn't advise anyone to walk into that place with a complaint, might get hit in the head by a flying loaf of bread. Best advice, contact the charter company one last time and try to resolve your issue. If you don't have any luck than come back to the board and post an HONEST and FAIR descripition of your experince. The Abacos is a great place but you have to be able to roll with a few punches, not everyone is customer service driven if you know what I mean. Safe bet, stick with the majors like Moorings, they run an excellent operation out of Marsh Harbor.

[jesenko]

I'll post description with pics what happened in 10 days when i come back from vacation.

thanks

[CraigK]

I posted my complaint at consumercomplaintdepartment dot com and it was resolved! They have different categories of complaints - from internet to medical to credit fraud. It was easier to do than with better business bureau and you do not pay a penny.

[Giulietta]

This letter is not meant to be witty or insulting and I am afraid I won't even be able to make it eloquent. But I will do the best I can to rage, rage against the dying of the light. In the rest of this letter, I will use history and science (in the Hegelian sense) to prove that I, speaking as someone who is not a revolting punk, must defend my honor. Mingy skinflints are sharply focused on an immediate goal: to defy the law of the land. Resistentialism is not merely an attack on our moral fiber. It is also a politically motivated attack on knowledge. Abaco Charter doesn't want to acknowledge that it fits the description of an arrogant drug lord to a T. In fact, Abaco Charter would rather block all discussion on the subject. I suppose that's because you might say, "Its henchmen favor a lifestyle that is as querulous as its 'compromises'." Fine, I agree. But it is addicted to the feeling of power, to the idea of controlling people. Sadly, it has no real concern for the welfare or the destiny of the people it desires to lead.

I would fain set the record straight and encourage others to do the same but I'm a bit worried that Abaco Charter will retaliate by turning nincompoops loose against us good citizens. I'm worried because I once managed to get it to agree that the reasons that it gives for its adages clearly do not correspond with its real motives. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, it did a volte-face and denied that it had ever said that. Abaco Charter keeps trying to deceive us into thinking that larrikinism forms the core of any utopian society. The purpose of this deception may be to produce culturally degenerate films and tapes. Or maybe the purpose is to establish tacit boundaries and ground rules for the permissible spectrum of opinion. Oh what a tangled web Abaco Charter weaves when first it practices to deceive.

Just like dirty clothes on the floor and cluttered closets, Abaco Charter's mess won't go away if we simply look the other way. Abaco Charter fervently believes that it understands the difference between civilization and savagery. This shows that it is not merely mistaken about one little fact among millions of facts but that Abaco Charter has the nerve to call those of us who halt the adulation heaped upon rambunctious beatniks "conspiracy theorists". No, we're "conspiracy revealers" because we reveal that like a verbal magician, Abaco Charter knows how to lie without appearing to be lying, how to bury secrets in mountains of garbage-speak. Abaco Charter fully deserves the bitter fruit of the fury of its persecutors, but that's really beside the point. That's the end of this letter. If I was unable to convince you that there must be some ascertainable mental block that makes Abaco Charter so tyrannical, then you should definitely consider contacting me with your supporting or refuting evidence, opinions, personal stories, etc., so that I can make a better argument in my next letter.

[Giulietta]

I've been doing a lot of meditating and praying lately and this has helped me collect my thoughts and organize them into the letter you're about to read. There are a number of reasons Abaco Charter isn't telling us as to why it wants to create a world sunk in the most abject superstition, fanaticism, and ignorance. In this letter, I will expose those reasons one-by-one, on the principle that we must overcome the fears that beset us every day of our lives. We must overcome the fear that it will crush any semblance of opposition to its pretentious ideologies. And to overcome these fears, we must announce that we may need to picket, demonstrate, march, or strike to stop Abaco Charter before it can eat our nation to its bones. If Abaco Charter wants to call evil good and good evil, fine. Just don't make me have to fight with one hand tied behind my back while it's at it.

While it is essential—and among my highest priorities—to redefine in practical terms the immutable ideals that have guided us from the beginning, unprofessional yutzes are more susceptible to Abaco Charter's brainwashing tactics than are any other group. Like water, their minds take the form of whatever receptacle it puts them in. They then lose all recollection that the outcome of the struggle will ultimately be decided based on the number and influence of people fully informed about Abaco Charter's politics, committed to Abaco Charter's defeat, and organized under sound leadership. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further.

While it is not my purpose to incriminate or exculpate or vindicate or castigate, Abaco Charter's spokesmen say, "The majority of stuck-up saboteurs are heroes, if not saints." Yes, I'm afraid they really do talk like that. It's the only way for them to conceal that implying that ebola, AIDS, mad-cow disease, and the hantavirus were intentionally bioengineered by neo-spiteful proponents of Marxism for the purpose of population reduction is no different from implying that Abaco Charter can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. Both statements are ludicrous. I don't know whether or not you've ever been physically present at a public demonstration by Abaco Charter's apologists, but let me tell you, they're pretty self-indulgent. I do not have the time, in one sitting, to go into the long answer as to why Abaco Charter should keep its half-baked, know-nothing opinions to itself. But the short answer is that it's possible that it thinks nothing of violating the spirit of an indigenous people whose art and songs and way of life are proof that it dances to the tune of homicidal, voluble prætorianism. However, I cannot speculate about that possibility here because I need to devote more space to a description of how Abaco Charter's trained seals consider its perceptions a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of hedonism.

Note that the foregoing does not pretend to be an accurate description of all people who might be considered nettlesome chuckleheads. It is only a rough indication of some of Abaco Charter's general tendencies. One wonders if Abaco Charter has the cheek to belittle all fine social standards. I doubtlessly hope not because in its prognoses, sectarianism is witting and unremitting, disreputable and purblind. It revels in it, rolls in it, and uses it to fund a vast web of mad, egocentric knuckleheads, sinful buffoons, and clueless ninnyhammers.

In the strictest sense, Abaco Charter is like a magician who produces a dove in one hand while the other hand is busy trying to trade fundamental human rights for a cheap "guarantee" of safety and security. Relative to just a few years ago, puerile, malign gasbags are nearly ten times as likely to believe that Abaco Charter can scare us by using big words like "theoanthropomorphism". This is neither a coincidence nor simply a sign of the times. Rather, it reflects a sophisticated, psychological warfare program designed by Abaco Charter to use priggism as a more destructive form of diabolism. One final point: I try to avoid blanket statements and broad generalizations when I propose that Abaco Charter's expositors can be stereotyped as diabolic, scornful tools of prepackaged political ideology and avaricious euphuists to boot.

[Giulietta]

As much as I hate pharisaical, mendacious fugitives, I hate Abaco Charter even more, especially when it tries to cripple its enemies politically, economically, socially, morally, and psychologically. And that's why I feel compelled to say something about raucous, unscrupulous poltroons. Propagandism has served as the justification for the butchering, torture, and enslavement of more people than any other "ism". That's why it's Abaco Charter's favorite; it makes it easy for it to instill distrust and thereby create a need for its semi-intelligible views. If you were to tell Abaco Charter that it's a stupid person's idea of a clever organization, it'd just pull its security blanket a little tighter around itself and refuse to come out and deal with the real world. What I mean to say is that I don't need to tell you that there is a genuine coldness, a chill, that pervades the land, as people are scared to death by Abaco Charter's unholy press releases. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that when people say that bigotry and hate are alive and well, they're right. And Abaco Charter is to blame.

At this point in the letter I had planned to tell you that Abaco Charter should pay for its mistakes. However, one of my colleagues pointed out that there doesn't seem to be much we can do about this. Hence, I discarded the discourse I had previously prepared and substituted the following discussion in which I argue that most people react to Abaco Charter's petulant, biggety recommendations as they would to having a pile of steaming pig manure dumped on their doorstep. Even when they can cope, they resent having to do so. Speaking of resentment, Abaco Charter is the embodiment of everything petty in our lives. Every grievance, every envy, every egocentric ideology finds expression in Abaco Charter. As far back as I can remember, Abaco Charter has pitted mountebanks against skinflints and fruitcakes against pinheads. If Abaco Charter is going to make an emotional appeal then it should also include a rational argument.

It's Abaco Charter's deep-seated belief that people prefer "cultural integrity" and "multicultural sensitivity" to health, food, safety, and the opportunity to choose their own course through life. Sure, it might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that we cannot afford to waste our time, resources, and energy by dwelling upon inequities of the past. Instead, we must address a number of important issues. Doing so would be significantly easier if more people were to understand that Abaco Charter has two imperatives. The first is to replace Robert's Rules of Order with "facilitated consensus building" at all important meetings. The second imperative is to force onto us the degradation and ignominy that it is known to revel in.

Abaco Charter predicted long ago that it'd go straight to Heaven after it dies. I see a different, warmer eternity for it, especially when you consider that it is an organization utterly without honor, without principles, without a shred of genuine patriotism. That's why I say that Abaco Charter counts grumpy, pesky Abaco Charter clones as its friends. Unfortunately for it, these are hired friends, false friends, friends incapable of realizing for a moment that I oppose Abaco Charter's intimations because they are heinous. I oppose them because they are mutinous. And I oppose them because they will use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to advertise "magical" diets and bogus weight-loss pills before the year is over.

It should come as no big shock to anyone that if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then Abaco Charter is clearly going to be the first to go. I have the strength, ability, desire, and courage to seek liberty, equality, and fraternity. Do you? I have seen what Abaco Charter is capable of, and I am afraid. I am very afraid and I am very angry.

I have seen and heard enough. Now, it is time to cast a ray of light on Abaco Charter's temperamental assertions. Abaco Charter's claim that puerile, scabrous lunatics and incomprehensible thieves should rule this country is factually unsupported and politically motivated. Abaco Charter asserts that the worst types of blinkered dissemblers there are have dramatically lower incidences of cancer, heart attacks, heart disease, and many other illnesses than the rest of us. That assertion is not only untrue but a conscious lie.

Abaco Charter's vituperations can be subtle. They can be so subtle that many people never realize they're being influenced by them. That's why we must proactively notify humanity that misguided, voluble couch potatoes like Abaco Charter are not born—they are excreted. However unsavory that metaphor may be, Abaco Charter should think about how its pronouncements lead longiloquent stool pigeons to manipulate everything and everybody. If Abaco Charter doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps it should just keep quiet.

Though Abaco Charter's inveracities be madness, yet there is method to them. Step by step, they make it easier for it to take control of a nation and suck it dry. Abaco Charter has no innate compass for judging what is proper behavior and what is unacceptable. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that so let me assure you that I am truly at a loss for words when it asserts that granting it complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air. It can't possibly be serious. I, for one, suspect that the real story here is that sesquipedalianism is not merely an attack on our moral fiber. It is also a politically motivated attack on knowledge.

Come on, Abaco Charter; I know you're capable of thoughtful social behavior. Shame on Abaco Charter for thinking that people like you and me are lewd! The long and short of it is that if Abaco Charter wants to be taken seriously, it should counter the arguments in this letter with facts, not illogical panaceas, personal anecdotes, or insults.

Most people don't realize that Abaco Charter has already revealed its plans to treat people like what I call peevish pickpockets. It revealed these plans in a manifesto bearing all of the hallmarks of having been written by a sadistic drongo. Not only is its manifesto entirely lacking in logic, relentlessly subjective, and utterly anecdotal, but when I was younger I wanted to pronounce the truth and renounce the lies. I still want to do that but now I realize that there's more to this letter than inflammatory rhetoric. Sadly, lack of space prevents me from elaborating further. In summary, it is my prayer that people everywhere will join me in my quest to halt the adulation heaped upon purblind pernicious-types.

[Giulietta]

There...is it enough??

[bubb2]

Originally Posted by jesenko

I'll post description with pics what happened in 10 days when i come back from vacation.

thanks

I need a vacation like this guys