And I thought Bettman was the NHL sleazebag to hate!

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The Brick, it seems, is an Income Fund named after (or is it the other way around?) Edmonton Oilers centre Mike "The Brick" Comrie. The company was founded by John Comrie and his brothers of Pittsburg Penguins fame Fred and Bill (Mike's dad) Comrie.

I don't fault any athlete for investing in post career incomes...and being successful at them...but from everything I keep reading, The Brick has a reputation of offering sub-standard post-purchase service to their customers... If you're going to grow yourself a business from your multi-million dollar contracts, at least hire people you can rely on to run it! I'm not a fan of Tim Horton coffee, but at least I'm not ashamed that it's (pseudo) Canadian.

The Brick just gives us something else that makes being Canadian something that we can really no longer be proud of (not including our troops, who are our biggest source of pride).

Ayway, they have decided to continue to ignore my emails, New Year's Eve is tomorrow, and my Christmas gift is still not delivered...I have to grow this campaign, by expanding it onto YouTube (followed by MySpace and Twitter).

It amazes me....they told me on December 23rd that the TV was being picked up from the Richmond Hill store via Purolator that night! Why would they not call me back with a tracking number (or keep one on my file) so I would bug Purolator instead of them. Maybe they LIED (say it ain't so Mabel)???

I'll post again as I move forward, but today, I have to clear my head of this embarrassment of a Canadian retailer, and I'm going to check out Avatar. Maybe I'll come home to a happy email from my brother - IF I don't then, to Mike Comrie, when I say "break a leg" I mean it literally!

Some new email addresses for any other Brick customers out there:

(CEO) bgregson@thebrick.com
(CDO) ftalarico@thebrick.com

I have a few more to come as soon as I confirm them.