"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 8/10/2012 11:55 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:00 -0400, Cheryl >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/9/2012 5:34 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>> I might not have room for extra frozen or refrigerated stuff. And if
>>>> it was
>>>> stuff like bread or chips that might go bad before I could eat it, then
>>>> that
>>>> could be a problem. But canned food? You can stick that in a closet,
>>>> in
>>>> the garage, under a bed...
>>>
>>> For once I'm going to have to pretend to be you. I don't want food in
>>> my already overstuffed closets, I don't have a garage, and I don't want
>>> to store food under a bed.
>>>
>>> Any more suggestions I can shoot down? 
>>>
>>>
>>
>> But the solution is simple. Either find a place to keep it (you have
>> space if you really want to keep the stuff) or donate to a food
>> pantry. They's be very happy to have it.
>>
>> Or just keep shooting down sensible suggestions.
>>
>
> Can't you tell sarcasm when you see it? You didn't even see the winky
> smile and see who I was replying to?
>
> Actually I've been sort of disappointed by how many people would just keep
> the free food and not even mention it to the supplier. But since Peapod
> told me to keep it, the cat food went to a shelter today.
I think most people would just keep it and not say a thing.
I used to have a severe problem with drugstore.com back when they were run
by Rite Aid. I was constantly getting extra things in the box that I did
not order. Often they were things I could use. Like a dental flossing
device. But once I got this entire case of some kind of plastic bags
designed to fit a certain kind of diaper pail. I had no diaper pail nor did
I have a need for one at the time and the bags were such that they couldn't
be used for anything else because they had like this plastic lip thing on
them that would fit the pail. Drugstore.com sounded almost angry with me
that I took the time to contact them and report the mistake. They just told
me to keep them. I did try to find someone who might be able to use them
but could not. I even kept them up to the point where I did need a diaper
pail and wouldn't you know they quit making that kind of pail! So I
eventually threw them out.
The worst thing I can think of happened not only to me but my brother. We
ordered something from a catalog. Instead of getting the item that we
ordered, we got these fancy brass register replacements...like vent thingies
that go into the floor for your furnace. Although beautiful they were
nothing I would ever have used because they had such large openings in them.
I would fear dropping things down them by accident. We were both told we
could keep the brass things and that they would correct our orders and send
us the right things. I can't tell you how many times this happened! And I
can't remember now what it was that we had initially tried to order but we
each wanted two of them because we kept getting two brass thingies.
We finally gave up when it became clear that we were never going to get the
item that we wanted.
More recently I had placed a couple of orders from K Mart. One was for two
white wire shelves. The other was for some camisoles with built in bras for
my daughter.
A box arrived and I was baffled as to what it could be. It wasn't the right
size. I pulled two red things out of the box and had to analyze them for a
minute to figure out what they were. Turns out they were some sort of
really cheap plastic plates.
So I called to try to straighten it out. Because I had two orders this
complicated things. And as I was talking to the woman on the phone, I got
an e-mail telling me that I needed to contact them about my order. Long
story short there, they were out of one of the colors of the camisoles I had
ordered.
The more I tried to explain the problem, the worse it got. I could tell
from the order number that they had sent me the plates instead of the
shelves. But the woman was apparently looking at the order for the
camisoles and kept telling me that I had ordered shelf brays. I was like...
What is a shelf bray? I finally figured out that she thought she was saying
"shelf bra".
I had to spend hours on the phone trying to resolve that one. She didn't
know what to do so she put a man on the phone who also made a reference to a
shelf bray. He told me that I had to ship back the plates and they would
automatically send me the shelves. Then when two weeks went by and no
shelves arrived, I had to call back. Only to find out that they could not
reship and I would have to reorder! No way was I going to try going through
that again.
At the same time I had another package that I had to ship back to Target. I
had ordered pajamas and matching slippers for a gift. The pajamas did
arrive but the slippers did not. So they reshipped them. Then about two
weeks later the missing slippers arrived. So at least the timing was such
that I could take both packages back at once.
Then there were the bras that I had ordered for my daughter in this same
time frame. They too didn't arrive and I was told they had been lost in the
mail. I think these were from Walmart. Again, about two weeks later the
missing ones appeared! I called there and said that I had them and would
like to keep them if there was a way for them to charge me for them.
Apparently in such a case there is no way to charge me. That time they just
let me keep the extra ones.
Usually when something like that happens, they make you ship the missing
items back. And usually it is something that you wouldn't necessarily want
an extra of. Like two blouses that are the same. But extra bras are no
problem.