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Skriven 2016-01-05 21:33:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: Misteaks was:Canned C
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 01-01-16  07:26 <=-

 NB>>> I've heard some interesting stories of Amazon shipments... ;0  Not
 NB>>> always what one may have ordered...  ;0
 DD>> I am amazed that they get as much right as they do. Especially at the
 DD>> year-end holiday time. Haven't heard of anything as egregious as the
 DD>> family in Saugus, MA which got what they thought was a SONY PS4 for
 DD>> their kidlet as an Xmas gift - when they opened it there was a wooden
 DD>> box with a crude drawing (obscene) and an equally obscene message.
 DD>> But, that was from Target, not Amazon.
 NB>> I trust that they made good on that...  and dealt with the employee...

 DD> Well, yeah. Apparently it came from their distribution centre that
 DD> way. The DC got it, no doubt, that way as well. It gonna be tough to
 DD> find the culprit. 

That would seem to indicate that it got packed that way at the factory...

 DD> The Target store replaced the item with a "realie"
 DD> that they opened to check, refunded the price of the block of wood
 DD> version and threw in an additional $100 gift card.

Good of them... and no doubt good for store PR...  :)

 DD> The kids mother is still whinging about her 8 year old son having his
 DD> faith in Santa destroyed. Which rings false to my ears/eyes. When I
 DD> was eight I knew for sure that Santy Pants was a myth. And that was
 DD> in 1950 - well before the universally connected, information age. All
 DD> we had was the school-yard telegraph.   Bv)= 

We never believed in the myth... it was a fun game that we played...
Mommy and Daddy Claus put up the tree after we went to bed, put out the
presents and the filled stockings... and were not at all happy to wake
up as early in the morning as all the kidlets...  ;)  When I came of age
(ie in college), I became part of the Santa Claus team, doing up the
stockings while M & D were still figuring out and wrapping the
presents...  :)

 DD> I think what Mom was really crying about was the realisation that her
 DD> "baby" is growing up - with all that implies.
 
Or wishing that she didn't have to stop pretending Santa was real...

 NB>> My friend ordered 12 dozen mens socks from Amazon, and received a
 NB>> swimsuit... along with the socks..  She contacted them to let them
 NB>> know, and was sent another shipment of socks... this time minus the
 NB>> swimsuit...  She's still wondering who ordered the swimsuit... ;) 
 NB>> The socks were for a church Christmas project for a local mission...
 NB>> they got a bonus...  (G)

 DD> So, the charity got 2 gross of men's footwear PLUS someone got a
 DD> freebie bathing costume - all for the same money? Or did they just
 DD> get the shipment replaced, sans the bikini, after returning the whole
 DD> schmear? 

Didn't have to return the original shipment, and were quite surprised to
have the original order duplicated and sent to them along with a form
letter apologizing for the mistake...  The charity got all the socks...
dunno quite who ended up with the ladies swimsuit...  We were
speculating what the other person's order might have looked like...  (G)

ttyl        neb

... Haggis is tasty and nutritious and only makes you fart a wee bit.

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