Pool Noodles the Size of... Actual Noodles 🤣
A few months ago someone left a pair of pool noodles in our HOA's swimming pool. Y'know, pool noodles, those tube-shaped foam floats that are 4-5 feet long and a few inches in diameter. I don't know about others using the pool, but Hawk and I have certainly enjoyed grabbing a noodle to float around after exercising in the water during our many afternoons in the pool this summer.
The floats are wearing out, though. One noodle has broken into two pieces, and with both of them the closed cell foam is starting to degrade so that they don't float as well anymore. We figured we'd do a solid for the community and buy a few new noodles ourselves to leave out for everyone's enjoyment.
That brings me to the second half of the title of this post. There have been lots of funny pictures/stories on social media lately of people being scammed by buying miniature versions of things online. Like, a woman buys a skirt, cheap, and what arrives barely fits on her cat. Or buys a desk, cheap, and what arrives is a dollhouse-sized desk only a few inches across.
"Always check the size first," I chuckle to myself every time, "And don't believe a price that's too good to be true."
Now with that context I'll bet you can guess what happened next...
Yup, Hawk ordered a set of pool noodles at a fantastic price. It was, like, $6 for a set of 6. I thought they'd cost about $5 apiece. What a bargain! And what arrived were... pool noodles that are only 1 foot long instead of the 4-5 foot size we'd expected. These pool noodles are the length of... actual noodles! I've bought boxes of lasagna noodles bigger than this. 🤣
The good news is that these should be easy to return, since we bought them on Amazon. I still wonder, though... why does this product even exist? I can't think of why anyone would want pool noodles- and they are specifically labeled as pool noodles- this small. They're not useful for anything. I wonder if they're sold primarily to scam un-careful shoppers? Though that doesn't make much sense as long as returns are cheap and easy for the buyer.
Update: It turns out the noodles are NOT returnable. THAT is how this scammer makes money!
The floats are wearing out, though. One noodle has broken into two pieces, and with both of them the closed cell foam is starting to degrade so that they don't float as well anymore. We figured we'd do a solid for the community and buy a few new noodles ourselves to leave out for everyone's enjoyment.
That brings me to the second half of the title of this post. There have been lots of funny pictures/stories on social media lately of people being scammed by buying miniature versions of things online. Like, a woman buys a skirt, cheap, and what arrives barely fits on her cat. Or buys a desk, cheap, and what arrives is a dollhouse-sized desk only a few inches across.
"Always check the size first," I chuckle to myself every time, "And don't believe a price that's too good to be true."
Now with that context I'll bet you can guess what happened next...
Yup, Hawk ordered a set of pool noodles at a fantastic price. It was, like, $6 for a set of 6. I thought they'd cost about $5 apiece. What a bargain! And what arrived were... pool noodles that are only 1 foot long instead of the 4-5 foot size we'd expected. These pool noodles are the length of... actual noodles! I've bought boxes of lasagna noodles bigger than this. 🤣
The good news is that these should be easy to return, since we bought them on Amazon. I still wonder, though... why does this product even exist? I can't think of why anyone would want pool noodles- and they are specifically labeled as pool noodles- this small. They're not useful for anything. I wonder if they're sold primarily to scam un-careful shoppers? Though that doesn't make much sense as long as returns are cheap and easy for the buyer.
Update: It turns out the noodles are NOT returnable. THAT is how this scammer makes money!