"Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious."
So as you might be aware, Teh GF and I have an espresso habit. We make ourselves a couple lattes every morning (well, mine are decaf these days, but whatevs). And after three or four years of faithful daily service, our poor little espresso machine was starting to fall apart.
We ordered another of the same model, because as far as good machines go it's pretty dang cheap. And we ordered it from NewEgg, because they ship from near here so things arrive at almost the speed of light.
Yesterday the UPS tracking site told us the machine had been delivered. We looked all over -- no machine. I was home all day, and hadn't heard it arrive. It wasn't in front of the door next to us, it wasn't under the mailboxes, it wasn't in front of the condo door closest to the street. Annoyed, we contacted NewEgg and told them the machine had vanished into the ether, and they promised to send us another one.
Tonight, our doorbell rang. It was a lady from the building next door. Sure enough, the machine had gotten dropped on her doorstep instead of ours. And when I saw the box I made this face: D: (for the smiley-impaired, that's a horrified face).
For some reason, NewEgg shipped this shiny new espresso machine in just its own box. Meaning, a box covered in pictures of a nice shiny new espresso machine, and advertising copy about its nice features. They might as well have shipped it in a box marked FREE APPLIANCE, STEAL ME. A generic box would be much less tempting for a random person to hold onto, since it could be old lady clothes or Thomas Kinkade "paintings" or something. But this right here proudly proclaimed "I AM A NICE NAME-BRAND KITCHEN APPLIANCE YOU CAN EITHER USE OR SELL EASILY". The lady who brought it to us joked that she'd been tempted to keep it, and I gotta say I don't blame her.
When I went to open it and set up the machine, I discovered something that made me go D: again (that's the horrified face). Not only was the machine shipped in its own pretty box ... but the box wasn't even taped shut. I looked for signs that the nice honest lady had cut some tape to have a look inside, but there was no sign of that whatsoever. Anyone could have opened the box, removed the contents, put a couple of bricks back in and closed it back up. WTF NewEgg??
We ordered another of the same model, because as far as good machines go it's pretty dang cheap. And we ordered it from NewEgg, because they ship from near here so things arrive at almost the speed of light.
Yesterday the UPS tracking site told us the machine had been delivered. We looked all over -- no machine. I was home all day, and hadn't heard it arrive. It wasn't in front of the door next to us, it wasn't under the mailboxes, it wasn't in front of the condo door closest to the street. Annoyed, we contacted NewEgg and told them the machine had vanished into the ether, and they promised to send us another one.
Tonight, our doorbell rang. It was a lady from the building next door. Sure enough, the machine had gotten dropped on her doorstep instead of ours. And when I saw the box I made this face: D: (for the smiley-impaired, that's a horrified face).
For some reason, NewEgg shipped this shiny new espresso machine in just its own box. Meaning, a box covered in pictures of a nice shiny new espresso machine, and advertising copy about its nice features. They might as well have shipped it in a box marked FREE APPLIANCE, STEAL ME. A generic box would be much less tempting for a random person to hold onto, since it could be old lady clothes or Thomas Kinkade "paintings" or something. But this right here proudly proclaimed "I AM A NICE NAME-BRAND KITCHEN APPLIANCE YOU CAN EITHER USE OR SELL EASILY". The lady who brought it to us joked that she'd been tempted to keep it, and I gotta say I don't blame her.
When I went to open it and set up the machine, I discovered something that made me go D: again (that's the horrified face). Not only was the machine shipped in its own pretty box ... but the box wasn't even taped shut. I looked for signs that the nice honest lady had cut some tape to have a look inside, but there was no sign of that whatsoever. Anyone could have opened the box, removed the contents, put a couple of bricks back in and closed it back up. WTF NewEgg??