Firebat
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Just looking for a bit of empathy here...
This ever happen to you? You order a knife online on a late Sunday night. Said knife shows as in stock, and you pay the charges for UPS Ground. You check and confirm that where you live is 2 days delivery time from the point of sale. Cotent that you've got another one on the way to enjoy, you enter your M-F grind with at least a little something extra to look forward to.
Assuming that if all were to go well, the knife would ship the day the order was acknowledged, and then two days later, you'd be all set. Right? Well, no.
The handy UPS tracking sites seems to mock you as you desperately try to get it to tell you something about the status of the shipment. Two days pass, and you consider caling the e-tailer to see if there were any delays. Then, on the third day after the order was placed, the UPS tracking page shows that the knife was shipped, and it's scheduled delivery is the following Monday- which is now seven days from the time you placed the order!
Still optimistic, you rationalize that perhaps delivery will still be made by the end of the week, as you're only 2 days away according to UPS, remember. HA! Wrong again, as by the end of the business week, the tracking info shows that your knife is sitting in a UPS hub, not 40 minutes from your house- biding it's time over the weekend.
Bummer.
Yeah, I know- rough life, eh? If my biggest concern is that a knife I ordered hasn't made it to my house when I wanted it to, then I surely should be thankful for what I do have. (and I am!)
I'm just saying, as a collector, enthusiast, aficianado, whatever- don't you just hate it when this happens? Or am I truly that messed up to begin with?
It's not like I'm angry with the e-tailer, or really even with UPS- things happen, I understand that.
But it's driving me completely mad! I want my knife! Arrrrgggghhh!
Hi, my name is Firebat, and I have a problem...
Firebat
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Name's Ash......Housewares.
This ever happen to you? You order a knife online on a late Sunday night. Said knife shows as in stock, and you pay the charges for UPS Ground. You check and confirm that where you live is 2 days delivery time from the point of sale. Cotent that you've got another one on the way to enjoy, you enter your M-F grind with at least a little something extra to look forward to.
Assuming that if all were to go well, the knife would ship the day the order was acknowledged, and then two days later, you'd be all set. Right? Well, no.
The handy UPS tracking sites seems to mock you as you desperately try to get it to tell you something about the status of the shipment. Two days pass, and you consider caling the e-tailer to see if there were any delays. Then, on the third day after the order was placed, the UPS tracking page shows that the knife was shipped, and it's scheduled delivery is the following Monday- which is now seven days from the time you placed the order!
Still optimistic, you rationalize that perhaps delivery will still be made by the end of the week, as you're only 2 days away according to UPS, remember. HA! Wrong again, as by the end of the business week, the tracking info shows that your knife is sitting in a UPS hub, not 40 minutes from your house- biding it's time over the weekend.
Bummer.
Yeah, I know- rough life, eh? If my biggest concern is that a knife I ordered hasn't made it to my house when I wanted it to, then I surely should be thankful for what I do have. (and I am!)
I'm just saying, as a collector, enthusiast, aficianado, whatever- don't you just hate it when this happens? Or am I truly that messed up to begin with?
It's not like I'm angry with the e-tailer, or really even with UPS- things happen, I understand that.
But it's driving me completely mad! I want my knife! Arrrrgggghhh!
Hi, my name is Firebat, and I have a problem...
Firebat
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Name's Ash......Housewares.
