Thursday, January 22, 2015

I'm getting bolshy in my old age

On Mrs Nesbitt's blog she sang the praises of a bag for cooking baked potatoes/pre-cooking chips. It sounded like a wonderful invention and lots of people thought so, so Mrs N kindly did some research and put a link on her blog to a company selling them at a bargain price. I ordered one. (What I am about to say is absolutely no reflection on Mrs N who is a lovely lady but rather on the company and my own decision-making.)

Now when it came to placing the order I found that, though the bags (they came in twos) only cost £3.99, postage and packing was £4.99. Hmm. I dithered before pressing the confirm order button but thought, oh well, if that's the cost of packing and delivering my parcel so be it.

Today my parcel arrived. No complaints about delivery time but a HUGE complaint about the parcel. The reason the p&p was so costly was that it included an unrequested catalogue.
My item weighed about 100g.

The catalogue and bumpf weighed nearly 700g.
I have sent off a bloshy email concluding that I shall not be using this company again.

8 comments:

SmitoniusAndSonata said...

Can't you just repack the catalogue and stick it in the post box WITHOUT A STAMP ? Oh , yes ... and without your address obviously , though you could give your name and order number .
Then , with any luck , they'd have to pay an 'insufficient postage surcharge'
Or would that be too mean ?

Liz Hinds said...

That is what I thought of doing, Sonata - and will do if I don't get a satisfactory reply to my email!

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

That would make me pretty bolshy too!

Anne in Oxfordshire said...

Well you have every right to be bolshy Liz , that is just not on!! If we want a catalogue , we ask for one!!!!

Anne in Oxfordshire said...

Reply or not , I would do what you friend said.. !

CherryPie said...

That is rather cheeky of them!!!

nick said...

What a con! Expecting you to pay the postage for a catalogue you never asked for. I hope you sent them a really stroppy email.

Liz Hinds said...

I did send a stroppy email, Nick. So stroppy that they haven't replied ...