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IMPORTS A LA TABLE
I went to an American store with a French name to return a German made coffee maker. If that wasn't bad enough. I got the coffee maker as a gift and thought, gee this is great until I opened the box and discovered a clear plastic coffee maker that might have cost the manufacture all of five dollars to make. It had a unique design that sucked the coffee upwards into another plastic container and then flushed the coffee back down again. Well, once I had figured out the engineering marvel of assembling the 7 peices I realized that I had been had.
Yes, HAD. I wasn't sure how much this machine had cost until I returned it and then I was flabbergasted. Have you ever had that feeling that you and someone you cared deeply for had been royally fucked over. Well I had that feeling at the french named store while returning the german made hundred dollar coffee pot, when the clerk advised me that since it was a gift I could only receive store credit.
Store Credit!! I retorted, there wasn't a damned thing in this overpriced plastic and paper goods store that I could have wanted. All the other coffee pots in the store were $150 dollars or more and made as cheaply as the one I had just returned. Idiot utensils, tin pans, cheap,cheap, cheap crap. I was floored and almost had couldn't contain my comments. Fortunately for me I was accompanied by a woman who is far more level headed than I am and convinced me not to argue with the management or picket the store. |
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