Thursday, August 04, 2005
Get It Together
Can you buy anything that you don't have to assemble yourself these days? Looks like the chances of that are very slim if not impossible.
The excuse given is that things are shipped in pieces to reduce costs. When you consider the blister packs, the styrofoam, and all that cardboard and plastic bubble wrap, I wonder where the saving is. Course the bubble wrap makes neat popping noises and can keep adults busy for hours.
Bad enough you have to put it together yourself after paying a premium price. Even worse is translated instruction books that are completely wrong, or instructions that leave out little steps.
And on one occasion there was a situation of a missing part. Contact the retailer who has to contact the distributor who cannot find the part and will have to contact the manufacturer and get back to you in several weeks. And that dear friends was on a Canadian built product.
Call the parts line one time and you may be talking to India. Next time (same number) you are talking to Saskatchewan. Try it again, good morning British Columbia, early out there isn't it?
Even if you buy a flash light complete with batteries, the flash light is by itself and the batteries are by themselves.
That's progress folks, just try and 'Get It Together'.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
Can you buy anything that you don't have to assemble yourself these days? Looks like the chances of that are very slim if not impossible.
The excuse given is that things are shipped in pieces to reduce costs. When you consider the blister packs, the styrofoam, and all that cardboard and plastic bubble wrap, I wonder where the saving is. Course the bubble wrap makes neat popping noises and can keep adults busy for hours.
Bad enough you have to put it together yourself after paying a premium price. Even worse is translated instruction books that are completely wrong, or instructions that leave out little steps.
And on one occasion there was a situation of a missing part. Contact the retailer who has to contact the distributor who cannot find the part and will have to contact the manufacturer and get back to you in several weeks. And that dear friends was on a Canadian built product.
Call the parts line one time and you may be talking to India. Next time (same number) you are talking to Saskatchewan. Try it again, good morning British Columbia, early out there isn't it?
Even if you buy a flash light complete with batteries, the flash light is by itself and the batteries are by themselves.
That's progress folks, just try and 'Get It Together'.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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