12/20/04
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 all of five dollars to manufacture. 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 pieces 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 padvised me that since it was a gift I could only receive store credit.
Store Credit!! I retorted there wasn’t a damned thing in that 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 and tin pans all cheap! Cheap! Cheap crap! I was floored and 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.
L.A. Steel
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