So I moved in to the apartment with one foldable 6′ table from the previous apartment.
After arranging things around, I felt it would be useful to get a second table. I ordered it, and it got seriously lost in the shipping process. Its estimated delivery date went crazy, at one point reaching year 2035. I contacted Staples multiple times, and it finally came in.
A few days after setting up that table, I thought “huh.. I think 3 tables.. would come in handy”. I wasn’t sure if I *really* needed another table, though. I hesitated for a day. Then Staples offered a $15 discount coupon, as a follow-up from my initial order. So I used it to order table #3.
The next day, yet another table was delivered to my house. This was not table #3. This was the original shipment for table #2, which apparently had been lost in logistics purgatory for over a week, and finally made it out to my house. Turns out that Staples never figured out what went wrong with that shipment, so they shipped a new table. So now I had two tables for order #2.
Table #3 had not arrived yet, but now I was looking forward to having four tables total at the house – original table #1, table #2a, #2b, and #3 which would arrive in a few days.
I proceeded by requesting a return of Table #2. Staples would send people to pick it up. So I thought I could give them Table #3, unopened.
Then Staples, without ever picking up my return, marked my return as “picked up”. The refund got stuck for over 3 weeks, but I finally got them to process it in January.
So at the end of the day, I paid $65 after taxes, and ended up getting 3 tables, each worth $80 after taxes. I think my current room layout works with 3 tables. But not with 4 tables. I’m gonna give away my table #3 to a friend.
Yongho Kim 2:00 am on January 16, 2021 Permalink |
So I moved in to the apartment with one foldable 6′ table from the previous apartment.
After arranging things around, I felt it would be useful to get a second table. I ordered it, and it got seriously lost in the shipping process. Its estimated delivery date went crazy, at one point reaching year 2035. I contacted Staples multiple times, and it finally came in.
A few days after setting up that table, I thought “huh.. I think 3 tables.. would come in handy”. I wasn’t sure if I *really* needed another table, though. I hesitated for a day. Then Staples offered a $15 discount coupon, as a follow-up from my initial order. So I used it to order table #3.
The next day, yet another table was delivered to my house. This was not table #3. This was the original shipment for table #2, which apparently had been lost in logistics purgatory for over a week, and finally made it out to my house. Turns out that Staples never figured out what went wrong with that shipment, so they shipped a new table. So now I had two tables for order #2.
Table #3 had not arrived yet, but now I was looking forward to having four tables total at the house – original table #1, table #2a, #2b, and #3 which would arrive in a few days.
I proceeded by requesting a return of Table #2. Staples would send people to pick it up. So I thought I could give them Table #3, unopened.
Then Staples, without ever picking up my return, marked my return as “picked up”. The refund got stuck for over 3 weeks, but I finally got them to process it in January.
So at the end of the day, I paid $65 after taxes, and ended up getting 3 tables, each worth $80 after taxes. I think my current room layout works with 3 tables. But not with 4 tables. I’m gonna give away my table #3 to a friend.