Comments on: The Saga of the Mug

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s really refreshing when a company does something /good/ isn’t it?

I suppose it’s a shame, really.

By: MaW

MaW — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Why’s it a shame?

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a shame that it’s a refreshing change when people do things right, or it sometimes seems like that. People do good things all the time, but we don’t always realise it.

By: MaW

MaW — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

People do, but the bad experiences seem to carry more weight, perhaps.

Still, it’s worth mentioning the good things and making a noise about them, maybe it will encourage more of them…

By: iliana_sedai

iliana_sedai — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This reminds me that two days before Christmas, I was at Blackwell’s in Oxford and picked out four books for myself, all volumes of a series, the volumes being named:
Pharmacology
The Nervous System
The Endocrine and Reproductive Systems
The Musculoskeletal Systems

For ₤5, I requested that they be shipped to me at uni, and was informed I’d receive the books in 3 weeks.

4 weeks passed, and no books arrived, so I phoned to inquire and was told to give it another week due to the Christmas rush. When I phoned again in the 5th week, they helpfully put in the order for me again since they could only assume the books lost.

The very next day, I got my books– the ones I’d had shipped 23rd December….

Two weeks later, I got the second order. When I opened the box, I found:
The Nervous System
The Nervous System
The Nervous System
The Nervous System

Not quite what I ordered, and can you imagine how long it would’ve taken to get my books if the original set had never turned up?

So I now have a total of five (5) copies of The Nervous System. If I keep one for me and donate one to the uni library, that still leaves three more to unload. ^_