a combination of brexit and ebay being cunts has ruined my afternoon
(, Thu 17 Jun 2021, 17:49, archived)
as are amazon.
Selfridges are even worse (if you're a retailer): 'oh some delusional prick piped up with a spurious and frankly laughable complaint about your goods so we gave them a £25 gift voucher to shut them up, rather than telling them to get fucked. You now owe us £25. Plus admin.'
Bunchacunts
(, Thu 17 Jun 2021, 18:11, archived)
Then move on , hth
(, Thu 17 Jun 2021, 20:30, archived)
(, Fri 18 Jun 2021, 0:21, archived)
It also encourages a different approach to shopping. It’s very common for Americans to buy three different versions of something with the full intention of returning two of them. It’s regarded as a completely reasonable way to check things out properly at home. But like I said, there’s a retail cost, and there’s a hidden environmental cost due to transport, particularly when you get to the scale of Amazon, which handles tens of millions of returns a day.
(, Fri 18 Jun 2021, 5:20, archived)