People astound me

[TCR4x4]

I sell sleeping and industrial foam earplugs on eBay. I get all sorts of weird comments and complaints from the plugs being the wrong shape, or colour, or too big or too small, but I think today topped them all off.

The email read:
The earplugs arrived squashed and unusable.



This must therefore be breaking the rules of physics, as I've never come accross recovery foam that stays squashed. That's why it's called recovery foam.

No doubt the buyer will be a cock and leave me a neg and claim the money back

 

[faddius]

I have actually come across this...

Used to sometimes keep earplugs in the house for long trips on the motorbike and i used to put them in silly places. I found a pair that had ended up under an argos catalogue, they were literally flat and even after leaving them for a couple of days they didnt recover their original shape. They were un-usable, it was like trying to put a piece of soft cardboard in your ear.

So not entirely unreasonable for this to happen in transit, especially if the package ended up at the bottom of one of those big mail sacks with something fairly heavy on top.

 

[TCR4x4]

Well I shall have to experiment. Ive sold over 10,000 pairs in the last year and never come across this.
Considering they were only in transit for a day, I'd be very surprised. If the buyer returns them, and they are indeed flat, I shall eat my words, but I fear it's either a typical eBay money grabber or just a stupid person.

 

[faddius]

Quite possibly a money grabber.

To be fair, I have no idea how long those plugs had been under the catalogue, could of been an hour or so, could of been a couple of months. It was when I was clearing out my house so alot of things were getting moved around.

 

[TCR4x4]

Well I've got about 2000 pairs stored in my office, so are under boxes and they all seem to be fine and have been there for several weeks. It could just be a dodgy pair, but as I pack them all myself, I'm sure I would have noticed.

We'll see if they reply or vanish into the ether.

 

[antihero]

lol...we use them at work and i'd like to see anyone deform them and them stay that way (unless theve been squashed under a box for a month)

 

[Steep]

How much are they? can't be very expensive so just send them another pair gratis and reap the karma.

 

[TCR4x4]

How much are they? can't be very expensive so just send them another pair gratis and reap the karma.

Sadly it doesn't work like that often. I've often gone well out of my way and lost a lot of money to keep people happy, but you rarely ever get a thanks, and often don't even get feedback left.

A while back a £1.95 packet went missing, fair enough it happens, so I sent another special delivery at my own cost, plus another £5 quids worths free. Never even got an acknowledgement they had arrived, yet alone a thanks.

 

[Dark Knight]

Sadly it doesn't work like that often. I've often gone well out of my way and lost a lot of money to keep people happy, but you rarely ever get a thanks, and often don't even get feedback left.

A while back a £1.95 packet went missing, fair enough it happens, so I sent another special delivery at my own cost, plus another £5 quids worths free. Never even got an acknowledgement they had arrived, yet alone a thanks.

There sure is some rude and ignorant assholes on there

 

[stokes]

Some people are just out for the free ride... Good luck sorting it

 

[nilagin]

lol...we use them at work and i'd like to see anyone deform them and them stay that way (unless theve been squashed under a box for a month)

We use them at work and I squash them regularly between my thumb and forefinger, hold them for a few minutes and they rarely fully return to shape. We have loose ones and also ones on a blue plastic cord, the latter make great cat toys, our cat loves playing with them.

 

[TCR4x4]

We use them at work and I squash them regularly between my thumb and forefinger, hold them for a few minutes and they rarely fully return to shape.

They must be crap quality ones then! I've had some under a yellow pages since this morning, just took it off and they reformed within 30 seconds.

 

[blodauhyfryd]

I sell sleeping and industrial foam earplugs on eBay. I get all sorts of weird comments and complaints from the plugs being the wrong shape, or colour, or too big or too small, but I think today topped them all off.

The email read:
The earplugs arrived squashed and unusable.



This must therefore be breaking the rules of physics, as I've never come accross recovery foam that stays squashed. That's why it's called recovery foam.

No doubt the buyer will be a cock and leave me a neg and claim the money back

Some people are amazing aren't they! I used to work in a place selling whicker furniture and one couple brought a chair back because it 'made a noise' when they sat on it...