Showing posts with label durable supply company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label durable supply company. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2009

Merde



I wish I knew how to say uh-oh in a few other languages. The drama of the unpainted bathroom continues. After all the back and forth between me and nice people at the durable supply company, about the silver marker, my woes continue.

With a whole lot of wiggling the marker does in fact work, but just barely. The gold marker that I purchased at the same time, glides right across paper, and the watercolor comes out evenly. The silver marker comes out in fits and spurts, and only if you press with all your might, and the sponge nib flakes off into the paint. Not pretty. I would need a bionic arm to finish the tiny bathroom at this rate, and I'm afraid it would still look like mierda.

As I was painting, the nannny came in with Jack, to inform me that the sandbox he'd been playing in all day was filled with cat poop. FILLED WITH IT. Not to be histrionic, but, kill me now.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Je suis not smart

SO I had a little correspondence with the durable supply company about the non functional marker, for the bathroom project, and I'd just like to say first off, in my defense, I am not usually a quitter.

When you order something off the internet, you never know what kind of customer service you are going to get. It might be some great mom and pop type place, or you might be entering into Bangladesh call center autobot hell. Durable supply falls into the former category. They were awesome. First of all they sent me a new marker the day I emailed about the first one not working. No questions asked. When I emailed about the replacement marker not working, they opened one from the same box, and tested it for me. As in, a human being, who was in the same location as their product, went into a room, and checked it out for themselves. Dude! They reported back that it did indeed work, but required all kinds of wiggling back and forth, and you had to press it down for a crazy long time. I worked on mine for about ten minutes, and finally got it to work, and then I felt like a jerk for being such a nuisance. This website is awesome, and their customer service is incredible.

So now there's no excuse to not finish the bathroom. Except, I need to pay some bills, call our broker, talk to my baby, seduce my husband, dye my roots, pack the entire family for our upcoming trip to Michigan, and, that's it. No problem. Pictures up as soon as it's done...