AND ANOTHER THING!

Ok, Let me climb up on my soap box for a second here.

All right. Everyone here? Can you hear me in the back?

(tapping on mike)

Ok.

I'm not sure about the niceties, or legalities of bitching on a blog, so let me change the names to protect the not so innocent.

To keep the blog interesting, and my blood pressure low, here's some pictures of Princess Petunia.

I had joined a site. A fabric - buying site.

It rhymes with Slab-Slanatic.

Let me tell you, I was so excited about this site. They billed themselves as a "Costco" for fabric. You would place an order, and once they had enough orders they would buy a bolt, and divvy it up amongst the people who had ordered, passing the savings on to you!

Fabulous.

Sign me up.

I ordered some fabric, it came, life was good.

I joined the "Stashbuilders" club, where they would automatically send me eight half yard pieces each month.

Terrific!

I was in heaven. I made a quilt out of the fabric they had sent.

Then one day, I accidentally ordered a big bundle of fabric. I say accidentally because I was never all that comfortable with their website, and one day was checking out what was available, and put some in my "cart". I clicked

to the next page, thinking I would find a summary, or an "Are you sure" page, but no. I had just ordered $52 of fabric.

Now yes, it was Dolce, which I loved, but $52 is a lot of money for something I wasn't sure I wanted.

Don't you go through the sites and pile things up in your cart, only to cancel it all out at the end?

I do.

So fine, I had accidentally ordered a big chunk of Dolce, but at least it was fabric that I loved, so no harm, no foul.

I'm rambling, I know. Bear with me.

So I had ordered this fabric in FEBRUARY.

That's right,

FEBRUARY.

And it never came.

I emailed, politely requesting an update, and didn't get a response.

I emailed again, and again,

and finally got an email that said "Will send it right out."

But no fabric came.

Now, in the meantime, my April auto-delivery came, money was taken out of my account for it, but no fabric showed up.

I emailed.

And emailed.

AND EMAILED.

Now, I am a patient woman.

I really am.

If they had just answered my emails, I would happily wait forever.

But with no answers, I started thinking scam, and shadiness, and bad thoughts.

AND RIGHTLY SO!

Because I never did get that fabric, and I never did get my April shipment, and I never did get an answer to my emails!

I disputed it through PayPal, and they got me the money for the April shipment returned, but told me that since it had been longer than 45 days, I was out of luck with that $52.

Hmm.

Well THAT would have been a good thing to know up front.

So for my patience, I was rewarded with losing $52 and never seeing that fabric that I had ordered, and I now have an unfair hatred of Dolce, (which is totally wrong, because it wasn't the fabric's fault, and it really is a beautiful, beautiful fabric line), and a mistrust of ordering things online.

A couple of weeks ago I was sick with the stomach flu. The night before. I had been drinking a lovely Riesling.

Then I barfed.

Last night I tried to drink that same lovely Riesling, and the smell took me immediately back to the bathroom.

That's how I feel about buying fabric now.

Thank you, Slab-slanatic.

Thanks a lot.

So here is my public service announcement.

You may now resume your regularly scheduled life.