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Purchase mess-up

August 4th, 2016 at 08:45 pm

About a week before I was laid off, I spent $80 at Payless Decor on a bamboo shade for the door in my sun room. It gets VERY hot and sunny in there and I actually can't use the sun room becus it gets so hot. About a year or two ago I had gotten bamboo shades for all 6 windows in the sun room from Payless Decor.

I had a sample of the shade pattern/color I wanted called "Dali Tuscan." When I went on the site, I did not see Dali Tuscan but I did see Dali Natural. I guess becus they shared the same Dali name, I assumed it was the same shade.

It was not. I have the shade up and it fits perfectly, but it's noticeably darker and also a different pattern than the others shades on the windows. I guess I could live with it but I wanted it to blend in with everything else in there and instead, it kind of stands out.

So I called the company to see if there was anything they could do. The shades are non-returnable since they are custom cut and measured, but I'm sort of hoping they could give me, say, a 50% discount if I order the shade again, although the Dali Tuscan is now out of stock and I don't even know if they'll get it back. And I don't know if they would be that generous. Kind of a bummer.

It was a careless mistake, and I should have called before ordering, but I also think it was not very smart of them to have more than one shade called "Dali."

In other news...

I got my newest bonus credit card in the mail, the Bank Americard Mastercard with my choice of baseball team logo (the Yankees) printed on it. This one is as easy as can be: just charge up $500 worth of stuff in 3 months and get a $200 statement credit back.

I went with dad to pick up his AC at Best Buy and then we went to lunch, but he would not let me come and help him move the AC up the stairs into his place. Men can be very stubborn. He has a dolly, but is very unsteady on his feet and walks with a cane.

My library has a program where they want to encourage summer reading so for each book you read and write a brief review about, you get a shot at winning one of a half dozen prizes, gift certificates from local merchants.

An old boyfriend of mine, with whom I still stay in touch, lost his mother around the same time as I did. Like my mother, his father was a professional artist, a painter of horses. I would say his father achieved more success than my mother did. His mother managed a catalog business of prints of his oil paintings, and he also illustrated many children's horse books.

He is faced with the task of emptying out his mother's home, which contains a lifetime of stuff and his dad's art; he has a sister in California who hasn't been able to assist that much. This is what I went through with mom's condo, albeit on a smaller scale. He called me last night for my birthday, and he was also donating and selling art but still had so many prints left, he said he would just give them away. I immediately said I would love to have one. Not that I have the room for it, but it would remind me of my friend and his dad was a very nice man, and very talented. I am sure his art is worth quite a bit. It just can be very difficult to find the right market, especially when you're working f/t.

7 Responses to “Purchase mess-up”

  1. PatientSaver Says:
    1470434691

    UPDATE: The company says if i return the shade at my expense, they'll refund 70% of the cost. I think that's pretty fair. Then I can order the shade i wanted in the first place. It's back in stock.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    1470499177

    Good news about the shade!

  3. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    1470499246

    For thee Mastercard, do you have to have a Bofa account?

  4. PatientSaver Says:
    1470501432

    FrugalTexan, no,you don't have to have a BOA account although you can make a little more money if you do.

    I just got it last week.

  5. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    1470525437

    Great Smile I'll probably need to wait a couple months to apply since I just got the AmEx, but that sounds like a nice easy money maker. Smile

  6. Suzanne Says:
    1471015578

    Do you have a link for the card offer? Thanks.

  7. PatientSaver Says:
    1471021663

    looks like that offer ended and they're back to doing just $100 bonus.

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