PantyFanatic
01-06-2007, 05:54 AM
We all know and are quick to tell what doesn't work :hair: and "what pissed you off today", :rant: but how about the things that work as well or better than expectations.? :) Maybe they have to be connected to something that DIDN'T impress to be noticeable.
I recently ordered an extra 80Gb HD and another 1/2 Gb of RAM from a good online supplier that only uses UPS for delivery. I used PayPal because they have my work address also connected to my card for the different delivery address from my home address, which takes 2 extra days to get anything off the brown truck because I'm seldom here to sign for it and have to play the green-tag-tag game.
I place my order late one night last week and start getting the 'Thank you for ordering' e-mails right away but receive notice the next day the order is in "payment confirmation". I call to hear that "Christmas rush caused a PayPal clog they are working through", but will be happy to take my card direct and avoid PayPal completely.
After I add the weekend AND the holiday :rolleye: ..... I get an "address confirmation" e-mail and get to call again so I can be told "I have to contact my card holder and have THEM add the delivery address" that I wanted to use so I could get it right away. :banghead: In only ONE MORE DAY...... the system as been appeased. :faint:
There is a good part of this when all the pieces are in place. :D I now plan to watch this and see what else can go wrong. I'll start tracking at noon......... except for the fact that 11:30, the brown truck dumps it at the plant. :nana: Among the things that DO work is the ability to trace/watch the movement of something that use to go into the darkness of "It's been shipped" :yikes:. We can now see the moment a parcel reaches each step in the once hidden confusion of moving something from one place to another in real time. When I pulled up the tracking screen to see how I could have it in my hand after the week of frustration that ended only yesterday afternoon, I was again dumbfounded. What I had, left my supplier in Edison, NJ at 20:57 on the 4th and after a trip over to Rockford, Il., was back to Cleveland and in my fist at 11:27 on the Jan 5th. In about 14-1/2 hours, it had gone through 11 hands and covered about 1,200 miles. (NewEgg shipped it next day air at no charge for the inconvenience :thumb: )
I had been frustrated by the couple days delay in getting my order straightened out in a system that that would have taken a couple weeks of expedited correspondence just a few years ago. The parts entered a transport system that could not have been dreamed of at any time in human history. There is no question what part our computers played in this or the magic that we have come to take for granted.
What has impressed or even dazzled you when you have taken the time to actually think about it?
I recently ordered an extra 80Gb HD and another 1/2 Gb of RAM from a good online supplier that only uses UPS for delivery. I used PayPal because they have my work address also connected to my card for the different delivery address from my home address, which takes 2 extra days to get anything off the brown truck because I'm seldom here to sign for it and have to play the green-tag-tag game.
I place my order late one night last week and start getting the 'Thank you for ordering' e-mails right away but receive notice the next day the order is in "payment confirmation". I call to hear that "Christmas rush caused a PayPal clog they are working through", but will be happy to take my card direct and avoid PayPal completely.
After I add the weekend AND the holiday :rolleye: ..... I get an "address confirmation" e-mail and get to call again so I can be told "I have to contact my card holder and have THEM add the delivery address" that I wanted to use so I could get it right away. :banghead: In only ONE MORE DAY...... the system as been appeased. :faint:
There is a good part of this when all the pieces are in place. :D I now plan to watch this and see what else can go wrong. I'll start tracking at noon......... except for the fact that 11:30, the brown truck dumps it at the plant. :nana: Among the things that DO work is the ability to trace/watch the movement of something that use to go into the darkness of "It's been shipped" :yikes:. We can now see the moment a parcel reaches each step in the once hidden confusion of moving something from one place to another in real time. When I pulled up the tracking screen to see how I could have it in my hand after the week of frustration that ended only yesterday afternoon, I was again dumbfounded. What I had, left my supplier in Edison, NJ at 20:57 on the 4th and after a trip over to Rockford, Il., was back to Cleveland and in my fist at 11:27 on the Jan 5th. In about 14-1/2 hours, it had gone through 11 hands and covered about 1,200 miles. (NewEgg shipped it next day air at no charge for the inconvenience :thumb: )
I had been frustrated by the couple days delay in getting my order straightened out in a system that that would have taken a couple weeks of expedited correspondence just a few years ago. The parts entered a transport system that could not have been dreamed of at any time in human history. There is no question what part our computers played in this or the magic that we have come to take for granted.
What has impressed or even dazzled you when you have taken the time to actually think about it?