Fiasco by mail�

2004-12-28

I am one of the world's biggest geeks. I bought a Zen Ant Lion Farm. And I'm really enjoying it. I guess growing up just isn't on my list.

It's supposed to rain for the next week. Now Southern California pretty much always needs rain, but a whole week of it is on the ridiculous side.

I ordered a bunch of plants from this place a couple of weeks ago. Yesterday they arrived, looking like this:

And this:

Now I�m used having mail order plants look unprepossessing; shipping is hard on plants. But these plants are just fried. I don�t know what happened to them between when they were shipped and when they arrived, but it was bad whatever it was. They shipped out 3-day select on the 20th and arrived on the 27th.

I called their customer service department once already and they told me to go ahead and just plant them, and if they didn�t grow to call them back. I don�t think so. I�m just not willing to go through the time and effort to plant dead plants!

I don�t really want my money back, yet. I�ve got to call them again tomorrow and see what I can get them to do.

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