I used to swear by Deepdiscount.com. Bought stuff from them all the time. Then, they decided to stop letting me; all of a sudden, every attempt I made to make a purchase from them was met with some sort of processing error. Customer service told me to resubmit the orders; didn’t work. So I gave up on ‘em. Since then, whenever it would come up that I’d had problems with Deepdiscount, our pal Dan would mention that he never ever had. It was a reasonable thing for him to mention. I used to do the same thing when people would speak of poor service at Amazon. (Of course, that was before Amazon put me on their “To give shaft” list.)
So spurred on by Dan’s persistent good experiences, I made a new Deepdiscount account and placed an order a while ago. You see where this is going.
This time, it’s a whole new variety of screws being put to me. This time, I placed my order, everything was fine, until I began to wonder why it hadn’t shipped yet. Looked at my account, discovered that my items were apparently now on “Backorder.” They hadn’t bothered to mention this, of course, either in their confirmation of the order or on the front page. You can see why they wouldn’t trouble themselves. I mean, who needs things delivered in a timely fashion around this time of year? NOBODY, THAT’S WHO.
So, I’m really very glad it’s a site that works so well for others. I myself am never going back under any fucking circumstances. And all this is to say nothing of my recent difficulties with Bestprices.com and Toyrocket. Suffice it to say, you win, online vendors; my gall, my temerity, my unmitigated cheek in trying to give you money in exchange for the items you offer for sale will not be repeated.
But enough about that. How about a cartoon? It’s dedicated to Mr. Nikolas Rubenstein. Annotations below!
- I do not, in fact, know all the lyrics to every song ever written by man. But I do know the lyrics to an awful lot of them, including a great many songs that I’ve never liked for a second. It is my gift – and also my curse. And it also led to a conversation with the abovementioned Mr. Rubenstein, similar to the sixth panel of this cartoon, which inspired the rest of it.
- The first song is “Dead or Alive,” by Bon Jovi. The second is Young MC’s “Bust a Move.” I do know the lyrics to both, yes, though the former is one of those songs I’ve never liked I was mentioning.