The internets are disappointing
Dec. 7th, 2008 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI have a small chococoffeebean crisis.
I have, in fact, run out of chocolate-coated coffee beans.
Which wouldn't be a problem, except that it's proving curiously hard to replace them, when all I want is plain chocolate-coated coffee beans. By which I mean plain, milk or white chocolate coats: I like them all. What I don't like is the elaborated versions, amaretto flavour or toddy flavour or anything else. But nobody seems to be stocking the plain ones any more.
So - of course! - I went internetting. And no doubt I can find something satisfactory; but I got distracted by a terrible disappointment. I found a site that would sell me 3kg! For less than a tenner! Which is extraordinarily cheap, for something usually sold by the 100g in sums of pounds and pence.
So I clicked through.
And saw first that they would add VAT, which took it up to - well, less than twelve quid, anyway. Still a bargain.
So then I looked for their delivery charge.
Uh, that would be £45. Or £65, depending.
Um, no, then...
[In other news: Barry loves this time of year. People wear jumpers! He sits on people and kneads their lovely jumpers, and then they scritch him. And then he does his rusty-hacksaw-cuts-a-broken-pipe imitation that he is proud to call a purr, and they scritch him more. And then they can't stop. Barry is infinitely scritchable: that'll be every angle of his skull, if you please, and when you think you've finished we'll just begin again, thank you...]
I have, in fact, run out of chocolate-coated coffee beans.
Which wouldn't be a problem, except that it's proving curiously hard to replace them, when all I want is plain chocolate-coated coffee beans. By which I mean plain, milk or white chocolate coats: I like them all. What I don't like is the elaborated versions, amaretto flavour or toddy flavour or anything else. But nobody seems to be stocking the plain ones any more.
So - of course! - I went internetting. And no doubt I can find something satisfactory; but I got distracted by a terrible disappointment. I found a site that would sell me 3kg! For less than a tenner! Which is extraordinarily cheap, for something usually sold by the 100g in sums of pounds and pence.
So I clicked through.
And saw first that they would add VAT, which took it up to - well, less than twelve quid, anyway. Still a bargain.
So then I looked for their delivery charge.
Uh, that would be £45. Or £65, depending.
Um, no, then...
[In other news: Barry loves this time of year. People wear jumpers! He sits on people and kneads their lovely jumpers, and then they scritch him. And then he does his rusty-hacksaw-cuts-a-broken-pipe imitation that he is proud to call a purr, and they scritch him more. And then they can't stop. Barry is infinitely scritchable: that'll be every angle of his skull, if you please, and when you think you've finished we'll just begin again, thank you...]