How very annoying
I was about to write something about technique Vs. improvisation but I’ll leave it to later.
I’ve been telling this story about ordering cd’s from staalplaat. They not giving any answers to e-mails and me starting to worry that I’ve lost 120€ and never getting the cd’s. I worried so much, because some of the cd’s were releases of raster-noton and the prints are not so big and they might actually sell out. So ensuring that I’ll have them, I ordered those four (4) cd’s again from microsuoni (great shop btw, brilliant service, more later). At this point it was over a month since my order from staalplaat and I still haven’t heard anything from them. I already started a paypal dispute, still no answer so I made it a claim. And just hoped that paypal will decide the argument favour to me and I’ll get at least some of the money back.
Yesterday evening when I got to my mailbox I was waiting some kind of note that there’s a packet in post office for me. And there was, from microsuoni, but wtf, there was also a packet in the mailbox, from staalplaat!! so the cd’s arrived at the same day. This means I now have 2 copies of those four cd’s. Great. David from microsuoni already mailed me that if I’ll sent the cd’s back to them as a registered mail, I can have something else from them with same amount of money. That’s how great service they have.
Well this is not all. Earlier yesterday I was using Denise’s computer, because vinyl version of Jesu’s “conqueror” came to market at 12:00 cet. Well of course the shop pages crashed down due to heavy traffic. But I did get myself a clear vinyl, actually for various reason the computer made 5 orders of it. Of course I mailed them that I only need one, and it’s the pages acting up. So happy happy. When I got back home there was a e-mail waiting for me: “You might have noticed that our website couldn’t handle the heavy traffic and crashed. This resulted in selling more copies of the clear vinyl than we actually could. Unfortunately your order is one of those so we can’t send you any clear vinyl.” Was I annoyed? This coming in top of me ending up with 2 copies of those cd’s.
What can I do, if they don’t have it they don’t have it. I had ordered other stuff from them and was waiting just this to add onto the order. Luckily they edited my order a bit more because of this. Which made me feel a bit better. Still it was only 70 copies of that clear vinyl. I would have liked to have one.
Back home I started to imp those cd’s to my computer. And this time 2 cd that my drive just won’t read. It takes them in, lies almost silent for a while and then spits them out. Very annoying. I don’t have possibility to get new computer at the moment. I hope it’s just the cd’s or something. R’s machine read them fine, so I can add them to Pod anyway.
Let’s see what happens today.
