The Irate Consumers Thread

[OhMissScarlett]

Well, how else was I supposed to appease Barbie's foot fetish?

Bratz creators decided shoes were too difficult to put on and take off, so they just made the feet interchanchable...shoes intact.

Creepy shit, I tell ya, but the girls are happy and I got to watch enough Wimbledon to know what's happening in the finals. SCORE!


~lucky

I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks those detachable feet are creepy. Yes, Madison, you can have your Ug boots but at the expense of your legs being removed!

 

[Lady_Kit]

I've actually thrown away food because I couldn't open the package. A jar of salsa comes to mind.

I've stabbed myself while using a knife to intimidate a plastic package.

I'm not alone. Just read about a British study in which 60,000 emergency hospital visits were due to "packaging related injuries." There's no comparable U.S. study, probably because our packaging manufacturers have had the foresight to purchase some congressmen and a hunting lodge.

Fight back! Invent the All-Purpose Non-Lethal Package Opener, one of you subversives out there. It's them or us.

Packaging Engineers are the lowest form of Engineering Scum!
Would someone explain to me why my alergy pills must be encased in hard plastic backed by foil and covered with a plastic coating that cannot be removed by the average alergy victim cause our eyes are puffy and we can't fucking see!
Thanks for providing this chance to vent Sher.

Oh, and regarding your matress question, it sometimes does pay to go for one of the name brands and to ask about a warranty. Believe it or not, we had a matress replaced because it was wearing too quickly...Mac & I were recently married. Good luck!

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[shereads]

Packaging Engineers are the lowest form of Engineering Scum!
Would someone explain to me why my alergy pills must be encased in hard plastic backed by foil and covered with a plastic coating that cannot be removed by the average alergy victim cause our eyes are puffy and we can't fucking see!
Thanks for providing this chance to vent Sher.

My dog's heartworm preventive pills are packaged like that. (Maybe they're the same drug?) Rather than banning women from combat zones, ban the package that requires us to remove a pill from a package that can only be opened by sawing through a sheet of laminated paper with a very sharp knife, at just the right angle so that the pill isn't damaged, while a hungry dog leaps up to see what we're about to add to her breakfast.

Oh, and regarding your matress question, it sometimes does pay to go for one of the name brands and to ask about a warranty. Believe it or not, we had a matress replaced because it was wearing too quickly...Mac & I were recently married. Good luck!

I'm about to have my brand new one (Sealy) replaced because the nice cushiony top is so deeply cushioned that it has valleys between the quilted squares of cushiony stuff. It's comfy until you try to move, and find yourself attempting to roll uphill. Sigh...

Instead of a better mattress, someone should invent a safe way to induce a light, 8-hour coma.


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[R. Richard]

I am not a packaging engineer. However, I can answer your question.

In the "good old days" they did not package things in near armor steel. Then they found that things like food and medication were being broken into by the insane and poisoned. So food and medicine were put into near armor steel packaging. Thus, new packaging machines are built to package in near armor steel since at least food and medicine packages need to be made in this manner.

 

[cantdog]

Some of us are old enough to remember the Tylenol Tampering thing, but that still doesn't cover BRATZ.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Some of us are old enough to remember the Tylenol Tampering thing, but that still doesn't cover BRATZ.

Amen!
I still haven't figured out the benefit to sewing the bitches' hair to the box.

 

[Lady_Kit]

Amen!
I still haven't figured out the benefit to sewing the bitches' hair to the box.

To keep it out of the "joints" in the packaging so the seal is complete. Wouldn't want the dollies getting stale. Much as I hated Barbies shoes, I'm glad that they were the removable accessory. Removable feet...ick!
(How're you and the Mrs? You're happy ending is always good for a smile.)

Sadly, I too am old enough to remember the Tylenol incident and so I do understand why its done. I just wish someone could do it consistantly. Thats the thing that kills me, sometimes you really can peel back one corner and pop those pills right out of the package. Other times, its a blow-torch and an electric knife. I know its the settings on the machines, but isn't someone watching?

My dog's heartworm preventive pills are packaged like that. (Maybe they're the same drug?)

Can't be, I have no heart. Just ask my ex-husband.

 

[shereads]

I am not a packaging engineer. However, I can answer your question.

In the "good old days" they did not package things in near armor steel. Then they found that things like food and medication were being broken into by the insane and poisoned. So food and medicine were put into near armor steel packaging. Thus, new packaging machines are built to package in near armor steel since at least food and medicine packages need to be made in this manner.

I know. The Tylenol Poisoner did for packaging what the Shoe Bomber did for air travel. I appreciate a nice airtight package. If only they'd take into account that the package needs to be opened eventually. A lot of package designs seem to have been hurried into production right after the Keep It Closed Committee finished, bypassing the critically important How Does It Open? Committee. The most infuriating thing with those laminated pill-packs is that there's always a simple little drawing that shows someone daintily lifting a corner. As if the corner didn't have to be loosened with a reciprocating saw first.

 

[Songcatcher]

That

Sound

Kinky.