Rewinding a Garden Hose?

[W. eWatson]

No kidding?

[Jim Redelfs]

Agreed.

These are known as "high maintenance" customers. These customers are also "figured-into" the overall business, or they should be.

I walked into the Burger King ("Have It Your Way) and ordered a Whopper with "light mustard".

The hapless and probably new cashier, without so much as a pause, replied, "We don't put mustard on the Whopper."

I replied, "That's fine, would you please put 'light mustard' on mine?"

The cashier finally realized their error before the transaction took much longer. I got HEAVY mustard.

There will always be a percentage of goods-returning customers that will simply be dissatisfied that something - ANYTHING - is wrong with their purchase and that they must (or believe they must) return to the seller for an adjustment. These are the folks that would bitch if they were hung with a NEW rope. There is no satisfying these people.

[Jim Redelfs]

You never know how your words will go on Usenet.

Good luck. Even the best, pure rubber hose wouldn't be very compliant when it must be rolled as TIGHT as possible for re-packaging for retail sale.

Did I win the prize?

Good luck with your hose.

[dpb]

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But you were the one complaining that the merchant should take back anything for any reason in any condition "to keep the account"...

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[Jim Redelfs]

Yes, I was.

More accurately, I recall putting the onus on the original manufacturer or, at least, several "layers" back from the final reseller. I don't believe that agreeing with the above, simple statement, discounts the overall point I made.

In my case, I would be too embarrassed to return a non-defective, new hose because it was too SHORT. I would simply acquire yet another length of hose, too.

[Tony]

Have you considered buying another length of hose and adding it to the first one?

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[David Combs]

In article , W. eWatson wrote: ...

600 feet! Plain garden-hose?

Doesn't the side-friction pretty much stop all water-flow?

Especially with standard water-faucet water-pressure.

Seems like you'd need a coupla-inches diameter ...

David

[David Combs]

Wrapping 600' of hose -- around a COFFEE CAN?

David

[David Combs]

In article , mm wrote: ... ...

NO, DAMNIT, NO!!!

Do NOT eat from (well-)dented cans. It's *dangeroous*!

At least it once was.

I remember way, way back to what, the late 50's or early 60's, I think it was.

This fancy-soup company's soup came in cans.

Some people (a family? Several? Once city? Several?) ended up with some dented cans, and ate the soup.

(I think it was vichyssoise (sp?) -- to be eaten cold.)

And DIED!

Something about hairpin-holes caused by the denting, oxygen getting in and turning the soup to poison.

Was in the news for a while -- company quickly folded.

Careful, careful with dented cans!

(Maybe they do things differently today.)

David

[David Combs]

Thank God for Costco!

They take back ANYTHING, at ANY TIME (as long as they're still selling the item.)

David

[Sam E]

There was no deity involved.

-- Spock.