Had another cup of this with some half and half. This batch still isn’t as good as the original sample I had. So hormones are ruled out? But it’s still pretty decent. At least the base doesn’t go bitter.
Epic Rant Time
Off-topic, but man am I ever fuming about online orders/shipping right now. Aside from the Herbal Infusions fiasco, I made a Bare Minerals order whilst visiting my mom here in Alberta at the end of October. The company never gave me a tracking number, and since the shipping notification email vaguely said that they sent it either via USPS or Fedex, I assumed they therefore sent it via the former. Weeks went by and nothing. Finally decided to contact Bare Minerals to inquire about tracking. Took nearly a week for them to respond, saying that they need to retrieve the tracking number from the warehouse. Finally got an email from them this morning, the freaking day I’m flying back to the West Coast , giving me a Fedex tracking number, and the employee orthographically giggled gleefully and assured that the package should be here by December 2nd.
But wait, it gets better. Look up the tracking number and you will see that my parcel has in fact been here since November 6th and they attempted to deliver it four times. They didn’t have my phone number since Bare Minerals didn’t ask for one when placing the order, plus my mom lives in an apartment with 28 floors so I didn’t see a shipping notification tag (and neither was I looking out for one since this entire time, as mentioned, I was expecting a package via USPS/Canada Post). Plus the apartment doesn’t have a buzzer. So, of all times, they decided as of 12:11 this morning to send it back to Bare Minerals and has just left the facility. So I missed it by one day after all of this.
SO, I called Fedex asking if I could possibly get it rerouted to my Victoria address since I’m heading back there today and the employee said nope, no can do, it is already in Saska-freaking-toon on its way back to the Bare Minerals warehouse in Ohio, so I’d have to ask them to reship it to my Victoria apartment when they get it back.
An email later asking for them to resend it to my address once it gets back to them and I am sitting here on pins and needles. Ugh! Crossing the fingers they won’t recharge me for shipping and won’t have a problem with a reroute.
And have I mentioned that I was never able to make a Dammann Freres order because my bank thinks that European addresses are evil and has therefore barred me from using my credit card to order from their site?
End Rant
On the upside, I snagged some great local teas yesterday and will be enjoying/writing about those once I get back!
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Wow that sounds frustrating. If I didn’t work from home I think I’d be way less inclined to order stuff online – it seems like there are just so many ways it can get screwed up. I hope you get your Bare Minerals order without extra charges.
It seems like unless you work/live in a house, or work in an office/facility where there would always be someone to sign for a parcel, you’re bound to run into problems with these private couriers.
Thanks for your concern! Feel bad about ranting but wow, it’s one of those days… no… months.
If bare minerals actually tries to charge you for the reship, that’s ridiculous since you made an effort to contact them and got bum info. Also this shouldn’t be happening what with the HI fiasco already!
ack, so frustrating!
That’s what I hate about private courier companies too – if you aren’t there to sign for it, it is so hard to get the package.
Did you contact your bank about the International transactions. Sometimes they flag it as an irregular activity if it is not a normal transaction for you. I contact my CC company when travelling out of the country to avoid this.
Oh, that is so annoying! Fingers crossed for you.
Thanks, everyone! I have a feeling since they’re a big company, they’ll probably pull through and not charge me. Let’s hope.
But about Herbal Infusions, guess what? PayPal came through and got all of my money back! So w00t w00t.
yyz, I contacted my bank who then told me to phone the credit card company to try to unblock DF, but my credit card is expiring in a few days anyway. Just really bad timing. Oh well!
Yay! Thank goodness PayPal came through! Fingers crossed for good news about your other order.
Thank god for PayPal since herbal infusions is clearly the suck
Wow that sounds frustrating. If I didn’t work from home I think I’d be way less inclined to order stuff online – it seems like there are just so many ways it can get screwed up. I hope you get your Bare Minerals order without extra charges.
It seems like unless you work/live in a house, or work in an office/facility where there would always be someone to sign for a parcel, you’re bound to run into problems with these private couriers.
Thanks for your concern! Feel bad about ranting but wow, it’s one of those days… no… months.
If bare minerals actually tries to charge you for the reship, that’s ridiculous since you made an effort to contact them and got bum info. Also this shouldn’t be happening what with the HI fiasco already!
ack, so frustrating!
That’s what I hate about private courier companies too – if you aren’t there to sign for it, it is so hard to get the package.
Did you contact your bank about the International transactions. Sometimes they flag it as an irregular activity if it is not a normal transaction for you. I contact my CC company when travelling out of the country to avoid this.
Oh, that is so annoying! Fingers crossed for you.
Thanks, everyone! I have a feeling since they’re a big company, they’ll probably pull through and not charge me. Let’s hope.
But about Herbal Infusions, guess what? PayPal came through and got all of my money back! So w00t w00t.
yyz, I contacted my bank who then told me to phone the credit card company to try to unblock DF, but my credit card is expiring in a few days anyway. Just really bad timing. Oh well!
Yay! Thank goodness PayPal came through! Fingers crossed for good news about your other order.
Thank god for PayPal since herbal infusions is clearly the suck