Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Lollyphile: Philed under "P" for Phailure

The suspense. The anticipation. The promise of pork.
There was a time when I was a man with dreams. Dreams of sustainable, organic, cured bacon wrapped in a sweet blanket of sugar and impaled upon a stick.
Sadly, it was not meant to be.

It's true; I placed an order for lollyphile's much vaunted maple-bacon lollipops. Two orders, in fact. One was for a friend.

Timeline of phailure:
October (time of ordering): informed that there's no way to include a message with my gift of maple-bacon lollipops. The gift to my friend will have to be anonymous - I can only hope the confections will speak for themselves.

November: A month later. No lollipops. No follow-up. I write them and hear back a week later to discover that they're backlogged. Promised they'll arrive soon.

December: No lollipops. No follow-up.

January: No lollipops. Informed that they shipped the lollipops (though one order sent to wrong address), but as they cannot track orders they don't know what happened.
No offer to refund order. Not going to replace the order.

...so not going to shop with them again. 
...bummer, was thinking of signing up for their candy-of-the month club... I hear you get your first order five months after you sign up ;)



...Oh Wendy's ~ who cares about your beef?
Where's the pork!?