Store's "Free Gift Wrapping" Means "Everything Wrapped Together"
Joe received his order from DiscoverThis.com today and yes, they did indeed wrap the items for free. Too bad they wrapped them together as one unit.
For the record, we're not trying to shame DiscoverThis.com too badly. They sell cool toys (this page alone could keep me occupied for my entire childhood) and Joe says they shipped out his order pretty much instantaneously. We're just amused, as is Joe, about their decision to wrap his gifts up as one unit. It's weirder still when you notice that the items are duplicates, which makes them even less likely to be meant as a single gift. But it was free!
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this almost happened to me. I ordered some gifts (multiples of the same thing) from saks online last week and marked them for gift wrapping. well, i almost missed the option which said something like "wrap these gifts separately". i think they should just wrap everything separately. Even if they were all going to the same person, people like opening multiple gifts.
Welcome to internet shopping. We're efficient when it comes to using up wrapping paper, and we'll send you a case big enough to ship a toddler for a dozen screws.
@xman31: Hahaha...shouldn't even be an option.
"Look, mom, uncle Ash phoned it in again this year!"
This is part of why I go to the extra time and expense of having everything shipped to me first, then back out to the family. My wife--on a bad day--runs circles around the best store giftwrappers.
Just another scam. I've yet to find a promotion that isn't trying to advertise something it's not. As an example:
Buy 1 plane ticket and get companion ticket free*.
*You must buy 1st ticket from our agency at our price from our selected departure/destination points on dates/times we pick.
Yea right!
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I ordered from Discovery.com a couple of years ago and they then bombarded me with junk mail. That was the last time I did business with them.
I don't get why people order things gift wrapped. What if they sent the wrong thing, or it's damaged? You won't know until the gift recipient opens it!
O! Capsela.
My wanton childhood lust for a Capsela set was exceeded only by my unlikelihood of ever actually getting one.
get what ya pay for...
I'm still scratching my head over why anyone would think that wrapping up multiple items with one wrapper would be wanted by anyone? Who thinks like that?
When I've ordered things online and gotten gift wrapping, I usually pay the wrapping per item - sounds like since this was free they just took the fast way out.
It's clearly a selling ploy. Who's going to return an item because it wasn't wrapped properly for free?
Ha! I never trust free gift wrapping.
I went to a bed, bath, and beyond for a friend's wedding gift. The "free" wrapping entailed greyscale floral print PLASTIC BAGS just bunched up around the box with a ribbon on it. I was afraid that someone would think i had wrapped it myself and that i had some kind of mental handicap. Thankfully I had a relative that was willing re wrap it.
The upshot was that there were other wedding guests who saw no problem with this concept of wrapping and displayed it prominently on the gift table.
Ya get what ya pay for...
Maybe they thought it was meant to be a spare in case the kid wrecked the first one...or something?
I would love that 66 inch skeleton though, would look sweet in my office.