It was still quite usable.
We shopped for the case after I bought the tablet. I thought the price of $35 was outrageous for what it was, but Ray said, oh you poor old man with no money and you can't afford a case for your new tablet.
So yes, I bought the case. But now it was broken, I looked online at local shops, including the big blue shed, and it was still around the same price.
I looked online at where else I could buy a case by mail order. There were some very cheap options and after my third try at looking, I found one I liked. Not so cheap. I could have received free delivery if I signed up for something, but nah.
Including the delivery fee, it was about $25. The product is excellent, better than my old one.
I can see why people buy online, and local retailers need to take notice. I like to look at things before buying them, and I couldn't in this case, but it turned out very well.
You can see the broken top corners, and the magnetic strips on the base to hold the screen in position.
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More on mail order. I looked at several places in the city to buy a new letter opener. I don't know what happened to my old one. It just vanished when I rearranged things when I bought the stand for my desktop monitor. One day it will turn up. I could not find a new one and so I looked online and there were plenty. In the meantime Kosov lent me his pocket knife, but the sharp blade did not work as well. I ordered a new letter opener online and it duly arrived, and then that evening, Phyllis marches in with a new letter opener he found in souvenier shop. So now I have two! I don't receive much mail now, but when I do, I like to open an envelope with a letter opener and I have done so for years, with the openers nice neat cut at the top of the envelope.
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I have a letter opener from a patient who died in 2015, I still use it. She was quite the character. Her earrings were tiny revolvers and she gave out gifts to the staff that she liked that said," Stolen From D****** O*****". Thanks for making me think about her.
ReplyDeletePixie, I'll bite. D Osmond?
DeleteNo, her name didn't even start with an O, it was a typo:)
DeleteOur letter opener is in the style of a Commando dagger. P's dad got it from the Commando Veterans' Association many years ago as an ex WWII Commando and P is very proud of it.
ReplyDeleteIt does its job well.
JayCee, and they don't wear out...just get lost.
DeleteWe don’t get letters anymore , text and email do the trick. At the moment however we are getting nonsense political propaganda ….recycle bin straight away. These propagandists should realise they are contributing to tree destruction, energy consumption, irritation as well as street litter .
ReplyDeleteWho even buys a newspaper now, it’s all online .
Same here, Anon. I've gone over a week without any mail, and then it was not mail that interested me. There is plenty of mail at the moment that doesn't interest me.
DeleteSome on line purchases work very well. I don't buy clothes that way. And rarely buy clothes. I really don't like shopping. Himself does.
ReplyDeleteI need a letter opener. We have several and I can never find them. Glad that your case purchase worked so well.
EC, only once did I buy clothing online, a pair of jeans from the US. (Note that trade, your a***hole #47). The fit was slightly different and I would not do it again. Mine always sit in the same place.
DeletePS, I would send you my extra one, but you'd only lose it.
DeleteCarlos has two very nice letter openers and ever since meeting him I have become a letter opener opener.
ReplyDeleteBob, I find opening letters with a letter opener creates a nice feeling doin' stuff proper like.
DeleteYou did the right thing. Best to buy the current stock rather than later on once tariff costs everything more
ReplyDeleteWill it Roentare? Australian steel exported to China to be made into letter openers and sent back to Australia.
DeleteI could never find any of my letter openers so I eventually gave up on searching and just open envelopes with my thumb, tearing them awkwardly.
ReplyDeleteI had to revert that Boud, while I was without an opener. It was horrible.
DeleteI have a couple of letter openers that I regularly use. Both were advertising giveaways with company names on them. I got them years ago, don't see advertising like that anymore.
ReplyDeleteDeb, that's nice. Drug companies no longer lavish doctors with as many gifts, but they do in other ways at conferences etc.
DeleteNow if you lose one, you have a backup. We order online a lot.
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Sandra, I know online trade is bigger in your country and that's fine, but I am very pleased when I can buy locally for similar quality and price.
DeleteI too like to look at things in a brick-and-mortar store before I buy them, but if the price is right, I take my chances online.
ReplyDeleteKirk, the price differences here can be so extreme, so I do understand why people buy online.
DeleteYou can use the letter openers to defend yourself when Phyllis and Kosov turn on you in a drug-fuelled rage.
ReplyDeleteYP, Phyllis is a good Christian boy, and Kesav has Brahmin mother. You know how pure religious people are.
DeleteYes. I know a lot about Catholic priests and nuns.
DeleteIt's good your shopping online worked out well.
ReplyDeleteI've lost my letter opener and won't get another, not enough snail mail these days, if I do get a snail mail, I tear the side of the envelope open.
Margaret, much the same for me, so little snail mail. But still, I do like to use the opener.
DeleteThere's something very satisfying about using a letter opener. It's neat and efficient.
ReplyDeleteJB, it is and while it isn't a sharp cut, it is an efficient cut. Could it be used as a defence weapon? Has an intruder ever been stabbed by a letter opener? Maybe a Miss Marple story.
DeleteThe letter opener I use, was a thoughtful gift from my sister, probably 50 years ago. It has pennies in the handle.
ReplyDeleteTP, pennies! It must have a decent sized handle.
DeleteI usually use a blunt ' butter knife ' as a letter opener, that is if I don't feverishly rip open the very few letters we get by hand!
ReplyDeleteAgree about online buying - retailers do need to up their game a bit to compete.
Alison in Wales x
Alison, that would be a good substitute. I am not a feverish ripper. There are no longer handwritten letters to get excited about.
DeleteThe Amazon site is the devil, as we like to say, taking business away from local brick and mortar stores. But it's difficult to resist the quick shipping, as are its honest customer product reviews. :) Take care, my dear.
ReplyDeleteDarla, I would like to think bricks and mortar will always be with us.
DeleteWe have a brass letter opener. It's in the mail compartment of the computer desk. We rarely think to take it out, as sad as it is. I don't think that bills deserve such an elegant tool.
ReplyDeleteDebby, that's funny. There is little mail that is interesting nowadays.
DeleteI have two letter openers, one was a gift and the other a souvenir bought home by ex-the-first from Toowoomba Qld. This second one is a quite sharp little dagger with a wooden handle and a matching wooden sheath. I never use either, always just grabbing the old butter knife to open envelopes.
ReplyDeleteRiver, butter knives seem popular alternatives.
DeleteI don't get enough mail anymore to justify buying a letter opener. I still have one -- it belonged to my grandmother -- but if I lose it I'm not buying another!
ReplyDeleteSteve, they are going to become a historical object.
DeleteThough I prefer to buy local when I can, shopping online with all of that choice is intoxicating! And nothing beats having these things show up in your lobby a few days later!
ReplyDeleteCloudia, yes. It is exciting when things are delivered.
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