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What's Wrong With These Pictures?

profanereviewsPosted for Friends to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read

Sometimes I wonder what the hell we are doing here.

On this planet. In this life.

I am constantly amazed by the world we live in but not always in a good way. Take the Dollar Shave Club for instance. Every two months I get a four-pack of razor blades for $10.50 and I save them up for a few years and then suspend my account until we start getting low. They come in an envelope.

Every two months I also get an email where they try to upsell me. I understand this concept. Look at McDonalds. If you buy a combo for $9.69 you will end up getting your fries for a nickle or whatever the amount is. I usually get the combo because I want the fries and I don't get McDonalds very often. Also, it's only an extra few cents.

These DSC folks, on the other hand, don't really get the whole provide value thing. This is my box that I usually get. Pretty good, free shipping, excellent quality razor blades that the whole family uses because we all have an executive handle.
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The cheapest add-on is $6 for some shampoo. Why not? Sage and black pepper sounds amazing.
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Oh cool, I am going to have amazing smelling hair for $5.70 and it knocks $.52 off of my razors. That's awesome. Oh, that's the subtotal. I better go see what the total is. You know for taxes and everything.
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WTF? $6 for shipping added on to my $5.70 shampoo? Fuck that shit. I guess I will just have to smell like the handmade soap that we make for almost free.


Oh well, at least my Amazon order is here with my geological hammer and the add-on coconut oil. I will head to the Post Office and pick them up. The coconut oil is a really good price because you have to add it on to another item as it is bulky and expensive to ship on it's own. If you spend $30 or something like that you can order four of them so we wait until we have enough and take advantage of the savings.

First, lets open the big box.

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Oh good, it's packed with air.
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What the hell? Where is the coconut oil? Damn you, Amazon! Oh well, let's look into the other packages that all came from the same place.
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Oh there is the coconut oil. Hmmmmm, I wonder...
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... Yep, good thing we didn't waste Amazon's shipping money by ordering separately.

Oh, speaking of Amazon, if you use either amazon.com or amazon.ca, you might be interested in this.

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