Next day delivery a bit of a pain? We have just the thing... nestled deep in the terms and conditions
- Reference: 1607425213
- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/12/08/bork/
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Register reader Alan noted the borkage while studying the small print around delivery, warranty and returns for laptop parts website [1]laptopbitz.co.uk .
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Lurking above a paragraph in which the retailer apologises for stock levels occasionally being lower than shown on the site ("this is because we are only human – and mistakes happen!") a woopsie of a different sort appears to have been made.
At the end of a chunk of text comes a sentence not entirely related to the business of shipping keyboards and batteries:
"Ultram pills relieve pain very effectively. When pressure changes or magnetic storms occur, my head hurts, it reacts to the weather. After taking the spazmalgon tablet, the pain disappears in 15 to 20 minutes. They are inexpensive. With stomach cramps, they also help."
While navigating Dell specification sheets or having an Apple apologist insist their hardware is actually very cheap "in the long term" can certainly be migraine-inducing, we're not sure about ordering Ultram from a laptop spares shop. A swift look-up shows the [3]generic name of Ultram is Tramadol , a name familiar to many in the UK who have found themselves deposited in their local Accident and Emergency department (ER, for our US readers) with, say, a poorly knee.
We're even less sure about Spazmalgon, which apparently smoothes muscle spasms.
Far be it from us to wonder if there has been a bit of copy and pasting happening during the creation of this site (and goodness, it would make a change from [4]Lorem ipsum ) if so. However, with many facing the [5]headache of securing shipments as the festive season approaches , perhaps a painkiller or two might be welcome before facing the slings, arrows and terse "missed you" card of a failed delivery. ®
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[1] https://laptopbitz.co.uk/delivery-warranty-returns/
[2] https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/12/07/bork_ts_and_cs.png
[3] https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-11276/ultram-oral/details
[4] https://loremipsum.io/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/30/pc_makers_warn_of_battle/
[6] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Laptop orders...
Give them a break, they're also bidding for [1]ferry contracts so this item is an essential part of their Ts & Cs
[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46748193
Time for them to change their FTP password
Looks like a bot has compromised them and is placing text in their site to help their SEO rather than a copy and paste snafu; worth letting them know if you can.
Newfangled
You should have used lipsum.com instead of loremipsum.io... it pre-dates the latter by 14 years, and is probably more relevant to this audience ;-)
Re: Newfangled
nah, you should use [1]baconipsum.com
[1] http://baconipsum.com
Re: Newfangled
(and goodness, it would make a change from Lorem ipsum)
Ditch Cicero, and use a bit of Catullus instead — [1]Catullus 23 is one possibility. (Translations into other languages are easily located via search engine.)
[1] https://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Catullus_23
Unless somebody was demonstrating their CMS as added that text and forgot to remove it?
I did this with a clients site once and changed it so "the nearest shopping centre is 40 million miles away". I forgot to change it back until ntk.net featured it...
I've worked in office parks where that would be an understatement.
woopsie of a different sort appears to have been made.
That's not a whoopsie. It's now proof that one person actually bothered to read the small print.
Re: woopsie of a different sort appears to have been made.
reminds of of Dave Gorman's first episode of Modern Life is Goodish, where he does that with the TFL hire bike T&Cs (30+ pages iirc) where he found TFL didn't know how many days were in a leap year.
A question...
Do they also have any ships available as part of their T&C's? A local pizza business wants to know...
spazmalgon
spasm all gone? You can't make this stuff up! It must be real.
Laptop orders...
...during the pandemic have certainly been migraine inducing. Just ask schools!