That was a complicated and long-drawn-out shopping endeavor.
1. Decided not to buy online because the combination of shipping and sales tax was something like 20% of the price of the actual clothes. Was considering two shirts, one pair corduroy pants, one vest. Debated about whether the second shirt was really necessary (or the vest, for that matter).
2. Went to mall. Store in mall does not carry petites. Tried on items anyway. Too long but otherwise fitting. Could have bought vest in store because petite size is not essential in something without arms or legs, but they didn't have color I wanted.
3. Tried to order via phone in store - they ship directly to your house but don't charge for shipping. (I don't understand this.)
4. Realized catalog in store was not the very latest (because it's one of those companies that sends out a barrage of catalogs at the start of each season) and didn't have some of the items I wanted.
5. Spoke to helpful salesman who showed me other catalog. Second catalog still didn't have items I wanted.
6. Realized first catalog had offer for free shipping. Asked if I could take one. (They had a stack.)
7. Came home and ordered online with code from catalog. I'm not sure the $15 I saved was worth all that time.
8. Reallized later that store not only didn't have vest in color I wanted, their vests were in entirely different colors than those in caalog / online. Odd.
On the plus side, I'm glad I went. I looked in a bunch of other stores and decided that yes, this particular onne had what I wanted. More important, I'd had trouble persuading myself to get up and go, having erged a half-marathon earlier, and it was good for me to walk around for a while.
Posted by dichroic at August 20, 2006 07:55 PM