Free Flowers?

Via Twitter I've just come across www.freeplant.net - a website that claims it will deliver a free bouquet of flowers to anyone anywhere. Weird. I've put in an order, so we'll see!

eBay madness

When are eBay going to undo their stupid zero-postage policy on book lots? How are sellers supposed to get the books to the buyers if they can't charge for postage? I don't know about other people, but it's a massive disincentive for me to list any books on the site.

AND I notice that many sellers are circumventing this stupid policy by (a) listing their books in categories that allow postage to be added or (b) just adding postage anyway. If eBay want to continue with this stupid policy they need to stop ALL these breaches, but I don't see them doing it. Ergo: scrap this stupid policy.

Idiots.

Improved :(

We had Aldi's frozen lamb shanks for tea tonight. A good product, but somehow not as good as I remembered it. Putting the box into the recycling bin, I spotted the words "Improved Recipe" and I understood. In the shopping context, eight times out of ten "improved" means exactly the opposite. People who buy products buy them because they like them, not because they nearly like them. About the only decent Johnsons baby product was their baby-bath but then they went and changed it and we had to go back to Infacare.

My wife gets more upset about this than I do: she really resents it when her favourite household and toiletry products are suddenly changed. If only there'd been a warning, we could've bought in a couple of years' supply of the original product...