Why so difficult, plus-size merchants?
Jan. 8th, 2014 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sThe underpants that fit me best are rare. I buy the cheapest I can find online, and the last big buy I made gave me about three years' worth of plain, functional white undies. Perfect. Of course, rotating through them evenly meant they all wore out around the same time.
The online merchant who sells them decided, in the interim, to no longer allow us pesky customers to choose between white, and "assorted"- it's only "assorted," now. Oh, the ad copy contends that this means you might get all white, or solid colors, or prints. But you can only choose style and size, not color. They knew that there were no other sources anywhere near their low price. I held out for months, thought I should try to make my own, but that is just... too far beyond me right at the moment. So I caved.
One time, several years ago, I had ordered "assorted" from them, two packs of them. They sent two of the same assortment. Which seemed like a dick move to me, at the time, and I complained, and they sent a snotty reply. This time I was resigned to the fact that, buying three of the 5-packs of "assorted" I might very well end up with three duplicates. They arrived today, and I have two packs of the same, plus one different. Not a white pair in the lot, of course, and I am not at all surprised that there are only two of the fifteen that I would be able to wear with pastel, lightweight pants in the summer. Obviously these are from the duplicated pack. The rest... well, I don't wear underpants to look at them. So the ugly, ugly purples with the stupid prints are not really an issue. Two different tones of solid color purple in those sets, but at least there's the light grey there for my only summer option. The different set includes a pair of black, a pair of orange, a pair of teal, and then two of teal prints that are just weird enough that I like them.
So now I have a few months to get to the point where I can try making them for myself, before I need white underpants for summer. ::sigh::
The online merchant who sells them decided, in the interim, to no longer allow us pesky customers to choose between white, and "assorted"- it's only "assorted," now. Oh, the ad copy contends that this means you might get all white, or solid colors, or prints. But you can only choose style and size, not color. They knew that there were no other sources anywhere near their low price. I held out for months, thought I should try to make my own, but that is just... too far beyond me right at the moment. So I caved.
One time, several years ago, I had ordered "assorted" from them, two packs of them. They sent two of the same assortment. Which seemed like a dick move to me, at the time, and I complained, and they sent a snotty reply. This time I was resigned to the fact that, buying three of the 5-packs of "assorted" I might very well end up with three duplicates. They arrived today, and I have two packs of the same, plus one different. Not a white pair in the lot, of course, and I am not at all surprised that there are only two of the fifteen that I would be able to wear with pastel, lightweight pants in the summer. Obviously these are from the duplicated pack. The rest... well, I don't wear underpants to look at them. So the ugly, ugly purples with the stupid prints are not really an issue. Two different tones of solid color purple in those sets, but at least there's the light grey there for my only summer option. The different set includes a pair of black, a pair of orange, a pair of teal, and then two of teal prints that are just weird enough that I like them.
So now I have a few months to get to the point where I can try making them for myself, before I need white underpants for summer. ::sigh::
