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Conair, I fucking hate you.
Okay, so I've got a hair dryer. One of these, to be specific, albeit an older model. Back in the pre-dred days I swore by this thing. Still do, it's a fantastic little workhorse of a dryer, not to mention it is VERY good at sealing the windows during the winter due to the big ass comb style nozzle.
Seeing as I have comb-able hair again and a little bit of cash to drop on it, my attention turns to the problem of replacing the two comb attachments that came with it. Since I have your standard comb-destroying black girl hair, the original attachments had long since gone to the great Vidal Sassoon in the sky after gradually losing most of their teeth in faithful service. No problem, you'd think, by the power of THE INTERNET replacing them should be a snap, right?
Except the only place to get them is off the Conair web site, the combs are $4.99 each, and with ass-slow shipping the order would come to about $20.
You can get the same dryer at Target new, with all three attachments, for $18.
What the fuck, are you seriously encouraging me to toss a perfectly good hair dryer by overcharging for two flimsy lumps of plastic? Yes. Yes you are. AAAAAGH. DISPOSABLE CULTURE DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE. Am I the only person that finds something wasteful and wrong with the mentality/reality that it is now cheaper to throw out and replace a lot of everyday crap than to fix it???
FUCKING HATE EVERYTHING GONNA GO POUT OK DONE NOW. </hissy>
Okay, so I've got a hair dryer. One of these, to be specific, albeit an older model. Back in the pre-dred days I swore by this thing. Still do, it's a fantastic little workhorse of a dryer, not to mention it is VERY good at sealing the windows during the winter due to the big ass comb style nozzle.
Seeing as I have comb-able hair again and a little bit of cash to drop on it, my attention turns to the problem of replacing the two comb attachments that came with it. Since I have your standard comb-destroying black girl hair, the original attachments had long since gone to the great Vidal Sassoon in the sky after gradually losing most of their teeth in faithful service. No problem, you'd think, by the power of THE INTERNET replacing them should be a snap, right?
Except the only place to get them is off the Conair web site, the combs are $4.99 each, and with ass-slow shipping the order would come to about $20.
You can get the same dryer at Target new, with all three attachments, for $18.
What the fuck, are you seriously encouraging me to toss a perfectly good hair dryer by overcharging for two flimsy lumps of plastic? Yes. Yes you are. AAAAAGH. DISPOSABLE CULTURE DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE. Am I the only person that finds something wasteful and wrong with the mentality/reality that it is now cheaper to throw out and replace a lot of everyday crap than to fix it???
FUCKING HATE EVERYTHING GONNA GO POUT OK DONE NOW. </hissy>
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*Hums Tears for Fears*
Date: 2010-02-03 06:44 pm (UTC)From:Yea you know it is a disposable world when it cost less to buy a new printer than to replace the ink...
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(Of course, this puts me in mind of a poorly designed RPG system George told me. Apparently, it was easier to kill an injured person and then bring him back to life than simply to heal his wound in the first place.)