#BlogLife424 - Am I greedy or selfless?

I woke up this morning (Wednesday) to find that the Amazon seller had already replied to my response and I was expecting them to make excuses or tell me that I'm not using it right..

I mean some are just horrible and take no responsibility, bad review or not but this one was actually really kind and apologised for the inconvenience.

I was offered a full refund for the £46 I paid or I could be sent a replacement, which I assume is complimentary.

I just enquired to make sure as you can never take anything for granted, you have to ask questions and get the information for peace of mind.

Anyway, they also stated that I didn't need me to return the product, (which is what Amazon themselves kept telling me).

My blankies been on for an hour and half of me is still a frozen popsicle.

I had to decide, if I got a refund, I would be stuck in the same boat, money back but shivering.

If I accepted the replacement, would the second one be faulty also?

Should I keep them both? In the end I spoke to mama and asked if she would want it and would keep it for herself.

She has a habit of giving things away that I've spent significant money on and there was no way, my gift to her, would benefit someone else, not at £46.

I know I paid in vouchers but still and she said that she would love it actually because like me, she's been suffering with the weather.

She did offer to take this old one and let me have the new one and it did selfishly cross my mind.

But even I'm not that much of a Scroogey. I can't give away a defective item.

Plus it would finish me, to lug this to the lazy cab driver, I have too many bags already.

The solution was to give them her address and let it be sent there leisurely.

Also the face wash has been despatched and is supposedly with an unknown 24hr courier.

I'm just perplexed as to why the estimated delivery has now changed from 2 days to 8!!!!

I'll let you know when it finally arrives. The interesting news is that the seller already updated me today (Thursday) about the blankie.

It's supposedly arrives tomorrow, which is unexpected. I was wondering if it would be sent after Christmas which would have been acceptable.

But sooner is highly appreciated. Will it work as intended though, that is the question??

Again I'll let you know. either on here or Twitter, if I'm in the mood.

#BlogLife419 - Amazon's faulty blankie saga

Yesterday I received the heated blankie £46 that I bought from Amazon and I was so relieved and pleased that I didn't think about what I would do if it turned out to be defective.

It came around 5pmish after the live tracking coming and going. I excitedly unpacked it and switched it on.

Only one side is fleeced and it's stiffer than I would have liked but the cord is extra long.

I never sleep at night with these things on, just take a daytime nap for safety reasons.

Most have the auto switch off but you always hear horror stories about them overheating and causing fires so I'm very careful and even before I bought one, people were trying to talk me out of it.

But cold is cold and my bones cannot get warm, with the warm clothes and the heating on, I'm still frozen.

The top setting on the control is supposed to be for the temperature and the bottom one for the duration, 1-9 hours but I think it automatically turns off after 3 hours as a precaution, which is fine.

I set it to the maximum heat and timer and waited and waited and waited.

Bits of the blankie wasn't at all warm. There was slight low warmth, in certain areas but then it came off, then on, then off and so forth.

I thought I was doing something wrong so I watched an Amazon video and nope, I was correct but it was just broken.

Maybe for some reason it was stuck on the lower warmth actions but it doesn't explain why it randomly goes off after a few minutes.

If you go on Amazon's live chat, there's no option to type, just automated non helpful responses.

If you try the phone service, it's another bot. The only way to get a human was to rant on Twitter and they just fobbed me off saying return it.

I can't do that. It's too damn excruciating to hold anything, let alone a huge box, all the way to the bus stop and then walk into the market and then queue up at the Post Office......

Nope!!! I don't even want to return it, as it gives the barest minimum of removing the chill and I have been struggling in this weather to function at all.

I really just want to stay in bed and not get up but I would start to get really depressed if I did that.

When I purchase things, I expect them to work 100%. I don't expect to have problems.

My legs and hands are ice cold. Ugh I can't be bothered to stress about this anymore.

Maybe I'll win a blankie or there'll be a voucher giveaway I can enter.

The only saving grace is that I wrote a scathing review on Amazon and that will prevent some other poor soul in buying this colossal piece of crap!!!

I wonder if they will even print my unflattering review...

#BlogLife417 - The end of fleecey snuggles..

Today is a sad day. I woke up and unrolled my favourite (and only) fleecey, fake fur, silvery, shiny, cosy, mediumish blankie and it turned on and then died.

I guess that's why it wasn't working at full capacity the last few times but I didn't really think anything of it.

I've had it for 4 wonderful years, although it didn't seem that long and it's kept me toasty and took away my aches and pains and relaxed me into some wonderful naps.

I could not get warm at all, even though the heating was on. My bones are chilled. I'm going to take the heating off, only now at 10pmish as I didn't want to risk shivering again.

It cost me £28 which is a bargain because most prices are doubled and tripled that amount.

I do remember shopping around and then I got loads of deals and reductions and bought it quickly.

I wish it was bigger but that costs another tenner or twenty pounds extra.

I went back to the same store Costway but they didn't have any special offers, not enough to tempt me.

I had loads of Amazon credit that I was saving for any emergencies and just ended using that.

The postage costs were ridiculous at £5-£8 so I took out a free Prime trial ha to sneakily avoid that.

That's going to end on the 10th January but I usually cancel it way before that or depends if I have lots to buy.

The dimensions are 120x140cm and I don't know if that's bigger or smaller than the one I own..

It's the same silver colour with multiple settings on the controller. Oh I hope the wire is long.

That always tends to rub it's cold slitheriness against my legs or feet.

The big difference is that it isn't fleece or fake fur, it's just oops, sorry, re-read the description and it's something called Coral Fleece.

Hmmm it mentioned something about the four pockety corners but it doesn't look like a mattress cover type to me.

I should really read the descriptions properly but it was the biggest, most reasonable one I could find that also delivered really quickly.

It cost a whopping £46 to the mere £28 I had paid for the first one.

However I'm not using my own cash, it's gift vouchers and in my head I would knock off £8 because that would have been the postage cost.

So really it's only £10 more haha. If it lasts me another few years I'll be really happy.

I think it will come up small on me. I just didn't want to pay £60+. I was hoping it would be £30 but sometimes you have to compromise.

You probably wonder why I add a lot of strange details to my posts.

Honestly sometimes I have to reference something and I come back to it for the answers ha.

I do like adding specifics though. Maybe it helps you or possibly you're curious..

If I remember before I toss out the old blankie, I'll try for some comparison pictures.

But it's a busy week so I'm not sure. I really wanted it delivered Monday, I wish Prime had slots, so you could pick Mornings or Afternoons.

I'm just glad it's Wednesday now and it's out for delivery but due to the snow in the UK everything is delayed.

At first it said 2.30 and now it's sating 4pm - 7pm. They deliver up until 9pm so not sure what happens after that.

Probably have to wait until tomorrow but I am so hoping I don't have to spend another day freezing.

I would have posted this earlier but I was hoping it would have arrived in the morning.

Either I'll update this post or will start a new one on how it performs.

Dictator emailed with with something irrelevant, I'm not sure how many times I can say I have to limit my actions due to my disabilities.

Maybe he just hears the word *disability* and thinks, hmm that's not real so I'll gloss over that..

I knew that his eyes were burning into me, when I advised that fellow disabled person not to do the stairs.

Like he was biting his tongue, to say Crikey woman, keep quiet, keep out of this, us healthy, young able bodied advisors, are tooooo lazy to walk down 3 flights of stairs, so let me deal with this!!!

He is such a plum!!!! OOh did I mention, on Monday, I finally got my spare contact lenses??

Woop I'm pleased. I've put them away in my cosmetic bag, it's the only place where it won't get lost, weirdly enough.