Inky Paw Stationary

[inkstainedruth]

My guess is because people are just complaining here, and not going to the authorities about the rip-offs.  

I don't know how it works in Canada, but in the US there are government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission.  Additionally, pretty much every US state Attorney-General will have a consumer affairs division for issues like this --  and I learned from my mom years ago that if you have some sort of problem like this with a company *that* is the place to report it (the Better Business Bureau -- unless they get a LOT of complaints about a business will just say that it's "a member in good standing", which basically means the company has paid its BBB dues; OR they'll say it's "NOT accredited", which means they've flagged it on their website, but can't really do much beyond that ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

When I placed my order there, it was because a member here had successfully ordered from them, and eventually got the pen. It was the same pen I wanted. The PayPal resolution center lets you add photos. I added one from this thread.

 

I just wonder if something has happened to them.

[Targa]

On 1/7/2023 at 4:31 PM, inkstainedruth said:

Of course now I'm going to have to Google the lyrics and possibly see if I can find a YouTube video to add to my list of "songs to play at phone spammers"! Thanks for making my day!

Don't you have any bagpipe albums?  Look up "Rare Air".

[inkstainedruth]

No, because I would have to listen to them up close as WELL as playing them at the spammers....

Went to the Ligonier, PA Highland Games too many times (a friend of ours used to coordinate the shelter at the park where it's held for CMU, since she was very active in the Women's Alumni Clan).  The Kiltie Band at CMU always competed in the pipe band competition and were part of the massed bands procession, and one year there was a robotics professor who brought robotic bagpipes to the CMU shelter (I kid you not) -- the chanter was played by robotic fingers, an air compressor filled the bag, and a laptop was hooked up to run the various tunes.  It was quite impressive but VERY loud.  And I kept thinking "This guy's parents paid all this money for him to go to college and grad school and THIS is what his claim to fame is... robotic BAGPIPES!?" 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Targa]

Robotic bagpipes.  Sacrilege!

But you gotta give a listen to the Red Hot Chili Pipers.  

[inkstainedruth]

I've always really liked their song "Under the Bridge".  But that's not the kind of song I would play at phone spammers.  I'm talking really wacky/obnoxious/political  stuff, like "Little Red Riding Hood" (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs), some of the snarky stuff The Kinks used to do, like "Well Respected Man" or the old Barry Maguire song "Eve of Destruction" (which I HAVE played at the people trying to sell me gold to "store in my home").  And there's some SF filk (the "gold" people also got regaled with one called "Never Set the Cat on Fire"; sadly, I've only found the lyrics (no recording) of some others, like "Tiny Toons Cthulhu".

I've got "Alice's Restaurant" in reserve (forget if I've got the link to the original recording or the "updated" version, which my husband played for his sister a few years ago because she'd never heard that version.  I lost a bunch of stuff doing an upgrade of my OS a while back, because I didn't know that "Notes" and "Stickies" weren't saved, so I've got to try to find "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream".  

And there's one that I will NOT mention by name (that's the "emergency backup" song -- it's never gotten to THAT level.  But I ever refer to something as being "Goofy -- with a capital GOO" that's the song I mean.  It's the song that I would have liked to been a fly on the wall when the executive decision of THAT done as a rock & roll cover was made , to see how much in the way of drugs and alcohol were involved in the decision making process that it was a REMOTELY good idea (trust me -- it wasn't... ).  Oh, and I also need to track down the psychedelic  version of "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" (yes, that really exists but I don't remember who did it).  And the B side of the old Strawberry Alarm Clock's single "Incense and Peppermints" (an amusing little ditty called "The Birdman of Alkatrash")....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth