Another day lost in the mists of Faerie …
Up just after 7 a.m., and wandered downstairs, helping with prep for the one event a year the Ks watch their TV set: the Rose Parade.
Kids were all up in time, so kicked it off at 8 a.m. Standard fare to nibble on — coffee cake, juice, coffee — and a pretty standard Rose Parade (with standard “Get the car, Virgil, we gotta move us to California and away from these here snow storms!” weather).
We usually watch KTLA, and Bob Eubanks (of Newlywed Game fame) is still one of the parade announcers, having drunk of the same Dorian Gray potion as Dick Clark once did. His previous cohort, Stephanie Edwards, though, was nowhere to be seen — after many years of (unintended) buffoonery and petty sniping, last year she was banished from the booth down to the street, and this year was vanished entirely. It was a good riddance (though not everyone agrees), but it did make things a bit duller.
After that, it was time to venture out to the wilds of Office Depot. Ginger (with our guidance and actual purchasing services) got Jim a Brother AIO Printer/Scanner/Fax for Christmas — the same model, basically, as what we have. After further discussion, they decided to upgrade to a color unit (that also does Legal-size).
We had just one problem — in all the Christmas wrapping and cleaning and shuffling about, we couldn’t find the receipt. Still, I had the credit card transaction number (from the credit card site), it was registered on the Office Depot membership card, etc. No sweat, right?
Well, sweat. Without the receipt, the store would only refund us the lowest price the printer had been in the previous 90 days. And, alas, it had been in a $100 discount somewhere relatively recently, because that was the delta.
Kudos to Margie and Jim (who are the customer service wranglers supreme), for some polite arm twisting, and to Roxanne, the assistant manager (I assume) at the Orange Office Depot, who got the date of the transaction, and managed to pull the records from the register. I got my full discount, and after a visit to another OD (since Roxanne’s didn’t have the printer we wanted in stock), we got the significantly larger-and-heavier box home.
Then a quick change, and off to Eric and Janine’s house, to drop off the boys and to have some tempura for dinner.
Then back home to … well, blog about it (etc.).
Good way to start the new year
As I’m ALSO in the market for a printer/scanner/fax/copier, can you let me know what model it is? I thought I was getting one for cheaps from a friend, but it’s only an inkjet, and therefore, not ideal for my purposes.
(Writing from my mom’s computer)
We’ve had a lot of good experience with our Brother unit. That’s what we were getting Jim & Ginger, but they got the even bigger color one.
I think (not sitting in front of it) we have a Brother MFC-8860DN; I think they have a MFC-9840CDW (which is (a) color, (b) wireless, and (c) handles legal-sized paper).
Variety of options depending on the pocketbook and needs. But, as I said, I (and some others we know) have been happy with the Brother units.