When 31die came over a few weeks ago I had him bring a few pounds of Peets Coffee. It's still the best -- oily, black beans that have great taste, great aroma. Really head-and-shoulders better than anything else available in Singapore.
When I got down to only a pound left, I reflected how nice it would be to regularly have Peets, and how maybe I could indulge myself in the extavagance of having a pound sent to me a few times per month.
So I checked out Peets and saw that they did in fact send internationally. However, to see how much their 'expedited international' rate was, I had to start ordering--provide cc details, etc.
Too much work, so I just sent them an email instead.
To their credit, they responded in eight hours.
To their discredit, the shipping is damn expensive.
Ruby
Customer Service Representative
Peet's Coffee and Tea
800.999.2132
webmail@peets.com
I mean, I might have convinced myself to pay 10$/pound shipping (turning $10 bag of coffee beans into a $20 bag) but the 3x mark-up is just too rich.
I don't actually think they are trying to rip me off -- FedEX and the like aren't cheap -- and they do have to go through the aggro of mailing it to me, etc, but at least right now even I, with my considerable powers of self-persuasion, can't be paying $100USD each month for three pounds of coffee....
Posted by Nils Blutig at September 5, 2003 02:11 PM | TrackBack