Learn To Review!

[awfulhorrid]

I'm shopping for popover pans on Amazon. I found a perfect set for not a lot of money, so I'm going to order those. No problem so far. The set I'm ordering has 17 reviews, all five star. There's also a listing under the usual "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" section with what looks like an indentical pan with a review rating of 1. Of course I had to check this out ... they looked identical, so what's wrong with them?

Here is the one and only review for the other pan:

The pan did not work for me. It wound up costing me more in shipping to get and return the pan than the item itself cost, and those costs were non-refundable. I am not happy.

Wha ...? How, exactly, did it "not work" for you? Were the pans warpped? Were they a different metal than listed? Were they some sort of fourth-dimensional hyper-cube construction that leaked popover batter all over your spleen, perhaps?

I'm trying to not sound like too much of a curmudgeon or an elitist, even if I do know how many homes I own, but I'm almost to the point of regarding amature reviews as completely useless. "I couldn't get it to work." Well gee, have you considered that perhaps you're a complete moron? The GPSr really works better if you're smarter than the little plastic box.

I'm feeling the same way about comments on Youtube or even worse GoComics.Com. This is a "feature" that they started recently wherein subscribers can make comments about the comics and add to the tags. I've written them and told them I'd be happy to be a paid subscriber if they'd give me a way to turn this off. I have yet to hear back from them.

Mmmm ... popovers.

Comments

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

Okay, I haz a dumb!
Popover pan??????

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Like this one. (Actually, just like this one since that's the one I ordered.) They're a bit deeper than muffin pans and a little heavier.

I'll bet you can guess what I'll be making in them!

[moiracoon.livejournal.com]

Speaking of baked goods...thank you for the virtual cuppycake! *smooch*

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

You're welcome -- happy birthday again! (Get some real chocolate to go with the virtual, of course.)

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

Argh. I knew I should have said something yesterday, but we were talking about going to the outlet mall on Friday to get a pan. I still have an Amazon.com gift certificate that I would have been happy to use for popover pans. We could have gotten the minis too, and really gone nuts when we have people visit. ;>

(PS -- DK seems to be cranky today, so email is off.)

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Oh well, that's OK love. They weren't particularly expensive. My curiosity made me look them up on Amazon and when I saw they were only about $15, I ordered a set. Since they won't ship until at least next week, we could still go to the outlet mall if you'd like. Having two sets wouldn't be a bad idea anyway!

For that matter, I've got another rewards card Amazon certificate coming in the mail, hopefully this week, but I was going to use that to order some of the Doctor Who DVDs that we don't have yet.

I thought we already went nuts when we have people visit ...

[rileybear67.livejournal.com]

*giggle*
I pass on the nuts, thank you!

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can pass on them completely ... we do live there, after all!

[isolde-deely.livejournal.com]

I guess I'll be a guinea pig to test what you make :)

[bookwurm.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid you'll have to be part of the second round of guinea pigs. I've been volunteered to do the first batch of testing. [squeak]