One-size-fits-all batman cat mask was not so one-size-fits-all
For context - This cat’s name is batman.
That definitely looks 3d printed, and I bet the files for that are online somewhere…
Pretty sure I could make one in the right size if you post measurements?
Yeah the printing lines were not even sanded off the top.
I do want to thank you kindly for the offer to print one up. You Rock! But shipping to Canada would probably be ugly.
I hope to pick up a 3d printer this winter and if I manage it I will use this as a learning project.
A Creality Ender 3 can be gotten on sale for under $150 USD. It’s a great entry level printer if you want to learn the how’s & why’s of printing & like to tinker.
If you want to just push a button & have things work 90% of the time, I’d go with a Prusa MK4S, but those start around $800 USD…
Good luck on your printing journey! It’s a fun little combination of crafting and tech.
And not Catman?
Let’s not be silly now.
Batcat*
Got diapers instead of a laptop from amazon.
My refund was for a pack of tomatoes, boring! So I’ll tell you a funny refund story I heard today. Friends, mostly a bit squiffy (driver aside) were trying to book a hotel at their destination on booking.com. There were rooms available in hotel A. “Check the reviews” said Ms Sober. “Nah, just book it!” said Ms Squiffy.
Booking made, they tried to contact the hotel. No answer. Reviews were AWFUL. “Rats behind the bar” type awful. Fast forward to arrival aaaand the hotel was closed. They moved on to hotel B, where they learned that hotel A was shut because the owner was in jail for repeated violation of food hygiene standards.
So they called booking.com for a refund. “We can’t refund you until we’ve heard from the proprietor.” “The proprietor is in PRISON.” “Well we’d still like to give a chance to get in touch.”
It took them weeks to get their money back. Moral of the story is always try to book directly with the hotel.
I just had a look and apparently it’s back in business.
Review from this month: “Refused to stay, checked in 3 rooms & all checked out within 10mins of arrival, the disgusting place is a health hazard, taps not working, mould all over walls, the place needs closing down.”
Owner: “Sorry this not true just looking for refunds.”
A salad.
Was waiting for my flight out of LAX, so I grabbed a salad from the closest spot. $20, but whatever. Open it up and the ham smelled sour and all the iceberg lettuce was slimy.
I’ve never asked for a refund on a salad before, but for 20-fucking-dollars it should have been chopped up and prepped that very day. Yuck.
Online grocery order had a like-for-like product substitution, but the substitution was from a producer that uses a slightly different set of ingredients, one of which I have an intolerance of. Sending it back garnered a refund… and might have helped train an algorithm somewhere.
That is, if they have some kind of semi-random procedure to choose which customer gets a substitution, someone else who’d be more likely to accept it might get it instead, and I’ll get the product I can eat.
I think those substitutions are picked by the person filling your order. We got a hilarious substitution from Walmart once. My wife ordered a bottle of thyme or oregano or something similar. They were out of stock so the worker went to the garden center and substituted it with a fucking potted plant of thyme or oregano. We both laughed our asses off at their choice but it wasn’t what we needed.
The place I use allegedly uses robots to pick the orders, so, in theory anyway, it’s a machine making the decisions. Or someone sat in front of one, rather than on the warehouse floor.
My grocery store ways texts a photo of what’s available and I tell them what will work.
A pair of bicycle pedals. I regretted the purchase and returned them.
For the last case of a non-return, I got a refund on a wristband for my Fitbit, which had broken after very little use.
Bought a really nice TV a couple of years ago. About a month later, the manufacturer had a really big price drop. Microcenter has a really nice 60 or 90 day price guarantee so I popped into the local store and got about $800 back.
A controller, because im a dingus who didnt bother to make sure it had the right connector for my phone (it didnt)
Train ticket!
I got it because I ended up being able to catch an earlier train, instead of the train I was expecting to catch and had bought a ticket for.
Bought an ECM for my vehicle. It didn’t work, truck wouldn’t prime the fuel pump or start. Returned it.
Sewing machine. It was cheap as I am just learning and didn’t want to drop heavy change. I actually returned it and bought another one. Both had shit bobbin casings (I think that’s what they’re called). Literally said, “fuck it,” returned it, and youtubed how to sew by hand. Much less frustrating.
A heavy triply steel kadai. Well technically it was a small fucking piece of plastic cup which I had to fight with Amazon to get a refund for that shit.
I’ve been fixing up an old motorcycle, and the weekend I was finally ready to try starting it I discovered an issue in the electrical system. I discovered this by blowing both of the fuses I had for it. I ordered new fuses from Amazon that would arrive Monday, but then decided Saturday morning that I didn’t want to wait, so I replaced the existing fuse holder with a more modern one so I could get fuses at the auto parts store, and returned the older style fuses when they arrived
What are ya building? Old motorcycles are my jam!
I’m currently rebuilding my '73 triumph for the 5th time. This time as a bobber with a bolt-on hardtail.
Mine is a little different! It’s a '69 Honda CT90. Used to be my dad’s, and about a month ago I brought it back from my Grandpa’s and tore it down nearly to the frame to clean and rebuild it
Oh man. I had so much fun on these. Great project!
I’ve learned so much! I’m currently dealing with hassles around the title, but once that’s taken care of I’m going to use it as my daily driver
Ordered a shelf, it was never handed off to the courier. Complained, got it redelivered but they sent it to the wrong address. They seem to have refunded me twice… haven’t received any money back yet, but the shelf is due to arrive tomorrow so we’ll see what happens
A game I only bought because someone else wanted to play that together on a private LAN party. That person then announced that they couldn’t show up. And since I was terribly uninterested in playing that game on my own and only bought it for just that occasion, I refunded it after that news.
