The downsides of online ordering
Sep. 18th, 2022 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
onepageatatimeI bought a planner for 2023… and it arrived last night. So this morning, I retrieved it at the parcel locker (beside the apartment complex's leasing office) this afternoon and opened it and… I was disappointed.
A lot of it met the expectations: the layout and the paper seem exceptional. I think I have a decent shot of using this system.
What didn't meet my expectations? The covers. This is a two-book system, with a planner containing mostly weekly and monthly spreads, and a notebook with undated "daily" pages. The cover of each book falls short of what I'd hoped for. Most importantly, in durability. The covers seem quite thin; while there's a thicker sheet of cardstock between the covers and the rest of the pages, I worry about the covers themselves surviving even a small amount of handling, let alone a full year of use.
They do sell clear covers to fit. I expect I will buy them, because a planner that can't be handled would be of limited use to me. But… it leaves a sour taste, after the amount I spent for two books and shipping. I had also been considering buying a discounted 2022 planner to use between now and the start of December, when the 2023 planner begins. That seems now in doubt: it was awkward enough to consider paying 60% of the price for about 20% of the year, but when I need to buy covers to protect them… the cost is going higher than I was hoping for, and I don't know whether I want to add to it.
The other deficiency of the covers are the colors; I think the colors are a decent enough match with the images on the web site, but they are duller colors than I expected, more greyish.
Now… I don't want this to be all moaning and groaning. The layout and the paper are by for the most important parts, and I am quite happy with those. I'm just disappointed in having to take more care and precaution in able to keep that paper useable through all of 2023. The fixes seem easy but annoying. But once I do this, I should have a planner I can work with for the entire year.
If I use it faithfully through the entire year, it will probably still have been worth it. If not… I'll end up disappointed at how much money I've wasted on it this year.
A lot of it met the expectations: the layout and the paper seem exceptional. I think I have a decent shot of using this system.
What didn't meet my expectations? The covers. This is a two-book system, with a planner containing mostly weekly and monthly spreads, and a notebook with undated "daily" pages. The cover of each book falls short of what I'd hoped for. Most importantly, in durability. The covers seem quite thin; while there's a thicker sheet of cardstock between the covers and the rest of the pages, I worry about the covers themselves surviving even a small amount of handling, let alone a full year of use.
They do sell clear covers to fit. I expect I will buy them, because a planner that can't be handled would be of limited use to me. But… it leaves a sour taste, after the amount I spent for two books and shipping. I had also been considering buying a discounted 2022 planner to use between now and the start of December, when the 2023 planner begins. That seems now in doubt: it was awkward enough to consider paying 60% of the price for about 20% of the year, but when I need to buy covers to protect them… the cost is going higher than I was hoping for, and I don't know whether I want to add to it.
The other deficiency of the covers are the colors; I think the colors are a decent enough match with the images on the web site, but they are duller colors than I expected, more greyish.
Now… I don't want this to be all moaning and groaning. The layout and the paper are by for the most important parts, and I am quite happy with those. I'm just disappointed in having to take more care and precaution in able to keep that paper useable through all of 2023. The fixes seem easy but annoying. But once I do this, I should have a planner I can work with for the entire year.
If I use it faithfully through the entire year, it will probably still have been worth it. If not… I'll end up disappointed at how much money I've wasted on it this year.
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Date: 9/18/22 07:51 pm (UTC)Would gluing the covers to those thicker sheets of cardstock help?
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Date: 9/19/22 08:55 am (UTC)Maybe… but it isn't something I'd feel able to do well enough for me to be satisfied with the result.
I'm feeling a little better about it today: I know I don't cope well with with "isn't what I expected," especially when I did have some expectation beforehand. A cover will be fine, once I adjust to needing it.