Mail-order toilet
I arrived home one afternoon recently and found a toilet sitting on my front lawn. To be more specific, it was a cardboard box containing a new one-piece Toto toilet.
You see, I had ordered the Japanese-made toilet from Faucet Direct, an online mail-order company located in California. And then there it was, just three days later, sitting in my Connecticut yard.
Welcome to the world (wide web) of internet shopping.
I realize there's nothing really new about online purchases, internet shopping has been around for nearly 20 years, but I'm still amazed at the incredible variety of products that are just a keystroke away from my front door (or lawn).
I reason I ended up ordering the toilet online in the first place was that my local Toto dealer didn't have the model I wanted and it would've taken two weeks to special order it.
By shopping online I was able to compare dozens of Toto toilets without driving all over the state, I didn't have to pick it up myself, and on top of all that, I saved nearly $100 over the dealer price.
Now with every real-time transaction I complete, I wonder if there's a guy in California waiting for a product to be delivered from some Connecticut online company. Hey, you never know, and in this new, ever-shrinking world, does it even matter?
Posted by Joseph Truini | Categories: Kitchen & Bath | Permalink
(2) Comments
Did you remember to pay the sales tax???????
Is Connecticut going to hunt you down and require an investigation of sales taxes not pay during the last 7 (or 11) years.
This is a very nice picture.