A customer was not amused with his free gift and decided to make his feelings clear in a poem.
The supplier of printer cartridges was a tad surprised at the response from a customer after he was less than impressed by their promo to make customers feel special. Keith Evans from Bedworth received a complimentary tea bag with his printer ink order and replied with a clever and funny response.
The poem has caused a stir at the company, and led to a poetic reply and a gift of a pack of ink cartridges.
Evans wrote: “Thank for your replacement of colour cartridge free, and thankyou for tea bags also addressed to me. I was really quite excited and didn’t think it through, of the thought of doing printing and also have a brew. The cartridge fitted perfect as they did before, but when I put the tea in it fell out on the floor. Time to have a rethink stop and have a fag, it had made no attempt at all of opening the bag. Switched on again and sure enough colours working fine, so I opened up the top again and poured it in this time.
“I poured it in real slowly the first time I had used it, even put on rubber gloves just in case it fused it. With a little cough and splutter it continued on its way, overcome with expectation place 2 cups in the tray. The colour seed to change a bit not like the day I bought her, couldn’t smell it brewing so poured in a cup of water. Not really sure what happened next but sure made me shout, one almighty bang and flash and all the lights went out. With power now restored finally I could see, the room was coated from wall to wall with printer bits and tea. Not wishing to sound ungrateful should it arise again,could you please send me something that causes much less pain?”
Evans ended with: “Coffee would be nice…”
Cartridge People replied with: “Last time round we failed to make you see, how important you are to us so please accept our tea. We value your custom so what we hope you will do, is come shop with us again but first have a brew!”
Evans’ poem was published on Facebook and a few friends joined the fun, and posted replies in rhyme.