Have you ever shopped Origins?
It’s a high end supposedly all natural line of skin care, scent etc.
I stopped in the other day with a girlfriend and while she was buying, I was browsing.
Naturally I was stalked by a saleswoman.
If you know me, you’ll know I hate this… and if you trail me around like a blue tick hound?
I won’t buy anything just out of spite.
I’m in your store. With my wallet. There’s a good chance I’ll buy something if I like it… so leave me the hell alone.
She wouldn’t… so I didn’t.
Seeing her commission walk out the door was apparently too much for this woman, because as I was leaving she handed me a sample pack of products….
With a long detailed description of how wonderful they were and how much I would love them.
It was a little mushroom heavy for my taste… but hey, free is free.
Free?
Maybe.
But when I got home and opened the samples?
The quantity, or lack there of…. surprised even me.
Sorry Origins.
I’d like to tell you I loved them…
But you didn’t give me nearly enough to find out.
River's world..... 
Wow! That’s crazy!!!!
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Not to mention cheap and stingy…. yes.
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Pffft! That’s insulting! I’ll bet they’re not even that natural.
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Probably not, and even that little bit stunk!
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*returning from their website* I wouldn’t put that shit on my face.
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I didn’t. Hell, there wasn’t enough of it to cover a fingertip anyway. Just washed them out and recycled the containers.
😊
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That’s probably all they have worth having.
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Admittedly, my fingertip was soft and silky for a while… but still.
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Isn’t Origins part of the Estee Lauder/Clinque group? With Clinque they can’t wait to give you huge samples of their products which makes this experience seem weird to me.
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I don’t know… are they?
If so, the mothership needs to intervene on the sampling sizes…
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Yes, yes, they are! I was thinking the same thing, and that the last ‘sample’ I got was one of those containers so full, I didn’t even run out for almost a month before buying.
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Maybe she did it on purpose in retaliation for having to stalk me around the store…
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She’s a bad salesperson.
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Agreed.
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Same here. Around here those companies are generous. 🤷♀️
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Being a natural handsome gent I don’t look at, let alone, need such products!
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You’re a lucky duck, to be sure..
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Not enough mushroom to top a small cracker, sorry no Origins for this Huntress.
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Agreed. If I ever thought about purchasing from them before… I certainly don’t now.
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Haha! They thought to increase “demand” by limiting the supply:
“My Precious!”
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It was definitely limited…
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Can’t say I know much about them wimmen skin things … but I suspect is is like when my fingers feel so soft and supple after cleaning my guns …
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But the question is… do you clean them with mushroom based cream?
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MMmmm. Perhaps there were a few mushrooms in the primal ooze a good grade of gun oil is distilled from …
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So… what did your girlfriend think of those samples?
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She bought full size and was as astounded as me…
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What a waste of a plastic (?) container.
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Glass actually. But still a waste…
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That’s so wrong. Just so wrong. She may well be in the wrong line of work.
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This could just look small because you have gigantic hands 😄😉
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Many parts of me have enlarged over the years, but my hands aren’t one of them!
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Maybe the samples were designed for people with very small faces… like anime characters… or, elves…
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Elf samples, of course. It was a mix up.
Somewhere there’s an elf with my samples…. enough to last a lifetime.
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Less……………….is……………more? *shrugs shoulders*
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In this case, less is just less.
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I’d take them back and ask if they meant to send along empty containers.
And I have.
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It’s over an hour drive, not worth the trip. Besides, I prefer my mushrooms sauteed or in a sherried cream sauce.
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oh yum!
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