Also notice that johnlee is silent now. No explenation about the hole, but the guy gets a free new bottle... I have little bit the feeling "If you shout loud enough, you get what you want in the end." Indeed Sarednab's communication could be a bit more transparant, but now I think this guy is taking advantage of that communication issue to get a replacement bottle for the one he probably broke himself trying to wash them all together in the sink, breaking one of them as a result, just late that sometimes happpens when you put a bunch of coffie cups in the sink: when they touch eacht other a bit too hard, they chip...
Notice that I'm silent? Are you serious? You mean because I actually have a life and don't reply every few minutes (especially during work hours here in Los Angeles), I have nothing to say? Boy, have you got it wrong. I have plenty to say. And I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not shy about expressing my opinion either.
I haven't read all of the replies since I last checked in, but I'll reply to you first because I noticed that bit about my "silence" and then get to whatever else is on the thread, if any.
I didn't break the bottle my myself. Here is a pic of the hole again:
How did the hole get there? I have no idea. I didn't do it. I didn't break the bottle. I'm not dumb enough to put several bottles into the sink to wash them. This is especially so when the bottles are junk and all three of them teeter precariously.
I didn't notice the hole when I first looked at the bottles. Maybe the hole was on the third bottle and my attention span by then was less? (My three bottles arrived on three different days so I'm sure I paid the most attention to the first bottle.) Maybe I didn't notice the hole because it's on a corner and doesn't reflect the light like the flat surfaces of the bottle? I have no idea.
The first time I noticed the hole was when I brought out the bottles a few days ago to wash them. I filled the bottle about halfway with water and put one hand over the mouth to seal it and then shook the bottle. I noticed water splashing about so I thought I wasn't sealing the mouth well enough. I really didn't think anything about it. I just double-checked that my hand was placed correctly over the mouth and shook again. Then I noticed more water was spilling. So I looked more carefully and then WTF THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTLE.
I was pissed. I still am. This hole was the last straw for me. I had been disappointed at every stage of my dealings with Sarednab. He said he would ship in 15-20 days. He didn't. He said he would combine shipping on the three bottles. He didn't. He said he would send me three of his nicest bottles. He didn't. I had put up with that, but when he wouldn't send a replacement bottle I was really pissed.
I think this guy is taking advantage of that communication issue to get a replacement bottle for the one he probably broke himself trying to wash them all together in the sink, breaking one of them as a result, just late that sometimes happpens when you put a bunch of coffie cups in the sink: when they touch eacht other a bit too hard, they chip...
OK, ask yourself this. Have you ever broken a square cup or bottle at the corner? We've all broken various glass pieces in our lives, so we sort of know how glass breaks. We've all seen sinks or bath tubs dropped. In these cases, the corners don't really break. The corner is by nature the strongest area. In glass, the corner is even stronger because of the surface tension of the molten glass makes the glass physically thicker at the corners, i.e., the molten glass hugs and collects in the corners the way water would. With the three-dimensional structure of the corner and the thicker glass at the corner because of the surface tension of the molten glass, the corner of a glass bottle is several times stronger than the flat areas. This is why when you drop a square glass or sink or whatever and it shatters, the corners are usually intact. We've all seen this when we broke stuff ourselves or seen broken stuff flying on HGTV or whatever. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.
Here is a pic of the hole again:
Under your theory, I had several bottles in the sink and they klinked together. Sure, that's a plausible theory. But look at that photo again and then imagine in your head how glass breaks and then reconcile that with a missing CORNER of my bottle.
If I had tipped a bottle and it hit against another bottle or the wall of the sink, do you really think the CORNER of the glass would break and nothing else would?
Come on, dude. I realize it's asking a lot, but use your head here. Glass doesn't break like that. This bottle is useless now with the hole in it, so if you guys want me to, I'll drop it into something hard but still contained and recover the pieces. You'll see dozens of glass pieces but the corners will be intact. This is because the corners are the strongest parts of the bottle.
Or, at least they are on most bottles. I'm not sure what happened on the Gypsy Glassworks bottle that Sarednab sent me. I can say though that the glass in that broken area is micro-thin. It's like two or three layers of packing tape kind of thin. Maybe there was an air bubble there that made the glass so thin that even water broke it? I have no idea. All I know is that I didn't break this bottle.
I'm also not trying to swindle a free bottle from Sarednab. First of all, that would be like trying to get blood from a stone. It's impossible. I also have better things to do than trying to score a free bottle. I ordered three of these bottles at $400 apiece. That's $1200 for three bottles. And I was going to give two of them away to drinking friends as gifts. I say this not to boast, but only to show that I'm not hurting for money. I'm not rich and I'm not claiming I am. (In fact, I wish I were rich.) All I'm saying is that it's not a stretch for me to blow $1200 on three liquor bottles. I have better things to do than trying to score a free bottle.
I also know how to play internet games. For example, Sarednab is selling 100% perfect BR bottles on ebay under one of his many different usernames:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Blade-Runn...798764?hash=item33e08efaac:g:RDEAAOSwDkVaaknV
If I wanted this bottle for free, I know how to do it. I would just buy it now on ebay and then open a dispute with ebay and claim I never received it. I would win. It wouldn't matter of Sarednab had the tracking number and it showed DELIVERED and signed for by John Lee. None of that matters on eBay. The buyer wins every time on eBay. So if I wanted a free bottle scored Sarednab-style, I know how to do it.
