The Cabin Countess : Our Aerocart Purchase Worked Out

Every now and then for the past two years, I would see my husband watching a certain infomercial. I didn't say much about it. He likes to watch infomercials and QVC. He especially likes "In The Kitchen with David", for some reason. I guess he likes kitchen gadgets. I usually suggest we keep checking the thrift stores for some of the interesting items. If there are a lot of them at a thrift store, it probably means it doesn't work as advertised. Sometimes we find great things at a fraction of the original cost. The particular item he was watching last week was an Aerocart. It claims this cart is so much better than a regular wheelbarrow. You can maneuver it with barely any effort, and it doesn't tip over or so they say.

I decided it was time to investigate this item. I researched it and found some positive comments. I found a business that sold them for $35 less than the infomercial, and it also had free shipping. I researched the company slightly but couldn't find many reviews, but the few I found were positive. After a lot of debating, we pulled the trigger and ordered the cart on March 26, 2016. I was a little nervous because I had never heard of the company. I used paypal because that is the only payment this company took. To me it was another red flag, but I also knew paypal insures purchases. Just for the heck of it, I decided to look to see where the item would be shipped from. The hair on my arm raised when I read about the company. This is what it said.

Camape Store online shopping website is a small business running as individual and home-based, we buying and selling most things that could help you to get interesting goods list with best ever price, plus free shipping. We always working to looking for cheapest goods resource and selling to you, help most people get things with maximum of discount.
From time we launched our online store, we have received many question such as how safe to shopping with Camape Store ? And now we want to let's you know that we only received payment by Paypal, which give you 100% of protect and for sure, you totally get full refund of money when you don't get your order delivered.

Oh boy, what did we do? The broken English in this statement was another red flag and the paypal payment was being sent to someone with a name I couldn't pronounce. I decided I was going to believe it would be fine and this small business was just trying to make a living. I would wait and see. If the item didn't arrive in a few weeks then I would go through the Paypal protection process. I had no idea where this item was being shipped from.

Well lo and behold, two days after I placed the order, I received an email that the item was shipped. I still didn't know if it was on a slow boat from far away, but it was encouraging. Looking at the invoice more carefully, I discovered it was shipped from South Carolina. I breathed a little easier. Then on April 1st a big box containing the Aerocart appeared on my porch. April Fools to me. The item arrived in six days.

The box looks a little tattered, but the item inside was in perfect condition. We still don't know where or how this company gets its products, but it worked out this time. Hopefully this cart will do everything the infomercial says it will with little or no effort. I can't imagine moving a refrigerator with it, but stranger things have happened.

It will replace this old relic we have had for a long long time.

Maybe the new Aerocart won't replace the old, heavy, tried and true wheelbarrow. We have had it for a long time, and it has done a lot of hard work. It is still covered with concrete and scratches from carrying heavy loads. I should say the Aerocart will be a nice lightweight addition to the old one.

The Cabin Countess

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Our Aerocart Purchase Worked Out

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