Frickin'
Bonnie and I have been looking for ways to better organize our upstairs bathroom. The only real shortcoming of the house we live in is that the bathrooms are rather small and the upstairs one is entirely lacking in closet space. So when we were in Target yesterday Bonnie spied an étagère for $10. That's a shelf with bins on it, and this one is designed to stand on the floor but fit over a toilet tank. "Assembly required."
So we got it home and I started to put it together. Assembly is something of an understatement -- the blasted thing comes with a tube of white glue, wood dowels, and three different kinds of screws (flathead and philips-head alike). I had to stop on the first step, however, because one of the two side panels for the thing had its dowel-holes drilled wrong. There are supposed to be two pairs of dowel-holes drilled on the back side of the left and right panels, to accommodate cross-braces that run across the back. The holes are drilled correctly on the left panel, but on the right panel, they're drilled on the front and the back, rendering the entire assembly useless.
Target, to its credit, wanted to make good by just swapping out the defective part, but they don't have any more of them in stock, and because of the way their stocking is handled, they can't definitively tell me when they'll get any more in. So I have no choice but to box the whole thing back up and bring it in to them for a refund.
Made in China, in case anyone was curious. Hopefully I'll have better luck with the storage cabinet (Fabrique au Canada) I bought there yesterday.