Tag: WEAR

Help! My Pottery Barn slipcovers have faded

By Christopher Elliott |

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Question: I’m a long-time Pottery Barn customer. We bought a condo in Sarasota, Fla., about three years ago and furnished it with a PB Comfort sectional we bought at the Pottery Barn Outlet store in Memphis, Tenn., where we lived at the time.

The sectional came with a sage twill slipcover, but we also purchased a cream twill slipcover, too. There was no damage to the sectional when we purchased it and no indications that the slipcover might be faulty.

We only used the sage slipcover during the winter months of December to February, and then changed to the lighter color. So, in total, the slipcover has only been on the sectional nine months, and much of that time we were not in the condo.

We are two adult, non-smokers who live in the condo. The sectional is in the living room, about 16 feet from sliding glass doors to a sheltered balcony. The sliding glass doors have protective tinting, and the sun does not reach the sectional.
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New law aims to short-circuit public phone overcharges

By Christopher Elliott |

1-no phoneThe trouble started when Tom King’s cellphone died on his way to a job interview last year. He saw a public phone at Washington’s Bainbridge Island Ferry and was relieved when a sticker reassured him that he could make a four-minute call for $1, he says.

That didn’t turn out to be entirely accurate. King made four one-minute calls using his credit card, for which he expected to pay $4. But a few days later, he discovered that he’d been charged $14.98 for each connection, for a total of nearly $60. “I was shocked,” he says.
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