For my birthday in 2015 the sweetie got me a 1000 piece jigsaw which was a gradient of all different colours. Loved it!! It was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it.
So for Christmas 2015 I asked for the 5000 piece version of the same picture.
I spread all the pieces out and arranged by colour.
There was a lot of green!!
And finished!
This wasn't grid cut, it was random cut, which made it quite tricky
The problem was..
IT WAS UTTER TRASH!!! Absolutely crap. Terrible quality. Clemens Habicht 5000 Colours Jigsaw Puzzle by Lamington Drive Editions was a TERRIBLE jigsaw.
Here's why.
The printing was crap. LIke this is not a nice gradient. It's like they printed the different sections of the jigsaw separately.
It was not even applied to the cardboard very well
The printing was bad enough. The cutting was SHOCKING.
Pieces weren't cut through properly
Or they were damaged
And that wasn't even the worst part of the poor cutting.
Look at this trash. They didn't bother to line up the sections after the first cut so things don't align
And another side effect of the poor alignment was that pieces were actually broken!!!
And even completely missing parts!
And the final insult. There was a piece actually missing!!! (sorry about the out of focus photo I never got a closeup)
Now if this had been a regular jigsaw I might have given this company the benefit of the doubt and assumed I had lost it *somehow* .. even when you look at the space I was working on it.. there's nowhere it could have disappeared to..
But due to all the other problems with this terrible quality jigsaw, I guarantee it was never there.
I was so upset by this jigsaw I couldn't blog about it. For nearly ten years. If I had bought it myself I absolutely would have demanded a refund for it. But the sweetie bought it, and he's allergic to confrontation. So I have $150 worth of rubbish sitting on a shelf downstairs. I doubt I could even sell it. Maybe will just have to donate it to Vinnies or something. With a warning how bad it is.
Do not buy Clemens Habicht 5000 Colours Jigsaw Puzzle by Lamington Drive Editions.
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