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Great Design or Consumer Ripoff? The NEW Arrowhead Water 5 Gallon Bottle

January 28th, 2009 · 5 Comments

With age comes cynicism, at least in my case.

Once I would trust, at face value, the statements of others. Today, well, not so much.

Rest assured I am not a discriminating cynic.  I question people, companies, services, causes, and beliefs all equally.

For instance, last week I received a delivery from Arrowhead Water. It was the usual water service in every way, except one.

Arrowhead Water, since last December, has been migrating to a new and improved five gallon bottle. The new Arrowhead bottle has a super convenient handle embedded into side of the bottle.

While this made for much easier carrying it also caused me great suspicion.

How could a new 5 gallon bottle, seemingly the same in every way to the old bottle, still hold 5 gallons with a chuck taken out of it for the handle?

After a look on the Arrowhead Water web site and a call to customer service I was not satisfied that I wasn’t getting ripped off. So with help of New Media and video expert Ron (who did the camera work but left the editing to me and edited my 15 minute hack job to a viewable 5 minutes), I offer the following video.

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Tags: Cynicism · Humor · Observations of Midlife Stuff