The amount of time spent on problems like this in the mail order world...

I need to order two more buttons for my cardigan that's missing one (the other is a spare), but it's not practical to pay shipping costs for two buttons, so I also need to plan my next project for after the socks I am currently knitting.

I had been planning to make thicker silky merino house socks, which feel nicer on the skin, but I spent way too long yesterday discovering that none of the Finnish yarn shops in my bookmarks (there are about twelve, I think) have both the exact Drops 2cm shell buttons and dk merino sock yarn. So now I guess I need a new plan. Great.

"The internet has become practically unusable," was Wax's comment.

I haven't given up on oiling the sewing machine myself, I just haven't got around to buying new oil yet. But in the meantime, at work yesterday I decided to search and see if there are any local small appliance repair shops. I know there isn't a SEWING MACHINE shop, which isn't surprising for a town with one main street, but I thought there might be just an assorted Thing repair spot.

One of the top results I got was actually about a little part-time bicycle repair shop that's attached to the local plant nursery, but I didn't realize that's what it was talking about because the full address wasn't readable in the search result, so I clicked...

...and landed on a page of "customer reviews" completely in Finnish that was headed with a photo of my work office that I took last year, complete with the photo enhancement done by me.

So this is definitely scraped from one of the charity's official websites (there are two possibilities, frtdneatj), and like... not for any good reason, because the nursery and repair shop is not anywhere near here and the street names and addresses are not even similar. Not to mention that if any human being had been involved in the process at any point they would have realized that it's definitely not a repair shop, because if there's one thing my charity is unimpeachably flawless at, it's [sparkles]branding[sparkles]!: the photo features a huge internationally recognizable logo as well as the name prominently blazoned across the windows and doors.

If you scroll down the page, after the reviews there's some blather in Finnish about how dedicated they are to making Finland's best business reviews site blah blah blah (it's just a bad Yelp knockoff and there are like three better-known and better-designed sites in this market segment, so that's a fail too) and how extremely Finnish they all are, but the company address at the bottom of the page is in Singapore, so there's that.

Also they definitely aren't very invested in the site, because not only does their content scraper operate without supervision, nobody has bothered to create a layout or visual design for the site, so it looks like when all the images are turned off or a really heavy site loads the text first and it's just hanging there in black and white for a while before the style loads.

There's a link to report a "problem" with an article, and since it was actually my photo I did use it to point that out to them, not that I expect much to come of that.