Ok friends buckle up because this is a true roller coaster of a review. So normally I'm less inclined to review a major corporate brand because who cares, right? Everyone knows Office Depot. But let me tell you how we got here.
So my fiancé and I are planning our wedding, that's what fiancés do. And we are doing a lot of stuff ourselves because wedding price tags are NO JOKE. I'm usually the one to say "throw some money at it and make it go away" but I HAVE LIMITS Y'ALL. So anyways, we (ok mostly him but I'm helping) have been working on making invitations from scratch, they're individually painted, they look amazing (I'll attach a pic to the post), and all that was left to do was print them. Well it turns out no one we know has a printer any more because print is dead. So we trot on down to Office Depot with some paper and a dream. Let me tell you that the young lady at the print station (Sam) was a gem. She guided us on how to use the self-service print station to print from an emailed document, but when we tried to actually do it - BOOM - the machine didn't work. Nothing printed, nothing happened. I was NOT about to put these precious pieces of art into a potentially shady xerox, so instead Sam has us email the doc to her directly, and she prints it on the machine behind the counter - the special employees-only printer. She adjusted the margins, did a test run, and generally made sure it was perfect before sending out sheets through the wash. And then, because they printed 2 to a page, she used the Office Depot laser cutter to give us a crisp, even, perfect cut on all the invites. They were PERFECT, and the whole thing was all of like 5 bucks (and half an hour of time because of that failed attempt on the self service machine). So I'm happy, right? Don't worry, the turn is coming.
So the invitations are looking good but a little simple, so we decide to gussy them up with a little rice paper. I order said paper from Amazon (because I went to 3 local places and couldn't find what I was after - don't @ me), and it arrives and looks good but is too big. The invites are a rectangle and the paper is a larger rectangle. So we decide what we need to do is cut the paper to more of a square, so that we can fold one edge around, glue to the back, and make it like a little book cover. Cute! Can you picture it? I'll attach photos. So point is I need this delicate, moderately pricey paper cut perfectly, and I know EXACTLY who is gonna get my business. The OG OD - Office Depot. So I trot on back and while I'm waiting at the counter on a whim I looked up the star rating here and I'm like - come on you guys, this place is KILLING these invitations! I'm all "Get ready for 5 stars, Yelpos!"
So of course as with any good story, this is where it all crashes. I asked to have the paper cut, notes how I need it to be a square, and gave the young lady (name redacted) at the counter my invitations to measure against, along with about 50 sheets of rice paper. And as you might guess based on my ominous foreshadowing - she disappeared to the laser machine for a couple of minutes, then happily returned with a 50-sheet stack of small rectangles. There was no test run, no "Does this look good before I do the rest?" Just 50 sheets of incorrectly sized paper rectangles. I guess now we will use them for origami?
So I'm going down the middle at 3 stars, for one perfect job and one total fail. Thankfully we had backup paper left over at the house, which we are now cutting with scissors like normal people would have done to begin with. And I suppose I have learned a valuable lesson here about my own hubris and listening to the Yelp community. Next time I'll know! read more