To not pay a crafter for a bespoke made item

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I’ve wanted a really nice bread bin for ages, fed up of my old rusty one leaving marks all over the kitchen worktop, saw a nice one on the internet, lovely design, but it wasn’t big enough, I needed a double/two loaf model.
Decided to splash out and get one made (wooden), spent ages sending pics/designs to local crafter, lots didn’t answer, or didn’t come back with a price after initially showing interest in taking on the project, or some couldn’t make it for nearly a year.
After a while I found a lovely new to crafting lady at an event, her work was amazing, and she quoted me £70 for a reclaimed solid oak bread bin, based on some pics I sent her, and included a rough sketch with measurements (internal& external), but I did say the size could altered slightly if she felt it would look more proportional, as long as it fitted two loaves (one on top of each other, with internal shelf), I even sent her a pic with the tape measure in front of the loaves I use for clarity...she sent me a sketch back, and I asked her to go ahead with the make.
Shes in the final stages, and today she’s sent me an update with pics.
Problem...it isn’t anything like the sketches either of us sent, she’s added the word BREAD in red to the front of it, which I never asked for, and wasn’t included in any of the pics or sketches.
It hasn’t got an internal shelf, the loaves look as if they are to fit side by side, so it’s going to take up far more valuable work surface space, and my kitchen isn’t big.
Im unsure if it’s even going to fit two loaves in...but it’s very hard to judge from a pic.
AND she has told me she’s made it out of pallet wood instead of the reclaimed oak, as she felt it looked more rustic...I did say initially I wanted rustic...but she gave me a samples of wood to chose from, and pallet wood is not the agreed oak.
EEEK.
Would I be really really unreasonable to say ‘I don’t want it, it’s not what we agreed’
I feel awful, as she new to crafting, and she’s lovely....but it, in my eyes anyway, it looks awful, I don’t feel I could use it elsewhere even.
This is my Christmas birthday and Mother’s Day present all in one, I feel like somebody like me should never even of attempted to have something handmade, I should of stuck to one for a fiver from B&M.
She’s on holiday til the weekend, so I don’t want to message her immediately, and spoil things for her

This is absolutely bonkers! OP I'm so sorry this has happened to you- you only wanted to buy something lovely and end up with all this shite.

I feel sorry for genuine crafters who provide a beautiful product at a fair price and service but having been stung myself a few times (not on this scale) I now feel safer sticking to larger outlets. Once paid £80 for my DDs cake it tasted like dust- now buy a £10 from from Tesco; a personalised autograph book (all templated just needed DDs name entering and printing sort of thing) I bought 3 weeks before we left for holiday and I asked the seller very nicely at the checkout process if it would arrive in time and he sent a barage of abuse and called me simple because the the 3 weeks was the dispatch time and it would take a further 7 days (?) to arrive all in UK (absolutely fine but a simple I'm ever so sorry I can't guarantee delivery would have sufficed), 'handmade' bracelets I had made for my bridesmaids at £50 turned up with a warren James receipt stuck under one of the boxes (£22 each).... it really does ruin it for genuine small businesses

I remember that Puzzled!

DH and I both chorused "Eeee - Me Father went crackers!" and then "Rickets, diphtheria, 'Itler" along with the soundtrack.

PMSL!

Thanks BSV. I did search for it yesterday but it didn't show up in the search.

Thought you'd like it, Schadenfreude

I am trying not to laugh out loud and wake the baby who is sleeping on me... but it's hard work! Thank you for brightening my day. Also, I want a 2 tiered bread bin now (mine holds only 1 loaf and says "Bread" on it )

Any more calls to work OP?

This thread and the cake one have had me gripped all day. I need closure (and possibly a life)

Am I so predictable Puzzled?

Omg this thread
The calls to work I can't get over- I'm trying to imagine the conversation I'd have with my boss about why I'm getting angry calls over an expensive breadbin to the workplace

I have no words!

Well, she’s really not going to earn a crust if she keeps on rolling the way she is. You’d think if this was her bread and butter she’d behave in a more professional manner, but clearly not!

Wow, she sounds off her load.

I’m glad you told her to baguette to fuck

This reminds me of that thread where a woman lost her dog and lots of randoms then started trespassing on the OP’s land to look for the dog, spooking her horses in the process. When the OP asked the dog owner to call off the searchers, she was subjected to a torrent of abuse from the dog owners and all the people who took the opportunity or the lost dog to trespass in OP’s land.

Sorry you’ve been through this OP, sounds like she’s a fruit cake.

However, I’m delighted to have found that there is such a thing as a double decker bread bin!

This is genius (though I’m sorry OP has had to deal with crazies).

Nominated for classics

Hardly genius. Vague kernel of truth. Cheerleaders. And now this.

The meaning of the word genius must have evolved greatly.

I have a bread drawer

Oh fine, it’s entertaining then. Sheesh.

This is my Christmas birthday and Mother’s Day present all in one, I feel like somebody like me should never even of attempted to have something handmade
Someone like you deserves the perfect bread bin OP, hold on to your dream!

@Horehound is it just a normal drawer or something special? I still can't find a bin with a shelf that I like. Think I might get the wayfair one and add a shelf myself!

@MaggieFS hehe it's just a deep drawer. We have loads of storage space in our kitchen and it's so handy having a while drawer dedicated to bread/pitta/pastures etc

This is genius

Nice to see the gluten frees are catered for too

OP - really sorry you have had such hassle over what was a lovely idea.

This has been a brilliant thread though with this making me laugh:
unfortunately not but I think someone on here could point you in the direction of a rat urine soaked, chemical infested, wooden pallet one that says BRLAD on it if you're in the market for something bespoke?

I think someone on here could point you in the direction of a rat urine soaked, chemical infested, wooden pallet one that says BRLAD on it if you're in the market for something bespoke?

Doris