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Aduro wrote:Am I allowed to be amused by the fact you want to burn someone first, Then rape them?

Sure.

KingCracker wrote:NUTHER UPDATE


OK, heres where we are at. Basically, we are at status FUBAR.


The guy
US
Amazon

The guy has to print out 3 shipping labels from Amazon. Even though everything is in 1 box (I dunno, we couldnt explain that enough) to send it all back to Amazon
US! we get a new xbox bundle over nighted from Amazon.
When Amazon GETS the box from THE GUY! we finally get our games and such, refunded, but not before.
So THEN we get to re purchase the gak we added to said xbox.





Get all that?

Cancel everything. get it from another site.

I personally wouldn't buy anything that expensive online. Call me a luddite, but it just seems a bit risky.

I've never had any real problems with Amazon.

Albatross wrote:I personally wouldn't buy anything that expensive online. Call me a luddite, but it just seems a bit risky.

I've never had any real problems with Amazon.

Problems like this only arise because of the decentralization of the process and the complications that abound through the service. It will happen on occasion, but I think to say King Cracker is probably one of the few who has had an extreme case of poor luck here.

Poor KC, this is corporate idiocy of the highest degree.

There's a big Amazon depot just outside Edinburgh. If you pay postage I can go out there and just grab the stuff and send it to you? It'll be cheaper too!

Castiel wrote:Poor KC, this is corporate idiocy of the highest degree.

There's a big Amazon depot just outside Edinburgh. If you pay postage I can go out there and just grab the stuff and send it to you? It'll be cheaper too!

With the price of int'l shipping, I highly doubt it would be cheaper.

True, he might actually get it though!

Castiel wrote:True, he might actually get it though!

Hmm...how much would it exactly cost to ship an XBox360ish across the pond?

My experience with amazon has been very good (so far). Been using them for 7 years with no major issues. Bought my TV off them.

The problem we get over in the UK is the delivery companies they use for anything too big to go through your letter box. The ones that bugger off and leave a "you weren't in" slip if you don't answer the door in 2 seconds, then drop kick your parcel back in the van.

n0t_u wrote:

Aduro wrote:Am I allowed to be amused by the fact you want to burn someone first, Then rape them?

Sure.

not_u has it right. You can enjoy the fact that it was amusing. I like my sex hot and kindda crunchy.




Well, apparently they pulled head from ass. This morning, the wife checks, and the xbox/kinect is in Flint, which is at worst, 15 minutes away. So Im thinking in a few hours (processing and what not) we should at least be getting that today. Then we are going to demand that when we re-order our games, they give us express/over night shipping for free, with no argument, or the burnings and rapes will commence!


Uhg. What a frggin night. At least I got to play WoW with my Goblin with the wife for a few hours. At least that was enjoyable.

Wow, I order stuff from Amazon all the time, and have not ever had the slightest problem. Probably just bad karma.

Bad Karma? Definitely not bad Karma. You have to be a dick hole to people to get bad Karma. And Im a pretty nice fella. Oh wait, you were trolling werent you? Its because I asked if you knew how bat gak crazy you were, wasnt it?

KingCracker wrote:Bad Karma? Definitely not bad Karma. You have to be a dick hole to people to get bad Karma. And Im a pretty nice fella. Oh wait, you were trolling werent you? Its because I asked if you knew how bat gak crazy you were, wasnt it?

Unless it's prospective bad Karma. Like something really good is going to happen to you in the future and the universe is just fething with you right now to make up for it.

Does this mean Im going to win the MegaMillions in the future and have to pay for everyones plane tickets to the next DAKKAcon?

KingCracker wrote:Does this mean Im going to win the MegaMillions in the future and have to pay for everyones plane tickets to the next DAKKAcon?

Yes, and we'll hold you to that promise!

KingCracker wrote:Bad Karma? Definitely not bad Karma. You have to be a dick hole to people to get bad Karma. And Im a pretty nice fella. Oh wait, you were trolling werent you? Its because I asked if you knew how bat gak crazy you were, wasnt it?

No, I gave up living a life of fear and loathing a long time ago. You should try it, it's much easier than the darkness in which you apparently reside now.

warpcrafter wrote:
No, I gave up living a life of fear and loathing a long time ago. You should try it, it's much easier than the darkness in which you apparently reside now.

Yes, self delusion is a remarkably easy way of life.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:I think amazon was trying to do you a favor by preventing you from getting your Kinect.

Seriously here is a list of Kinect enabled games…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kinect_games

90% of those are shovelware and the remaining 10% are best played with a controller.

You couldn't be more wrong...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinectimals

wow, this sucks.. But if your package is 15 minutes away, don't get your hopes up because UPS will probably decide to sit on it for a day just because they're stupid. But hopefully that doesn't happen.

I order from Amazon a lot, my GF buys pretty much everything you could possibly think of from them, neither of us ever had a problem. We must both be pretty overdue...

Oh man, I hope you guys dont get it bad then

The one problem I've had with Amazon was when I bought from a vendor on there...

Ordered a metal Vlad von Carstein in December 2010.

Still haven't received it!

Aduro wrote:Am I allowed to be amused by the fact you want to burn someone first, Then rape them?

Made me think of this:




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To the OP, I've had multiple items not show up from Amazon, but none of them were worth the disaster with CS.

VermGho5t wrote:I think I have you beat. My coworker ordered a single ice scraper from Amazon. He received a whole fething case of them. What does one do with 30 ice scrapers?

I think part of it depends on the vendor. I have had NO problems with my orders directly from Amazon. When it is from a affiliated seller who has to do the shipping etc, is only when I've encounter issues, such as tracking/shipping info not being update etc.

You should do a short, clear, and concise writeup of your experience, and email it to tips@consumerist.com

Ouze wrote:You should do a short, clear, and concise writeup of your experience, and email it to tips@consumerist.com

Hmm, I may do that. What exactly is that for BTW?

Alexzandvar wrote:

VermGho5t wrote:I think I have you beat. My coworker ordered a single ice scraper from Amazon. He received a whole fething case of them. What does one do with 30 ice scrapers?

LOL
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I once ordered cuttlebones for my birds from Petco.com. The were on promo, so I intended to stock up. Ordered 10. Description seemed to indicate single cuttlebones. They were less than a dollar, and normally were $1.50, or it was buy one get one free, something like that. I actually got 10 x 10 packs. The SKUs matched the order, so I shrugged and went with it. I now have so much cuttlebone I'm debating grinding some up and adding to the garden...

With Amazon, I, too, order WAY too much stuff from them. I hate going to the store, and I can comparison shop and get it delivered for free 2nd day with Prime. Oh yeah.

I got angered beyond all belief when some innocuous items started getting delivered with "delivery confirmation" via USPS. Unlike UPS, USPS evidently requires a signature for delivery confirmation (my post office does at any rate), instead of just a written documentation of delivery by carrier.

So I would expect my item in 2 days, but I would just get a little orange slip. I would have to log on to USPS.com and manually request redelivery, or go to the post office... defeating the whole point. This was tolerable when USPS.com only required the parcel number and address for redelivery, though I was annoyed that it would then be 4 days instead of 2 before I got my stuff. However, recently they changed it so you have to enter email and phone number to request redelivery on USPS.com. This pushed me over the edge as just way too much drama for some simple item, like a box of granola bars or tuna for the cat. I really do not feel the need to provide phone or email to everyone who asks, and last I checked, this was not a requirement for postal delivery. During this time, a mail carrier yelled at me that I should leave something on file at the post office, authorizing them to leave stuff. Uh huh, yelling at me is really going to solve it... and sorry, no, I'm not going through all the effort to make a special request.

The last item, I refused to do any of it. Called amazon, said the post office is requiring me to pick up or be present for signature, so I will not be able to acquire the item. The item was a $7 household item... if I need to drive all the way to the post office, I'll just stop at the grocery store. The reason I order is for convenience of delivery, if that will not occur, then the item is moot. Amazon said they would refund it. They did, a month and a half later...

Came to realize this was amazon requiring delivery confirmation on "subscribe and save" items. Adding it up, the silly 10% savings was not worth the hassle, so I just manually order and all is fine.

Vendors are very hit-or-miss through amazon. I go through a lot of effort to only order amazon unless there is no choice. One vendor many years ago advertised a limited leather bound edition of a book, by one of most favorite authors. Price was surprisingly good, but much more than the standard hard cover, so it looked plausible. When book arrived, it was just the normal hard cover. I was ANGRY. Mostly because of the disappointment. I dealt directly with the vendor, and got a full refund, and kept the book (though I didn't want it, already had it). That was the worst vendor snafu, though. Others have been the weird pricing, weird shipping costs, weird contact emails, etc, so I just avoid them.

Aduro wrote:Am I allowed to be amused by the fact you want to burn someone first, Then rape them?

Don't be silly. That's the sensible thing to do. If you rape them first, you traumatize them mentally... and that's not polite.

Eric

Agreed! Its more of a social nicety.

I order through amazon several times a month so I don't have to deal with the smelly people at the stores. Never had a problem in the many years I've used them.

This seems like a pretty rare case here.

KingCracker wrote:

Ouze wrote:You should do a short, clear, and concise writeup of your experience, and email it to tips@consumerist.com

Hmm, I may do that. What exactly is that for BTW?

Consumerist is a blog owned by Consumer Reports that is generally full of whiney complainers bitching about Best Buy like they were matched into the store and made to shop there at gunpoint.

However, there is occasionally a legitimate beef with a company, and most of the larger companies view the site for potential public relations fiascoes. For some reason when a legitimate screwup makes it onto the site, inexplicably the customer is called by the company and the problem gets fixed.

For example, GE was screwing me over on a out-of-warranty oven repair, I wrote a letter to consumerist, and BAM, next morning the CEO's secretary calls me up and says I'll have a repair guy there that day for free, sorry about the problem. So it's worth a shot.

Many is the time someone had a problem with, say, Newegg, and by the 7th or so post a Newegg Rep posts asking the consumer to call then. This only works with companies that aren't immune to bad PR (so it won't work at all with AT&T, Comcast, Best Buy) and of course getting any help is dependent upon your story being compelling enough to be posted, and you need to have exhausted the normal support chain.

The other alternative is to sending the same concise and polite email to jeff.bezos@amazon.com, see what happens there. Amazon usually has good CS.