Dear Amazon.com:

[yendi]

Today is Tuesday, April 29. That means that Babylon 5 Season 2 has now been released. Yet you still haven't shipped it. Kindly get your drug-smoking crew of oompah loompah wannbes off their lazy asses and pack my order. Please avoid using the morons who packed the last three book orders you fucked up (you know, the ones who didn't think there was anything strange about missing pages or covers falling off books), but please do get the DVD set in the mail today.

With the utmost love for you and yours (except for the assholes who packed those orders, and four out of the six outsourced customer "service" reps I dealt with),

Adam

Comments

[chrisv.livejournal.com]

I hear you. When I pre-ordered the 2nd season of Buffy from them, it didn't come until 10 days after the release date. I bought the 3rd season at Best Buy.

I remember in '98, I pre-ordered a CD from CDNow and it arrived ON the release date. It was awesome. I had the CD before anyone else in the office could run out to the store and buy it. I wish Amazon would do that.

[digitaldevil.livejournal.com]

Dear Adam,

We r going to fuk up yer order. U don make fun of us heree at Amuhzon.com.

Cordiallly yers,

The pot smokin Amozun oompah loompahs

[yendi]

Shit, the pot-smoking ones are the good ones. It's the crackheads I worry about.

[yendi]

And instead, Amazon bought out CDnow. Go fig.

Deep Discount DVD has also shipped early at times (once two weeks early!). I'd love it if Amazon did that (they are doing it for Harry Potter, but that's a unique case).

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

3d season was also cheaper at Best Buy.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

drug-smoking crew of oompah loompah wannbes

*LAUGH*

[jdotmi.livejournal.com]

This is why I just pick the stuff up at my local Borders store on release date. *nods sagely*

...

Ok, that and my 33% discount...

*nods sagely*

[laurel]

Hmm. I saw today that a season 2 set shipped yesterday to someone who ordered through my site.

Usually it seems like they're shipping TV DVD sets a day or two before the release date. But I'm sure mileage varies (obviously).

I've had mostly good luck with stuff shipped from amazon.com and had really good service regarding those shipments. Bad customer service when I send email to the site about anything other than shipments, though.

[redcrowstudio.livejournal.com]

Looks like they're too busy building real spaceships (http://www.msnbc.com/news/904842.asp?0cv=KA01) to worry about your Babylon 5 order:

Now he has a $1.7 billion fortune to try to convert that dream into reality. NEWSWEEK has learned that Bezos created Blue Origin, also known as Blue Operations LLC, to pursue his fervent dream of establishing an enduring human presence in space. He has surreptitiously recruited a stable of rocketeers: physicists, ex-NASA scientists, veterans of failed space start-ups and even sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson (“Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon”), who has a lifelong interest in rocketry. People familiar with the firm say Bezos spends part of a day each week at Blue, and is in frequent touch through e-mail, pinging his staff with technical questions. These sources say Blue Origin is actually building a spacecraft whose mission will be closely related to some of the first voyages that brought astronauts to the very edge of space. Confident that people want to travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere—even after a second shuttle disaster—Bezos and his engineers are in the process of working on rocket designs. They’re adding staff and aiming toward launching a reusable space vehicle into suborbital space, with seven tourists onboard, in the next few years.

*nods*

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

Gods what I wouldn't give to say that kind of thing to someone. Afterall.. I mean B&N screwed up my order, lost it infact and I had to go outsomewhere else to buy it. I was PISSED...

~Sw

Re: Dear Amazon.com

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I've been very, very happy with DVD Planet (http://www.dvdplanet.com/).

[yendi]

Actually, after posting, I got a notice that it had emailed. Do you know if anyone else ordered through your site? If I was the only one, than maybe they just didn't send the notice itself until last night. I'd rather the package get shipped sooner than the notice, all things considered. :-)

Re: *nods*

[yendi]

There was a time a couple of years ago when BN were the bad guys, as far as I'm concerned, and Amazon the good guys. It's a cycle. I suspect that any big company will screw up sometimes, and get it right some other times.

Re: Dear Amazon.com

[yendi]

I haven't tried them, although I've seen them mentioned often enough at dvdpricesearch.com.

[morenasangre.livejournal.com]

Got my shipping notice yesterday :D I'm tracking...I'm tracking...I can't wait. And I can't wait for DragonCon...have you looked at the updated lists? Mira, Steven First, Bruce, Bill Mumy....whee!!!