Amazon Orphans unite!

[Saberj]

I pre-ordered mine on Monday June 3rd. Paid for next-day shipping. I shipped early Friday morning, and is currently in Memphis, TN (it started in Kentucky, and I live in California). Supposed to be here on June 9th. So I'm not sure why mine went out on time when I ordered so late in the game.

Weird, I live in Kentucky...and mine still hasn't went out. It is supposed to go out today though. It's supposed to be here Monday (Next day shipping). Still, odd.

 

[Drkfathr1]

It would seem the priority goes to those who paid for 1 or 2 day shipping. I asked for standard, I live in KY, and I pre-ordered back in February.

My order is now backordered and wouldn't ship until late June.

So I cancelled and ordered the books individually. Thanks Amazon.

 

[Weregrognard]

Amazon and Murphy's Law

"We're writing about the order you placed on March 06 2008 19:15 PST
(Order# XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX). Unfortunately, we are unable to ship the item(s) as soon as we expected and need to provide you with a new estimate of when the item(s) may be delivered:

Wizards RPG Team (Author) "4th Edition Core Rulebook Collection
(D&D Core Rulebook) [Box set]" [Hardcover]
Estimated arrival date: 06/19/2008 - 07/01/2008

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this delay."


#$%@!!!!

Edit: Cancelled my pre-order, went to Borders with my weekly 30% off coupon, and gots me my books. All is right with the world now.

 

[drothgery]

Pre-ordered in Feb, super saver shipping, hasn't shipped yet (or flipped to 'shipping soon'), has said "Shipping estimate: June 10, 2008" since I put in the pre-order (never changed).

 

[emiliorf]

Tell me

I waited all this time, seeing everyone downloading the books, and I kept saying. I won´t download, I want to have the books for my first look. And then I woke today to find an e-mail.

Shipping estimate : June 16, 2008 - June 24, 2008

What the hell, if today at the worldwide game day I´m able to find the books, I´m buying them from the FLGS and sending Amazon to *%$#@. Never will buy with them again

 

[Belorin]

Tell me

I waited all this time, seeing everyone downloading the books, and I kept saying. I won´t download, I want to have the books for my first look. And then I woke today to find an e-mail.

Shipping estimate : June 16, 2008 - June 24, 2008

What the hell, if today at the worldwide game day I´m able to find the books, I´m buying them from the FLGS and sending Amazon to *%$#@. Never will buy with them again

I received the e-mail sometime after 3am pt, that's when I finally went to bed. Got up to use the facilities and there it was. I have sent an e-mail expressing my disappointment and letting them know that this better be an isolated incident. Anymore last minute changes and I'm outta here, Amazon!

Bel

 

[Tortoise]

Having recently moved I had yet to find another FLGS so I ordered through Amazon and also made the mistake of signing up for Prime.

Just canceled my order, which was originally scheduled for One Day shipping, and requested a cancel/refund of Prime. I'm expecting a fight on the latter part.

Now that I have a new FLGS, I can avoid online ordering.

 

[Mercurius]

So did D&D lovers anticipating 4th edition take down Amazon yesterday? That would be awesome.

Must be true it was June 6th, right?

It's too big a coincidence otherwise, all the world waiting for 4e.

Guess no more countdowns for D&D ever again. Even Amazon can't hack it.

If it was because of rabid D&D lovers refreshing constantly, it looks like Amazon REALLY "screwed the pooch" by under-ordering the gift sets: Not only are they losing customers, but they lose something like 1-3 million bucks per hour they are down (according to NPR last night, who said they were down for about two hours).

To put it another way, we MIGHT have cost Amazon $2-6 million because they didn't order enough gift sets.

Even if it isn't true, I might choose to believe it is...sweet, sweet poetic justice

 

[GoodKingJayIII]

Man this is bad news... I guess you get what you pay for, huh?

"You get a free book, we ship it whenever!"

 

[Festivus]

Shipping Estimate: June 16, 2008 - June 24, 2008.

Consider yourself lucky!

Same start date for me, end date is 7/1/2008. However, I did support my FLGS with a purchase of the next to the last copy of the PHB last night, and the PHB has enough info to run games so I am good to go.