Time for one of those serious, public-service-type entries I somewhat hate: Don't do business with Amazon.com. Or do so at your own risk.
Why? Well, for starters, try finding a phone number on their site to call them if you have a problem with an order. I eventually found it online using Google, where some irate guy had posted it, searching for "amazon.com phone number"
To make a long story short, I placed an order for 4 figures worth of stuff with them, which they promptly billed me for, and then decided to cancel the order because they, you know, didn't actually HAVE what they'd billed me for. Bastards. Not that I got any notification; I had to call them to find this out.
Then they give me this line; "Oh, we refunded that." Oh REALLY? Then why doesn't my bank have any record? "It takes three days for it to process." How is it going to process? THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF YOUR TRANSACTION.
I eventually had to sic their own vendor on them, which I believe did the trick. Compared to Amazon, Rebecca at J&R; was so awesome, I started getting Florence Nightengale syndrome. It was all I could do not to propose. She probably lives in India anyway.
I like the way they act like an instant electronic transaction somehow takes 3 days. Motherless pigfuckers. One could make a small fortune merely on the illicit interest these people garner aging your money on things like this. Yeah, it'll eventually roll in I am sure...when they get around to entering it.
What's the moral of this story? "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."
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