Because apparently I wasn't stressed out enough already...

[rusty_halo]

I ordered Christmas gifts for my family on Amazon.com on December 12. All items were in stock, available now, and sold by Amazon.com.

Amazon JUST sent me an email telling me "Oops, sorry, turns out it's taking longer than expected to find one of your items, so your order won't arrive until after December 26."

Um, hello, THEY'RE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. And I ordered way early!

They won't even let me cancel the order or expedite the shipping.

So either I give my family nothing for Christmas and ship it all later, or else I have to go to Barnes & Noble and hunt all this stuff down in real time, then bug Amazon for a refund when the stuff eventually arrives.

*cries*

*urges friends to avoid Amazon for important purchases*

Comments

[witling.livejournal.com]

Oh no!! What a frackin' hassle. I'm so sorry, and I hope Amazon makes good on this for you. @!#@!!!!#@!

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Hey! Happy holidays to you and jolielaide! :)

Between Amazon, crazy people harassing me on eBay, waiting in line at the post office for an HOUR, baking approximately three hundred million cookies, and the fact that my cat ATE AND THEN VOMITED UP my pretty Christmas ribbon...

I am just about to start tearing my hair out.

*deep breath*

Tonight I'm going to ... do yoga, or something. While drinking hot tea. And going to bed early. Yes.

[10zlaine.livejournal.com]

you waited in line for an hour? and you didn't even complain in the email...

Did you tell Amazon to ship everything at once? I *hate* that option, because if even one thing is off or late, they'll hold the order forever. I've started not doing that, anymore, even if it's not very ecological.

::pets you::

Oh! But I just ordered Profit to watch on Netflix, so that's something good...even though it's not *your* good, but otherwise my life sucks with papers and shit...and shit...and at least, even with barf, you don't have *that*...

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

You can't go to the post office here without waiting at least 40 minutes. I tried to kill time by going to the "automated postage machine" because the line was about 1/4 long as the regular line, but it turns out that it moves about about 1/5 the speed, so I actually would've been done quicker if I'd stayed in the regular line (and then I would've been able to mail my international stuff, too).

I would seriously pay a MASSIVE tax increase if it meant they would keep the post office open 24/7 and give it a decent staff.

I'm changing all my eBay items to US shipping only because I cannot deal with going to the post office to mail stuff any more. (And the stupid post office won't let you mail international packages without actually going there and giving them to a human.) It's just too stressful, and then I keep putting it off and people freak out and send me the nastiest letters, like you wouldn't believe how rude people think they're allowed to be when they can't see your face.

Yeah, on Amazon I selected everything at once, because that's the only way to get free shipping, and because it was all "available now" and it said it would definitely arrive before Christmas! I checked their charts and timeframes and everything! I ordered on December 12, the deadline was December 17th! For once I was early!!

"Profit" ... yes ... "Profit" is awesome. I'm so glad you're watching it. Have you seen any of it before?

Shit? Like real shit? Huh?

I seriously went to pick up my Christmas ribbon which was on my bed surrounded by wrapping paper and bows and scissors and tape, only to find that it was COVERED IN BILE. Like, she (I know it was Angel!) had climbed over everything, not touching any of it, making a beeline for the ribbon, and managed to swallow and then regurgitate it all right there in the same place, and then go back to her perch on the windowsill and fall asleep like nothing ever happened. Except for the ribbon being covered in bile. UGH.

On the plus side, everyone's said good things about the cookies, and I'm so glad I got them mailed out. I just hope they arrive without breaking or the packages falling apart or whatever horrible thing. I'm already worrying that I didn't use enough tape to hold the boxes together or that I didn't slap enough "priority mail" labels on the side. *sigh* *not going to worry, nothing I can do about it now*

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Did you tell Amazon to ship everything at once? I *hate* that option, because if even one thing is off or late, they'll hold the order forever

I always tell them to ship it all together, and yet, the last three orders I've made have been shipped in increments. Go fig.

[witling.livejournal.com]

AGH!!!

I find looking at pictures of Alan Rickman tends to calm me down at times like this.

Hang in there! WWARD?