December 22, 2003
Offline Christmas Shopping
I did all of my Christmas shopping online this year at the start of December. Unfortunately, it looks like Amazon isn't going to deliver the goods, so I'm going to have to redo my shopping the old-fashioned way.
This happened to me last year, so this year I decided to place my order much earlier, but it doesn't seem to have helped. Amazon's website currently says:
Not Yet Dispatched: 4 items - delivery estimate: Dec 20, 2003 - Dec 28, 2003
Needless to say, I'm not particularly confident that those four items will get here in time.
It sounds like my case is not particularly unusual. David got an email telling him some books wouldn't be in stock for a couple of weeks. My mum has had half her order cancelled due to incorrect shipping address (with the other half being delivered to the same address just fine). Not good. How have others got on? Is it the same story for everyone?
While I'm doing my offline Christmas shopping, I may have to pick up a copy of Halo. I finally got to see an XBox on Saturday while helping David move house, and had a quick play of Halo on it. Amazing game, amazing graphics. The Mac version I've just tried is almost as good - but suffers without a console controller. The keyboard isn't quite the same. Maybe I should buy a controller too...
Update: Amazon's hiccup cost me an extra £12 from buying on the high street. If they'd been honest about their delivery times, I would have gone elsewhere. I feel a consumer complaint is in order ...
Posted by savs at December 22, 2003 6:32 AM