{"id":336,"date":"2003-02-21T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-21T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2003-02-21T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-21T19:44:00","slug":"loss-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/21\/loss-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss of business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I pre-ordered the new Legend of Zelda game for the Game Cube from IGN.com (store services provided by GameStop.com). Part of the fun in preordering this particular game is that it comes with a free bonus disc. Now… this disc has been out for a while, and I haven’t gotten mine yet, I started to get worried. So I wrote an email to gamestop.com. They didn’t respond. I wrote another one yesterday:
\n
\nI finally got into the online order information (it took me a while, it
\nwasn’t working for a long time) and I found that this order, which I
\nplaced quite a long time ago, has automatically turned into the “Legend of
\nZelda: The Wind Waker with Bonus!” item, instead of the “Legend of Zelda:
\nThe Wind Waker with Early Bonus!” item.<\/p>\n

I would cancel this item and reorder, but when I first ordered this, there
\nwas a special IGN Insider offer for free overnight shipping, and I don’t
\nwant to lose that. The option for early\/late shipping didn’t even exist
\nback then.<\/p>\n

Can you please change the item type? I will agree to paying the $4.99
\nhandling fee for the early shipment of the bonus disk.<\/p>\n

If you can’t, please cancel my order, and I will take my business
\nelsewhere. Thank you.<\/p>\n

\t-Andy<\/font><\/p>\n

I got the following response today:<\/p>\n

Dear Customer, <\/p>\n

Thank you for writing to us at GameStop.com <\/p>\n

Per your request, we have cancelled order. <\/p>\n

We value your business and hope to see you again soon at GameStop.com. Have
\na Great Day! <\/p>\n

Thank you, <\/p>\n

Alicia
\nGameStop.com
\nWorld’s Largest Selection of Gaming Products
\nhttp:\/\/www.gamestop.com <\/font><\/p>\n

You value my business, huh? Well, I’d like to say, you’re never seeing my business again. Between the stupidness of the online order status (which I always had problems with), the fact that if I lose the email, I lose all track of the order, and this stupidness, my business goes elsewhere, no matter what compelling offers they give on IGN.com. I already placed an order at ebgames.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in November, I pre-ordered the new Legend of Zelda game for the Game Cube from IGN.com (store services provided by GameStop.com). Part of the fun in preordering this particular game is that it comes with a free bonus disc. Now… this disc has been out for a while, and I haven’t gotten mine yet, … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Loss of business”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}