update: I received two emails saying that two orders have already been refunded. That makes me currently 1 order too many, but it's nice that they've already credited me without receiving the antennas back yet.
On Aug 2, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Zaphod wrote: > >> >> This morning I got 4 emails from buy.com giving me tracking numbers >> of >> 4 different shipments of the same item :) >> >> I got 2 emails later on telling me that the orders couldn't be >> cancelled because they were already in the shipping phase. >> >> Hopefully I'll be able to intercept the UPS guy so I can refuse >> delivery on 3 of the 4. >> >> All this to save $15 bucks over buying it at Fry's. >> > > > There is something to be said for buying small items locally. Still, > buy.comfailed you. Even if the front-end experience fails and you end > up with four > orders, they should have monitoring routines in place that detect > duplicate > entries like this. Poor architecture for a company that depends > entirely on > online commerce for its business. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:301324 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
