Deal on Amazon VisiontTek Xtasy 9800 PRO 256 MB DDR Updated

[blahfish]

Amazon did it again..

Placed order on 03-05,
Shipping estimate for these items: April 7, 2004
Delivery estimate: April 9, 2004 - April 26, 2004

Today, they sent me this bs email...

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Greetings from Amazon.com.

It has come to our attention that we have no more units of "VisiontTek
Xtasy 9800 PRO 256 MB DDR AGP (VGA TV out, DVI)" in stock. As there
are no longer any units available, and we have no plans of carrying
this item in the future, it has been cancelled from your order.

Please note that our supply of popular items is often limited and some
products sell out quickly. We are very sorry that we were unable to
fulfill your order before our supply ran out.

Your credit card has not been charged for the item, as our policy is
to charge for items at the time of shipment.

Again, we are very sorry for any disappointment this has caused.
Please know that we value your business and hope to see you again soon
at Amazon.com.

Sincerely,

Amazon.com Customer Service
www.amazon.com
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It's a pre-order, how can it be OUT OF STOCK?

Anyone else?

[Legrand]

Yeah, I got the same B.S. message... So, where do we take these lies to?

Edit:

Guess they beat me to this though:
Registrant:
AMAZON.COM, INC., ATTN. GENERAL COUNSEL (JKRBCZWRFD)
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
SEATTLE, WA 98108-1226
US

Domain Name: AMAZONSUCKS.COM

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
AMAZON.COM, INC., ATTN. GENERAL COUNSEL (B7157-OR) [email protected]
Legal Dept, P.O. Box 81226
SEATTLE, WA 98108-1226
US
206 266 4064 fax: 206 266 7010

Record expires on 08-Apr-2005.
Record created on 08-Apr-2002.
Database last updated on 10-Mar-2004 23:15:58 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS-1.AMAZON.COM 207.171.178.132
NS-2.AMAZON.COM 12.163.227.100
NS-3.AMAZON.COM 207.171.171.132

[blahfish]

I can't find anything on amazon policy said "they reserve the right to cancelled a pre-order order"

I wonder, did they even fulfill any order?

:confused:


Consumer Law -- Deceptive Trade Practices
GENERAL PROHIBITED PRACTICES-- Laundry List of false, misleading, or deceptive practices:

Advertising goods or services with intent not to sell them as advertised;
Advertising goods or services with intent not to supply reasonable expectable public demand, unless the advertisements disclosed a limitation of quantity;
Making false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amount of price reductions;

[ray]

I just received mine as well. Oh well.

[treygeiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is BULL$HIT! Where do we take this? I demand my f'n card!

[Bires]

Like Microsoft, Amazon.com didn't become the internet juggernaut by paying for their mistakes.

[HardwareLust]

Man, Amazon sucks ass. Let's hope that Gateway doesn't pull the same sh*t as they did. Some peeps have already gotten their cards from GW according to FW.

[irwin]

Originally posted by treygeiger
Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is BULL$HIT! Where do we take this? I demand my f'n card!


Originally posted by Legrand
Yeah, I got the same B.S. message... So, where do we take these lies to?

Shut up. kthxbye! :D

[M_A_C]

I figured that would happen.

And DF is right. Just FO-GETABOU-IT!

[Apex]

Call em up. I heard people have been offered $20 gift certificates.

[Svyn]

The part that bothers me about this deal is, they let it go for what 3 days? I mean after the first day they HAD to of known they were over their quota of cards with the distributor. At that point they should have pulled it (1st day). The only reason I can think they left it up is to promote traffic. You know you get people in a store they have a 50/50 change of buying something, well if you get them to buy one thing they have a 75/25 chance of buying another item. That is what really irks me about things like this. Pull it when you hit your limit, dont linger on it and piss people off. Just a bad call by Amazon IMO. Congrads to all who got in on it (if anyone did).

[purduephotog]

Person A notices alot of orders. Or software flags. Calls Person B.

Person B isn't at desk, will check voicemail 4 hours later. Calls /tries to call back Person A, but no answer.

They finally connect a few hours later. End of day. Conclude they must get ahold of person C.

Person A lucks out- Person C is at their desk. Person C wonders whats up, calls regional distributor/sales. Unfortunately he's traveling, so he'll call back from office.

Call isn't returned till the next morning (guy went out playing golf).

Orders are frozen.

Sounds like an easy 3 days. If you add in a weekend, you could go a whole week.

Just because you can call one of your buddies on IM doesn't mean the rest of the world operates that fast- electronic messaging, email, cell phones, or whatnot.

[Legrand]

Shut up. kthxbye!
That is just so wrong and ignorant. I work for a company that has an online presence through three seperate websites selling different ranges of products to the public. While we're no Amazon (in terms of sales amounts), we do have the morals and the standards in place so that when WE make an error, WE fix it. If it's a pricing error, then WE have to eat the cost until it's fixed. We don't screw the customer. If the company I work for, that only has sales of a couple million a year can do the right thing, you'd think that Amazon, with it's hundreds of millions of dollars worth of sales a year, could do the right thing.

The worst part is that they are flat out lying. At least tell the truth if you're going to cancel everyone's orders.

[faither]

Iguess you don't work for CDW because they're hosing me on the Clie NX80 + WiFi CF deal from a week or so ago.

Took my order, received confirmation email and order processing email. Then 2 days later I receive an email that there are no more in stock.

I ask how is it no longer in stock, you're still selling both items. Response, "Well both items are in stock but we have no more of the promotional deal." There was never a mention of limited quantities or any such nonsense and, by the way, how can you still sell both items and not honor the sale they made. That's TOTAL BS!

Now I'm waiting for some CDW manager to get back to me.

[Showtime]

Class action anyone?

:P

-jel:halo:

[Bires]

I express my displeasure with my $$ and spreading the word at resellerratings.com. Screw with the proletariat, get the revolution!