From Peter T. Bense Sent Wed, Jul 14th 1999, 04:40
I've also had a similar experience. Those people are real fuckheads, pardon my English. I got one of those infamous e-mail messages, check this: > Thank you for your order with Online Stores by Shopnow.com. Unfortunately, > some of the products you ordered, CDs - Terrence Parker- Tragedies of a > Plasic Soul Jun/ De La Soul- De La Soul is Dead/ Herbaliser- Wall Crawling > Giant Insect Bra/ Freezone 4-Dangerous Lullabies/ De La Soul- Three Feet > High and Rising, are no longer available for purchase through our > supplier. Your order for those cds will be cancelled as of today. We > apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to serve your online shopping > needs in the future. This is fucking bullshit!!! Has ANYONE yet to receive a complete order from these dumbfucks? -pt >Update...I got 4/12 which I ordered with no indication concerning what >to/not to expect. I had also ordered another 5 and heard nothing on >that. I emailed and inquired. They told me they'd investigate. I get an >email back with a "sorry, no go" message - BUT I should get all of the >2nd order. In the meantime, another friend of mine gets told that they >cannot get 2 of the very cds they have just told me thay can supply. I >informed them that I was considering contacting the BBB over "bait and >switch" tactics. They offer me 20$ off of whatever I want and tell me >that they "reserve the right" not to supply certain cds in RARE >instances like mine. Trouble is, from what I've heard via the Ambient & >IDM lists, *my* situation isn't rare at all, but seemingly their normal >way of doing biz. I know some of you got freebies, but that's not what >I'm looking for. They are either using bait and switch tactics on >purpose or else they are completely clueless in a business sense (the >excuse they offer is that they "switched distributors and the new one >cannot supply most of the titles in question". WHY switch to them, >then?). At any rate, I thought that this URL may be of some use to those >of us who think that myshopnow has been intentionally dishonest with >their selling tactics. I know they're lying - at least to my friend >and/or possibly to myself. As long as everybody takes it in stride, >they'll probably keep it up, too. If you're interested... > >BBB (for US & Canada) http://www.bbb.org/ >(bait and switch info) http://www.bbbsouthland.org/topic016.html