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[jack]

"Your Amazon.co.uk order[1]. We are sorry to report that the following items have been delayed." Yeah, I was expecting that. It's like watching a "File copying, time remaining" dialog.

I admit predicting the unpredictable is a great art. But for how many months does it have to be delayed before the algorithm can pick up on that? It basically doesn't exist. So why the optimism? [2] Start extrapolating, ok?

I don't want to say "I don't want it" because I *do*. If it were actually delivering ever, I'd be happy. But there isn't a "I don't believe you, I'm shopping second-hand" button :)

[1] Sorry M :)
[2] OK, I suspect there's a database entry "delivers in N weeks" that's human entered, so whenever it doesn't show up, that's the new estimate. It was rhetorical, ok?

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[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

The last time this happened to me with Amazon, they had one "sorry for the delay" message, and then the next message was "we can't find it, so we're removing it from the order and won't be charging you - very sorry".

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

This was originally down as "delivery in 4-6 weeks" but I didn't notice until I placed the order. I nearly cancelled it then to get the other stuff -- I just assumed that meant it'd never actually arrive, and I seem to be better at predicting that than they are :)

But I decided just to leave it and let stuff get here in due time. After that time, they said it was delayed and apologised, shipped the rest, and gave a new estimate in another 6 weeks. That just expired, with another delay.

So that's just twice, but thrice if you count the original estimate.