Re: B&N - shoots self in foot while dying

Oh, man, I would be furious! My sympathies!

I'd suggest that you call BN customer service but this doesn't sound like a
problem they are likely to fix. It's a shame . . . .


Beth


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> So, last weekend I finish going through and checking at FW to see
> if there were any final purchases I would like to make. I found a
> number of items - and I admit to proding myself a few times with
> the "now or never" thought. My cart had nearly $300 worth of
> items in it - a bit high, but "now or never", right? (Canadians
> don't get Nooks, and therefore don't get the merge option.)
>
> I also noted that FW had extended final purchases to midmight
> Eastern Standard Time, December 9th. This is nice. Sunday
> afternoons are less hectic than week nights.
>
> Today I came back, and I found that, yes, indeed, I can still
> make purchases.
>
> But not for everything.
>
> My cart now only had $50 worth of materials. The other $250 are
> now gone from the lists of purchaseable items.
>
> In an online world where many items go on sale for one day only,
> decimating your catalog half a day ahead of deadline just won't
> cut it. It's not like these items are running out -- they're
> ebooks, effectively produced on demand in the fraction of a
> second after I click 'buy'.
>
> ***k it. I'm outta here, spending nothing. Good work, guys.
>
> ... Chris
>
> : chris smith ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> : nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - cicero :
>
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