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Re: Garage Doors Cancelled! (was Re: Trains, Garage Doors and more, oh my!)
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Date: 
Thu, 10 May 2001 12:29:20 GMT
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   Hi everyone (especially Eric and others concerned about
   their garage doors)-

   Sorry to follow myself up, but I have Information and
   Updates relevant to your beefs with S@H Europe.

In lugnet.lego.direct, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> > Mr L F Braun wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > > > 5187 Bricks with Groove and Garage Panels
> > > 
> > >    I ordered a few small batches. The last time was two sets on
> > >    Saturday, when the set briefly appeared back on the available
> > >    list. Those have been shipped, the last group this morning.
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Thanks for the info, Lindsay.  This makes it clear that your
> > Saturday order jumped forward in the queue, ahead of those of
> > us who ordered this item on Thursday or Friday.  It appears
> > that shop-at-home was not willing to call you on Monday
> > or Tuesday to cancel these items from your order, even after
> > they found out on Monday that there was a backlog of earlier
> > internet orders.
> 
>   Not necessarily so.  I ordered via the web on Saturday,
>   and I have not yet received any packages from those dates.
>   The only items I have received were those ordered last
>   Wednesday and Thursday.  I did get one box that had an
>   item "backordered"; they hadn't told me that this was the
>   case when I called, so they may not be telling me everything.

   And this was in fact true.  The boxes I got today had
   a total of nine 5187s marked backordered-cancelled.  These
   boxes were those I ordered on Friday.  So it appears they
   did in fact vanish at some point Thurs-Fri., they just
   weren't nice enough to actually *notify* me that these
   weren't going to be fulfilled.

> > Perhaps they have separate queues for internet and phone orders,
> > and in a case of conflict the phone orders have total priority
> > over the internet orders, regardless of when they were placed.
> > That would explain things, although it doesn't make it fair.
> 
>   Yeah, it sucks, but hold the holy fire until we see what
>   actually shows up.  It may not be as unfair as we fear.  :)

   Again, this feared unfairness seems not to have come to
   pass.  However, I called S@H yesterday to count my package
   chickens (make sure they'd all gone out, so that I was
   likely to get them before coming home), and asked about
   5187 specifically.  "Oh, that's showing a quantity of -77."
   There's your explanation, they oversold and the updates
   just couldn't catch up.

   So it appears we're in the same leaky boat.  :(

   best

   Lindsay



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  Re: Garage Doors Cancelled! (was Re: Trains, Garage Doors and more, oh my!)
 
(...) [snip] (...) Thanks for the update, Lindsay. It is too bad this all happened. /Eric McC/ (25 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: Garage Doors Cancelled! (was Re: Trains, Garage Doors and more, oh my!)
 
(...) Not necessarily so. I ordered via the web on Saturday, and I have not yet received any packages from those dates. The only items I have received were those ordered last Wednesday and Thursday. I did get one box that had an item "backordered"; (...) (25 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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