Amazon issue with ordering Firefly
POSTED BY: Rabit
UPDATED: Thursday, August 3, 2006 18:45
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I had this exact problem on June 23rd (joss' bday when we were buying online)...
I finally had to give up and buy through overstock.com,
but I printed out the bad order page and mailed it to Amazon and they STILL didn't even try to fix it!!
wankers
(so frustrating)
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Originally posted by Succatash:
There is a glitch though. The error message should read, "You've already purchased the maximum allowable." Instead, it changes your quantity to five (even though you only ordered one) and ends up making no sense.
Amazon is purposely limiting purchase quantities per account. That part is not a glitch.
They are totally stupid for doing so.
OMG I just read your post, Succatash, and I am amazed...
they are on purpose sending good customers (like me, I've spent big bucks at Amazon) to other sites (like I bought the Firefly set at Overstock.com) because we've ordered too many copies of Firefly?!?!?!
Where is the sense in that?
That is weird troll logic!
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We should protest. I just browsed some DVD's on Amazon and they all get 30 in the dropdown list.
Why do Serenity and Firefly only get 5? We should start bombarding Amazon demanding we get to order more than 5.
Interesting - Serenity HD gets 30. 
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"Gott kann dich nicht vor mir beschuetzen, weil ich nicht boese bin."
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You can order it from Walmart, if you ever shop from them. The price isn't bad, either: (approximately, I don't recall the cents) $35 right now.
That is awfully strange of Amazon to do, though. I see what they're saying about retail and wholesale but... shouldn't it be even? Why 30 Batman, 20-some Serenity, and only 5 Firefly? Why not some single, consistant limit on every product, if they have to limit? It seems discriminatory, though I don't know what the basis would be.
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These are DVDs, people. Buy all you want - they'll make more.
I wonder if Amazon isn't trying to create a perceived scarcity so that they can increase prices - or keep them higher? (Like the oil companies...or Microsoft.)
With the recent / ongoing Serenity Day campaigns, more people want to buy the DVD. People are probably also clicking links on various Firefly sites, to get those sites a few pennies. And Jeff Bezos is grinning like a loon.
Just go buy from someone else. Amazon's mystique is entirely meretricious.
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Originally posted by Succatash:
... weil ich nicht boese bin."
...are you sure I can take your word for that?
I aim to 'boese bin' lest my friends think I'm... "a stupid, inbred stack of meat"...
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Quote:
Originally posted by Succatash:
We should protest. I just browsed some DVD's on Amazon and they all get 30 in the dropdown list.
Why do Serenity and Firefly only get 5? We should start bombarding Amazon demanding we get to order more than 5.
How about a groupd form letter - FFF.net spam, as it were(?):
Dear Amazonholes...
I've been buying all manner of books, music and video from you JERKS
for years, however, I CAN PROMISE YOU 
NOT ONE(!) MORE(!!) RED(!!!) CENT(!!!!) ...and until you fix this, you are as good as 
to everyone I speak with.Respectfully Yours,
Me
Amazon is clearly guided by a bunch of "stupid, inbred stacks of meat"
GO TO buy.com AMONG OTHERS - outpost.com... damn! has Amazon got competitors... maybe they'd like to find out just exactly how many
hehheh
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I talked with someone about this. They couldn't understand the reasoning but they gave me this site for finding the best prices on the net. It's pricegrabber.com. Hope I got that right. Anyway if Amazon wants to be a pain then I say go somewhere else. It's their loss. Personally I rarely complain. It usually goes to somebody who could care less. And if you have to it means there is something wrong with their attitude to begin with.
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a little online DVD store called deepdiscountdvd.com has Firefly listed as #4 in the Top Seller list and cost about 25 bucks.... a good alternative to Amazon
edit: and i'm pretty sure they would be happy to sell you a truckload....
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