my life, my pace

That's right.  After making me think that I'd gotten myself a Wii, the bastards that are Amazon never shipped it AND never informed me.  Then I called them and they had the audacity to tell me that they were out of stock.  No shit you're out of stock now.  But if you were on Sunday, then why did you process my order?  And why, now that you know you can't fill my order did you not email me telling me so?!  I know it's not customer service's fault, but do they really have to piss me off with their stupid scripted answers?  I don't usually get mad or yell at people, but I just couldn't not yell at the stupid manager's answers.  He couldn't even give me any idea of when their next shipment would come nor could he explain why I had not been informed of the real status of my order (it kept saying delivery estimate November 21st on my status page).  It would be one thing if I never was able to order the Wii in the first place, but it's a whole different matter when I was able to do so only to have it not delivered.  Basically, what Amazon is saying is, "Hey, want a Wii?  Then give us $250 and maybe you'll get it, maybe you won't.  Maybe you'll get it next week, maybe you'll get it next year."  And this after the fiasco that was their vague email about a "morning PST" release that caused me and God knows how many other people to stay up all night waiting.  And to wait this long to not get my Wii after being promised one?  Yeah, that's sure to make even the calmest person mad.  Especially at all those scalpers out there (*cough cough* sister-in-law) who made it impossible for me to simply walk into a store and buy one.  And yeah, screw you too, Amazon.  I'm so never buying anything from you again.

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