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DATE: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:22:16 
> From: "replicant" <replicant@northstate.net>
To: "Tenchi Mailing List" <tenchi@ml.usagi.org>
Cc: 

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><rant>
>Alrighty, I pre-ordered Horizons: Empire of Istaria from ebgames.com and
>paid for overnight shipping so I could get it today on it's official
>release today. I wake up this morning to check my e-mail and see if I
>got my shipping information sent to me and there is no message. I check
>the website and "It's on Hold". WTF!?! Ok, I call up customer support
>and get some retard who tells me my credit card was declined. Ummm, ok.
>That shit shouldn't have happened so I call my bank. Credit Card is in
>good standing and ebgames has charged my order to it. I call back
>ebgames and get a different guy. This guy is so happy and helpful it
>makes me feel like I'm fucking a JV cheerleader. :-/ Come to find out my
>credit card was not declined as the previous numbnuts has said. My
>shipping address was declined since it didn't match my billing address.
>Ummm, ok I've ordered from these guys before with the exact same address
>and always received my shit. What gives? Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky checks my
>account history and sees that *every* order of mine has had the exact
>same issue. They usually just call my bank and get authorization, but
>hadn't gotten that far with my current order. I asked the guy why they
>hadn't e-mailed me over this since it was a habitual problem and he said
>they didn't contact people over this "minor" issue. I say me dropping
>$300+ fucking dollars into their hands at one time and paying for
>overnight shipping on most of my order and not getting it isn't a
>"minor" issue to me. After he looks around he finds the issue. My bank
>address uses "Rd" and I abbreviated it to "Rd." so that is the fucking
>reason for my order being held back. A fucking "Period". Grrrrr..It's a
>good thing that shooting people in the face is illegal or I would do it
>just too much.
> 
>He decided to give me Overnight shipping for free on all of my order due
>to the problem, but I still can't play the game until tomorrow. This
>game better be worth this headache or I'm driving to Artifact
>Entertainment and hitting everyone in the knee with a sledgehammer.
></rant>
> 
>.and how was your day?
> 

Like Kenshin, I'm still getting over this lousy cold.  I've had phlegm for 
the last week and a half, and its starting to get old...
 

As far as overnighting games goes, well...

Fun...

Don't suppose the guy at the other end of the phone was able to fix the 
address "discrepency" for you so you don't have to worry about it again?
 


junior