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Fooling Amazon
As I mentioned the other day I ordered Mac OSX 10.4 for $95 off of Amazon. Since Tiger is not out yet, and I selected free shipping, and group my packages into as few shipments as possible, Amazon was holding the other items that I ordered and waiting to ship them until Tiger arrived.
Now Amazon did a few things wrong here - they should have shipped those other items because they were all over $25, and I could have just ordered them separately. I was going to change my order to ship items when they are available (for an extra cost) - but Amazon wasn't telling me what the extra cost was - they should have!
So what I ended up doing was canceling all items in my order except for Tiger, then I placed a new order for the other items. They will ship tomorrow with free shipping!
If this were most online retailers I wouldn't even complain, but Amazon is famous for getting the online ordering process right.
I also noticed that Amazon is featuring Tiger on their home page, and they have an article called: 10 Reasons to Upgrade.
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Pete Freitag is a software engineer, and web developer located in central new york.
Pete's company Foundeo Inc. builds products for web developers and provides consulting services.
In 2003 Pete published the ColdFusion MX Developers Cookbook with SAMs Publishing.
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