Dear Amazon

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

if you dispatched my package on the 9th of January 2006, it's extremely unlikely that it will have arrived on the 7th of January 2006.

See also last year, when my package dispatched in february spectacularly failed to arrive on the 10th of January as promised.

Next time, I'll order from Play.com (which, it turns out, did have my book and would have cost 4.5 less anyway)

yours,
Disgruntled.

ps dear self, next time buy it somewhere else.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I had a similarly bizarre date explained to me (on the phone! Amazon do occasionally answer, although they don't like you to find the number in the first place) as 'the date the computer defaults to if it can't find out a real date or something hiccups in the order process'. This is a constant date, unchanging for about nine months, and they eventually change it when they get to it. Could be that 29/1/06 is the current default date, since I have two items also showing that (due for release in Feb and March respectively)?

[nevboo.livejournal.com]

That would make sense