JF, On Thursday 22 September 2005 12:36, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
On September Wednesday 21 2005 11:03 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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Amazon.com is selling SuSE Linux 10.0 for 10% off list (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000BD1R8U) and if you're an Amazon Prime customer, 2nd-day shipping is free and overnight is $3.99 (less, by a couple of bucks, than the amount of the 10% discount).
Randall Schulz
Randall, What's your projected ship date?
Order Date: September 16, 2005 Order #: ###-#######-####### Recipient: Randall Schulz Items not yet shipped: Delivery estimate: October 5, 2005 * 1 of: SuSE Linux 10.0
My updated info looks like they aren't planning to get it here til mid Nov. Tho, from past experience w/ them their shipdates seem to have a huge +/- variance. last time it was way earlier.. but time before that I had to threaten to keep hold of the laughing guy's throat before I got a sensible answer.. ( Which , of course, was: I have no freekin' clue.. )
That sounds quite pessimistic. Perhaps Amazon Prime members are given preference when there's a backlog or advance orders accepted, though I'd doubt it. Actually, now that you mention this, I noticed just the other day that the stated delivery date was the better part of a month off (late): Order Date: September 17, 2005 Order #: ###-#######-####### Recipient: Randall Schulz Items shipped on September 21, 2005: Delivery estimate: October 11, 2005 - October 19, 2005 1 package via UPS with tracking number ################## * 1 of: Linear Algebra This package arrived today. Given that it was shipped with second-day service, this seems like a completely erroneous estimate. Maybe that's what's happening with your order.
Hence the overstatement of ship dates heavily on the plus side of expected real date, no doubt atol.
My experience with Amazon, which is getting to be quite a bit, is that most of the time they're on-time or ahead of time w.r.t. these projections. On rare occasion, they've been late. This is mostly true when the order was accepted far in advance of the projected availability date. There was one item (neither book nor software) that was on back-order. I gave them two extensions on the delivery date and the called it quits. Randall Schulz