WTF?

[cellio]

Friday and today, I have attempted to buy a total of 7 items through Amazon's "marketplace" (network of sellers who aren't them, which is the only way to get most of the items I was trying to buy). Five of those have gone as follows (multiple times): go to product page, click on "buy used", click on first seller offering item to add to shopping cart, proceed to checkout, and get told the item is no longer available. Return to list of sellers and refresh; the link I clicked on is still there.

I know it's not just server lossage, because I was successful in buying two items this way.

WTF?

In one case I gave up and bought the item new; in another, I'm probably going to just order from the publisher. But the others are out of print.

In happier news, our zone-free DVD player has arrived. I'm going to hook it up today.

Comments

[moose]

yeah, they seem to be having db updating problems. not only offering used things that are no longer available, but, and this is my favorite, their delivery tracking stuff is way off.

Recently I had something that "shipped: august 23"

expected delivery date: "december 31"

(it didn't quite take that long :-)