{"id":1537,"date":"2009-07-16T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T09:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/16\/screwed-up-amazon-system-or-madden-10-preorder-adventure\/"},"modified":"2010-09-05T07:08:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T12:08:31","slug":"screwed-up-amazon-system-or-madden-10-preorder-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/16\/screwed-up-amazon-system-or-madden-10-preorder-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwed up Amazon system.  Or Madden 10 preorder adventure."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I finally broke down and preordered Madden 10 (PS3) from Amazon.  I figured I would crumble into the pressure sooner or later, but Amazon was  running a special deal that would also give me a $10 Amazon gift card.  OK, nothing really special, but I was game.  Besides, they did this same deal last year, so it was expected.  Call it tradition!<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make sure I got the game on release day (Friday, August 14) so I selected Next Day shipping [$3.99 for us Prime suckers].  Imagine my surprise when the order shows me that I will get the game on the 18th.  F that noise!  I emailed Amazon customer support and basically told them to F-Off; WTF happened to the \u201crelease day guarantee\u201d offer\/option?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this option was not available when I placed my order, because Amazon only makes this option available when they can confirm availability of an item.  WTF?  Madden.  You have got to be kidding me.  As if.  There are going to be copies of Madden 10 sitting on shelves across the country for the next 18 months.  Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>I was told that I had to cancel my order and place a new one.  Screw that; did not want to lose my $10 gift card.  I attempted to place a new (or second) order, but the \u201crelease day\u201d option was still not being offered.  This sucks.  So much for Amazon Prime shipping.  I may as well break down and go to a \u2026 real \u2026 store.  Scary.<\/p>\n<p>Just for shits and giggles I was on Amazon a little while ago and noticed that the \u201crelease day guarantee\u201d option was now available for Madden 10.  I went to my order, updated the shipping option, and selected \u201crelease day\u201d and much to my pleasure [something like that] I am now due to receive Madden 10 on August 14th.  Plus I get the $10 gift card.  Plus I now do not have any shipping charges.<\/p>\n<p>Happy days!<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I finally broke down and preordered Madden 10 (PS3) from Amazon. I figured I would crumble into the pressure sooner or later, but Amazon was running a special deal that would also give me a $10 Amazon gift card. OK, nothing really special, but I was game. Besides, they did this same deal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/16\/screwed-up-amazon-system-or-madden-10-preorder-adventure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Screwed up Amazon system.  Or Madden 10 preorder adventure.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,21,9],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-football","tag-madden","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}