{"id":15627,"date":"2009-08-22T11:49:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15627"},"modified":"2009-08-22T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T18:34:00","slug":"amazon-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/amazon-fail.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Amazon.com\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/amazondotcom.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"103\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>I got an Amazon order in the mail yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On the front:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A&nbsp;label clearly to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Inside:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A book that isn&#8217;t what I ordered.<\/li>\n<li> A return receipt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The return receipt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A book I <em>did <\/em>order.<\/li>\n<li> Not the same order number.<\/li>\n<li> An ordered by \/ billed to name and address that are defnitely not me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Returns system at&nbsp;Amazon doesn&#8217;t quite know what to make of it, since it&#8217;s an order not associated with me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I still want my book, a Joe Straczynski <em>Thor <\/em>collection. I wonder if Nicholas in New Jersey got it instead of the <em>Hodges Harbrace Handbook <\/em>I got.<\/p>\n<p>Gonna have to figure out what to do about this one &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got an Amazon order in the mail yesterday. On the front:&nbsp; A&nbsp;label clearly to me. Inside:&nbsp; A book that isn&#8217;t what I ordered. A return receipt. The return receipt: A book I did order. Not the same order number. An ordered by \/ billed to name and address that are defnitely not me. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/amazon-fail.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon Fail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8308,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/what_an_amazing.html","url_meta":{"origin":15627,"position":0},"title":"What an amazing gift!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Dec-05 5:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here Margie's been wondering what to give me, and -- -- well, it was like magic! 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