HF Secret Santa 2014: Better Late Than Never Edition

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Tin, got the tracking number for your gift should be there USPS this week. The receipt probably has prices on it, so pretend to ignore it. ;)
 
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Gusto your gifts are on their way! I apologize in advance, Amazon had no options for expedited delivery. :( some or all your gifts will arrive after Christmas, sorry.
 
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@Dirona

Your packages have shipped.
BUT
Expedited shipping would have VASTLY inflated the price.

If not on time then please be patient.

Yours in Holidaitry,
Not @Tinwhistler.
 
Well, that's unfortunate. Amazon is out of this $20 item I want to send.
Fortunately there's a third party seller who has one for ... $530* OH COME ON NOW STUPID AMAZON BOTS RRRGH

--Patrick
*I am not making this up.
 
Well, that's unfortunate. Amazon is out of this $20 item I want to send.
Fortunately there's a third party seller who has one for ... $530* OH COME ON NOW STUPID AMAZON BOTS RRRGH

--Patrick
*I am not making this up.
I ran into this yesterday, buying the How To Train Your Dragon books for my son...one of them was out of stock, but a 3rd party seller helpfully had the book at seven thousand dollars. I typed that out so you wouldn't think I accidentally put an extra 0 on there.


Seriously, WTF?
 
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@ThatNickGuy, your gift should arrive some day. The tracking email I got said the 18th, the website says the 19th, and the actual tracking itself says the 10th.
 
I ran into this yesterday, buying the How To Train Your Dragon books for my son...one of them was out of stock, but a 3rd party seller helpfully had the book at seven thousand dollars. I typed that out so you wouldn't think I accidentally put an extra 0 on there.


Seriously, WTF?
As I understand it, if you are a Marketplace seller, you can avail yourself of many softwares that will watch the price of the items you are selling for you, and relist/adjust them up or down accordingly for "optimum" sales. Sometimes, much like HFT, these 'bots will get into wars with one another (or Amazon itself), leading to amusing results such as this one.

--Patrick
 
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Nope. Well, idk, nothing that I know of. Maybe Himalayan camel semen? I haven't had that since I was a kid, so I could've developed an allergy I guess.
Pretty sure the Bumble candy-thing I got you a few years back was made from Himalayan camel semen, you're probably fine.
 
Paging ...
My SS gift arrived today. They are all excellent choices. Thank you very much to my Secret Santa, who is still a secret thanks to Amazon's packaging. I'll try to get pictures this weekend.

Btw, I don't think you need to repost the anonymous tags. Mine have shown up normally even if the source was anonymous.
 
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@LittleSin you should be getting a fedex package on Friday, assuming weather and delivery people cooperate.

That parcel is part 1 of 2.

The second one is being a twit and not telling me when it should arrive, but hopefully before the 24th.
 
My SS gift arrived today. They are all excellent choices. Thank you very much to my Secret Santa, who is still a secret thanks to Amazon's packaging. I'll try to get pictures this weekend.

Btw, I don't think you need to repost the anonymous tags. Mine have shown up normally even if the source was anonymous.
It's still a secret, not because of Amazon, but because your Secret Santa was a doorknob that day and forgot to check the "it's a gift" option, so I forgot to include a card.

Merry Christmas to you and your family from the Queen of the Doomweasels and all the little doomweasels.
 
It's still a secret, not because of Amazon, but because your Secret Santa was a doorknob that day and forgot to check the "it's a gift" option, so I forgot to include a card.

Merry Christmas to you and your family from the Queen of the Doomweasels and all the little doomweasels.
Thanks again. I suspected you were my Secret Santa, but I was not sure because the package did not include a mustelid terribilus.
 
Volunteer?

Hardly what I'd expect to hear from the queen of doomweasels.

Maybe you're not ready to take over the world.
Hey, hey, hey! You stick to herding children; I'll stick to herding doomweasels.

It's not my fault they kept chewing their way out of the boxes.
 
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