Great Deal?? Not if Home Depot has their way!!!! ONE MONTH FOR SHIPPING IS RIDICULOUS!!! = NO PRESENT FOR TIMMY!!!

I ordered what I think is a steal of a deal from Home Depot! When did this occur? you might ask. Well on cyber Monday, Nov. 27th, of course. By the time I found out about the great deals most of them were gone. I did find a $50 Ryobi Laser Level Kit (see picture) for $10 though so I snagged me three of them. One for me and two for gifts. Well today, Dec. 12th, I checked the status on the order for the umpteenth time and it still stated "processing." Finally, with much hesitation I called Home Depot's customer service number I got with the conformation email. After an excruciating ten minutes of horrible Christmas Hold Music, I talked to a very nice woman that played extremely stupid with me, saying she couldn't do anything for me except send the warehouse an email asking 'what's up' and that would take 72 hours. When I told her I ordered the product on the 27th of November and I needed my package by Christmas she said there was nothing she could do. She refused to expedite the shipping, or the "contacting" of the warehouse. So after 72 hours (which in online shopping equals next Monday) and then 5 - 7 Business Days "after your item leaves the warehouse" I will receive my order. This will most likely be after Christmas and will give my order a total order to delivery time of ONE FULL MONTH!!!!!!!!! Deal or no deal this has been another horrible experience and has once again affirmed my hatred for Big Box stores.

UPDATE: 1/4/07: Just found out from Seth Godin's Blog that Bob Nardelli, Home Depot's CEO, got fired. HA! Here's the kicker, according to Seth Mr. Nardelli got $210,000,000.00 in severance. Yes, count those zero's!!

Amazon Officially Sucks

Amazon has invented this awful system to get their amazing deals for the holidays. First you have to be registered and logged in to your account. Next you have to vote on the deal you want. In my case I wanted the 30GB Microsoft Zune that retailed for $260 but amazon was selling 1000 of them for $90! Great deal right??? Well hold you horses. Next Amazon has to "randomly" select you to be eligible to buy one. I did not win and now I, along with I assume tens of thousands of amazon users will hold a grudge against them and possibly never shop with them again!!! Does losing make ANYBODY want to shop at amazon *more*??
Yes, I am a sore loser and amazon should realize that most people are sore losers and they are creating thousands of them each week. What kind of idiot came up with that kind of marketing strategy!