Tag Archives: Amazon

Cell Phones for Soldiers

Posted on December 21, 2007 | Comments Off on Cell Phones for Soldiers

I’ve posted before about this effort to help our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan call home. But today, receiving a relative’s Xmas gift for Mr. B in an Amazon box, I found a soft-plastic mailer for the program, postage-paid, inside. Pretty cool. Makes it very painless. Indeed, Mr. B. and I rooted out an old cell phone from the garage and dropped it into the mailer. We’ll take it to a mailbox later today to mail it. It’s another good reason to shop Amazon when you can.

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Online shopping delays

Posted on November 25, 2007 | Comments Off on Online shopping delays

I’ve been having trouble accessing Amazon all weekend. I was beginning to think it was my net connection, but I see here that many of the online retail sites are cratering under demand pressure. Not good, with Cyber Monday just a few hours away.

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Those timely hallows

Posted on July 13, 2007 | Comments Off on Those timely hallows

Mr. Boy is one of the lucky millions who Amazon is going to try and ship a pre-ordered copy of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," on a Saturday, the day of release. It’ll be interesting to see if it arrives.

"You don’t have to do a thing — just sit back and wait for the book to arrive on the day of release, July 21, 2007, guaranteed!*"

It’s the asterisk that usually gets you. But this one isn’t painful:

"…in the unlikely event that you don’t receive it on Saturday, July 21, we’ll refund the cost of the book."

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