Sorry, but I just need to rant about this for a moment: last week, I ordered an Xbox 360 so I could finally play Alan Wake and Tales of Vesperia, the latter a game I've been waiting
years to play because I've been hoping Namco-Bandai would bring over the PS3 version. There was a whole nightmare associated with PayPal and the purchasing process, but I'd like to focus on the sheer ludicrousness that was the 360's delivery:
So I'm watching the tracking info on Friday night and see that my local Fed Ex got the package in early (it wasn't scheduled for delivery till Monday), and according to their tracking info my package was
on one of their trucks for delivery. So I stay home on Saturday waiting for the package. It never comes. I call their customer service number and talk to a representative, who tells me they were just putting it on a truck to make sure it was ready for delivery on Monday. I ask the representative to hold the package at that Fed Ex so I could come in on Monday to pick it up. You see, I have this minor inconvenience called A JOB that keeps me from being home to sign for packages. I also live in an apartment, so when you put those two factors together nothing good happens. I'm a night owl, so it was extremely hard to get me to go to bed early and wake up early so I could be there at the Fed Ex depot when they opened. I went in, gave them my information, and was then told that the package was never held and was already on its way. They let me speak with the driver, who tried to arrange a place where I could meet up with him before work to sign for it. Our wires got crossed somewhere, though, and one of us wasn't there on time. So I ended up having to ask him over the phone just to deliver the package to my apartment front office. I've had dealings with them in the past on this, and generally they had been kind enough to sign for my packages and (on occasion) even deliver them to my apartment since it's literally less than a minute away.
So I walk into my apartment office and tell them what's going on. I'm told that there are standing orders not to accept packages of any kind. What. The. Hell. I explain the whole story to them, and I think I convinced the lady there to accept the package. Thing is, I'll still have to wait until tomorrow morning to come into the office and pick it up because the office closes at 5 PM and I get home at 7:30 PM. ARGH!
This whole process has been such a ****ing nightmare, and I have done everything in my power to try and make this easy. But every single person along my way has decided they'd rather do things in the greatest possible way to screw me over. I just want my 360! By the time I finally get the damn thing, the Shadow Complex sale will be over!
And all of this started because Fed Ex refused to deliver a package early when they had it in stock the night before. Unbelievable.