So back in February, I did the awesomely smart thing of pre-ordering the Diablo 3 CE, everything was great at first, until..recently...that is...
Got an email with my tracking number, When I go to the UPS website, all is good, my order is shipped and on its way, but wait a second...what is this I see? Time of Arrival: 5/16/2012...wth is this? I look at the status and my CE is just sitting in Indiana and has been for the last two days, I am very agry about this, I pre-ordered it with the assumpion that when it said When Arrive "Day of release" I kind of assumed that meant the 15th.
I have tried repeatedly to get ahold of someone at Bestbuy to find out what happened, and everytime I get someone, they transfer me to another department and I get hung up on..very very unprofessional.
Same with there community forums, I posted on there and 8 hours have passed and not a single post on the matter.
I wouldn't expect anything more from Best Buy. Lucky that it's expected on the 16th, and not 20th or something. Best Buy is a terrible business, I haven't been to one for years and haven't been missing out on anything.
Lol i preordered mine in March and mine shipped on Saturday, went from Kentucky to LA in one day and now its "in transit" but delivery date is tomorrow (15th) at 10:30am
my friend as best buy told me the store closest to me has 2-3 CE that aren't for preorders... so maybe you can hop to the closest one get it, then return the one you get on the 16th, if it's at all viable?
I ordered with BB out of desperation when I thought amazon was all sold out of CE. Then amazon got more stock so I dropped best buy immediately.
This should entertain you though: I bought a sound system from best buy last year for my car, asked if they'd price match online and they refused, so I bought the same things online that I bought with them for hella cheaper, switched the boxes so the online stuff was in their boxes, had them install the stuff I bought from them for free, drove around front and then returned the online stuff I bought from a completely different store (in their boxes) to them.
The guy that did the installation had to come up front to do my return and he asked where I got the stuff and I said "Online, dont remember" Then he said I'd run into warranty problems if I had to get anything fixed with the manufacturer because the online stuff is void if not sold by a specified dealer or some bullshit. (Idiot didn't realize he installed the stuff I bought from the best buy and I was returning the identical items I bought online) Anyway, I smiled, said thanks and walked away. I saved about $400 on a "$700" system because I bought as a package deal from BB and got sort of a discount but since I only returned a portion of my items they for some reason refunded me the full price of each.
So back in February, I did the awesomely smart thing of pre-ordering the Diablo 3 CE, everything was great at first, until..recently...that is...
Got an email with my tracking number, When I go to the UPS website, all is good, my order is shipped and on its way, but wait a second...what is this I see? Time of Arrival: 5/16/2012...wth is this? I look at the status and my CE is just sitting in Indiana and has been for the last two days, I am very agry about this, I pre-ordered it with the assumpion that when it said When Arrive "Day of release" I kind of assumed that meant the 15th.
I have tried repeatedly to get ahold of someone at Bestbuy to find out what happened, and everytime I get someone, they transfer me to another department and I get hung up on..very very unprofessional.
Same with there community forums, I posted on there and 8 hours have passed and not a single post on the matter.
You can't blame Best buy for UPS delaying your item. As long as your order if fulfilled on time... and the correct shipping method/instructions are submitted to the carrier.... you need to realize this is all on UPS now.
if you have a normal edition (wow pass?) you can still just play that and then upgrade later... or get someones trial key code, and play a bunch of heros up to lvl 13 while you wait heh.
aaaand that's why I'm getting ready to go to Walmart to pick one up. I trust any company to get me a preordered game in a timely manner about as much as I'd trust Baal in a room full of fine china.
So back in February, I did the awesomely smart thing of pre-ordering the Diablo 3 CE, everything was great at first, until..recently...that is...
Got an email with my tracking number, When I go to the UPS website, all is good, my order is shipped and on its way, but wait a second...what is this I see? Time of Arrival: 5/16/2012...wth is this? I look at the status and my CE is just sitting in Indiana and has been for the last two days, I am very agry about this, I pre-ordered it with the assumpion that when it said When Arrive "Day of release" I kind of assumed that meant the 15th.
I have tried repeatedly to get ahold of someone at Bestbuy to find out what happened, and everytime I get someone, they transfer me to another department and I get hung up on..very very unprofessional.
Same with there community forums, I posted on there and 8 hours have passed and not a single post on the matter.
This is why I got the digital download as well.
When Wrath came out, I pre-ordered my CE and it said it would ship on the release day.
I was a sad s.o.b. sitting in Shat alone with nothing to do. My wife and I were so bummed. Our CE's did not arrive until 4pm the day after release.
So I ordered my CE for D3 from Best Buy, but got the digital download in case they pulled some random shit. Hopefully when I put D3 down for the couple hours it will take to make the drive ot Best Buy and back (1 hour each way), I will return home with a CE.
Imo, as a mod of this site, you should get a signed CE from Blizzard, free, for helping them promote their game.
Basically UPS screwed up. :/ Somehow my BB order got here today. No idea how seeing as when I ordered it, I chose the free shipping option, which should have been a week or whatever. Didn't really care since I had the digital from my pass. So I was pretty surprised when it shipped Friday and said it would be delivered today. AND UPS dropped it off at like 3 instead of 8 or 9 like they normally do!
Wal-mart screwed me on my pre-order twice. I could have gone to the store to wait in line and *maybe* get a CE, but I would rather not have it than wait in line for hours on the slim chance that they would not be sold. I would rather risk not ever getting one than buy it from those bastards.
Last time I pre-ordered from Best Buy online, I ended up getting Fable 3 two weeks later. But I am sitting at home with my newly acquired CE that I just got from Best Buy because I pre-ordered in stores. Funny thing is, I was probably the only one without one of the pre-order cards because I ordered mine before Best Buy even updated their site with the CE box art.
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Got an email with my tracking number, When I go to the UPS website, all is good, my order is shipped and on its way, but wait a second...what is this I see? Time of Arrival: 5/16/2012...wth is this? I look at the status and my CE is just sitting in Indiana and has been for the last two days, I am very agry about this, I pre-ordered it with the assumpion that when it said When Arrive "Day of release" I kind of assumed that meant the 15th.
I have tried repeatedly to get ahold of someone at Bestbuy to find out what happened, and everytime I get someone, they transfer me to another department and I get hung up on..very very unprofessional.
Same with there community forums, I posted on there and 8 hours have passed and not a single post on the matter.
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This should entertain you though: I bought a sound system from best buy last year for my car, asked if they'd price match online and they refused, so I bought the same things online that I bought with them for hella cheaper, switched the boxes so the online stuff was in their boxes, had them install the stuff I bought from them for free, drove around front and then returned the online stuff I bought from a completely different store (in their boxes) to them.
The guy that did the installation had to come up front to do my return and he asked where I got the stuff and I said "Online, dont remember" Then he said I'd run into warranty problems if I had to get anything fixed with the manufacturer because the online stuff is void if not sold by a specified dealer or some bullshit. (Idiot didn't realize he installed the stuff I bought from the best buy and I was returning the identical items I bought online) Anyway, I smiled, said thanks and walked away. I saved about $400 on a "$700" system because I bought as a package deal from BB and got sort of a discount but since I only returned a portion of my items they for some reason refunded me the full price of each.
You can't blame Best buy for UPS delaying your item. As long as your order if fulfilled on time... and the correct shipping method/instructions are submitted to the carrier.... you need to realize this is all on UPS now.
This is why I got the digital download as well.
When Wrath came out, I pre-ordered my CE and it said it would ship on the release day.
I was a sad s.o.b. sitting in Shat alone with nothing to do. My wife and I were so bummed. Our CE's did not arrive until 4pm the day after release.
So I ordered my CE for D3 from Best Buy, but got the digital download in case they pulled some random shit. Hopefully when I put D3 down for the couple hours it will take to make the drive ot Best Buy and back (1 hour each way), I will return home with a CE.
Imo, as a mod of this site, you should get a signed CE from Blizzard, free, for helping them promote their game.