04-23-2013, 01:48 PM | #481 |
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Taming, one never knows how Canada Post works. I ordered on the first day as well.
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04-23-2013, 01:56 PM | #483 |
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Just got a shipping notice. I ordered on the 18th.
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04-23-2013, 04:24 PM | #484 |
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I just got my shipping notices (2 of them, for some reason), after having ordered on the 15th, and after having been told during a Chat with a Kobo rep a few days ago that it was already shipped. Yet the tracking number from the email shows it just left Canada yesterday. (Bound for California.)
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04-23-2013, 05:08 PM | #485 |
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still nothing here (no shipping notice that is)...ordered the 16th...wish now I had just waited and ordered from an independent store in US
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04-23-2013, 05:22 PM | #486 | |
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Just checked my tracking number again. It would appear that although it "arrived in a foreign country" (i.e., the US) early this morning, now (9.5 hrs later) it is back in Mississauga (Canada, where it started from) in the hands of Canada Post. I guess somebody at one of those postal facilities didn't get the memo that sometimes "CA" means "California," and not "Canada," so now it's headed north again. |
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04-23-2013, 05:38 PM | #487 | |
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04-23-2013, 06:31 PM | #488 |
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Not sure about independent bookstores, but my wife was on the phone with Coles, and they said something to the effect that the bigger bookstores (!ndigo) would be getting stock before them. I'm thinking independents won't be getting much, if any Aura's.
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04-23-2013, 06:38 PM | #489 | |
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04-23-2013, 06:58 PM | #490 |
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OMG!! So what are they/you doing now? (Your cc never got charged besides pre-authorization?) Are they going to fix this for you, or did you just become a never-again customer!?
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04-23-2013, 06:58 PM | #491 |
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Would it be a good idea to call Kobo to place the order instead of via the website?
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geez...between having it shipped back to Canada (Mikeyboards) and them losing the order (Skydog), I'm wondering if Kobo should have just stuck with dealing with the independent bookstores as far as the US goes. I had no trouble at all ordering my Kobo Mini that way.
I did finally get a reply back from my email telling me that my order was pending and pre-order meant first received, first shipped, which of course, is not true at all, since I ordered the 16th and people who ordered days later not only have had there's shipped but have actually received them. Of course, a lot of those people are in Canada. Skydog.... Did you finally get it straighten out? Good luck everyone... my last order with Kobo direct, that's for sure Last edited by drew2720; 04-23-2013 at 07:11 PM. Reason: saw answer to my question after posting |
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04-23-2013, 08:07 PM | #494 | |
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I had noticed earlier today that USPS recognizes my tracking number. But it seems to lag behind the Canada Post tracking. (The USPS info still only shows yesterday's info about being processed at a sorting facility in Toronto. But I trust I'll gain more useful info, as you did, if I wait a bit.) Perhaps what took a return trip to Canada is a confirmation-of-transfer receipt back to the company, or something like that. |
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