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Old 04-28-2009, 03:44 AM   #16
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1:30 AM EST and the new ebooks are all gone again.

Edited to add: and the 100% rebate books on the front page are only showing small rebates (around 10%). They've been having problems ever since the take over by B&N. I'd have thought the cash infusions of all their pre-new years sales and the sale to B&N would have meant more/better site maintenance.
Yes sad to say I thought that it would improve also. At the start I thought it only as adjustment period but its already almost half the year and still cant maintain it well.
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Old 04-28-2009, 09:28 AM   #17
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It effectively negates the 5% extra rebate for early ordering that they promise, since you can't order early (apparently shrinking the time period, as done earlier, wasn't effective enough, so now there are no books at all until after the early time period is up). Not that they actually honored that last week, anyway (nor have they bothered to reply to my complaint, other than the autobot's reply that they would get back to me).

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Old 04-28-2009, 10:03 AM   #18
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I've noticed that too - originally they relesed the books at 10AM eastern - which gave 21 hours for the rapid rebate. Now you're lucky to get them by 10PM eastern.

I've been unimpressed by their customer service lately too. Who knows even though I like FW's interface a lot more I may have to start spending more money at BoB.
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Old 04-28-2009, 10:18 AM   #19
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I've been unimpressed by their customer service lately too.
Yeah, there have been complaints on the FW Yahoo group about CS lately too.


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I understand your frustration and we'll continue to work to improve our support. We add new people all the time and it takes significant time to train because Fictionwise is the only site to support 17 formats including 4 encrypted formats that work on thousands of devices and phones.

But I want to add that the team we have in place cares and works hard and I'm proud of their work and appreciate it.

That doesn't mean we can't improve and we will certainly try.
...I don't know if the CS problems are growing pains or what. They used to be really good for the most part. With the growth of ebooks plus the recent pub of the B&N sale perhaps they're growing faster than they can get CS reps in place.

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Old 04-28-2009, 10:29 AM   #20
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I'm one of the people who had issues.

In my case the problem was that the SF sale ended earlier than advertised (which the CS person is insisting wasn't the case) and the sale that replaced it did not include magazine subscriptions. CS is telling me that they never put subscriptions on sale (demonstrably false as I have archived emails to the contrary) despite the fact that I managed to purchase an Analog sub during the SF sale (would have got Interzone if it lasted as long as advertised) and an F&SF sub during the Fantasy sale.
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Yeah, it is certainly not true that mag subscriptions are _never_ on sale. It isn't common, though, compared to others.
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