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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
Thanks, but I made a point of getting everything I wanted as soon as they emailed me. I'm just irritated that they could not be bothered to actually do what they promised.
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Ditto. I picked up everything I really and truly wanted to get in the way of series-tryouts/fills yesterday since sites which announce a shutdown without specifying a timezone and shut down earlier than they usually would for a regular sale (IIRC Samhain used to have fine print on theirs which said that the coupon would only last until 11:59 PM EST, back when they gave out coupons) have made me paranoid (and now, annoyed). Today was just for leisurely perusal of the more marginal maybes and their samples, and taking the names of possible authors in their catalogue to look out for when they got their rights back and went self-pub/to another imprint.
And really, it's just bad business practice and gives the impression of unreliability (though I suppose this is not really a concern for Samhain any more), along with Samhain not even bothering to put up an announcement notice on their actual website, and relying on people to use social media outlets and not have their emails accidentally filtered into the junk folder. IMDb pulled the same trick with their message boards and shut down at midnight British time, leaving a lot of people who were busy trying to save copies of their PMs and extensive posting histories very angry, who thought they'd have a few more hours in which to do so.
AllRomance eBooks did a lot of things wrong, but at least they kept their site going for purchases and downloads right up until their usual time of midnight CST.