The Tech Offensive

Today’s tale of internet-related consumer distress is brought to you by Amazon.com and the letters I-M-I-C.

I got real hot on Amazon for gift browsing this year, purchasing all of my family’s gifts through the service. I also decided to grab a Griffin iMic as well.

This is a Griffin iMic:

Here is a terrific graphic from Leo Laporte on how the iMic is used (links to Laporte’s original Leoville.com post):

[Leo Laporte is the pod-father over at the TWIT network, you may also remember him from TechTV…he is an amazing broadcaster and web-media evangelist, and perhaps by complimenting him I can prevent a C&D for using his image.]

Anyway, everything I ordered through Amazon arrived lickety-split, everything but the iMic. I received a message today explaining the item’s absence:

TechNGnet? 5-8 business days? The fuck? Who the fuck are these assholes?

Welp, Louie, guess you should have checked the fine-fucking-print on your Amazon order:

They’re the assholes that are supplying the product you thought you purchased through Amazon, the product that didn’t ship until six-fucking-days (!) after you ordered it.

Ok, admission: I’d had a few drinks before purchasing the iMic, leading me to miss the ’ships from and sold by [these people]’ fine print. However, should something like this be fine print? Or did I miss something in the order process?

Maybe I’m just being an asshole here, but being an asshole makes me feel better about the fact that I’ll probably not be able to use my shiny-new Mackie Onyx 1620 for netcasting for another couple weeks. There is no e-sigh large enough to convey how I feel about that.

So, anyway, Amazon, TechNGnet: I hope you both die in a fire. That is all.

This entry was posted on Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 2:19 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.