Weird Postal Times

[Pirotic]

ordered a couple of things from DVDBoxOffice, well, FFXI and the guide - the weird thing is the guide arrived today but that was dispatched 3/4 days AFTER FFXI was dispatched and still no sign of that,

are postal times normally this random or has FFXI gone missing somewhere along the line ?

[Jason]

See http://www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=31384 for a similar predicement and a happy ending.

[Pirotic]

not exactly happy - 4 reports of games never turning up, but still

if it doesn't arrive on monday i'll just place another order, if two turn up i can always flog on ebay and make a little profit while im at it.

:P annoying this was DVDBO say you can change your delivery options so you can track it and so forth, but no matter what i order the delivery options screen just tells me "no options for this package" :P would of paid the extra for tracking then i wouldn't be worried.

just dont want to be stuck without my game for 2 weeks, then have to report it, then wait a third week for it to be sent again.

[darkangel]

Why don't you just order it from a more reliable place?

[Pirotic]

:P well, it doesn't matter who i pick - it all gets posted in the end and therefore is all susceptible to the same problems, i've had stuff from PLAY go missing etc etc

the only way to avoid the risk is by going with UPS etc, but they charge a bomb and even then you can lose the item or get it taxed unfairly.

can't win either way fingers crossed it'll turn up monday, doesn't help that i have the manual staring at me

anyway, thanks for your help/links