Finally an ages-old Amazon order arrives

[rhialto]

Once upon a time, I ordered this book: Commodore: The Amiga Years. Actually, it was this kickstarter but I don't like kickstarters any more. (It's all the risk of investing in a start-up without even the reward of owning part of the company). I was happier to order it via Amazon. However, due to the kickstarter nature, delivery got delayed, and delayed, and delayed... eventually, Amazon canceled the whole order. Somehow there was a very similar replacement book (which is the one I linked to above). That was in September 2016, a year and 2 months ago. And it got delayed and delayed, and then a date was announced, and retracted again. Meanwhile I had moved to Berlin, so I tried to change the shipping address. Somehow the Amazon website doesn't like to change shipping addresses of back-ordered goods. I just managed to do it during the one day when they thought they knew it was finally in stock.
And now I finally have this book! I can't even look up when I placed the canceled order but it must be 2 or 3 years ago... so miracles sometimes do happen.

Comments

[lovingboth]

I'm interested, but not really ever having had an Amiga (bought and sold one some time after they were current), I'm not interested enough to pay that price for the book.

People are after very silly money for the hardback edition of its predecessor on amazon.co.uk.

[rhialto]

Well, I bought that when it was new and available :-) But it is in a moving box somewhere, of course. I haven't seen it in a while.