“in defense of Amazon”

Cameron, one of the closest things to a living encyclopedia you’ll ever meet, writes with this practical information as well:

“You posted last week that people should take Amazon’s claims of having PoN in stock with a grain of salt. But I ordered it last Thursday in the afternoon, and got notice that it had shipped the following morning. I ordered it together with James Elkins’s The Object Stares Back: On The Nature Of Seeing (getting the total order over $25 and thereby qualifying for free shipping). The latter didn’t ship until yesterday.”

I ordered three copies from Amazon to be delivered by FedEx, and am still being told they will not be delivered until July 16-30. Not sure why Cairo should be last priority like that, given that I paid a hefty price for the shipping.

My reason for not ordering from re.press in this case is that I have no experience ordering from them, and so had no idea at all how quickly their distributors could get something to Egypt. But I’ve had abundant experience getting emergency FedEx shipments from Amazon to Cairo, and that generally works very well. Not sure what the problem is this time.