Sue Bailey

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So I thought I would buy a self-help book from Amazon because it looked slightly less awful than every other self-help book I’ve ever bought –

to the ticket inspector who picked up the copy of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People which I abandoned on the train between Southampton and Reading that time, I’m really, truly sorry: it’s an astonishingly bad book

- and because it promised, you know, actual stuff to do rather than going “rah rah you’re fabby”. And because Amazon France is just terrible at delivering English language books –

mon dieu, can’t you buy a book in French? Here, we have interesting biographies of Sarko

- I bought it from a Marketplace seller.

And yes, I know that means the author doesn’t get a cut and I’m *sorry*, okay, I’m sorry. I’ll buy a dozen things full-price from Amazon UK as penance, promise.

And about a week after I’d paid, I suddenly had an email from Amazon saying I’d been refunded, and eventually another email from the seller saying they were out of stock. So I bought it from another seller. And waited, and waited, and waited. And am now about to do a chargeback with Amazon.

Shall I bother ordering it a third time? Or is maybe the Universe trying to tell me something here?

This entry was posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009 at 5:26 pm and is filed under self-indulgent.