Never pre-ordering from Amazon again!!

Pre-ordered The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from Amazon on April 18th.

Agreed to do their Prime program in order to get discounted 2 day shipping fee.

Waited.

May 5th arrived - no DVD.

May 6th arrived - no DVD.

Checked email- received notice that my Benjamin Button DVD wouldn't arrive until May 12th... that's not 2 days, Amazon!!!!!

May 7th arrived - no DVD.

Checked email again - received another email indicating that my DVD would possibly arrive on May 8th.

May 8th arrived - checked mailbox- no DVD.

Went to my apartment and found package on my doorstep.

Was I happy? Yes and no.

Because while I took advantage of the $3.00 off Benjamin Button coupon from the People's Most Beautiful issue and bought a copy from Best Buy on May 5th, it's just the principle of the whole damn thing. I sign up for the Prime Membership and agreed to 2 day shipping, and yet, I had to endure false starts and eventually got the DVD one day late and the DVD case was cracked.

Needless to say, I canceled the Prime Membership because I'm willing to wager that Amazon wouldn't have a problem deducting the membership fee on time. And where the hell do they get off emailing me, saying that Benjamin Button was on backorder? I pre-ordered it in mid April, not May 4th.

I will not pre-order anything from Amazon again... which is not to say that I won't continue ordering used shit from the merchants on Amazon. As far as I'm concerned, those people can continue to get my money; Amazon Proper can kiss my ass!!!

And Target can join them. I went to Target on May 5th around 11:30 a.m. and those bastards had an endcap for the Criterion version of Benjamin Button, but the shelves were empty. They tried to tell me to order it from their website, but I was still stuck on them not having any copies of the Criterion Button. The store was only opened for 3 1/2 hours and they ran out of flipping copies? Either they ordered too little or there was a huge rush for the movie. I honestly can't say what their deal is because, weeks earlier, when I wanted to buy Johnson and Johnson's Lavendar baby oil, they told me to order that on-line too!!!

Mail-ordering baby oil? WTF, man?!!!