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Critical - Hits Dot Net » Amazon Wii Launch! Estimated Arrival
So the gist of the linked story is that this guy waited in line at Best Buy to get a Wii and missed out.  Well, too bad, but it has to happen to someone, right?  Anyway, he comes home and hops on Amazon, thinking that he might get lucky and get one from them and have it shipped.  So he gets the one-click all set up and after several reloads gets the order button to pop up.  Good for him, right?  Not so, seems Amazon is more than willing to take his payment and THEN inform him that his Wii is estimated to ship in the MIDDLE OF JANUARY.  Might have been nice of them to mention before he payed them and payed for overnight shipping. 

In my case I pre-ordered a CD.  Now last time I did this Amazon actually shipped it so that it arrived at my house on the day it was released.  That and the CD was actually a couple of dollars cheaper than it was at Best Buy or wherever so the shipping costs evened out.  This time, it worked out to be a little more, but I figured it was worth it to not have to run down to the store, right?  No.  They shipped it the day AFTER launch.  So I payed more and had to wait three days. 

I'm telling you, I'm done with Amazon.  They're only good for wishlists and grabbing missing album art pictures for iTunes.