Skitzic
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I have decided this entire ukulele purchase is cursed. I ordered a Córdoba 20 TM-CE from Amazon. I ordered the uke on the 16th of this month (after a terrible experience at an open mic, but that's a rant for a different day). On the 20th, I emailed Amazon wondering why it hadn't shipped yet. I wasn't upset or rude, I was just wondering because the website said they were in stock.
So, Amazon upgraded my shipping, charged my credit card the shipping cost, and emailed me telling me it would be there 2 days AFTER the original date. The shipping charges were 8.06, not a huge deal but I thought they should have asked me before just charging my card. The email also included a rather long winded rant about warehouses being all over the country and not everything can be shipped out of the warehouse closest to me (which I understand, because I'm not an idiot. I was just wondering why it was taking a week to ship out). So I get refunded the shipping charge and the uke was waiting for me last night.
It was really well packaged. It was probably the best packaging job I have ever seen. Anyway, upon inspection I noticed a HUGE crack running up the neck. It looks like someone was too heavy with the file and took huge chunks of the binding off when fixing frets (which were wonderfully smooth by the way). and the binding cracked all the way up to the headstock. The crack was so bad I could get my nail in there and pull the binding away from the neck.
So, I contacted Amazon again. Then I get a shipping notice that another one went out. Shortly after I get the shipping notice, I get an email from their customer service department telling me I could keep both and I would be billed later. After a few more back and forth emails, I get the return shipping label for the broken ukulele and now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get it to a UPS store. I think I'll just bring it into work and let him take it away.
Then, while I am repacking the uke, my dog steals my tuner off of the ottoman and proceeds to tear up the box. She has this weird obsession with tearing up paper, she doesn't eat it...she just shreds it. She didn't eat the tuner, so it's no huge loss, but the box was gone. My fiancé saw it before I did, and said 'oh, she's going to kill you.' I looked over and said 'he's right, I'm going to kill you.' She didn't die, and it wasn't Amazon's fault my dog ate my tuner box, but it was still irritating.
End rant: I hope my weird luck ends soon.
So, Amazon upgraded my shipping, charged my credit card the shipping cost, and emailed me telling me it would be there 2 days AFTER the original date. The shipping charges were 8.06, not a huge deal but I thought they should have asked me before just charging my card. The email also included a rather long winded rant about warehouses being all over the country and not everything can be shipped out of the warehouse closest to me (which I understand, because I'm not an idiot. I was just wondering why it was taking a week to ship out). So I get refunded the shipping charge and the uke was waiting for me last night.
It was really well packaged. It was probably the best packaging job I have ever seen. Anyway, upon inspection I noticed a HUGE crack running up the neck. It looks like someone was too heavy with the file and took huge chunks of the binding off when fixing frets (which were wonderfully smooth by the way). and the binding cracked all the way up to the headstock. The crack was so bad I could get my nail in there and pull the binding away from the neck.
So, I contacted Amazon again. Then I get a shipping notice that another one went out. Shortly after I get the shipping notice, I get an email from their customer service department telling me I could keep both and I would be billed later. After a few more back and forth emails, I get the return shipping label for the broken ukulele and now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get it to a UPS store. I think I'll just bring it into work and let him take it away.
Then, while I am repacking the uke, my dog steals my tuner off of the ottoman and proceeds to tear up the box. She has this weird obsession with tearing up paper, she doesn't eat it...she just shreds it. She didn't eat the tuner, so it's no huge loss, but the box was gone. My fiancé saw it before I did, and said 'oh, she's going to kill you.' I looked over and said 'he's right, I'm going to kill you.' She didn't die, and it wasn't Amazon's fault my dog ate my tuner box, but it was still irritating.
End rant: I hope my weird luck ends soon.