XBox 360 Elite In-Stock at Amazon

The XBox 360 Elite is back in-stock at Amazon!. I just got notified that the Elite is back at Amazon. The system tends to sell out rather fast, so grab one now if you need it. Remember, it does come with an HDMI Cable so you can get that 1080P resolution right out of the box, assuming your TV supports it.

Also, if you belong to Amazon Prime, you can have the console overnighted for 3.99 or 2-Day for free!

Good luck.

XBox 360 Elite - Pre-Orders from Amazon.com now available

Amazon.com has reopened their pre-orders for the XBox 360 Elite. The Elite went on pre-sale for about an hour earlier this week from Amazon. It’s now back, and it looks like Amazon will be shipping out the systems on the 30th. This is a good chance to pre-order this system without having to purchase extra crap that GameStop / EBGames makes you buy.

Grab it while you can. Remember - If you are an Amazon Prime member you can have the 360 Elite overnighted for $3.99, or choose free 2-day shipping.

Guitar Hero II for XBOX 360 pre-orders available at Amazon.com now

Good news! Amazon.com has just started taking a limited numbers of pre-orders for the long awaited Guitar Hero II for the XBOX 360. Amazon is limiting one copy per customer…

If you have Amazon Prime then you can have the game overnighted for just 3.99. That means that you should have the game the day its released, on April 3rd, as Amazon will usually ship the day before the release.

Pre-Order your copy of Guitar Hero II for XBOX 360 now!

Amazon: XBOX 360 Core for $100

Thanksgiving day starting at 11am PST, Amazon will begin selling XBOX 360 Core systems for $100. That’s $200 off the retail price. So, grab an extra one for yourself or for an xmas present for someone else. There will be limited quantities according to Amazon, so don’t hesitate.

Amazon screws up for the second time with Wii pre-orders

For the second time in just a few weeks Amazon has put up the Nintendo Wii for pre-order without emailing it’s customers which signed up to be notified first. The first incident which took place on September 15th caused quite a stir on the Amazon community. People who had signed up for the notification where never notified. Instead, the Wii pre-order just showed up on the page and whoever was lucky enough to be reading message boards at that time was able to grab one.

After taking a considerable amount of heat, Amazon went into damage control mode and posted the following statement on their gaming blog:

For a brief period on Friday, we did offer pre-orders for the Wii, however, the rate at which pre-orders came in dramatically outpaced what we had anticipated, so we suspended pre-orders until we are able to get a firmer commitment from Nintendo regarding how many units we’ll have for sale.

Because the pre-order window was so brief, the e-mail many of you signed up for notifying you that pre-orders were available was never triggered to send out. We apologize and have fixed the system to ensure pre-order e-mail notifications are sent in advance.

So everyone who signed up waited for the email to arrive.

Breaking the promise of notifying customers once again, early this morning the Nintendo Wii appeared back on Amazon’s site available for pre-order. Once again, no one got email notified that had been on the list, and once more all the pre-orders were snagged up by people who were lucky enough to find out through message boards and blogs.

The Amazon community is in an uproar with angry messages and posts flying back and forth. For the second time Amazon has managed to anger, disappoint and let down everyone who signed up for to be notified.

What can you do about it? Absolutely nothing. You can try to email them, but more than likely you will just receive a cookie-cutter response back just like this one:

Thank you for writing to us at Amazon.com.

In addition to our large selection, one of the benefits we try very
hard to offer our customers is convenience, and we have not met that
standard in this case. Please accept my sincere apologies.

Again, we apologize for the inconvenience caused. We hope to see
you soon at Amazon.com.

Please let us know if this e-mail resolved your question:

Now, I do realize that this might not be a big deal to some, but I am sure that there are people out there which have not yet gotten their pre-orders in. Maybe they were depending on Amazon to come through with their promise and email them, so at least they would have a chance to place a pre-order.

Is Amazon too big to care if a few thousand people are pissed? Maybe. Regardless, this is awfully poor customer service.

Amazon introduces Amazon Grocery Beta

Seattle-based Internet retailer Amazon.com has introduced yet another a new retail section on its website. Amazon Grocery Beta was launched about two weeks ago, and currently offers more than 10,000 non-perishable grocery items. Unlike most other online grocery retailers which can only deliver to a very limited area, Amazon.com can ship their non-perishable items to any customer.

Amazon.com Grocery also has an extensive selection of natural and organic products for sale.

At Amazon Grocery, you’ll find longtime staples, from Kellogg’s to Jiffy Pop. You’ll find new entries, such as Kashi cereals and Kraft Easy Mac microwavable snack packets. And when we carry a brand, we’ll try to carry every flavor available: not just the most popular flavors of Jell-O, but all flavors, from apricot to wild strawberry and the 70 flavors in-between. We’re also making regional favorites like Andy Capp Hot Fries available nationwide, and making hard-to-find specialties like Zico Pure Coconut Water a standard part of our mix.

We are now one step closer to never having to leave our homes again. Thanks Amazon!

Amazon gives away $227 million… sort of

So, it seems that an error has given this Amazon customer some extra spending cash.

and by “some” I mean a little over 227 million dollars. Either that, or this guy has some great friends/family!

Update: This image was found on Flickr, you can click on it to go to the original. I don’t know if it has been photoshoped, or edited in anyway.