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Preordering Online

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From: elizabeth chris
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 02:20
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Have any of you guys preordered anything online recently?
The reason that I ask is that I have had mixed results so far.

The last two preorders I did were Capcom vs SNK, which I did straight 
from Capcom, and Tekken 4, with CompUSA.

Capcom sent me a shirt for preordering, without telling me.  They also 
shipped a boss catalog of upcoming games.  The order shipped on time, no 
problems.


CompUSA hasn't shipped Tekken 4 as of this afternoon. The website still 
says "processing" about my order.  When I called, they said one of the 
items is on backorder.  They said they were going to call their 
warehouse, and their phone system just dumped me back off again.
I have to assume that there is a problem with the shirt, not the game, 
since even Wal-Mart has Tekken 4 now.

(I'm so mad.  Even Marty has his copy of Tekken 4 already.)

Since I bought a lot of computer parts from CompUSA when they had a big 
sale a while ago, it made sense for me to get a gamefixx card.  I never 
did get an IGN insider subscription, so they're allegedly substituting 
with EGM.  ( I'll beleive it when I see it.)  I'm not that mad, since I 
already made my money back and then some from the price of a gamefixx 
card, even without the alleged subscription and the three t-shirts I 
have gotten so far.  (I'm not explaining the t-shirts on the newsgroup. 

E-mail if you're deathly curious.)

But now this brings me to MK's November release...
1) Does anyone know about ordering direct from Midway?
2) Any news on promo items?
3) If not Midway, then who? (I could always _not_ preorder, and just 
take off my 10% at CompUSA, but then I lose any cool promo stuff I could 
get for preordering.)

Chris
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Subject: Preordering Online
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