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Cyber Monday is not a friend of mine
Dec. 1st, 2014 05:12 amSometimes I try and sugarcoat things here because you never know who's lurking or might stumble upon this and I know that not everyone has the same policy I do about what goes on on other sites shouldn't be reasons for banning/whatever on another site.
That said, I think beadoll on AGPT is a fuckwit.
In order to get to this conclusion, let me tell you a story of the biggest clusteruck of a sale AG has ever had online.
I should warn you, it's the time of the month where I break out all the profanity I don't normally use and tonight seems like the perfect time to indulge.
As you should know, today is Cyber Monday. I don't normally bother with CM sales because I have a hard enough time trying to get normal sales to work out for me, let alone ones that involve the online equivilent of a fight over something stupid. That said, I make one exception:
American Girl's CM sale. I've long given up on hoping for anything specific to go on sale as I find that road only brings heartache. However, I am usually content to find myself a couple of things and call it shiny. Some years I find a lot of things and have to weigh the pros and cons of each and other years it's a stretch to hit $20, and if you've ever taken a look at AG's pricing, you'll know that says a lot.
Thing is, there's always a bit of a jam. Every other year it's best to sit there a little before it starts with your account logged in and set to express checkout, with any code already pre-programmed in so you can save time before things start selling out.
Yeah. This year AG decided that even though there's always serious lag issues at the start of the sale, they should totally advertise it on Facebook before it started.
I suspect this was a horribly bad idea.
( Someone at AG doesn't know how to do their job properly. )
Sigh. I missed a few things, like Saige's dog, but for the most part, I got really, really lucky once the site let me check out.
( It only took two hours... )
I'm going to hope other sites are better set up. I find it hard to believe they could be much worse. :P
That said, I think beadoll on AGPT is a fuckwit.
In order to get to this conclusion, let me tell you a story of the biggest clusteruck of a sale AG has ever had online.
I should warn you, it's the time of the month where I break out all the profanity I don't normally use and tonight seems like the perfect time to indulge.
As you should know, today is Cyber Monday. I don't normally bother with CM sales because I have a hard enough time trying to get normal sales to work out for me, let alone ones that involve the online equivilent of a fight over something stupid. That said, I make one exception:
American Girl's CM sale. I've long given up on hoping for anything specific to go on sale as I find that road only brings heartache. However, I am usually content to find myself a couple of things and call it shiny. Some years I find a lot of things and have to weigh the pros and cons of each and other years it's a stretch to hit $20, and if you've ever taken a look at AG's pricing, you'll know that says a lot.
Thing is, there's always a bit of a jam. Every other year it's best to sit there a little before it starts with your account logged in and set to express checkout, with any code already pre-programmed in so you can save time before things start selling out.
Yeah. This year AG decided that even though there's always serious lag issues at the start of the sale, they should totally advertise it on Facebook before it started.
I suspect this was a horribly bad idea.
( Someone at AG doesn't know how to do their job properly. )
Sigh. I missed a few things, like Saige's dog, but for the most part, I got really, really lucky once the site let me check out.
( It only took two hours... )
I'm going to hope other sites are better set up. I find it hard to believe they could be much worse. :P