Allow me to ***** a little and share my disappointment with how this thing has been handled. I ordered the boxset early on the morning of it's release (11/28). This is after calling in to WHV and verifying that they had the item in stock (otherwise I'd just go to the store and pick it up). The combination of the online discount around ($62 after S/H) and my own legendary frugal nature was just to good to pass up. Bad move.
After 7-10 business days, no dice. By this time, I had long knew about the issues with the replacement disks, so I just assumed they were in the process of replacing the discs and gathering corrected editions. I called back in late December to see if this was the case and was told as much. Around the middle of January, I still haven't received jack and call again only to find out that somehow, my order has been canceled. I hang up on one incompetent WB rep and raise hell with another to get the order re-submitted and at an even better discount price than before. It's sounding good
up
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down).
I call back after two weeks and am told that the set was just shipped out that day. Sounds good. Call back in today, just for ****s and giggles and low and behold, now the order has only been processed and is 'waiting for shipment'. The growing sounds of a man rapidly losing patience become clear to the phone rep and she gives me the lowdown: the damn boxsets aren't available for ordering (even though I just ordered one about 3 weeks ago) and that someone should have told my happy ass this back in December. I knew they had taken the things off the retail market a long time ago, but I figure good ol' WB would have earlier access to the corrected sets (or at least the old defective ones, so that I could send in for the replacements like any other good little fanboy). Barring any of this, I at least assumed I'd be able to get a clear line of communication about what in the blue hell was going on with my alleged order. In the memorable words of Spacey's Luthor ...WRONG!
The short side of the story is that over 2 months after the fact, no Supes boxset for the J-Man. At the end of the day, I'd should have just taken my rear end to Best Buy and paid the extra $15 or so, but no point in griping about hindsight. By the time I was able to get to the store, they were likely out of them anyway from what I've heard and I have been on the web still. It's all good. I wouldn't even buy it at the store now, unless the price was good. So I'll be waiting for WB to get their act together and re-release this thing and when they do I'll be back on the phone raising even more hell to get an even greater reduced price. They really screwed the pooch on this one. Unfortunately, it seems that my name is Rover or Fido. It's nonsense like this that enables me to feel guilt-free about the piracy I'm getting ready to engage in. Well that, and the complete lack of a conscience I have in the first place.
Bastards.
