{"id":396,"date":"2009-08-26T12:43:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/amazons-pre-ordering-of-books-sucks\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T12:43:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:43:30","slug":"amazons-pre-ordering-of-books-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/amazons-pre-ordering-of-books-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#039;s Pre Ordering of books sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pre-ordered a copy of the new, (first, only, best, and original) Pentaho book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pentaho-Solutions-Business-Intelligence-Warehousing\/dp\/0470484322\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1251315325&amp;sr=8-1\">Pentaho Solutions<\/a>&#8221; by Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen two weeks back.&nbsp; Saw from a tweet that the book was shipping from Amazon.&nbsp; Cool &#8211; had a look at the page.&nbsp; Sure, they can ship today if I get my order in on time so I know they can ship it.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/moz-screenshot-9.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>How about my pre order, which I would assume would go out before regular orders?&nbsp; Won&#8217;t ship until next week?&nbsp; Delivered by 9\/11\/2009?&nbsp; Lesson learned &#8211; don&#8217;t pre order from Amazon.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=de9a5970-73f5-8daf-a691-cf97c6bc5cad\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pre-ordered a copy of the new, (first, only, best, and original) Pentaho book &#8220;Pentaho Solutions&#8221; by Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen two weeks back.&nbsp; Saw from a tweet that the book was shipping from Amazon.&nbsp; Cool &#8211; had a look at the page.&nbsp; Sure, they can ship today if I get my order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}