Barking Pre-Order (Problems)

[happiness stan]

Originally Posted by vflow

Not much to say against The Mission... Children is a classic.
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Btw... Friday? Saturday?

Not the coolest, perhaps they qualify as a guilty pleasure? Fantastic live band back in the day.

Not so far for Friday, really p*ssed off with this, I could've bought this in a shop without the pre-order, who can I complain to?....apart from you guys.

[happiness stan]

I take it all back...well actually I don't, but I've got my box & shopper & dgboy shirt, just now.
Huzzah!

I'll leave it wrapped for the cycle home, very excited though.
Had a relentless day at work, so this has lifted the spirits no end.

Good luck for everyone else's deliveries, especially the Dublinites.

[ThingInABook]

no postman means no mail. any kind of mail. i don't now if he's ill or something.

maybe he's nursing that weekend off.

that or my box is stuck in customs like most of the large packages do.

[Mr.Grumpy]

got mine today in toronto. what a beautiful thing.

[vflow]

Originally Posted by vflow

Friday? Saturday?

Next week? NEXT MONTH?

I've been full of anticipated joy since I pre-ordered the box set & art print from uwlive on July 27, like a child looking forward to Christmas, but seriously, as I write this there's almost nothing left of this feeling. I even don't know Barking yet, because I wanted to enjoy all the physical stuff I paid for while listening to it for the first time (like I always do). So much for pre-ordering directly from the artist. What a disappointment.

There's also an appalling lack of useful, personal communication with the disappointed and worrying customer. In more than 25 years of (pre-)ordering music from all over the world, all in all this is by far the worst experience I ever had. I just hope this nightmare will end with a delivery that's complete and not damaged. Whenever that may be.

I don't care anymore now. I started looking forward to the new CDs by Killing Joke and The Orb (feat. David Gilmour!). Best thing is: I know I'll have them here on the respective release date. I'll order from Amazon.

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by vflow

Next week? NEXT MONTH?

I've been full of anticipated joy since I pre-ordered the box set & art print from uwlive on July 27, like a child looking forward to Christmas, but seriously, as I write this there's almost nothing left of this feeling. I even don't know Barking yet, because I wanted to enjoy all the physical stuff I paid for while listening to it for the first time (like I always do). So much for pre-ordering directly from the artist. What a disappointment.

There's also an appalling lack of useful, personal communication with the disappointed and worrying customer. In more than 25 years of (pre-)ordering music from all over the world, all in all this is by far the worst experience I ever had. I just hope this nightmare will end with a delivery that's complete and not damaged. Whenever that may be.

I don't care anymore now. I started looking forward to the new CDs by Killing Joke and The Orb (feat. David Gilmour!). Best thing is: I know I'll have them here on the respective release date. I'll order from Amazon.

Although I'm not as furious as vflow, I have to agree that the album ordering-directly-at-the-artist venture seems to have been massively underestimated and mis-organized. My 3-disc box set hasn't yet arrived, either. I, too, am waiting for the physical thing to explore Barking - I have resisted the urge to download so far. Never did I receive word of the shipping status of my box set (only an ordering confirmation). Also, I mailed them a question about ordering a few weeks ago, and never got a reply.

Ahh, well, it will all be better (i. e., more professional) with the new album coming up in three years...

[philth]

So it's now more than two weeks after the release date and still no sign of the box set, which I ordered and paid for on July 24th.

It's such a pity that ordering through the band's own website has been such a disappointing experience, and not just for me it seems. I hope the people on the band's side of this are listening and taking note. I for one will be writing to them with my thoughts once the box arrives, although at this point it looks more likely that I'll end up with a refund...

[Bootleg]

My order hasn't arrived, too.
But I got an answer to my question:

[...] You will receive it soon! Unfortunately there was been mail strikes across europe which has delayed a lot of orders. [...]

So there's still some hope left .......

[tokyorai]

mail strikes in Europe? Never knew that. At least they gave you a decent reason then. I was thinking it was something else distributors didn't want to tell us. Tower Records Tokyo estimates October 10 or so for me...

[ThingInABook]

week no. 3 and no boxset yet. or any onther mail. the problem here is the postman. called the post here and made a complaint because it's been around two weeks and he hasn't showed up.

lame.