[Ti] OT: Apple Canada shipping

[Murray Kastner]

Apple Canada can be high-handed and pisses off most of its customers at 
one time or another. We just have no choice, unfortunately. But as a 
born-and-bred Montrealer, I wonder why you would subject yourself to a 
"frozen wasteland" if you have other options more amenable? Some of us 
do measure our lifestyles by other than commercial access, you might be 
surprised to learn. Surely our frozen wasteland must have some 
redeeming value?

For your -- and others blighted by our shortfalls comercially -- 
information, you might want to check out vendors in the USA that offer 
the services of Border-free, through which you are given a net cost 
all-inclusive to your door for a wide range of product. They do the 
exchnage, pay duties, if any, and all other costs; I use eCost and it 
works very well.

Insofar as other measures of lifestyle, I can only repeat an oft-heard 
American slogan, "Love it or leave it!" Or, start making yourself a 
list of why you are here. I wouldn't trade my beloved Montreal for 
anywhere in the United States. There is far more to one's quality of 
life than ease-of-ordering. And Apple Canada ain't gonna get any better 
overnight, but some of us feel the negatives of living here to be well 
worth the annoyances.

Cheers!

Murray

On 24-Feb-05, at 3:36 PM, Jim Freeman wrote:

> M9725LL/A, IPOD SHUFFLE 1G-USA
>       will now ship on or before / sera expédié au plus tard
>       le 03/31/2005
>
> I'm really frustrated. I ordered my iPod Shuffle on Jan 17 and now I 
> get a notice telling me I have to wait another six weeks.
>
> But what really gets me is that when I ordered my shuffle I decided to 
> add on a couple of other little items I needed: an airport express 
> base station and a video cable for my G4 PowerBook. Apple's web site 
> shows these items were shipped separately on Jan 17 and I still 
> haven't got them. Today I called Apple Canada and they said "Same Day" 
> had made two delivery attempts, Jan 31 and Feb 4. I got no sticker on 
> my door, nothing.
>
> I used to live in San Francisco. I ordered everything on-line, got the 
> best price, paid no tax, no shipping and could count on most things 
> turning up in two days or at least having the ability to track them in 
> real time. Now I live in a frozen waste land called Montreal where you 
> can forget e-commerce. I could have walked down to my local computer 
> store to buy those items. I would have had them long ago. Now six 
> weeks later I'm still hoping that some company called "Same day right 
> away" will manage to find my house.
>
> Jim
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