Columbia House Sale Offer Codes, Part VI
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Oddly, all my orders on the account I used a CC on the Memberschoice code are still sitting as "Processing" including a smaller order I did no that account later. All the "Bill Me" accounts have shipped except a couple pre orders.....
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Mental note, do "Bill Me" from now on...
I finally get the charges removed from one account, where my card was charged but they never posted the payment on my account. I'm now disputing the charge on my other account where the same thing happened...
As for my Paypal issues, I had escalated one canceled order to a dispute claim, since I paid but they canceled the order. 20 days later, CH actually responded with a tracking number. But it comes up as invalid on USPS.com (now two days later) so I don't know if they just shipped it, or if they're claiming they shipped it long ago. I'm about to escalate my other order now, for the exact same reason. I tried resolving through their CS, but those people are idiots. They don't read anything. They just send canned responses, or respond with some silly answer.
I finally get the charges removed from one account, where my card was charged but they never posted the payment on my account. I'm now disputing the charge on my other account where the same thing happened...
As for my Paypal issues, I had escalated one canceled order to a dispute claim, since I paid but they canceled the order. 20 days later, CH actually responded with a tracking number. But it comes up as invalid on USPS.com (now two days later) so I don't know if they just shipped it, or if they're claiming they shipped it long ago. I'm about to escalate my other order now, for the exact same reason. I tried resolving through their CS, but those people are idiots. They don't read anything. They just send canned responses, or respond with some silly answer.
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Re: Columbia House Sale Offer Codes, Part VI
But that doesn't always work with many codes. Most of the recent ones were CC only. If you changed payment to "Bill Me" the discount was removed and you actually had to log out and back in before the discount code would work again. I'd tried to do a "Bill Me" because they screwed up payment on one which cost me a "late fee" (I didn't argue as it was just easier to pay the ~$3) and I vowed to not pay until I had product in my hands. Didn't work... but at least I figured out the problem and didn't get any of these messed up.
Tip: Use a Virtual CC *but* make sure to put double the amount needed on the card to pay as they apparently hit the card initially with a temporary charge for the full amount and later put in a full second charge when the order ships, dropping the temporary charge. Even a temporary charge on a VCC (at least from Citi) causes the amount loaded to be reduced. CH is the *only* vendor for which I have this issue.
Tip: Use a Virtual CC *but* make sure to put double the amount needed on the card to pay as they apparently hit the card initially with a temporary charge for the full amount and later put in a full second charge when the order ships, dropping the temporary charge. Even a temporary charge on a VCC (at least from Citi) causes the amount loaded to be reduced. CH is the *only* vendor for which I have this issue.
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Tip: Use a Virtual CC *but* make sure to put double the amount needed on the card to pay as they apparently hit the card initially with a temporary charge for the full amount and later put in a full second charge when the order ships, dropping the temporary charge. Even a temporary charge on a VCC (at least from Citi) causes the amount loaded to be reduced. CH is the *only* vendor for which I have this issue.
Because I wasn't sure CH would get the billing right, I did temp numbers with enough CL to cover everything, but only a bit more. That didn't work, and now my billing is a nightmare...charges are randomly hitting for various amounts, and they are billing me for amounts that make no sense to me. (I'm not saying that they're gipping me, just that I can't follow what they're doing and their totals don't match mine).
To add to the confusion, I made the mistake of using the same VCC number for both CH accounts, when it would have been easy to make two numbers, one per account. Next time I'll know better.
#2408
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You guys will love this one... So, on TWO different accounts I had orders canceled from the $20.14 coupon codes. One account is under my name, one under my brother's name. I paid $3.82 for each order, and used a DIFFERENT Paypal account to pay each. Well, I never got the items, and CH insisted I never paid, so I disputed both of the Paypal payments (3-4 days separated the disputes). After 10 days or so, they responded to the first dispute with a tracking number. No words explaining anything, just a tracking number. It doesn't come up on USPS.com, so they likely didn't really ship anything.
Now here's the funny part. 5 days later, they responded to the other dispute, with a different CH account, under a different name, and paid with a different Paypal account, WITH THE EXACT SAME TRACKING NUMBER! They obviously never shipped anything! They're just trying to trick Paypal, claiming they shipped something that they never did! How shady is that??? If any of you guys disputed a Paypal payment, I bet they posted the exact same tracking number for you, too!
Now here's the funny part. 5 days later, they responded to the other dispute, with a different CH account, under a different name, and paid with a different Paypal account, WITH THE EXACT SAME TRACKING NUMBER! They obviously never shipped anything! They're just trying to trick Paypal, claiming they shipped something that they never did! How shady is that??? If any of you guys disputed a Paypal payment, I bet they posted the exact same tracking number for you, too!
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You guys will love this one... So, on TWO different accounts I had orders canceled from the $20.14 coupon codes. One account is under my name, one under my brother's name. I paid $3.82 for each order, and used a DIFFERENT Paypal account to pay each. Well, I never got the items, and CH insisted I never paid, so I disputed both of the Paypal payments (3-4 days separated the disputes). After 10 days or so, they responded to the first dispute with a tracking number. No words explaining anything, just a tracking number. It doesn't come up on USPS.com, so they likely didn't really ship anything.
Now here's the funny part. 5 days later, they responded to the other dispute, with a different CH account, under a different name, and paid with a different Paypal account, WITH THE EXACT SAME TRACKING NUMBER! They obviously never shipped anything! They're just trying to trick Paypal, claiming they shipped something that they never did! How shady is that??? If any of you guys disputed a Paypal payment, I bet they posted the exact same tracking number for you, too!
Now here's the funny part. 5 days later, they responded to the other dispute, with a different CH account, under a different name, and paid with a different Paypal account, WITH THE EXACT SAME TRACKING NUMBER! They obviously never shipped anything! They're just trying to trick Paypal, claiming they shipped something that they never did! How shady is that??? If any of you guys disputed a Paypal payment, I bet they posted the exact same tracking number for you, too!
#2411
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Re: Columbia House Sale Offer Codes, Part VI
Someone on another forum contacted CH regarding Ender's Game. They said that it is on backorder until March 14.
Ender's Game shipped yesterday. Just received Nebraska. Based on new holds, CH should be shipping Hunger Games, Oldboy and The Grandmaster in the next few days. One bit of bad news, they canceled a cashin14 order(From Up on Poppy Hill).
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#2415
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I noticed a pending charge for $6.05 on my credit card yesterday. So hopefully my Hunger Games is about to ship.
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#2418
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^
I didn't realize that CH had the pre-order up while the $20.14 code was still active. Good score.
I just got holds for Inside Llewyn Davis and All is Lost.
I didn't realize that CH had the pre-order up while the $20.14 code was still active. Good score.
I just got holds for Inside Llewyn Davis and All is Lost.
#2419
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Re: Columbia House Sale Offer Codes, Part VI
Incredible. Paypal ruled in favor of CH, even though CH canceled my order and didn't ship anything. All because they posted a bogus tracking number from my OTHER account. I just filed a dispute with my c/c. Thankfully I used a c/c. My other Paypal order which got canceled was ruled in MY favor, which is good because I did not use a c/c on that one...
#2420
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Just noticed a pending charge of 21.46 on my cc from CH. Looks like they may be finally shipping the Indiana Jones set I ordered.
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I'm still waiting on my Captain Phillips and Rush from my order back in late January. Whatever.
I think I'm about done with CH.
I think I'm about done with CH.
#2424
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I'm still waiting on the remastered Robocop I ordered back on February 22. I got the other five items from that order two weeks ago.
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