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I am sorry that I arghed at you, Virgin Comics.
Virgin Comics update, following this post:
In the middle of the night last night, the postman dropped off a package on my doorstep. (Hey, this sometimes happens in rural Japan.) I found it this morning. It was a package from Virgin Comics, which contained the rest of my missing comics, AND a free copy of Virulents to make up for the delayed End of Story.
The package was dated April 16th - just like the previous package - and the customs declaration was signed by the same person who signed the other customs declaration. Conclusion: The two packages were sent at the same time. They just didn't reach me at the same time. ^^;; Oops.
Well, I called and left a message with Virgin explaining that I'd recieved the second package, apologizing on behalf of my local post office, and thanking them for the free comic. (They still never responded to my first message, however.) For the record, I'm still never going to shop at Virgincomicsstore.com again: They take months to ship an order, their only listed email address is still not working, and they have no phone system set up for customer service. Seriously, there's only one contact phone number listed on their website and on the package that I got, and if you dial, it takes you straight to the front-desk secretary of the entire company. I'm sure that she has more important things to deal with than somebody's incomplete order from the online store. Honestly, they should have an actual person in charge of the online store, and his/her phone number should be listed on the store website. I mean, I understand that Virgin Comics is a small company, but... They really, really need to have better service with that online store of theirs. I wonder if there's actually anybody in charge there at all.
I'm sure that they have the budget to hire someone - or a handful of someones - to take charge of customer service. I mean, they're turning The Sadhu into a movie starring Nicholas Cage, so they have to have some kind of budget, right? *
* The Sadhu is my least favorite of Virgin's line and I do NOT want to see Nicholas Cage starring in Dances with Yogi, but that's another rant for another post.
In the middle of the night last night, the postman dropped off a package on my doorstep. (Hey, this sometimes happens in rural Japan.) I found it this morning. It was a package from Virgin Comics, which contained the rest of my missing comics, AND a free copy of Virulents to make up for the delayed End of Story.
The package was dated April 16th - just like the previous package - and the customs declaration was signed by the same person who signed the other customs declaration. Conclusion: The two packages were sent at the same time. They just didn't reach me at the same time. ^^;; Oops.
Well, I called and left a message with Virgin explaining that I'd recieved the second package, apologizing on behalf of my local post office, and thanking them for the free comic. (They still never responded to my first message, however.) For the record, I'm still never going to shop at Virgincomicsstore.com again: They take months to ship an order, their only listed email address is still not working, and they have no phone system set up for customer service. Seriously, there's only one contact phone number listed on their website and on the package that I got, and if you dial, it takes you straight to the front-desk secretary of the entire company. I'm sure that she has more important things to deal with than somebody's incomplete order from the online store. Honestly, they should have an actual person in charge of the online store, and his/her phone number should be listed on the store website. I mean, I understand that Virgin Comics is a small company, but... They really, really need to have better service with that online store of theirs. I wonder if there's actually anybody in charge there at all.
I'm sure that they have the budget to hire someone - or a handful of someones - to take charge of customer service. I mean, they're turning The Sadhu into a movie starring Nicholas Cage, so they have to have some kind of budget, right? *
* The Sadhu is my least favorite of Virgin's line and I do NOT want to see Nicholas Cage starring in Dances with Yogi, but that's another rant for another post.
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But now I have some extra Ramayan coming my way, since I actually have the ones that I ordered from Virgin now... I think I might turn around and sell them on ebay again. ;)
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Nicolas Cage?!?!?!?!?!
What this world is coming to, I will never know. *sigh* The days of kali yuga are truly upon us.
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I hope this movie doesn't get made. I want Virgin to be successful, but if they honestly do attempt to turn The Sadhu into the first of several planned (!) movie adaptations, I think they'll be shooting themselves in the foot. Because it's so offensive and derivative and bad... And I don't want Nicolas Cage's career to tank either. :(
Devi, on the other hand, would make an awesome movie.