chaobell | Caveat wootor

So the Intarweb Boyfriend spotted a Zune on woot.com for something like $75 and thought it looked like a sweet deal, and so he proceeded to order one. And much like I’ve been poinging and poking RedOctane all week in anticipation of the arrival of my fancy metal DDR pad, he’s been poinging and poking and tracking the whereabouts of his incoming Zune.

And yesterday, his Zune arrived. Well, it was the box that supposedly contained his Zune, anyway, though it seemed… strangely light. But hey, whatev, Zune. So he opened up the box and…

This is about the point when I received a text message from him to the effect of “So here’s the contents of my Zune box.” Attached to the message was this picture.

Your initial reaction is probably something like “Uh… heh… okay, and…?” Mine was exactly that, anyway. Because the thought that he might have paid $70someodd for a completely empty box is just not even a logical conclusion to draw, right?

My response: “…I hope that picture was taken after you removed the Zune from the box. Otherwise, FFFFFFFFUUUUU.”

His response this morning confirmed the FFFFFFFFUUUUUU.

So apparently the people at woot were appropriately mortified that they took $70someodd from this nice man and sent him an empty box for it, and they’re going to send him another box, hopefully one containing a fucking Zune, but it won’t even go out until Tuesday at the earliest.

But they are going to fix it, and this is the first thing I’ve ever heard about woot that was anything less than complimentary, and I’m sure it was an honest mistake, but I’ve had my share of mail-order misfortune and holy crap, I have never gotten a completely empty box, this is an entirely new level of hilarious fail.

Originally published at Fire of Unknown Origin. You can comment here or there.