Fishpond lying about "shipped" orders..?

[Wolfman]

Its come to my attention that several other eco-gamers are waiting on Microsoft points ordered a few weeks ago from fishpond.com.au.

Those who ordered will notice that they were charged last month before the site listed the points as 'in stock', any site that takes your money before shipping your goods should be looked at with suspicion. But the prices were good so I took a gamble, the expected arrival date came and went and as soon as the suggested '10 working days' period had gone by I sent a "please explain" letter to fishpond. Their response was 'wait a few more days and then email again if your points had not arrived' so I am chasing after them for a second time and still waiting for another response.

I decided to google up some store feedback for fishpond and the results were bad to terrible, with the main complaint being the extremely high failed delivery rate. The store feedback for fishpond on this site is particular bad also and I am beginning to think 'bargain' posts regarding fishpond should come with a disclaimer mentioning their poor feedback. If they continue to let down the eco-gamer community their store should be blacklisted.

Their are to many failed Microsoft point orders for the blame to be shifted onto postage theft its statistically impossible.

So my question is this, is it a legitimate business strategy of fishpond to lie about orders being shipped then hope that several of the people that placed the orders 'give up' on chasing up the "failed" delivery?

Please post here if you are waiting on a fishpond order Microsoft points or otherwise.

[KRiSX]

i'm one of the many (actually kinda shocked and happy at the same time to see others) that are waiting on an order from fishpond...

I ordered 6 of the cards and have the "it should be there by 06/06/2011" email and have emailed them once already and was told to wait until the 14th...

its now the 15th and i've sent another email to them today and contacted my local post office...

This seems awfully suspicious and i'm kind of annoyed. They can do these cards cheap as I should know from past experiences when they did them for about $25 each (bought 4 at the time) and got them quite quickly!

Never had a good experience with fishpond and the fact that a game i ordered AFTER i ordered the cards has arrived and they haven't absolutely stinks...

If anyone has any luck with anything on this let us know... i'll be keeping an eye on this thread for sure!

[ianinozzie]

I've definitely had several issues with Fishpond, one most recently involving LA Noire. I see there's another thread so I think I'll post in there instead of doubling up.

[scuderiarmani]

I think this website should refrain from posting any fishpond links to prevent any forum members, or members of the public being ripped off again.

No point encouraging such sites.