Okay, I'm less impressed now.

Am getting less and less impressed with sheetmusicplus.com as a source for dead-tree songbooks. Does anyone have a more reliable source?

( It's not the $1.50, it's the principle of the thing )

All of my previous issues with them have been extremely minor and could be blamed on DHL. This is getting on my nerves a tad though. Why can't people just bloody well DO WHAT THEY SAY already?!

Update: They have sent a very prompt and courteous email in reply, telling me (1) how to enter the coupon code when ordering (which is exactly WHAT I DID thankyouverymuch) and (2) that the order was "imported" into the system today, so I should be able to check the status online tomorrow. I have sent the obvious reply. Hopefully I have been so sweet that their teeth ache. I do not think I will be doing business with these bozos again.

Update 2: Have finally gotten off my lame ass and looked up the music shop that Jim told me about. Crikey, it's half a mile down the street! I'm going! (And if they have the book in question, I think I'm just going to cancel my order with sheetmusicplus...)

Update 3: Sheetmusicplus is processing my coupon as a refund to my credit card, since it didn't go through on the order, which is fair enough. I just got the confirmation email with the details. So WHY IS IT that they can charge my card instantaneously, and yet it takes TEN TO FIFTEEN BUSINESS DAYS to process a refund? How does that work?

I am so sad that there is no way I can make it to Marshall before they close tonight. I am never ordering from these idiots again.

extra bonus random thought for the day

If someone can be described as an "emotional rock", is it also possible to be an "emotional hard place?"