LR shipped too early

hobbzz

How do I change this?
I ordered 11lbs of "nano rock" last night. Someone from your company called today to verify the cc info. Later in the day I called back and asked them to ship it on monday so I would get it on wednesday without it sitting in a warhouse all weekend long. I was told that it had not yet been entered for shipping and that changing the shipping date would be fine. The order was successfully changed to a delivery date of 7-18 as you can see from the screen shot of my comfirmation email below (the original delivery date used to be this friday before the delay for verification). After that I received a shipping notification email saying that it had shipped and would be delivered on monday. So now it will be sitting in a warehouse all weekend (probably in very hot california), and instead of getting a little die off, everything on the rock will be dead. So now I'm paying 5.50/lb for completely dead rock. This was supposed to be for a birthday present for my father's 60th birthday next month...I just hope that with all the die off it will be cycled in time, and that I will be able to seed his tank with sand from mine, because I doubt there will be anything left on this rock if it is shipped dry like last time. Here's the screen shot showing a delivery date of 7/18/07...

untitled248978.jpg


I ordered 22lbs of this rock two months ago, had it shipped overnight, and it was great despite the rock not even being covered in wet paper. I hardly had any cycle because of there being so little die off, and bugs (good ones) started showing up after only a few weeks of placing it in the tank. That obviously won't happen this time. I ordered from you again because I was very pleased with the last batch.

I'm not really sure that there's anything you can do about this, but I just figured you might want to know about the shipping discrepancies in your system so that this doesn't happen to anyone else.
 
hobbzz
My apologies, I went to ship the order myself yesterday and discovered it had been shipped already. The warehouse had a hard copy of the order. Though I changed your order for you, they did not notice the new date when they printed the shipping label. We are working on eliminating hard copies to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I think you will find the rock will be fine. If not let us know. Again, my apologizes.
Steve C.
Marine Depot Live Customer Service
www.marinedepotlive.com
714-385-0080
714-385-0180 FAX
 
It ended up sitting in Ohio or Iowa for the weekend, not California, so it wasn't too bad. The individual pieces were however, twice the size of the last shipment of nano rock I received. This shipment I got 3 pieces, last time I got 14 total (two 11lb orders), so 7 pieces per order. They weighed the correct amount, they were just more along the lines of normal LR, not smaller sized "nano" rock.
 
Back
Top