1 July 2008 2 pm eastern

Life Needs a Rewind Button

The new office is so new to me that I entered the address incorrectly while ordering CS3 suites for the studio. Amazon is consequently rush-delivering Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, and Fireworks to the wrong address, and it’s too late to change the address on the order. Someone in Harlem is going to be very happy.

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Filed under: Adobe, Design, Happy Cog™, Zeldman, work

20 Responses to “Life Needs a Rewind Button”

  1. JC said on July 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm:

    Ooof. That’s the only word that makes sense to say.

  2. Brian Artka said on July 1st, 2008 at 2:46 pm:

    ouch. that sucks. Who is shipping it? UPS? I wonder if they can divert the package. Or, maybe there is a chance that the person wont be home because I am pretty sure that amount shipped via amazon requires a signature. If its not delivered the first day, you should be able to send it to another address with no issues… good luck.

  3. Thijs van der Vossen said on July 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm:

    CS3? Happy? Are you sure? ;)

  4. Jeffrey Zeldman said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:05 pm:

    LOL

  5. Blair Miller said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:11 pm:

    After having InDesign CS3 crash on me time after time after time after time this afternoon, I’d have to agree with Thijs van der Vossen… That aside, I upgraded from CS, and I really miss being able to dock palettes vertically on both screens.

  6. Steve said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:19 pm:

    Hmm… might be worth my while to go hang out in Harlem for a minute or two ;)

  7. Jeff Byrnes said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:23 pm:

    Ouch. That’s rough.

  8. Jason Armstrong said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:29 pm:

    I own a UPS Store (among other things) and yes (as Brian Artka mentioned above) UPS does have a service called Package Intercept. If it was in fact shipped via UPS, you the customer should be able to call UPS and get the address changed.

    Let me know if you need any help.

  9. Matt Radel said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:47 pm:

    You sure you didn’t send it to Cincinnati by accident? That’d be sweeeeet….

  10. john saylor said on July 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm:

    hey-

    don’t you mean undo instead of rewind?

  11. Jeffrey Zeldman said on July 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pm:

    I do. I do. I do mean undo. Thank you.

  12. Nathan Beck said on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am:

    It’s cool Jeffrey, just press cmd+alt+z and all will be fine :)

  13. Joomla Template Tuner said on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am:

    well, why buying it from amazon? i used adobe.com and it shipped correctly :)

  14. Livio said on July 2nd, 2008 at 5:32 am:

    :-)

  15. Chris said on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am:

    Jeffrey, have you already buy it again?
    I’m pretty sure you could get your first buy back at half-price (from its new owners of course) =P

  16. Jeffrey Zeldman said on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 am:

    i used adobe.com and it shipped correctly :)

    I bought CS3 suites for my staff in November using Adobe.com’s web store. The suites were never shipped. The order disappeared from the store.

    I tried again in December. Same deal. Order disappeared; my credit card was not billed; software was not shipped.

    Two strikes, you’re out.

    I don’t know why Adobe’s web store didn’t retain my order and wouldn’t allow me to purchase Adobe’s product.

    I was miffed, too, because I intended to buy during fiscal 2007 (for tax deduction purposes) but the double failure of Adobe’s store to deliver product prevented this.

    So. That’s why.

    Store works for you? Delighted.

  17. John said on July 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm:

    the thought of you
    buying flash CS3
    makes me smile

  18. Todd said on July 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm:

    so where exactly is this address, I’m driving down now. ;)

  19. Web Designer - Evan Skuthorpe said on July 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 am:

    Undo? Rewind? Don’t you mean ctrl+z?

  20. DameonJamie said on July 23rd, 2008 at 1:08 am:

    You’re a generous one. Here’s my address while your gifting Adobe CS3 Suites at random.

    Dameon Jamie
    8 Cadaga Close
    Cairns. 4870
    Queensland
    Australia

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