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Following my recent questions about the Futurama Complete box set I went into HMV and checked out their stock and found that the Complete box set simply contains all the previous season’s box sets in one larger box. Lovely.
Being fed up with it being sold out on play.com for so long I decided to ask them when they might have it in stock again, the discussion we had follows;

From: Play.com
To: “Cliph”
Subject: Re: Stock Enquiry
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:26:06 -0000

Dear Cliph,

Thank you for your email.

We keep this item on our site just in case we are able to stock this item again.
We are sorry we are unable to supply you with this item at present.

Kind regards,

Email Support Team

Play

—– Original Message —–
From: Cliph
To: Play.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Stock Enquiry

Play.com wrote, on 03/22/05 16:37:

Dear Cliph,

Thank you for your email.

This item currently has a status of ‘Sold Out’. This means that originally it was only
available in limited quantities and that unfortunately all copies have now been sold.

Please accept our sincerest apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused
you and thank you for your patience and valued custom.

Thank you for your reply.

If the item in question is no longer available and if I understand correctly, you are unable to restock, why is it still visible on your store?

—– Original Message —–
*From:* Cliph
*To:* Play.com
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:01 PM
*Subject:* Stock Enquiry

Hi,

I’d like to order the “Futurama - Complete Season 1 - 4 Collection Box Set” but it’s
been out of stock for some time now.

Do you have any indication when it might be available again?

–
Cliph/ff
http://chicks-dig-unix.net/

So it seems that I wont be able to get the item from Play.com after all. I’ll pick it up in HMV during the week and pay their premium prices, unless any of you have a better idea?

[ Update ]
Ok, here’s how this ends. Went to HMV today with the intention of purchasing the box set to find that the price had been slashed to the low, low, super-crazy-price of €59.99, add to that (or subtract) the €10 note I found on the street earlier in the day means I got the box set for a supersweet €50!