Netbook Funds Update and Amazon Rant

Some of you may have noticed that I talked about the fact that I have been trying to raise enough money for me to buy an Acer Aspire One notebook (here), as a Laptop is a much greater price budget, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be allowed one . Anyway, I have now finally hit my total budget, of £170, and one of the major ways I achieved this was selling some of my games on Amazon. (By the way, if you live in the UK I would seriously recommend going to www.comet.co.uk, as they are offering the 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive, Linux version for £170, which is ridiculously cheaper than any competitors, although it is very much subject to availability.

Now one of the things I now want to point out, and something that annoys me to no end, is that when you first create an Amazon selling account, you have to wait 14 days before you can receive your money, which is not too bad. But it gets worse. Because Amazon uses your bank account to do the transactions, it takes 6 to 10 working days for the money to be transferred into your account.
This can mean that it could take up to 2 weeks for the money to be deposited into your account. Now for me this was a major problem, because as i mentioned earlier, my Netbook was subject to availability, and now, only a day after I asked for my money to be dispursed, has become out of stock. I therefore have no idea if Comet will get more in stock (I pray that they do) and if Amazon could have speeded up the transaction, I could have bought the Netbook already.


One of the things that really baffles me is why Amazon haven't gone along the road that eBay took, and use PayPal. Not only is this a really fast method of transferring money, but it is also very safe and reliable. It makes no sense that Amazon shouldn't use PayPal, especially if people really do need their money fast (e.g. to pay the rent).
The money is actually ours, and so i believe Amazon shouldn't dilly dally around, delaying the payments being transferred. Also a lot of transactions can now be done through online banking and there should be no reason why Amazon couldn't use this to speed things up.

And so I conclude, that until Amazon starts to incorporate PayPal into their payments' scheme, eBay will have the upper hand when it comes to receiving YOUR money.

That's all for now,
Laters people.