[Catt]

I "cashed" out my +/- 12500 remaining points for a few DVDs and, God help me, a few stress dice. I only opened the thread to report back on a Party store issue from 10 weeks or so ago.

A few months back I decided to use a bunch of Party Points to buy a Weber Gas Grill. It actually looked OK -- 125K points and a propane grill that was decent - not scraping the bottom nor anywhere close to the top. But, since it was Party, I was concerned about what I would eventually receive -- my concerns were compounded by the fact that the part# listed in the Party store generated a fair number of "out of stock and not coming back in stock" sorts of search results.

Eight and a half weeks pass with no updates whatsoever other than the original order confirmation. My wife asks: "whatever happened to that BBQ?" I respond: "HM. Not sure. I'll email." I send an email that is very polite and conveys more or less "it's been more than 8 weeks, just checking." I get a response akin to "I'll check." Ten to twelve days go by, and I am reminded by something at work that I have no response from Party -- I begin drafting an email when I instead get an email from my wife at home that reads: "BBQ arrived - the box is really big." Before I can even get home from work that evening, I have one response from Party: "Your order apppears to have been shipped, and received on xx/xx/xx." Nothing more.

As it turns out, the BBQ was as ordered, a pretty nice entry-level gas grill (long since no longer available in the Party store). And I got a second follow-up email from Party about a week or so after my delivery saying, essentially, "it's on the way and you should expect delivery soon."