My Awesome Review of Seth Godin’s Book Linchpin, sort of

All of you, my reader’s, know what a Seth Godin fan I am. I read his blog post everyday. I mull over his thoughts and I always end up with a “you are SO right!” thought by the end of my reading.

You can imagine my excitement when Seth and his marketing genius-ness…es strategically told all his blog followers that if they donated to his charity the Acumen Fund (limited to a certain number of people) that you would recieve the book before it was released. He also encouraged us to give a review.

HELLOOOO….. my blog name has REVIEW in it! I love Seth’s thoughts …. was THIS not a calling for me!!?!?! I couldn’t click fast enough to donate. In fact, I went so fast that I didn’t have my credit card available when I went to Paypal.

Paypal.

When I realized my credit card was WAY OVER on the other side of the room which would involve movement on my part to get the card, which would mean I may not make it in the allotted amount of people who could donate to get the pre-pre-preview of his book to REVIEW (my blog name). I skipped to the transfer bank funds part of paypal.

Paypal.

I went through all the fab are you SURE you don’t want to use your credit card pop-ups designed to MAKE you use your credit card including the fact that they scare you into the thought that if you DON’T use your credit card, the world of your purchase may fall into a black hole and you’ll be left with a paypal debit and nothing to show for it. …. (big sigh) …. I clicked “yes use my bank account”. It’s a good time to tell you that I’ve had this paypal account since, like, when they were x.com and ebay was this little site no one heard of and still had a “I’m looking for..” free section on their site. My use of the bank transfer function is probably about that old too. Apparently it has an old, old, old, address of a former employer on it.

Paypal.

In January when I got a letter from Seth Godin indicating that I MADE IT in the limited number of people to get the book…… I almost FLEW out of my office window! I did my “I got the book, I got the book, I got the bboooo….oooooo……kkk….” dance! Delivery scheduled for January.

It’s February. People are reviewing, the book is out. I got no book.

Paypal.

Going back to check my paypal receipt I was horrified to see that the book was sent to an ancient address that has been deleted from my account entirely …. yet somehow it’s still attached to my bank transfer selection. There is no place to change it. I even read all the “help” stuff, watched the tutorials. nothing. so I called. After waiting on the phone ….. I was told they see the address and they don’t know how to delete it from the bank transfer section. WHAT?!?!?!?!? Do you NOT know what a calling this was for me PAYPAL!?!? REVIEW. is. in. my. blog. name!

Paypal.

So, I sent an email to the head of the department I used to work with. No one claims to have anything, even though the department name is written on the phantom paypal address.

I’m so dissappointed. This is not just my loss …. but you, the reader as well. So, I’m sure that the book is awesome … it’s already #55 on the Amazon book list according to my affiliate link below. You can read the reviews of the people that got the book here on Squidoo and purchase a book there as well.

Here’s the thing, if you are thinking of buying the book, I would appreciate the purchase through my affiliate link below … then I can buy the book myself. I can’t however use my OWN Amazon link to purchase because I think that’s an agreement no-no. So, whatever. Someone at my old office is reading the book I should have gotten. They better appreciate it. I bet they don’t have REVIEW in THEIR blog name!

I’ll be the bigger person, sip my wine and order from Amazon. Not my link of course. (big sigh) I think I also just got a Seth Godin “F” for failure to watch the details.

Paypal.

Cheers to the Acumen Fund!
Jennifer
@ThingsAll2Good

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