After spending hours on Friday on Amazon chat, I was told there was absolutely nothing they could do over chat to help me, they could not forward me to the promotions team, I had to wait for email. In response getting the email above, and providing the info, I got a response yesterday:
“Based on the nature of your query the best way to solve with the problem you are describing about is by giving us a chat or call so that we would be able to identify the exact root cause of the problem and assist you accordingly, which might fix this issue right away.
When you contact us live we can confirm the DSN of device, app version then assist you accordingly with steps to resolve this for you.
Please understand issue like this require a real time communication and without knowing the reason behind the error, over email I do not want to send you unwanted action or instruction which might cause inconvenience to you.“
So apparently not only was it possible to contact promotions via chat, it was the best way. Also, I’m obviously still getting the generic script run around from Amazon, who don’t even understand the nature of the problem.
So I got a little annoyed and replied:
Stop reading from the script and listen. I preordered a video game (EA’s NHL 21 for PS4). EA gave you codes to include with every preorder of that game. Amazon’s responsibility (and I imagine contractual obligation) was to email those codes to each account that preordered the game.
EA has a representative that has been talking with Amazon for the last week about this issue. That representative has been updating a forum on EA’s site telling us that Amazon now understands where the communication chain broke down, and Amazon will now pass along the preorder codes.
That means your next step is simple: locate the codes, select one that has not already been passed out, and send it to me via email. You don’t need any more information from me.