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Comment by nutmeg | Hacker News Reader

Just ordered mine. With the three months of Netflix included, my cost is only $11. Ridiculous.

More like $17 after taxes and the cheapest shipping, but still cheap enough for me to impulse buy.

Amazon how has them in stock. I have prime, but I assume it's free super saver shipping for > $25, and no taxes (collected) in many places.

Well that was close.... I also have prime so I figured I might get my chromecast quicker if I cancelled my order from google store which I made 4 hours earlier (I went with cheapest shipping).

Click through the confirm prompts to cancel my order from google. Click to buy from amazon, expected delivery date: 22nd of August.

Arrrrrhhhhhhhggggggg

Flick back to the google store tab and find that it has declared that I couldn't cancel my order. Phew.

Successfully cancel my order from amazon.

Exciting!

So, Amazon actually said when Chromecast might ship by? When I was about to order it, it didn't give any indication of when it might arrive, it just said "we'll email you when we get an idea."

The Google play store guaranteed shipment by August 7, though, so if Amazon really expects it to arrive by late August, I'll just go with the play store.

Wow, that was quite the steep function. My guaranteed date was 26 July and it shipped a couple hours after I placed the order.

Oh, wow. They told me July 30. Glad I submitted my order early - didn't realize it was gonna be a line.

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