I've noticed today on 2 of my accounts where I have pre-orders waiting, they are now showing a balance before the selections have been shipped. Both of these accounts are on "bill me" status and I usually get them with an invoice. I pay them (online) within 30 days but I recently discovered the "A $3.00 late fee will be added to invoice which is not paid within 30 days" is no longer on the packing slip/invoice.

I've not received a shipping confirmation e-mail and both of these are selections to be released next week, 10/17.

Not really a big deal but just wanted to alert some of you when/if you see it on your account. Just hadn't seen them do pre-order billing like this before.

"Over The Hedge" 10/17/06

Hmmm . . . they must have shipped this last week. I just received it today, release day. That's probably why it was showing a balance due before I even had it.

However, there was a big slash across the box which probably came from a post office box cutter. It went thru the box, invoice, return envelope, DVD cellophane wrap, and the back of the DVD case itself.

Oh well, not that big a deal. Glad to have it on release day.

EDIT: . . . and I see the "30 day" notice back on the invoice too. I was probably looking at the invoice on my other account where I have a CC on file. Those arrive pre-paid.

I got Over the Hedge today also yay

and some of the invoices "don't have that Late fee 3.00 statement" and then one of the statement i got has it ... very weird how they are doing that ...

oh well

was charged for this last week even before it shipped.

Received it in the mail today, the same day I got the email letting me know it had shipped

I received my shipping notice today also. Shipped on the 17th along with 3 (1 FREE + 2 discounted) other selections from last week's B1G1 offer.

But then I received "Over the Hedge" on the 17th -- that's fast! Well, it lists ALTERNATE SHIPPER as the shipping method while the other 3 are MEDIA MAIL. I'm still waiting on those.

You may want to try calling them and having the CC on file removed.

1-888-467-7404

The account I have was offered to me over the phone. I chose 1 DVD for $9.95 and they would send that along with coupon stamps to choose another 5 for FREE. When the CSR asked how I wanted to pay I just inquired if it was possible to just be billed. My account was placed on "bill me" status. I had the 1 DVD along with the Welcome packet in the mail within 2 weeks. I then went online and made a one-time credit card payment for the intro selection and the account has always remained on "bill me".