Special Discounted Shipping Offer for Allen & Ginter Super Bowl Champions and Presidential Candidates Sets until 3/31

From the etopps website:

Special Discounted Shipping Offer with Matching Sequential Numbers!

The Allen & Ginter eTopps Super Bowl Champions Collection will be ready to ship the end of the month. We are offering special discounted shipping between March 17, 2008 and March 31, 2008. If ALL 6 cards from the collection are present in your portfolio and you request delivery of the six cards during this window you will receive the cards with a special shipping discount of $9.99 per set, and we guarantee each card will have matching sequential numbers (for example, the Troy Aikman card will be 5 of 999, the John Elway card will be 5 of 999, the Terry Bradshaw card will be 5 of 749, etc).

IMPORTANT: Offer is valid for delivery of ALL SIX Allen & Ginter Super Bowl Champions Cards ONLY. No other combination of cards will be eligible for the discounted shipping. While there is no limit on the number of groups of six you may request through this offer, each group is subject to its own discounted shipping price. eTopps rewards points cannot be used towards this special shipping offer. Should you request delivery of the six cards after March 31, 2008 you will be subject to regular shipping costs and we can no longer guarantee the sequential numbers on the 6 cards will match.

I tried ordering a set and noticed a few things:

• The announcement states that the set will be available at the end of this month for delivery rather than the scheduled 4/25/08 date even though this April date is still listed for these cards if you go to the Take Delivery page.
  
• When placing my order, I received this message after accepting the terms of condition sale: " Due to a communication error with our Credit Card Processor, we are unable to process your delivery request at this time.
  However, our technical staff has been notified of the error and will be working on resolving this issue as promptly as possible.
  Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this matter."
• When checking out, the cost is $8.99 rather than $9.99

Since registering on etopps almost 6 years ago, this is the first time I ever experienced a problem in processing my credit card order.

Update: After about half an hour from the time the offer became available, credit card orders can be processed and will be charged $9.99 for the set. Whether they will be shipped at the end of the month remains to be seen.

Update (Again): From the etopps home page and link from the home page:

Special Discounted Shipping Offer with Matching Sequential Numbers!

The Allen & Ginter eTopps Presidential Candidate Hopeful cards will be ready to ship the end of the month. We are offering special discounted shipping between March 17, 2008 and March 31, 2008. If ALL 4 cards from the set are present in your portfolio and you request delivery of the set during this window you will receive the set with a special shipping discount of $7.99 per set, and we guarantee each card in the set will have matching sequential numbers (for example, the Hillary Clinton card will be 5 of 999, the Barack Obama card will be 5 of 999, the Mitt Romney card will be 5 of 999, and the John McCain card will be 5 of 999). If you received a free pack of 2007 Topps Allen & Ginter at the time of allocation and still have the pack in your port, and wish to take delivery on it at this time, the discounted shipping rate of $7.99/set will include the free pack.

IMPORTANT: Offer is valid for delivery of ALL FOUR Allen & Ginter Presidential Candidate Hopeful eTopps cards (and the Free Pack of 2007 Topps Allen & Ginter if applicable) ONLY. No other combination of cards will be eligible for the discounted shipping. While there is no limit on the number of groups of four you may request through this offer, each group is subject to its own discounted shipping price. eTopps rewards points cannot be used towards this special shipping offer. Should you request delivery of the four cards after March 31, 2008 you will be subject to regular shipping costs and we can no longer guarantee the sequential numbers on the 4 cards will match.