Why does skype seem to make it so difficult to tal...

I phone my father regularly from my Skype mobile but he only has a landline.
I thought it would be a good idea to get my father a skype phone so i went to their global partners and eight weeks after i paid 137 pounds for a phone i am still waiting for it to arrive, I get lots of apologies, lots of promises which are never fulfilled and the result is that i have had to instruct the credit card provider to recover the money. Yet no one in Skype wants to talk about it or bring any influence to bear on their global partners - disappointing isnt the word and as for your UK global partners, my comments are not repeatable, find another way of getting a skype phone

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To which of our third party providers are you referring?
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