I remember last year I ordered something after the Christmas launch, when they were well into the swing of the whole extended MBG, and it arrived similarly with a standard 30 day deadline. I phoned CS to be told that until 30 days before their last Christmas delivery date (around 19th Dec I think) they would only extend the MBG *if* you advised them that the item was for a gift at the time you placed the order! I remember asking how that worked for online orders - there was no 'this is a gift' box to tick - to which they had no answer, and I recall I insisted that they made a note on my account to extend the deadline on that item. I notice that this year they are clearly saying that *if* the item is for a gift the MBG is extended, so when I placed an order online the other day I rang afterwards to make sure the date would be 25th Jan...to be told they've aaaalwaaaays extended the MBG to 25th Jan from Christmas launch weekend and (implicitly) that I am mis-remembering or in fact going barmy. Having chosen of my own volition to watch them sell demented looking rafia reindeers for several hours last weekend, the latter may be true, but I know what I recall, and think this is yet another case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing at Le Q...