rant - Time to drop Amazon

[newbury]

So I've got Amazon prime with FREE 2 DAY DELIVERY!!

It's not worth the bits it's written with. Besides the standard doesn't include weekends etc. it's been taking 4 days or more to get stuff. This last was the worst. Ordered a hard drive NEEDED for backup on Sunday. Delivery PROMISED BY WEDNESDAY.
Oh they delivered it ok, except to the @#$%## post office who MIGHT get it delivered by Saturday, or not.

 

[MarkF48]

Recently I was looking for a particular propane torch. I have Prime so I narrowed the search to Prime items. Found the torch I wanted in Amazon Prime, but read the screenshot below. It might be Prime with supposedly two day shipping, but....???? :laughing:



I do like Prime in most cases saves me a wasted trip to a local store that many times doesn't have what I want and I use the movie feature with it, so to me it's worth what it costs.

On an item like that hard drive or similar, try B&H Photo . I ordered a portable drive from them this past Monday and it was delivered Tuesday (NY to MA). They are pretty quick.

 

[k0ua]

Recently I was looking for a particular propane torch. I have Prime so I narrowed the search to Prime items. Found the torch I wanted in Amazon Prime, but read the screenshot below. It might be Prime with supposedly two day shipping, but....???? :laughing:

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I do like Prime in most cases saves me a wasted trip to a local store that many times doesn't have what I want and I use the movie feature with it, so to me it's worth what it costs.

It now has the free music feature too. I don't know if you care about that but it is something they added last month. Over a million songs on there.

 

[MarkF48]

It now has the free music feature too. I don't know if you care about that but it is something they added last month. Over a million songs on there.

I got the email about that and I have to look into how that works. My wifes been using the book thing that she likes.

 

[oosik]

The only time I will purchase off the internet is when its not available at a local outlet or I don't need delivery at the speed of light. I've tried them all and to expect delivery quicker than 7-10 days here where I live - - is to also believe in the tooth fairy or "free delivery". It just ain't gonna happen.

 

[k0ua]

I got the email about that and I have to look into how that works. My wifes been using the book thing that she likes.

You can start here. But basically you select what you want from the categories, and put them in your library, then stream them from you library. You can play them from any device, your pc or smartphone or tablet etc. You can't actually download them as a file on your PC, just stream them as often as you want, but of course there are ways.

Amazon.com: Prime Music

 

[newbury]

The only time I will purchase off the internet is when its not available at a local outlet or I don't need delivery at the speed of light. I've tried them all and to expect delivery quicker than 7-10 days here where I live - - is to also believe in the tooth fairy or "free delivery". It just ain't gonna happen.

This was to be delivered to downtown Ithaca, New York. Instead of going a commercial carrier they dropped it at the Post Office on Wednesday.

Recently I was looking for a particular propane torch. I have Prime so I narrowed the search to Prime items. Found the torch I wanted in Amazon Prime, but read the screenshot below. It might be Prime with supposedly two day shipping, but....???? :laughing:

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I do like Prime in most cases saves me a wasted trip to a local store that many times doesn't have what I want and I use the movie feature with it, so to me it's worth what it costs.

On an item like that hard drive or similar, try B&H Photo . I ordered a portable drive from them this past Monday and it was delivered Tuesday (NY to MA). They are pretty quick.

No their ubiquitous web site still says delivery by Wed, July 2nd. The ONLY reason I used Amazon was their promised 2 day shipping. I would have gone elswhere or direct to Best Buy if I had known it was going to take a blasted week.

They had shafted me several other times before I had prime, when I would order and take standard shipping and then they drop it off at a Post Office. So a 5 day delivery would take two weeks.

 

[Gary Fowler]

This was to be delivered to downtown Ithaca, New York. Instead of going a commercial carrier they dropped it at the Post Office on Wednesday.

No their ubiquitous web site still says delivery by Wed, July 2nd. The ONLY reason I used Amazon was their promised 2 day shipping. I would have gone elswhere or direct to Best Buy if I had known it was going to take a blasted week.

They had shafted me several other times before I had prime, when I would order and take standard shipping and then they drop it off at a Post Office. So a 5 day delivery would take two weeks.

I don't see how it takes 7 days for the PO to deliver it OR to get you a notice to pick it up. The notice should go out the following day after delivery of the item to the PO, at least that is how my post office does it. If it is small item, the mail carrier brings it out to my box. So far most of my internet deliveries come by Fed EX or UPS. I did get a tire delivered to my next door neighbor rather than to me even though my PO number is on my gate and mail box.

 

[newbury]

I don't see how it takes 7 days for the PO to deliver it OR to get you a notice to pick it up. The notice should go out the following day after delivery of the item to the PO, at least that is how my post office does it. If it is small item, the mail carrier brings it out to my box. So far most of my internet deliveries come by Fed EX or UPS. I did get a tire delivered to my next door neighbor rather than to me even though my PO number is on my gate and mail box.

Yeah, I didn't understand it either. Seems they dropped it off at the wrong post office, it had to go back to Memphis, and then down to Fulton and off to me. But my "carrier", who I think has been replaced, had many times delivered US mail to the wrong address and it took several extra days to get to us. That was one of the reasons I usually was willing to pay extra for FedEx or UPS.

My bigger complaint is that Amazon used to use FedEx and UPS and those companies USED to deliver themselves. Now they use

UPS SurePost

UPS SurePostｮ is an economy, residential, ground service.

This service combines the consistency and reliability of the UPS Ground network with final delivery typically provided by the U.S. Postal Service.

Now my drive got to

Ithaca, NY, United States 07/02/2014 1:48 P.M. Received by the local post office

and won't be delivered until Saturday, maybe.

So my drive got to the post office on Wednesday but might not be be delivered until Saturday.

"Prime" boasts FREE 2 day shipping. No mention they they only ship it to the Post Office.

 

[sseelhoff]

So I've got Amazon prime with FREE 2 DAY DELIVERY!!

It's not worth the bits it's written with. Besides the standard doesn't include weekends etc. it's been taking 4 days or more to get stuff. This last was the worst. Ordered a hard drive NEEDED for backup on Sunday. Delivery PROMISED BY WEDNESDAY.
Oh they delivered it ok, except to the @#$%## post office who MIGHT get it delivered by Saturday, or not.

And for those who don't know, the "free shipping" isn't free. Prime members pay a higher product price to cover the "free" shipping.

Amazon Customers Accuse E-Commerce Giant of Cheating Prime Members - ABC News

In what she hopes will be certified as a class-action lawsuit, Burke accuses Amazon of encouraging third-party vendors to increase their prices to Prime members by the amount they charged others for shipping, without revealing that a portion of those alleged "inflated" prices was for shipping fees, the lawsuit claims.

"For example, if the price of an item is advertised for $10 with $3.99 shipping and the [vendor] wishes to match or top their price, the [vendor] would charge $13.99 or higher," Burke alleges in the suit.

These sellers raise their prices to match or top their competitor’s total price, as items are sorted by price on Amazon's site, Burke alleges in the lawsuit.