rant - Time to drop Amazon

[k0ua]

Another happy (so far) Prime user.. signed up a few months ago, The streaming movies and the now streaming music is worth something. Plus we order a lot of stuff and not having to find other things to put with what we want to get "free" shipping (yes I know it is not really free, nothing in this world is) makes it nice to have. We got in just under the 79 dollar wire. Do I think Amazon is making money off of Prime? Yes, I would sure as heck hope so, and I hope they make a ton of money off of it. A 30% margin does not sound like too much to me.

 

[300UGUY]

I usually get stuff locally, if I can. But increasingly, the locals don't stock much. I needed a rear wiper blade for my HHR. Local Autozone, it was 19.95 + 6% tax. I was going to pay it. But they didn't have it in stock, they would have to order it. I went home, got it on Amazon for 9.95 +6% tax. I had it in 2 days, same as Autozone. I heard a old salesman, who called himself a peddler, say " you can't sell from a empty cart". I still think that is true. Btw, the peddler sold multi million dollar machines to industry.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sometimes I've had Prime items take longer than 2 days, but they always told me up front when I ordered. With the new price increase, I may rethink continuing prime.

 

[pwright]

I have Prime and it's fantastic. I buy a lot of music and a lot of stuff that just isn't commonly available here in a small town like Las Cruces. I like that I can order a single paperback book, get it at a discount and get it delivered to my house in two days. I've never had a failure in the 2 day delivery to my house. Items have come in FedEx, UPS and USPS. Just last week I got my notice that UPS had delivered an item but it wasn't anywhere to be found. I popped online at 7PM that night, hit the Help Chat window and the lady sent me a no-charge replacement that got here less than 48 hours later.

Buying local is great and I do try to do that when I can. Home Depot, Lowes, Tractor Supply and others have all gotten a pretty good chunk of my money lately.

I'm not sure how a failure by the USPS to actually deliver the item is somehow Amazon's fault. I would have contacted Amazon when it didn't show up as expected and they would have addressed the issue. I doubt Amazon's customer service is monitoring the forums on TBN.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

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.

Everything is Amazing and nobody is happy.

 

[tcreeley]

I like prime, useful for somethings. I find that if FedEx handles the delivery- it is later. If UPS does it, it arrives here sooner. The drivers are both great, friendly- just the way things are.

 

[s219]

I don't have Prime, but recently I have seen numerous Amazon shipments routed through USPS get held up for days longer than they should. It's getting ridiculous. Not only are the shipments delayed, but the USPS tracking info is virtually worthless. I'd pay extra to have reliable shipping.

 

[jimpen]

Well I ordered my passport with fast shipping. The state department sent it UPS. UPS dropped it at a post office that is about thirty miles north of mine. Then USPS delivered it to some business about ten miles north of the post office. So USPS then had to get it back from the mis-delivery and send it to my local post office and then I finally got it eight days later. UPS made me wait a day and half before they would take the mis-delivery report. You want to talk about frustrating. So it just isn't Amazon that is screwing up.

 

[CowboyRon]

Well I ordered my passport with fast shipping. The state department sent it UPS. UPS dropped it at a post office that is about thirty miles north of mine. Then USPS delivered it to some business about ten miles north of the post office. So USPS then had to get it back from the mis-delivery and send it to my local post office and then I finally got it eight days later. UPS made me wait a day and half before they would take the mis-delivery report. You want to talk about frustrating. So it just isn't Amazon that is screwing up.

If UPS doesn't deliver to your address I don't see why the shipper would use them in the first place. Wouldn't it be easier just to use the post office?

 

[jimpen]

I telecommute. I see a UPS go up and down my street practically every day. I think UPS is pulling off some kind of slick operation that the shippers don't realize is going on.