rant - Time to drop Amazon

[dmccarty]

Forbes has a good reputation so I assumed the article had credibility.

Yeah, I was shocked at how bad that "story" was written. It was sad it was so bad. Glad I don't subscribe to Forbes. Course, I have seen Forbes pull comments from story about a major IT company because the comments numbered in the thousands and were almost all negative about the IT company. Given that the IT company buys lots of ads...

Later,
Dan

 

[rekees4300]

It's tough to be a magazine nowadays. Many are (or soon will be) out of business. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free on the Internet? Sparse staff may explain the inaccurate story? Nevertheless the essence of the story was correct IMO; that Prime is important to Amazon.

 

[dmccarty]

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I only blame Amazon for claiming 2 day delivery and then tossing it to UPS knowing it would be given to USPS. That almost automatically guarantees an extra day.

I do think the problem is at your local USPS. We get plenty of Amazon packages delivered by USPS and we have not had a problem at all. Have you complained to Amazon?

I try to avoid being a Pioneer with new products but when the first Kindle Fire came out it was worth it to me to be a Pioneer. Like many Pioneers I collected some arrows. :shocked: The Fire allowed me to get a digital subscription of the Wall Street Journal much cheaper than the paper version. The digital edition is pushed to the Kindle over night and multiple times during the day so no waiting for the paper delivery. We no longer miss an edition on vacation nor do we have to put a hold on delivery. The money I saved on the digital WSJ edition paid for the Kindle in less than a year. :thumbsup:

Now, I did collect some arrows because the WSJ edition was having problems getting to the Kindle. I called up Amazon and it was quickly obvious to me that the problem was with the WSJ not Amazon. The Amazon employee was very friendly and helpful and went far beyond what was required. I had to call the WSJ to get the problem solved so the problem was NOT at Amazon. The Amazon employee apologized for the problem that was not Amazon's and gave me my Prime money back but allowed me to keep the Prime membership. :thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

 

[aczlan]

We had prime at one point (Free trial year with Amazon Student), but most of our orders are over $35 and we aren't usually in a hurry, so when the trial year was over, we did not renew.
We tried their streaming movies as well, but at the time there was very little that we wanted to watch that was not already available from Netflix.

Aaron Z

 

[SirReal63]

My last Prime order was placed last Thursday afternoon, delivered Saturday, with the 4th right in the middle. It would appear logistic problems are regional, here I have no issues with FedEx, UPS or USPS, all are equally efficient.

It was because of NutKix (Netflix for those who aren't burdened with their service) and the incessant "Loading, Please Wait" message that made watching anything a pain, and this is with a 12mb internet service. I tried Amazon Prime with the intention of having another option for streaming movies and T.V. shows, without the hassle of NetFlix and Prime is without a doubt more pleasurable, and rarely does it give a "Loading, Please Wait" message. We still have both and use both, NutKix for when I am in a gambling mood and Prime when I see something there I want to watch.

 

[newbury]

I do think the problem is at your local USPS. We get plenty of Amazon packages delivered by USPS and we have not had a problem at all. Have you complained to Amazon?
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No - the problem is that Amazon says 2 day delivery and sorry.
I did complain - no effect.
If something is delivered to either of my local post offices it doesn't go out until the next day. And I don't expect USPS to change. Normally I don't mind "snail mail". But on check out I'm offered - 1 day delivery for $XX, or because I'm prime 2 day for free, or standard 3-5 day for free. I wasn't offered "we'll get it to your local post office in 2 days" for free, it was 2 days to the address for free. And I knew 2 days actually means three days.

There was no weather event, national emergency or other factor causing the delay, it was just Amazon to UPS, UPS to UPS, UPS to UPS, UPS to USPS, USPS to address (6 blocks from the post office).

And I can't believe they can promise 1 day delivery on so many things.

 

[randy41]

i ordered a new spindle for my lawnmower deck using prime on 7/2. because of the 4th it will be delivered tomorrow. so that's 5 days instead of 2. i should be po'd but without the spindle i can't mow. thank-you amazon.

 

[MarkF48]

Anybody ever contact Amazon about deliveries not on time? Read the top post in the link below...
Hold Amazon Prime to their 2-Day shipping guarantee : Frugal

 

[aczlan]

It was because of NutKix (Netflix for those who aren't burdened with their service) and the incessant "Loading, Please Wait" message that made watching anything a pain, and this is with a 12mb internet service. I tried Amazon Prime with the intention of having another option for streaming movies and T.V. shows, without the hassle of NetFlix and Prime is without a doubt more pleasurable, and rarely does it give a "Loading, Please Wait" message. We still have both and use both, NutKix for when I am in a gambling mood and Prime when I see something there I want to watch.

Out of curiosity, what brand is your Netflix player? We have had similar issues with our Sony. Switching from the Sony player to the Roku (same connection, no other changes) stopped the "Loading Please Wait" messages.

Aaron Z

 

[k0ua]

It has been years since I saw that "loading please wait" message. I used to see it occasionaly. But come to think of it I have not seen it in a long long time. I have 15meg. and the player is the Vizio TV itself. The connection to the TV is 100Meg ethernet hard wired to the Netgear switch, router is Adtran, service is SuddenLink cable.