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I wonder if one of the ways they are trying to lessen demand is by showing over-estimated delays in shipping. I've gotten every recent order delivered much fas

I wonder if one of the ways they are trying to lessen demand is by showing over-estimated delays in shipping. I've gotten every recent order delivered much faster than estimated at the time of purchase. (Sample size about n=5)

Kye 6y ago
Still waiting on my desk chair to ship after 10 days with an estimate of May 4-5. It was "out of stock" when I ordered, then immediately "in stock" after. That probably has something to do with the delay.
- sieabahlpark 6y ago
  When that happens just cancel your previous order and start a new one. Have done that a few times
  - Kye 6y ago
    I don't order often enough to justify Prime, so the wait so far isn't much worse than normal. Not being able to sit at my computer has given me some much-needed perspective on how I use it, so it's not all bad.
- steve_adams_86 6y ago
  Likewise, I ordered some stuff with 2 day shipping about 10 days ago and it's still slated to arrive in 3 weeks. Hopefully it's a little sooner than that, because every other thing I needed for this project (including a king size mattress) shipped in under a week, and it's just sitting around unused.
jsight 6y ago
That seems to be the case, as most of my orders have been way ahead of schedule. I did have one random case that was estimated for a couple of weeks and did take nearly the whole amount, though. It wasn't out of stock or anything either.
scrumbledober 6y ago
I think it's probably more just uncertainty on their end. They're upping the delivery estimates to cover their ass for the ones that get delayed. Anecdotally I have had the same experience of items arriving in around normal prime shipping time while having estimates weeks to a month out.
kashura 6y ago
Placed an order 2 days ago. Delivery date was set for May 7th. It's out for delivery today.
toasterlovin 6y ago
Yes, I believe this to be the case. I'm an Amazon seller. We also sell through our own website. We use Amazon to fulfill those orders as well. For those orders, Amazon gives us an estimate of when it will ship and when it will deliver. So far, they have been essentially 100% accurate (and occasionally a day early) with these estimates, without any delivery times being pushed out 2-3 weeks. That being said, some warehouses/regions seems to be experiencing longer delays than others. Sometimes we put in a fulfillment order and it will ship same day and get delivered in 2 days. So, totally normal. Other times we put in a fulfillment order and it won't ship for 4-5 days and/or it'll take 3-4 days to deliver. So it appears to me that Amazon knows exactly how long it'll take to get products to you, and lead times are nowhere near the 2-3 weeks that they're showing to customers. The conclusion has to be, I think, that they're doing this to reduce demand. The other way I think they're reducing strain on their warehousing infrastructure is by preferentially showing Fulfilled By Merchant (FBM), as opposed to Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) listings in search results. We've been seeing this as well.
- ganeshkrishnan 6y ago
  Just curious, do you fulfill the orders from your website via Amazon automatically?
detaro 6y ago
Interestingly enough, here in Germany (for least the products I looked at) they still show the estimates as usual, with a note that it might take longer due to the current situation.

Kye 6y ago

Still waiting on my desk chair to ship after 10 days with an estimate of May 4-5. It was "out of stock" when I ordered, then immediately "in stock" after. That probably has something to do with the delay.

sieabahlpark 6y ago
When that happens just cancel your previous order and start a new one. Have done that a few times
- Kye 6y ago
  I don't order often enough to justify Prime, so the wait so far isn't much worse than normal. Not being able to sit at my computer has given me some much-needed perspective on how I use it, so it's not all bad.
steve_adams_86 6y ago
Likewise, I ordered some stuff with 2 day shipping about 10 days ago and it's still slated to arrive in 3 weeks. Hopefully it's a little sooner than that, because every other thing I needed for this project (including a king size mattress) shipped in under a week, and it's just sitting around unused.

jsight 6y ago

That seems to be the case, as most of my orders have been way ahead of schedule. I did have one random case that was estimated for a couple of weeks and did take nearly the whole amount, though. It wasn't out of stock or anything either.

scrumbledober 6y ago

I think it's probably more just uncertainty on their end. They're upping the delivery estimates to cover their ass for the ones that get delayed. Anecdotally I have had the same experience of items arriving in around normal prime shipping time while having estimates weeks to a month out.

kashura 6y ago

Placed an order 2 days ago. Delivery date was set for May 7th. It's out for delivery today.

toasterlovin 6y ago

Yes, I believe this to be the case. I'm an Amazon seller. We also sell through our own website. We use Amazon to fulfill those orders as well. For those orders, Amazon gives us an estimate of when it will ship and when it will deliver. So far, they have been essentially 100% accurate (and occasionally a day early) with these estimates, without any delivery times being pushed out 2-3 weeks. That being said, some warehouses/regions seems to be experiencing longer delays than others. Sometimes we put in a fulfillment order and it will ship same day and get delivered in 2 days. So, totally normal. Other times we put in a fulfillment order and it won't ship for 4-5 days and/or it'll take 3-4 days to deliver. So it appears to me that Amazon knows exactly how long it'll take to get products to you, and lead times are nowhere near the 2-3 weeks that they're showing to customers. The conclusion has to be, I think, that they're doing this to reduce demand. The other way I think they're reducing strain on their warehousing infrastructure is by preferentially showing Fulfilled By Merchant (FBM), as opposed to Fulfilled By Amazon (FBA) listings in search results. We've been seeing this as well.

ganeshkrishnan 6y ago
Just curious, do you fulfill the orders from your website via Amazon automatically?

detaro 6y ago

Interestingly enough, here in Germany (for least the products I looked at) they still show the estimates as usual, with a note that it might take longer due to the current situation.