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My biggest gripe with Amazon isn't the rising cost of prime, but, it's with the fact that my long-standing amazon account (seriously, I've had this account sinc
by imroot 13y ago
My biggest gripe with Amazon isn't the rising cost of prime, but, it's with the fact that my long-standing amazon account (seriously, I've had this account since 1999) is now being throttled. When I'm using my prime account, and select two day shipping, most items don't leave Amazon's warehouse until two or three days later, meaning I'm getting my "Free Two day shipping" items nearly a week later.
I love Amazon.com -- I use it for a lot of things (to the tune of almost 8K in the last six months), but, watching my account get throttled like this makes me not only want to step away from amazon prime, but, from amazon in general -- if you can't be honest with me that you're going to throttle my account/shipping speeds, please let me know. I'll gladly upgrade to next day shipping, but that doesn't mean shit if you're going to sit on my order at the warehouse side for two or three days.
- abat 13y agoI've had the opposite experience. I've started to get things faster with the new 7 days a week delivery partnership with USPS. The one downside is that USPS's tracking is terrible compared to UPS's.
- imroot 13y agoWith USPS, if I don't get my package delivered between Monday and Friday, I won't get it -- the carrier who delivers on Saturday is afraid of my dogs and just marks my packages as "Business Closed," and Sunday delivery is only for the metro areas -- so, it's effectively Monday-Friday delivery only for me.
- Zigurd 13y ago> When I'm using my prime account, and select two day shipping, most items don't leave Amazon's warehouse until two or three days later, meaning I'm getting my "Free Two day shipping" items nearly a week later. Exactly. I got Prime mainly for the shipping advantages. I could order things and not worry about accruing an order big enough to qualify for free shipping. But if the actual speed of shipping does not improve, why am I paying for it? I will probably go back to accumulating orders big enough to qualify for Super Saver shipping.
- dingaling 13y agoInteresting - we non-Prime people assumed that the recent retardation of dispatch was in order to give preference to Prime! Recently I've had to consistently wait five days for "in-stock" items to move through the "Dispatching Soon" stage. Once Royal Mail have the parcel it's with me in a day or two. The result is that Amazon has become my seller of last resort if I can't find the item elsewhere, or if they have a stunningly deep discount ( rare these days ).