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I really hope they don't go to something like this. I realize I'm not the common use case but I am often ordering things to be delivered to my home, office, inl
by dpeck 11y ago
I really hope they don't go to something like this. I realize I'm not the common use case but I am often ordering things to be delivered to my home, office, inlaws house, etc depending on where I'm going to be on its arrival date and where I need to actually use the item.
Eg in the last couple weeks:
We needed wanted programmable thermostats at the family vacation house, had those sent there so I wouldn't forget them.
Wanted some new pens at the office, had a few packs of Pilot G-2s sent to office.
Needed a new scale for the kitchen since my 10 year old one stopped working, delivered to home.
Kid was staying with grandma for a couple of nights and needed some more diapers, had those sent to her house.
Not all that uncommon for a week or two for me.
If prime locked down to a single address I would seriously consider dropping it and I've been a member and big fan of it pretty much since it launched.
- bjwbell 11y agoShipping to multiple addresses is probably pretty common. I frequently send gifts to relatives using my prime account. I'd hate to lose free shipping for those items.
- Someone1234 11y agoDid you see my "prime credits" concept? That would allow you to send those gifts, or if they had a prime themselves you wouldn't need to consume even credits.
- dpeck 11y agoAs sibling says, gifts wouldn't be a problem with a "credits" type system, but for someone like me who could ship things to myself at 3+ addresses in a week it would be a no-go unless theres enough credits account for that, which would pretty much make it useless for its purpose of preventing sharing.
- tracker1 11y agoI tend to ship mostly to the office, since I live in an apartment, delivery to the door is unreliable and picking up at the office with limited hours is a pain... YMMV, but agreed that multiple location options is really nice... also, makes sending gifts easier, when it goes where it needs to. I don't use the media stuff much, but I order a lot on amazon, via prime.
- mrbill 11y agoThis. I spent a couple of weeks working from my mom's house in Oklahoma after she got out of the hospital, and being able to use Prime to order an office chair and a folding table (to use as a proper desk) to be delivered out in the boonies was a godsend.