New trick by Amazon

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 10:19:02 on Sun, 4 Jan

Your Mileage clearly Varies.

The only thing I can get same-day from Prime is Morrisons groceries. Haven't noticed if they have a £20 threshold, but that's not exactly difficult. A delivered Dominoes pizza would cost that much.

In message <nbe6R.4238$ snipped-for-privacy@fx09.ams, at 19:34:43 on Sat, 3 Jan

I've seen that date shift, but only because the book hadn't yet been officially published, so they had to artificially delay it until the magic date. But I got the book on publication day, not the following one, so they had dispatched it before-publication.

In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 09:36:06 on Sun, 4 Jan

My own horror story was, having specified a Tesco Local for pick-up, it transpired their hand-held scanner was broken, so they couldn't either log-in or log-out any of the packets.

The courier company was indeed Evri, but it was Tesco who had failed to get their hand-scanner fixed.

ive had stuff from china arrive in less than a week

and chinas new year is sometine else, and they donr do christmas...

In message <JXi6R.773$ snipped-for-privacy@fx03.ams, at 00:59:20 on Sun, 4 Jan

Perhaps you could stick to buying from Amazon, rather than one of their Marketplace sellers. I suspect they pre-load the platform with a typical delivery date, but when someone actually buys they say "Oh S*it, out of stock, we'll need to delay that one".

I bought something yesterday from an independent retailer online, and the delivery date suddenly switched to "End of January" - allegedly because the product was in high demand. A bit like call centres *always* experiencing a higher than average demand, why not try to head that off at the pass by predicting and providing.

In message <10jdg78$1u3ls$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, at 10:42:48 on Sun, 4 Jan

But did it truly start it's journey from China, rather than an intermediary closer to home?

But UK Customs clearance, and courier depots, probably do.

I was interested in in a certain product = but a given delivery was "early May" - so I forgot about it.

I don't use video, but to go out and fetch anything is typically an hour roundtrip. If I need one item per month the Prime fee has covered the cost of my time and petrol. Amazon items are typically more expensive than other sources, but it's often still worth it for the time saving.

If I'm not in a hurry I'll use ebay or a merchant direct instead.

I get that too. It used to be that there was no minimum spend on same-day items, but it's now £20.

Same-day isn't typically worth it here because they usually deliver in the late evening (9pm or whatever) when it's too late to use anything that day, but if you're ordering later on it turns into 'next day by 13.00' which tends to deliver at about 7.30am - that means you have the item ahead of a day's work. If I don't go for 'by 13.00' the items usually come in the afternoon.

Theo

I was assuming that Evri had an office in China, and getting it there counted as them 'receiving' it. Or maybe just setting up a request record in their database counted as 'receiving' it.

But progress emails are fairly fine-grained now, and eventually you get an 'in your country' followed by a 'cleared customs', and you know that UK EVRI have finally got their hands on it.

From china.

I would think both are 'marginally manned'

Whilst we have two Amazon Prime accounts, my wife shares her prime benefits with me, so even with one subscription I get most prime benefits.

Very odd...

Dave

They didn't used to allow sharing of prime benefits between a personal and a business account at the same address, but they do now, which is handy for me.

I once "agreed" to Prime by accident (I hadn't spotted the default was to agree) and when I got the Welcome to Prime message I cancelled it immediately. Like you, I got Prime perks for a while at no cost.

I ordered something from ebay, and unusually the seller had stated it would be shipped from China. I was given a tracking number which worked from day 1, so I saw that it had been packed and dispatched 2 days after I placed the order. I then tracked it across China to an airport where it was put on a plane. The next update showed it had arrived a Heathrow, where it sat for a few days before being collected by Royal Mail. Royal Mail didn't provide any tracking until a "Delivery Refused

- Return to Sender" message.

I looked at their delivery feedback and saw it was delivered to the wrong street so no wonder it was refused. Anyway using the same tracking reference I watched it go all the way back to Heathrow, then on a flight to Beijing from where it went overland to the originating factory. Ebay refunded my purchase without a quibble.

Such a service is more affordable for Amazon/Morrisons when you compare the price they charge for items with the price Morrison's own delivery service would charge.

The uplift is very approx 8 percent, although it's not applied evenly across the range of goods.

Something else which must have been losing money is the no quibble almost immediate refund without needing to return (obviously) a damaged grocery item. However, my experience is you now have to now have to speak to an Amazon customer rep to get a grocery refund.

I don't know, but in Leicester (LE4) I still get occasional Amazon deliveries from Nottingham.

When I worked at Amazon Bardon for a few weeks in 2017 (just after it had opened) I spent some time dealing with stuff that was being sent to Amazon depots in France and Italy. I also saw orders being dealt with that were going to customers France.

About the only times that I want to get things in a real hurry are for home repairs. Life's no fun if (e.g.) the shower dies a death, so I will go out and buy one from Toolstation/Screwfix/ etc. locally. Those things aside, I can happily wait a few days to get things delivered to the house.

Even if I were so inclined, "Same Day Delivery" isn't going to happen around here and, when I _did_ have a Prime free trial, actual delivery times seemed no different than before.

I'm from the time period when you would send off a postal order for 50 shillings and "Allow 28 days for delivery".

I also have several times taken up the Prime offer, never inadvertently, and easily cancelled it before the date that it becomes chargeable. You do have to dig carefully to find the final Cancel button, but it's there, and it has always worked.