OT Amazon order - said it'd come in two days now says it could be 17 Nov!

Is it sold by Amazon, or a 3rd party.

A few years ago I had similar. As soon as the promised shipping date passed I fired up an online chat and was refunded by the end.

About right if the item is in their warehouse in France.

Hardly the point though when they?re quoting misleading delivery times.

Tim

Things I bought through Amazon France have arrived far faster than that. (Though Covid is affecting everything. So not surprised if it is now taking longer.)

Their tracking has some interesting quirks. A parcel arrived for me today, but something made their tracking system believe it has been via mythical Peterbrough.

This is copied and pasted from their page:

"Tuesday, 20 October

Monday, 19 October

Package has shipped"

Chris

Yes I was thinking that as well. The opposite happened to me some time back on something they were waiting for from China, expecting to wait a couple of weeks, it arrived in three days. Brian

A couple of weeks ago I had an Amazon delivery in Leicester that was allegedly delivered from Peterborough but as the packet was small enough to go through the letter box I didn't get chance to ask the driver if that was so. The delivery before that had apparently come from Leicester, whereas previously they had come from Nottingham.

I find a lot of things are stocked in Coalville, then get sent to Nottingham for delivery back to Leicester.

OP here

In the end it arrived two days after having been ordered - exactly as was suggested prior to ordering! Why on earth it said it'd be as long as a month for delivery we'll never know!

Had two deliveries from Peterborough today. The first, this morning, wasn't due until tomorrow, had dynamic tracking, which I happened to look at as the driver turned off the A47. The second, which I was expecting today, didn't leave until around

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:35:07 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk <jethro snipped-for-privacy@hotmailbin.com wrote: [snip]

I had a rather different experience. I was given a delivery date then the following day I got an email to say my order had been cancelled because the supplier had failed to deliver on the expected date, and I would receive a full refund. I was not given the opportunity to leave the item on 'back order' or reschedule the date.

That's not helpful for clandestine Xmas shopping!

Chris

I hadn't thought of that but I suppose that's when you tick the 'This item is a gift' (or whateever it says) box.

Drop shipped direct from the wholesaler or manufacturer. They're licensed by Amazon to print the labels, post the stuff out as and when requested, and are paid by Amazon within the agreed period.

michael adams

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Not this one. Came from Amazon St Helens via Peterborough, to Leicester.

I wonder if there is some glitch in their system which causes it to falsely report Peterborough.

In my case actually spelled Peterbrough on the tracking info. Has anybody else seen the same?

Chris

Hadn't noticed, but mine says Peterbrough, too. Coming into Leicester on the A47 is a good indicator that the van has come from Peterborough to me. But I can't imagine why Peterborough should be better than Nottngham, or Bardon, for deliveries to Leicester. And yesterday I found that when they say delivery from Leicester they actually mean the Bardon warehouse - dynamic tracking showed me the vehicle turning off the A50 to go into Anstey

Does Archie Andrews work there?

I saw your lips move! ;-)

Chris