Amazon Prime useless again

[Nickyboy]

Hoink said:

I ordered some alcohol which they tried to deliver today whilst I was at work. Unfortunately they wouldn't leave it with my elderly neighbours as they want to verify my age. They're delivering again tomorrow so I'm going to have to work from home.

I'm sure I've bought alcohol before and they didn't check...

Alcohol normally comes via UPS, Amazon request an adult signature and it can only be delivered to the consignee address, can't be over ridden

[mickmcpaddy]

DoctorX said:

Fast delivery
Prime video
Prime music
Free books
Free magazines
I think it’s value, but understand why others wouldn’t think so.

Fast delivery - sometimes
Prime video - torrents
Prime music - torrents
Free books - internet
Free magazines - ? hedge porn

[hyphen]

Alucidnation said:

Never understand why people bother with Prime.

Waste of money as everything I order is free standard delivery.

Snowflake generation, they get a fuzzy feeling when something gets delivered in a day that they didn't actually need that fast anyway. They open the door and see their package, but not the poor delivery slave earning pennies.

I've started to buy much more in person, if you click and collect it is often as cheap and quicker.

[DoctorX]

mickmcpaddy said:

Fast delivery - sometimes
Prime video - torrents
Prime music - torrents
Free books - internet
Free magazines - ? hedge porn

Damn.

[MitchT]

Alucidnation said:

Never understand why people bother with Prime.

So I could watch The Grand Tour.

[ecsrobin]

You could always just cancel your subscription?

[mickmcpaddy]

ecsrobin said:

You could always just cancel your subscription?

I have done, got it refunded today, returned the last order and got a refund for that as well.

[captain_cynic]

hyphen said:

Snowflake generation,

Any excuse to trot that one out. I'd say you couldn't be more disconnected to reality but you'd probably have a big cry over it.

hyphen said:

they get a fuzzy feeling when something gets delivered in a day that they didn't actually need that fast anyway. They open the door and see their package, but not the poor delivery slave earning pennies.

I've started to buy much more in person, if you click and collect it is often as cheap and quicker.

Nope, it's more about being able to get what you want in a timely fashion.

A few months back I needed some new vacuum cleaner bags. I was willing to buy them from a store no-one a 15 mile radius sold them... So I just ordered them on Amazon Prime, got them the next day, job jobbed.

Realistically, per order, I pay less for Amazon prime than I do for the fuel it would take me to go and buy it, also I get a much larger range of products that are just not stocked by anyone. With more and more stores only stocking own brand stuff, Amazon is the only place I can get some things. Amazon Prime is £80 a year, from that I can get things next day delivered and get Prime Video (which has turned out to have some long lost gems on it). Hell, its worth it to me just for the delivery.

Fair enough if you don't want those things or wish to remain firmly rooted in the past, but at least admit that's the reason.

Also, I've never had an Amazon parcel delivered past 4pm... but because they farm out delivery work this could just be because I live in a well serviced area. I should imagine deepest darkest Yorkshire might have some issues.

[hyphen]

captain_cynic said:

I bought a box of vacuum cleaner bags, and when I was down to the last 3, I didn't bother to order more because I am not organised.
I then didn't order more when down to the last 2.
Nor the last 1

So instead, a few months later I emptied out the vacuum and realised, shock horror, that I now had none. I could have gone a few days with just using a brush instead, but instead I ordered them for next day delivery.

Now, I could just have paid one off for this next day delivery, which would be much less than £80 a year, but hey, I'm worth it.

What point are you making exactly, as I have summarised what you have said

I had a couple of free Prime trials, whilst it was good to get stuff quick (being in London I had stuff delivered in hours by some poorly paid and overrun eastern European bloke), which had novelty value, but it wasn't actually needed.

It is very rare that i can't live without an order for a few days, and if I did need it fast I can pay as I go.

I had a client who used one of these app based gig services, once I was next to him at his office when he got some bloke to go to a cupcake shop, buy some, and then drop it off at his house for his missus. Cost £5 on top of the cupcake price or something.

It is all a bit silly, just like people with small terraced houses installing automation tech when it is only 10 steps from each side of the house.

Rooted in the past? Not really, I just weigh up the benefits rather than jumping on bandwagons. Just like all those silly people who went and bought 3D TVs which were never ever going to take off.

Amazon push prime heavily, because once they know someone has coughed up £80, they will have the incentive to keep using Amazon as their 1st choice for shopping. It works very well for them.

Edited by hyphen on Wednesday 22 November 18:58

[GOG440]

captain_cynic said:

Also, I've never had an Amazon parcel delivered past 4pm... but because they farm out delivery work this could just be because I live in a well serviced area. I should imagine deepest darkest Yorkshire might have some issues.

I am in a reasonably built up part of West Yorkshire, less than 10 miles from Leeds.
I routinely get prime deliveries at 7.30pm, the delivery on Monday at 9:45pm was the latest I have ever had one and tbh I was a bit pissed off, it is too late.
And to go back to my previous post in this thread the other item I ordered, after a good moan at them last night about the delivery slipping from Monday to tuesday and them promising to contact the couriers and make sure it was with me by 9pm I cancelled at 10:15 last night after it still hadnt arrived, no email from amazon to say why and when I looked at my account the delivery date had slipped to Friday!
Ordered its replacement from AO at 11pm last night, it will arrive tomorrow, and they will give me a 4 hour window as to when it will arrive

[Hoink]

Nickyboy said:

Hoink said:

I ordered some alcohol which they tried to deliver today whilst I was at work. Unfortunately they wouldn't leave it with my elderly neighbours as they want to verify my age. They're delivering again tomorrow so I'm going to have to work from home.

I'm sure I've bought alcohol before and they didn't check...

Alcohol normally comes via UPS, Amazon request an adult signature and it can only be delivered to the consignee address, can't be over ridden

That would make sense but it was just the normal Amazon bloke who had been to a neighbours first and I didn't sign.

...Typically the delivery didn't arrive until after I would have got home had I gone into work.

[Cotty]

hyphen said:

I had a couple of free Prime trials, whilst it was good to get stuff quick (being in London I had stuff delivered in hours by some poorly paid and overrun eastern European bloke), which had novelty value, but it wasn't actually needed.

It is very rare that i can't live without an order for a few days, and if I did need it fast I can pay as I go.

Often its not the speed that I need but the convenience of picking up larger things that will not fit through a letterbox. I have Amazon Lockers near my house so get things delivered there that I can pick up after work.

[ecsrobin]

GOG440 said:

captain_cynic said:

Also, I've never had an Amazon parcel delivered past 4pm... but because they farm out delivery work this could just be because I live in a well serviced area. I should imagine deepest darkest Yorkshire might have some issues.

I am in a reasonably built up part of West Yorkshire, less than 10 miles from Leeds.
I routinely get prime deliveries at 7.30pm, the delivery on Monday at 9:45pm was the latest I have ever had one and tbh I was a bit pissed off, it is too late.
And to go back to my previous post in this thread the other item I ordered, after a good moan at them last night about the delivery slipping from Monday to tuesday and them promising to contact the couriers and make sure it was with me by 9pm I cancelled at 10:15 last night after it still hadnt arrived, no email from amazon to say why and when I looked at my account the delivery date had slipped to Friday!
Ordered its replacement from AO at 11pm last night, it will arrive tomorrow, and they will give me a 4 hour window as to when it will arrive

My parents live 7 Miles front he amazon delivery centre and 1 mile from the prime Now delivery centre. Deliveries often come around 9pm there. But it’s hit and miss some days before 10am.

I’m a bit further away but have similar experiences.

[Kermit power]

Do you live in a sparsely populated area such as the North, OP?

I've only ever had one single item not delivered on time on Prime, which I suspect may be related to the vast amount of stuff they deliver in any given square mile down here.

[GTIAlex]

Ordered some books for xmas presents

Picked up at the local amazon lockers on the way back from work

Home

[Sportidge]

Nickyboy said:

Hoink said:

I ordered some alcohol which they tried to deliver today whilst I was at work. Unfortunately they wouldn't leave it with my elderly neighbours as they want to verify my age. They're delivering again tomorrow so I'm going to have to work from home.

I'm sure I've bought alcohol before and they didn't check...

Alcohol normally comes via UPS, Amazon request an adult signature and it can only be delivered to the consignee address, can't be over ridden

2 bottles of Gentleman Jack delivered to me today through Prime.

I was out. They left them in my safe place.

I'm not complaining.....

[shep1001]

mickmcpaddy said:

Fast delivery - sometimes
Prime video - torrents
Prime music - torrents
Free books - internet
Free magazines - ? hedge porn

Hedge porn, not found any of that for years!

[stemll]

GTIAlex said:

mickmcpaddy said:

GTIAlex said:

mickmcpaddy said:

It used to be good a couple of years ago but more recently its fking useless, yet again I have waited in for something and its not turned up. Last week I waited in again and at 10PM got an email to say they couldn't find the address, despite bringing me stuff since 2013.

A couple of weeks ago they delivered some of my stuff but not all of it and then said it all had been delivered, obviously left some of it in the van and couldn't be arsed to bring it back again. Whats the point in employing people on minimum wage and giving them impossible targets to complete? its all well and good giving a bit of compo here and there for their fk ups but its the stuff I need not the money.

Not only that just lately a lot of the stuff on prime is showing as a 2 day delivery, and prime stuff is a bit dearer than non prime so you are paying for delivery anyway, cant believe the have the front to charge £80 for this and even more so I cant believe I've fell for it.

Amazon - fking useless.

You are in the minority.

Just use the Amazon lockers and pick stuff up when you want or set your safe place and have them leave it somewhere.

Never had a missed, damaged or lost parcel with them ever and I am a regular prime user and also watch something on Amazon Prime most days so it really pays for itself as far as I am concerned.

Show any examples of prime items being more expensive than the non prime?

Virtually everything you select on prime says underneath "this item is available cheaper from these sellers"

Just tested a random 10 items and only 1 had that message, click on it and it was 20p cheaper.

And many of those that are cheaper will only be so until you add on the postage. Name another retailer that tells you someone else will sell you something cheaper than they will (and yes, I know they take a cut from sellers).

[C.A.R.]

I think people have quickly started taking for granted just how far online shopping has come in the last 5 years. As soon as something insignificant happens which is a minor inconvenience they scoff and demand their pound of flesh.

"I'm a fully paid-up Prime member don't you know, I've got rights!"

God forbid you have to leave your house to collect or wait a bit longer for a delivery of something you ordered f*cking YESTERDAY.

[mickmcpaddy]

Well this is strange, not even been on the Amazon page or app since cancelling Prime and getting a full refund, then last night at about 7PM I get an email saying welcome to prime. WTF, check bank and £1 and £7.99 are pending debits from Amazon.

Whats going on here then?