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Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month
- Thread starter Nordic4tKnight
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It was pretty tough trying to get a decent shipment date from Amazon Fresh (plus finding items on stock)
Surprisingly, I tried ordering a really small item (3.5mm adapter for my headphones) last Friday and it arrived today.
Surprisingly, I tried ordering a really small item (3.5mm adapter for my headphones) last Friday and it arrived today.
To get a slot you gotta play the game. Stay up till 12am and then between 12 and 1230 they reset the slot availability. I did this PST/PDT so not sure if it is time zone dependent(west coast here). Keep refreshing the confirm select day/hour page and slots will appear. Though paper goods will disappear from your cart as other people will have purchased them already. After two weeks i finally was able to get a fresh delivery through using this method lol.
Is that really how it works? It's 1:45am PST now, so maybe they're just all booked already but yeah they're all greyed out. Been checking occasionally, but haven't seen a non-greyed out option once on fresh. Feels like back in the Ticketmaster days.
You know what they say, different strokes and all that.
I've had FFVIIR on preorder since the day they opened preorders on it, but I can live with the delay. I'm essential, so I don't get to shelter in place, anyway.
It's times like these that I miss RadioShack. It would be awesome to have a curbside pickup/drivethrough Radioshack just to get stuff like ethernet cables or aux adapters or something.
The more local stores have to close, the more pressure will be placed on websites to deliver things people want. There's not really anything you can do unless you outright ban all internet orders of non-essential items and that would be a disaster.
same it still says April 10th but not sure.. I will never fucking understand why digital isn't 10$ cheaper anyway... with the time to make the plastic cases discs and delivery yet the physical is always cheaper it makes no fucking sense.
If you live in the US and have a Walmart near you (who doesn't?) you can get one there. All Walmarts are grocery stores now so their entire store is open.
My copy of Reno 911! the complete series on DVD came next day when I coupled it with my 3 month supply of coffee. Glad they have their priorities straight.
It seems weird to de-prioritize computer related things considering just how many people need to work from home now. I get that it's not as important as food and other essentials, but it'd be nice if there was some stock so people can easily continue their jobs.
They already had that in their channels before they changed their priorities. Everything that's in their stock will ship fine, but once those things start to run out, it's going to be slim pickins. I really have doubts about upcoming games.
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I placed my order Saturday, very likely in the same boat as you now.
not sure if they have them where you live but i always get my candy at dollar stores.. they have the kid fun packs of 8 1 ounce packs for 1$They're killing me over here
where am I supposed to get my M&Ms now?
I used to order through Fresh about twice a month. Now I can't even get a slot for any upcoming day, been trying for over a week.
This is the right thing to do IMO. Prioritize household essentials like TP, food goods, diapers, formula, etc... And deprioritize nice-to-haves. I noticed this last week I added a laptop stand to my cart on ... Sunday, and it had a Mon or Tue delivery, then they changed the warehouse rules, adn when I bought it on Monday or Tuesday it shifted to *this* monday.
I think that's ok. I can live without having my monitor in the perfect position for a week if it means we get our delivery of diapers on time in a couple weeks.
I think that's ok. I can live without having my monitor in the perfect position for a week if it means we get our delivery of diapers on time in a couple weeks.
Yup, noticing essentials are still a couple days, but other stuff (like computer and electronic equipment I frequently get for clients via Amazon) are all April shipping dates.
Understandable. I'll switch up vendors for the time being.
Understandable. I'll switch up vendors for the time being.
Baby products are still delayed for me. I'm in Chicago, I've got a 4 month old and its giving me dates 2 weeks out for formula deliver.
I had a delivery date of 2 weeks on a book I ordered, and it was just pushed through the letter box yesterday.
Although its 100% necessitated by todays reality, Amazon probably should refund a nice chunk of people's prime fee this year. $120 is pretty big money and people spent that to get 2 day delivery on whatever things they order
The delays are understandable and done for the right reason, but at the same time, people paid for a service and aren't getting anything close to that standard of service, so I think a partial refund is justified.
The delays are understandable and done for the right reason, but at the same time, people paid for a service and aren't getting anything close to that standard of service, so I think a partial refund is justified.
Seems to be fine here in Canada so far. Had to order a display port to HDMI cable (working from home). It came in a couple days. If anything, orders have gotten here quicker. The delivery guy often brings my packages around 2-3PM and lately I've been getting them in the morning.
It's still free shipping and you are getting every other perk. I'm not an Amazon apologist by any means, but this is a reason that should kind of be exempt and not in their control for not making the times. More stuff getting shipped via UPS, which is also slowed a bit.
Its also free shipping if you spend $25 (I think most do on your average order). Granted, longer shipping time for the free option, but since that's the standard Prime people are seeing, that's a problem. I'll wager 95% of Prime members are in for the 2 day shipping service, and not the streaming channel or any other benefit.
I noticed this a week ago when ordering some office supplies for my wife and I to work from home.
I wonder if this will cause some kind of rebound for retail.
I wonder if this will cause some kind of rebound for retail.
You say that, but everything I see that is Prime says "Delivery Monday 20th April".
UK here and "Star Trek model kits" which I'm sure are not essential items have March 25th/26th delivery.
Even though this is a "out of their hands" issue like I mentioned, if these guys are asking CUSTOMERS for donations for their COVID-impacted employees, that should tell you how many refunds (even if partial) they will probably be giving out. I'm sure if enough people yell at CS people they can get their way, but it depends how much you want that money back/how much you want to bother CS people.
I've still been getting all my stuff pretty quickly but that might be because I live right near a warehouse.
It makes sense though, all the stores are closed so everybody is jumping on Amazon to get everything and now they are getting hit like crazy, something has to give.
It makes sense though, all the stores are closed so everybody is jumping on Amazon to get everything and now they are getting hit like crazy, something has to give.
I order lots of things from Amazon US and it seems like they have also stopped doing international shipping, which makes sense. It seems like they will honour existing orders but most, if not all items sold by Amazon themselves are not shipping here.
I know it's a first world problem but hopefully when things resume in however number of months, shipping internationally will resume. My local Amazon is bad when it comes to almost everything.
I know it's a first world problem but hopefully when things resume in however number of months, shipping internationally will resume. My local Amazon is bad when it comes to almost everything.
I was going to order a CD and a board game a few hours ago at work. Both were sold by Amazon and Prime-eligible. The game said it'd be here in two days, the CD said April 22nd. I looked at the third-party sellers for the CD and it looks like I can get a copy imported from the UK faster than that.
