Re: Amazon.com service?



Eric wrote:
>
> lee <uce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > No. Jeff is right about the Amazon delays. If you pay for the faster
> > shipping method, you also get the faster ship date. If you opt for free
> > shipping, they put the item on their "when I'm not busy" list and delay it
> > for unbelievable amounts of time. The slow, ground shipping method is
> > nothing, compared to the delayed ship date. Even if it is in stock, and
> > shipped from Amazon's warehouse, a couple of weeks is not unusual.
>
> Actually, I doubt it has anything to do with "when I'm not busy"...I
> would guess that it has more to do with waiting to ship until a
> sufficient number of items can be shipped to the same general area in
> order to obtain the lowest possible price for shipping those items.

Think of the amount of packages Amazon has to ship on a daily
basis. They easily have enough to ship to a metropolitan area in
any given day. MANY people have noticed the significant slowdown
of late, which definitely coincided with the introduction of
Amazon Prime. And what really sucks is that it stays in the
"shipping soon" (aka you can't cancel it anymore) for an
extended period of time, so when you're finally fed up with the
delay, you can't cancel it.

Bill
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