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Amazon shipping delays?

#81
40Hz said:
I just read the linked article and read this moronic comment from a Twitter user that was quoted in the story:

“Amazon has really got to stop playing because if the stupid/random things I order to take the misery out of quarantine can’t arrive within 2 days, I’m not going to make it,” another Twitter user said.​

This person's inner child definitely needs a diaper change. And if this is the level of general maturity we're dealing with as a nation, we are in for some serious grief. :banghead:
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At the risk of sounding crass, this person does not know what misery is. But they're probably going to find out soon enough. It's unfortunate that this self centered immaturity exists in a "modern" society - or maybe that's the problem.
This person is the definition of Candy-Ass!
 
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#82
BassPilot said:
At the risk of sounding crass, this person does not know what misery is. But they're probably going to find out soon enough. It's unfortunate that this self centered immaturity exists in a "modern" society - or maybe that's the problem.
This person is the definition of Candy-Ass!
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The sad thing is that although this one person made a whiny complaint in the most immature manner, there's a large number of people making what’s essentially the exact same complaint. The only difference is they're wording it more obliquely.

There’s a lot of “Nobody tells ME what to do! I want what I want when I want it. And I want it NOW!” types walking around these days. They’re just smart enough not to come right out and say it.

I’m guessing you already know at least a half dozen people who think like this. As I’m sure we probably all do.
 
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#84
40Hz said:
The sad thing is that although this one person made a whiny complaint in the most immature manner, there's a large number of people making what’s essentially the exact same complaint. The only difference is they're wording it more obliquely.

There’s a lot of “Nobody tells ME what to do! I want what I want when I want it. And I want it NOW!” types walking around these days. They’re just smart enough not to come right out and say it.

I’m guessing you already know at least a half dozen people who think like this. As I’m sure we probably all do.
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That is the result of decades, nay, generations, of Americans being flattered, cajoled, indulged, seduced, enabled, shamed, and having jealousy and indignation fed, by advertising, to sell products they rarely really need. “YOU deserve this, YOU shouldn’t have to put any effort out, YOU shouldn’t have to live like this...”. It’s a sin to be inconvenienced. The downside of a certain kind of exceptionalism.
 
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#86
Michedelic said:
That is the result of decades, nay, generations, of Americans being flattered, cajoled, indulged, seduced, enabled, shamed, and having jealousy and indignation fed, by advertising, to sell products they rarely really need. “YOU deserve this, YOU shouldn’t have to put any effort out, YOU shouldn’t have to live like this...”. It’s a sin to be inconvenienced. The downside of a certain kind of exceptionalism.
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It’s and attitude often manifested by those enjoying a position of unearned privilege.

As the old saying goes: Whatsoever else you do, take care to be well born.

;)
 
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#87
I’m revisiting this as it keeps showing up in my alerts.

I’m seeing no surcharge or very long delivery dates with prime. That last items that I ordered had a three or four day date (instead of two) but both arrived in two days.

On the topic of surcharge, that would be profiteering on a national emergency and should be investigated by the AG. Delivery delays could be understandable, but a surcharge for something you’ve already paid for (prime delivery)is not.

With surcharges, Amazon could make a huge profit on people’s hardship.

If they actually have the capacity to deliver on time,(and that Amazon will for a surcharge suggests that they do) delayed delivery saves them a lot of money. Shipments can be arranged logistically for more cost effective delivery.
 
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#88
Michedelic said:
That is the result of decades, nay, generations, of Americans being flattered, cajoled, indulged, seduced, enabled, shamed, and having jealousy and indignation fed, by advertising, to sell products they rarely really need. “YOU deserve this, YOU shouldn’t have to put any effort out, YOU shouldn’t have to live like this...”. It’s a sin to be inconvenienced. The downside of a certain kind of exceptionalism.
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That's true, certainly.

However, this thread is actually about the impact on our lives as a consequence of the new amazon priority changes, and how accurate the information is about the changes, and how people are working around it who rely upon it for important things.

This thread is not about a feeling of entitlement, of feeling one is deserving of things, or not putting out the effort, and so on... but about being told by medical and science professionals to shop online and get critical supplies delivered during the social distancing period, only to have the #1 most successful online retailer implement a rapid change (due to necessities within their own business operation) to a supply/delivery model that makes everything new and different to existing amazon customers.

IMHO it becomes a topic worthy of discussion here to see how to utilize amazon and other online shopping services to best service us in these difficult times.
 
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#90
Yes, I feel entitled, entitled to bs-free service.

I'm not on Amazon Prime and I have no intentions of changing that. They keep hounding me, and I keep ignoring them. I'm still on Windows 7, btw, and MS has been electronically bugging me for YEARS to switch to Win 10. It doesn't cost them a cent, it's all done electronically. I've had to turn off the pc and start it back up at least twice a week, for YEARS. It's a PITA, but I guess MS thinks they're entitled to feed me free bs until I cave.

I ordered two (in stock) items from Amazon, about the size of an apple and a Pop Tart, and it's going to take five weeks to be delivered. And they've started hiding the free shipping option just to waste more of my time and try to manipulate me into going with Prime. Tactics like that just P me O, but such is life in the electronic age.
 
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#91
only thing with win 7, just speaking as a software engineer, is it will no longer get security updates from now on, which is the first impossible to ignore reason to upgrade to windows 10 that I've seen so far.

I mean, I was a win 7 die hard until I converted to win 10 and found out that they finally got it right - it is a really good copy of max OSX while retaining some of the best windows features that OSX never had. Still very much a M$ product (which I'm not a fan of in general), but win 10 is really good.

But like it or like win 7, or anti M$, win 7 is now going to become something of a dangerous tool to have on your network connected computer unless you really keep on top of the anti virus and are very cautious. It's not that hard to be that way, so just fair warning.

Back on topic.
 
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#93
40Hz said:
I want what I want when I want it.
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per the OP: big whup.
 
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#94
Wisebass said:
Some folks posted that they got their stuff 2 days earlier than amazon announced.

Does that mean, when I order something tomorrow I will get it yesterday? :D

That's what I call fast! :laugh:

greetings

Wise(b)ass
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Faster than light delivery? Now there’s an idea whose time has already come yesterday!

How’s that old limerick go?

There was a young woman named Bright
Who could travel much faster than light.
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And arrived on the previous night.

;):)​
 
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dkelley said:
I mean, I was a win 7 die hard until I converted to win 10 and found out that they finally got it right
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I was just thinking to myself about this...

<rant>
M$ actually did screw up something really badly in windows 10 and still haven't made a useful plan of how to resolve it. The control panels for windows 7 and before are still here.. and still as well designed as ever (that's not sarcasm... it's actually a well designed set of tools that lets you accomplish all major OS changes and setups from one set of tools, very much like the way it's done on a mac).

However they also added the ludicrous and completely feature-missing "settings" tool that was introduced in the very broken windows 8 and still is as useless as ever, but it's easier to find and sometimes is what you get when you try to change a setting, and are like, why can't I find this switch in this setting thing? oh right, because it's the wrong one.... so you go diving into your start menu or search and find the right one.

that irks me - the new settings miss so many important options as to be pointless, and truly they are all moot since the original control panels have everything without searching.
</rant>

Back on topic.
 
#98
This may properly belong in the Coronavirus thread, since it’s peripherally related.

Earlier this week I had ordered a number of items from Amazon Prime, which showed delivery dates of a few days out at the most. But, apparently Amazon decided to retroactively impose their 1 month delivery timeframe; and now I see that the items won’t be delivered for another month.

I get it that their are priorities in the time of a national emergency. But, most of these items were things we needed that I didn’t want to go out to the stores to buy to avoid social contact.

It just seems fraudulent to offer the sale of an item and then retroactively change the projected delivery date after the order is placed. I wouldn’t have ordered the items, but, would have gone out to the stores instead if I had known about the delay.

Guess a business can do that when they have a monopoly. I’m inclined to cancel everything, put my mask on and go out and mingle. Oh, and BTW, Amazon doesn’t even have any means of communicating anything to them. Nice job Amazon. Jerks.
 
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