Can we expect competitive pricing from the Decepticons as well?
Regarding Amazon’s Super Saver shipping, i’ll just quote what i said in this thread recently:
I placed another Amazon order last Tuesday, and the books were both here by this Tuesday.
I order from Amazon regularly, and my international shipping varies - normally it’s two weeks tops, sometimes, like my most recent order, it can be as quickly as five days. That’s five days for an international order! Across the pacific!
I always choose teh same shipping option and have come to expect the same standard of service each time, so when it is proven better than that expectation I see it as a special treat. But deliberately engineering a more expedited service is probably asking for trouble, and not worth the money.
If you’re using a gift certificate, they got paid weeks ago, when the gift certificate was purchased.
I knew about silicone. And I knew about saline. I didn’t know about air.
You really do learn something new every day.
I’ve never had anything from Amazon that took more than three days to get to me, and that’s with the free shipping. Huh.
Once I ordered a CD from Amazon.ca at 10 PM one night, with regular shipping. I was not about to pay extra for speedy international shipping on one CD. I figured it’d be maybe three or four days at the earliest, but since the CD wasn’t going to be released in the US for a couple of months, I wasn’t unhappy about that wait.
The next morning, at 8:30, the doorbell rings and the dogs go crazy. I go downstairs, and there it is. Not even TWELVE HOURS.
I was impressed.
The certificate didn’t cover everything - I still had to pay a few buck myself, and it doesn’t look like my card has been charged yet.
Ah, that puts a different slant on it.
My brother runs a small retail business, and I’ve told him that one way to improve his bottom line is to alter his method of honoring gift certificates. Whenever someone comes in with one, and says he wants to redeem it, my brother should look at him with a puzzled expression, say, “¿Que?”, and look at the certificate as if he’s trying desperately to figure out what it is. He doesn’t think he could do it convincingly, alas.