When this has happened, they usually have shopped in two batches, even when I use free shipping. I definitely don’t understand their ship dates anymore. My wife’s orders were held up for weeks, despite the fact that all items said they could ship in a few days, and continued to say that. A DVD had a big delay, but they told me in time for me to cancel and buy it in a store. One book had a big delay, but that seemed to be a publisher issue, since it was on order at Border’s also.
Maybe I have better service because I own some Amazon stock.
For years, the only thing I’ve ordered from them has been DVDs and the occasional book. And almost all really geeky stuff, too. The Simpsons and Star Wars and things like that. Now, I realize that there are women who like science fiction and cartoons, but let’s be honest: their numbers are few. So you’d think that Amazon would have a pretty good idea. Not to mention the fact that my credit card lists an unambiguously male name.
But I buy one I Love Lucy DVD set (for my step mom), and I click on one link from the SDMB to some pregnancy book, and now what does Amazon recommend to me every time I go there?
The other thing you have to watch out for with Wish Lists is that if you purchase something by clicking on a wish list link, it’ll be shipped to the stored address of the person who made the list, NOT to the address of the person who is doing the purchasing. Also, they hide the address from the person doing the purchasing - which is a very understandable privacy measure, but it makes it easy for the purchaser not to know what happened. One Christmas, my mom bought me a bunch of stuff off my wish list, and it ended up being delivered to my house after I’d already gone home for the holiday. So I had no Christmas presents. I still won’t let her live that down. I’ve gotten a LOT of mileage out of it.
I’ve found that the reccomendations can affected by what you’ve SEARCHED for. So even if it’s something I totally don’t like, would never order, etc, I still get reccomendations for similiar items.
I must say that I’ve had splendid service from Amazon over the last 5 years.
Their special offers and recommendations for me make sense (and I can click to see why things were recommended), and I have met some specialist vendors through their Marketplace.
I have no financial connection with Amazon, apart from buying lots of stuff from them.
Time for a little Amazon.com rant… So I’m in the realm of “F-bomb” pissed at Amazon… I have my own “store” on Amazon that I sell my used textbooks and a few other random things at and this week I am SUPER pissed… So here’s what happened: A guy purchased a book from me and wanted it shipped to Hawaii. No problem… Well except for I was running a little behind in shipping (about 4 days… yes, I know) Anyways, I let the guy know that I was shipping his item. Well I sent it USPS with a delivery conformation, as Amazon suggests. Well it seems this guy still has not gotten the book, which I would be upset too. Well instead of contacting me and saying “hey where’s my book” (even though I sent him the tracking number), He writes a scathing review on my page and then files a complaint with Amazon. Amazon sends me an email asking for shipping details and whatnot… Now keep in mind, I have NEVER had an issue like this before. So when you look up the tracking number https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input?qtc_tLabels1=03113260000118356680&qtc_senddate1&qtc_zipcode1
it shows the package getting to California on about the 17th of September and leaving the following day… That’s it… nothing else, now this item was on its way to Hawaii, but seems to be missing now. Well not only does Amazon say I am “libel” but that they are going to refund this dudes money and charge me for it and that I can contact him and “ask him to send back the book should he get it, but that he is not required to do anything” WHAT? Oh and Amazon considers this matter now CLOSED… Well I DON’T… I realize I would be tons of pissed too if I hadn’t gotten something I ordered, but my first complaint would have been to the POST OFFICE. and since I have absolutely zero history with something like this happening before, ZERO… ZERO, why is AMAZON holding me responsible? They also told me that “while it’s not required, in the future I should add a delivery signature to it” Well guess what amazon, it didn’t f…ing get there, a f…ing signature conformation wouldn’t matter for shi… OH and how would that help me with having to give them a refund AND potentially be out the product? If a signature slip is REQUIRED to not be charged if a package goes missing, then you damm well need to require it and say so on your page. I want answers AMAZON.
Now the customer paid about $45 for the book and shipping, and so I am now out that money PLUS the cost of the book, so in my world that’s $90. Maybe $90 isn’t a big deal to “RUPA, from Amazon”, but to me, a college student who makes LESS than $70 a week and is doing an UNPAID civics teaching internship Monday-Friday, then working Saturday and Sunday at a bookstore in the mall-It Damm well is. I am so livid over this whole thing especially when I have sent SO MUCH business Amazon’s way, and have recommended customers look to them when I can’t find a book at work and I have also recommended my fellow college students open their own retail store with them. Maybe to RUPA and the rest of you at AMAZON, $45 or even $90 is your Friday night bar tab at Santana Row, but for me, that is almost one-third of my MONTHLY RENT, yes ONE-THIRD… I am seriously considering closing my seller and buyers account once this whole issue is settled, and I will stop recommending you to them and start recomending Barnes & Noble for them to sell their used books with… they might not be a better choice, but they haven’t charged me $45 for a book that I have no way to get back. I have usually gotten great customer service from AMAZON when I have purchased items, but even as a “seller” I am still a customer. I don’t know why I am being treated differently in this capacity…
Y’know - I’m a big fan of breaking posts up into small paragraphs and all. But what is with Facebook - I still haven’t figured out how to make paragraphs in my responses without kicking out and having to post again.
SD shows up quite a bit on Google. I got here courtesy of a 2009 thread and fortunately didn’t post. If someone doesn’t know to double-check the date, it’s easy for a newbie to dig up a zombie.
This person seems to have bumped the zombie for what I’m reading as an effort to promote a boycott of Amazon, which is against our registration agreement:
