A “Recently Shipped” option when I am looking at my orders.
Often I will order something months before it is released and once it ships, it no longer shows under Open orders so there is no easy way to find it so I can check the tracking status. If there was a Recently Shipped option for all ordered shipped in the last month or so, I could see what packages are on their way really easily.
Anyone else think that would be useful (or know a way to actually do it)? Also what features do you think Amazon (or other Web Stores for that matter) should have?
Click on (at the top) Hello, Quimby - Your Account. Then click, from the drop down box, Your Orders.
Everything should be right there. Old orders will say delivered. Orders in transit will say “Shipped”. To the right will be a big yellow button that says “Track package”. I believe if it hasn’t shipped it will say “Shipping soon” with a button that gives you the option to cancel the sale.
ETA, I think I see your problem. Don’t go to “Open Orders” just go to “Your Orders” Open orders are closed once they are delivered. I don’t know how pre-orders are treated WRT their ‘open’ status.
Open means that it hasn’t been prepped for shipping and you can still cancel the order. It’s possible to be ready to ship and un-cancelable within the hour, unfortunately.
**I **wish Amazon would let you search for things by price and limit it to things shipped only by them, like Best Buy does. I want to know your price, Amazon, not your marketplace guy who’s gonna charge me $15 shipping.
I just wish their searching and sorting actually worked. I’m sick to death of looking for something like “3/8” combination wrench", “Amazon Prime Only” and sort cheapest to most expensive, and then having shit like “12 mm box end wrench” non-Prime showing up at the top of my search results. Or having the results sorted like this: $3, $9, $2, $3.50,$5 with Prime and non-Prime items in the mix.
It’s like their search terms are guidelines not filters.
I have noticed that when you sort by price the price sometimes has little to do with the sorting. I sometimes wonder if they display the list price but sort by price+shipping.
Oh, they work the way they want it to. Look at the “new and used” prices next time you search - that’s what they’re sorting by for cheapest (even when you ask for Prime only - if they sell it as prime too, it gets included), hence me wanting them to sort for their prices instead of all of them.
Yeah, no. The reason this doesn’t work like the OP would want it to is that orders subsequent to the pre-order will clog up the list of shipped orders, with more recent orders at the top of the list. If there are several orders that have been shipped between the original pre-order and the current date, the pre-order that has just shipped is not easily available (it stays chronologically in the list according to the order date, not the release date). I’d agree the “Recently Shipped” category would be helpful.
My suggestion for Amazon is to allow more extensive tagging and sorting for wish lists. I know I can sort a wish list by title or price (for instance), but would like to be able to sort by release date or some kind of custom tag.
The other thing I wish Amazon would do is separate reviews by product. If there are several DVD or Blu-ray releases of the same movie, I don’t want to see all reviews under all the products. List the reviews of the specific item and format under that release only.
I’ve never looked at movies on Amazon but maybe if you could review the movie OR review the specific disc you purchased. There’s a difference between “This movie is terrible” and “About halfway in the sound was garbled” or “My DVD showed up scratched”.
Yes, that’s exactly the point, but you can’t do that. To be fair, they do indicate on each review “This review is from:” but they don’t offer a way to filter for that release. The reviews are consolidated by title, so every review for every different release of one movie is listed under every single release of that movie. It makes it very hard to isolate on comments regarding the specific release (such as extras, commentary tracks, packaging, etc.).
I can buy that, but why would unrelated things or things that are specifically not within the search parameters show up? I mean, if I’m searching for a 3/8" combination wrench, metric box end wrenches aren’t what I’m looking for, and only get in the way.
I appreciate the suggestion but as Just Ed said, that doesn’t work very well because often the order is very old or I don’t remember exactly when I placed it. I also can go back to the confirmation e-mail but having all the recently shipped orders in one place would be nice.
Yep; I’d agree, but I’ll also point out this is the solution I use:
They also e-mail when the package is shipped, and there’s a direct link to the order in the e-mail, but yeah, not easily shown if you’re just at the site looking at your list of orders.
Yeah, that gets annoying as hell. Kindle readers or audio book buyers will come in and down rate the material to *, because with the Kindle ed has a problem or the guy that used to do the narration isn’t doing it this time, so of course it’s complete crap.
And then there’s reviews that review the seller, which is completely wrong as you do that elsewhere.
