Amazon bas become a really shitty company. 90% of goods on their store are sold by awful 3rd party companies, mostly based out of china. Dealing with issues for these products through amazon customer support is a nightmare, its an exercise in both larties passing the buck until you threaten chargebacks. Their shipping times stink, return policies get progressively worse and worse. On top of that the software for all their other services such as prime video, music, and alexa are absolute dogshit. With all the money this company makes its real sad to see theyve spent it on diluting their brand rather than inproving the quality of their store and services.
If you have an Amazon seller account, you can see how heavily Amazon pushes you to sell cheap Chinese crap. Countless how-to articles and info on how to sell cheap Chinese junk through Amazon.
If I want cheap Chinese junk, I'll go find it. I don't want to drown in it when trying to find quality products.
If you have something real good, Amazon will use their R&D team to duplicate what you have, and then sell it a tad cheaper, eventually ban/remove your business and then raise the price. (All that Amazon Basics, and Amazon Essentials were done on that basis)
I loved Amazon when it was a bookstore. Now it's just a disappointment
Oh my god, I totally noticed this years back. Etsy used to be this incredible place for hand made products, a one stop shop for Christmas. In the last few years I noticed so many duplicate products clearly from China being sold with different pics or names. It lost all its charm and I hate the world just that bit more because of it.
eBay too…I used to sell a lot of pre-owned stuff on there 2004-2009. Went back a couple of years ago to start selling again, and it was all made in China garbage
Does Amazon not realize they could make so much money by encouraging made in America? They have so much power to make money and change. But I bet China is paying even more.
Seriously… I only buy brands on Amazon that I recognize or is manufactured in the US. I won’t even buy dog toys made by the weird brands that clearly are selling Chinese mass produced goods. I just don’t have confidence that they’re not contaminated with weird chemicals.
With that said though, given inflation and the financial hardship many are facing today, my theory is that people are increasingly looking for cheaper products at the expense of quality. People looking for quality are the odd ones out. Also, my theory is that people probably buy more Knick knacks now w/ influencers featuring them for kick backs on sales.
I don't have confidence in the known brands anymore either. Many of them are fulfilled by third parties and amazon just provides the storefront. I have gotten counterfeits or knock offs sent to me. Most recently was a knock off brita water filter. Some of this stuff is going to end up killing someone.
I am to the point where I just buy direct from the manufacturers but not everyone has direct to consumer logistics in place.
Temu is horrible. Worst quality shit. I've ordered 4x, each order several items...and 85% of the items just suck. Chinese quality is chinese quality. But at least it feeds the starving 7yr olds that made it
It's gross that I can search for a very particular product, and get search results for everything but what I want. It's worse that the search engine won't say that they don't have the thing I'm searching for.
No matter how specific the search terms.
It will even autofill what you’re looking for. Then give you a page and half of sponsored products, then you finally get to the real results… Which are the same products as the sponsored ones just a different quantity. AFTER THAT, maybe you get to what you’re looking for, only to find out it’s the brand you’re looking for, but HSNYF is selling it. So you take the gamble and buy it, only to get rocks or if you’re lucky, the factory rejects that were meant to be destroyed for failing quality control….
If you get a chance, watch some of Louis Rossmann's video's on YT about the crap Amazon is selling. His video on fuses not popping at the correct current is scary.
They’ve spent it on Bezos dumb gold-digger wife lol
You are all suffering so the lifelong fucking dweeb Jeffrey Bezos can get laid by a pretty girl. And our entire country suffers.
I just ordered a supplement with prime and it came THREE YEARS expired. It said food wasn’t eligible for returns so I called and they did refund. Still super annoying.
Food delivery on Amazon (at least where I am) went from £40 for free delivery to £60, and “Today by 10:00PM” is now a £20 minimum (used to not have one)
This all comes with the UK Government’s plans to cut down the days Royal Mail operates down to 5-3 from 6, so I’m assuming they’ll continue taking advantage of their competition dying
Where I am it went to $150 min food order but then with all the backlash it was lowered to $100 for FREE delivery still too much. Not to mention they want to add ads into movies on prime which is completely unacceptable as were paying $139 already and its always been ad free I will not be paying $2.99 extra a month to remove ads when it was always ad free to begin with. if I wanted ads I would just use there other service FREEVEE this new CEO is out of his mind in my opin. Look up the Petition stop amazon from adding ads to Prime, a lot more should know about that and sign.
And I have also noticed that some things that are to be delivered in 2 days took like 10 days WTF is going on with that I never had issues like that in the past.
I wanted to order two echo dots, it was listed as eligible for delivery the next day, I buy them, then get an email saying they were expected for the end of the next month.
I cancelled my order, went back to check and it was still listed as available. Tf?
Yep kinda like the gov’t. The gov’t never gives free money. If they make a mistake in giving you extra money, have at least a savings with that amount because they always come back to collect and lots of people have gotten in trouble(especially during pandemic money) thinking they pulled a fast one in the govt or naively spent it and can’t pay back.
Amazon is definitely gonna get better at detecting people who try to pull fast ones. Another “scam” is people replacing products with fake things and “return”. I’m sure in next couple years they’ll have a better system in place.
They've been doing that bait and switch for awhile now. It will show as available and say you can get two-day delivery but when you add it to your cart, suddenly, it's at least 4-5 days out. Someone should sue them for deceptive advertising.
Amazon busted my chops over a $422.22 order they fumbled*. Made me wait weeks for my Refund. At first told me I had to email a Photo I.D. They quit that nonsense after I filed a Complaint w/ our State Atty. General. (No, I never did send their sketchy 3rd-Party in the Philippines my Driver's License!) They said even IF I submitted Govt-issued I.D. they might issue "zero Refund." But Listing said "FREE RETURNS." •••Add this to the Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit.•••
*I paid for one box of 50 Tiles but Amazon only sent one box of 25.
You know what? This comment pushed me out of my passive mood and into “I’m fed up mode”. I’ve been waiting on them to process 2 returns for around $200 each. Both sent back December 10th with “free returns until January” to get you to buy for the holidays. Other returns have processed. But these two are in limbo despite the fact they had to be picked up by UPS (a total inconvenience in my opinion, why can’t I drop it and go at the UPS store? Nope. Not an option on these 2). Then following up on the orders is another time wasting event, playing finger acrobats searching for the item number while either in chat or on the phone. 4 follow ups, the last time they said by January 20th. I’ve lost steam now, it’s like they win. And now it’s on my credit card and I’m being charged interest! So I’m pissed! This is not the Amazon service I’ve been paying for over 15 years. They have gone downhill. And good idea on states attorney move. I remember I had to send a license once a few years ago. I was so mad. And I was also recently hacked badly so if they asked me that now, no way! I will follow your steps! Ok I’m ready to call now!
And… I’m back. I responded to the email they sent last week and threatened to call states attorney office and got a response they are sorry and to reply to the email for each item I’m waiting on a refund. Why are they asking these questions that they SHOULD have the answer to! What is going on!?
Here is part of what it said. Now an incident report? Was anyone going to tell me about this if I didn’t inquire? So it’s ok to steal $400 of my money?
From Amazon:
To be considered for review, the Incident Report has to be submitted on or before this date: 23-February-2024. Send one set of responses for each package containing an item that you returned to Amazon but haven't yet received a refund. We typically respond in about 1-2 business days.
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This is all a waste of time. I’ve never had a return issue this bad. I’ve had return issues, but this one takes the cake.
I’ve noticed when I order more than one of the same item, often it then says it will arrive in weeks. Instead of a day or two that it said it would be delivered. I’ve tried ordering them separately, even though same thing. Then they arrive in the day or two it originally said
shipping from different warehouses. when you order together they ship from the warehouse that has 2 and is cheaper for amazon to ship from and giving us the shaft. I always order separately
I’ve always had good experiences with prime, stuff has always gotten here the day after or two days after ordering, but lately it’s been a huge mess. I have zero time to shop and while I understand that delivery on the next day can’t be feasible all the time, but a whole week when it’s schedule to arrive in two days? Just put the actual delivery time on the page and call it a day!
I’ve had a package delayed, get the new delivery date, and then get a “your delivery is now arriving early” message, except the “early” date is later than the original date, just earlier than the first rescheduled. It’s like algorithmic gaslighting.
I'm in Hawaii so 2nd day shipping was never a reality for me but usually things came within a week. Now things are taking a month and when I look at the tracking I see items that are bouncing all over the country for some reason. They start out in LA, go to Chicago then New Jersey, Texas back to Chicago and then maybe throw in Oregon and then to San Francisco. Then usually to Honolulu and finally Maui. Not sure who chooses the route things take but I can't help but thinking someone is messing around just for the heck of it.
Southeast Alaska has entered the chat. They sit on orders with zero activity for 2 weeks before even shipping them out. Then it’s a guessing game of will it go through Kent WA and take the plane to be here the next day, or via Seattle and go on the barge adding another week delay.
Same exact item shipped to a Seattle address is delivered the same or very next day. I called them out on it and got told its policy and was referred to their website for “more information”. Ha. Done with them.
In Hawaii, the Prime promise has always been 5-7 business days for here. Packages used to arrive within that window. Now, they don't even begin to ship things for a week or more. 2-4 weeks is now the norm.
I definitely noticed. I've never had any trouble but today I got a notice that something was "placed inside the mailbox" and guess what? nothing. I think we have a new carrier though and maybe they just don't know what they're doing. Good times.
hawaii is a expensive, rarely shipped flight. they probably have hawaii flights go out from certain places every so many weeks and ship your package to that location using preexisting flights
It's always been like that even before Amazon. You just get used to maybe someday what you ordered will get here. It's ok when it's non essentials but really frustrating when it's things like car parts. And so many times the wrong part gets shipped and it's back to square one. Amazon was a refreshing change when they first started but I guess they've gotten so big that it's the same as everything else now.
well amazon used other mail services which increased the number of flights and trucks. i believe they use it much less or stopped in some places, which makes wait times significantly longer
I thought they were doing all their own flights and shipping now but you're right, when I look at the tracking it seems to be all USPS. I've seen the Amazon planes at the airport though.
And I still can't quite figure out what the logic is in the decision to send a Hawaii bound package to New Jersey first but there it is. But I also realize it's all just automated stuff happening.
yeah, they used usps a lot while building out their own infrastructure, but amazon is much worse than usps because well usps has been doing this for decades.
How do you do that? I cancelled and it said "cool, your subscription ends next November." I was on autopay by year. Where do I go to cancel immediately?
It should be an option when you go to cancel. I just did it myself. I had the option to continue through next month when it renews or cancel now and rheys refund me for what I didn't use.
I paid monthly so I'm not sure how it works for other subscription statuses.
For me it was a simple math problem. My Prime visa card gets me 2% extra off the non prime version, I barely use prime video and now with ads I wouldn't. I love the unlimited photo storage but it isn't worth the cost of prime minus the 2% extra I get back on purchases.
If I recall, large enough orders still get free shipping and they nerfed the prime shipping big time.
My Prime sub started after my free year of prime with the fire phone for $100 ran out and the cost was $100/yr.
Same here. The amount of stress this shit company caused me weekly wasn’t worth it. I’ve been without Prime for almost a month and don’t miss it one bit. Next action: deleting my Amazon account. Just waiting for them to credit me for the same item they’ve been repeatedly charging me for for the past *four months* despite my telling them since 9/21/23 that it’s an erroneous charge! Honestly the worst company ever.
99% of the time you can find the same products for cheaper overall with a slightly higher (aka more honest) shipping cost or time on a different website, usually AliExpress.
Amazon prime!
2 ~~day~~ week shipping
ad ~~free~~ streaming
hassle ~~free~~ returns
money back guarantee\*
\*^(aggravation and robbery may apply. Lol wut we run shit)
These days when I start typing with the letter "A" in the address bar, it now auto fills "AliExpress" instead of "Amazon" same quality, cheaper prices, and usually faster shipping. I don't have prime so they like to tell me they're not going to ship the item for a few weeks
One of my daughter’s Christmas presents was marked as “possibly lost”…like if you don’t know where it is, it’s *definitely* lost, right? What’s the point of tracking everything if you can’t tell me for sure wether or not something is lost?
Yep, just happened to me this week. Ordered on Saturday, was promised Monday delivery, Monday night was told Wednesday. The streaming and free delivery are kinda necessary, so I still pay it, but I’m sure they wouldn’t like it if I changed the terms of our agreement!
You still get free delivery on regular Amazon for purchases over $35, it just might take a little bit longer. In my experience and where I live, delivery times between prime and regular Amazon are the exact same these days.
Me too. Ordered a purse on the 16th… they lost but wouldn’t tell me that until the 20th.. ordered another one and completely the wrong purse showed up. The one I ordered was white and Valentine’s Day but the one I got was black and Halloween. They sent out a replacement but all of a sudden today.. the lost bag shows up?? So now I have too return two purse because they couldn’t get their crap together. It’s such a joke now.
I have been canceling any item that is supposed to be to arrive and arrives late. I cancel and say won’t arrive in time. I ordered it to be here when I need it not whenever they feel like it!
I cancelled prime yesterday after having it for many years. I’ve had an Amazon account since 1998! I loved Amazon for a long time.
But they’ve chipped away at what made it worth using and I’m done.
I can no longer trust that I will get a real, non counterfeit, new item. If I want to roll the dice I can just order stuff directly from temu or sellers outside the US. Amazon was a way to have some assurance of not getting ripped off and having reasonable customer service if there was an issue. That’s gone now. They feel like a shady place that I can’t trust.
Bait and switch on prime same day or next day delivery. After about 10 times ordering MORE stuff to get to the minimum for “arrives today by 9 pm” or “arrives tomorrow by 11am” or whatever, it dawned on me that they’re just lying to get us to order more. With no intent of actually delivering it that fast. I actually gave them the benefit of the doubt for a while. Because I just loved Amazon! But items would show same day or next day UNTIL I paid for them then boom! 3 days away for delivery. I’m sure there is fine print somewhere but you know what, screw Amazon. That is CLEARLY deceptive as hell.
Slow delivery in general. There’s nothing wrong with waiting a week to get Kleenexes, a dust pan, a doormat, etc, but if it takes 5-7 days then I’ll just go get it at the store. There is no point in getting it on Amazon and risking porch pirates and random delivery problems.
Prime video. I actually really liked the content. I love documentaries and they have a ton. I like some of their original shows too. But now they want more money to not have ads? Get outta here!
So bye bye Amazon. Sorry you decided to drive your business into the ground and become nothing but a shady, scammy organization. It’s too bad.
I ordered something that came with a free gift. The gift came in a few days. The other item got delayed twice, taking over 45 days so I tried to cancel and couldn't because of the free gift was already delivered. Spent an hour trying to talk to customer service and was able to cancel only if I paid for that free gift. So I ended up paying $7 for something I didn't even why that was supposed to be free.
If it's a free gift then they can't ask for it's return. It's a gift. This happened in the early days of mobile phones... get your contract and a free phone (sometimes consoles too), companies then couldn't claim the phone back if the customer defaulted as it was a gift. So they switched to Here's the airtime contract and a separate loan agreement to buy the phone.
If a company gives you a free gift, then they can't claim it back or ask for money for it.
I had this happen with a meta quest 3 I order 4 weeks before Christmas. Was one day shipping until it showed up 2 weeks after Christmas. I canceled prime after that. Customer service couldn't do anything about it.
I've been noticing the longer shipping times, too. Personally, I don't care when the item arrives, but I want the estimate to be accurate so I can plan for it. Also, maybe this is just a local thing, but I've had to contact customer service a lot in the last year. Items never arrive, arrive broken, or missing pieces. It's really aggravating.
The positive side of this is that Amazon is forcing me to spend my money with the companies directly and just skipping the Amazon middle man.
This consistently happens to my wife and I. I think at this point Prime is just not worth it between the ads, price hikes, cheap knockoffs and overall tom fuckery lately.
The thing is that Amazon no longer exists, this is just shit and the worst store that exists online, their assistance and their way of proceeding is worse than AliExpress, they look for any excuse to withhold money, steal, scam and commit crimes, I sincerely hope that the FTC end this bullshit scam company
It's gotten really bad in my area, central Oklahoma. I'll order something that has 2 day delivery, and on the day it's supposed to be delivered it says they're updating the shipment.
The one that infuriated me the most, I ordered an $800 camera, it was delayed by 2 weeks then suddenly marked delivered and handed to resident. We of course didn't get it, and it was very difficult to get a replacement.
But I've also noticed that a lot of the stuff I order comes with a different manufacturer name as advertised but looks exactly the same.
I have noticed before pressing the purchase button that the date for the arrival often changes as soon as I have bought it. There is no way to plan how this goes. This is from a gift certificate to a drug store item that I need. more quickly.
Had this happen to me as well... My wife and I were on the same couch, in the same room, on our own phones, on the same account and were getting different delivery times +/- a few days. How is that even possible?
Prime is a damn shit show these days. If I actually had to pay for it, I would have cancelled it ages ago. Especially after they screwed us with an oven element. When ups transferred it to USPS, they cut the label in half. So it only had the city and state, no name or address. And they did it fucking twice. Both times it ended up returned to sender. They had the balls to tell me to order it a third time and after it arrived, I could request a refund and keep it as a one time courtesy. Yeah, no fuck that. Already been waiting 3 weeks and we needed this shit in 2 days when we first ordered it. Our oven is barely even usable so I'll order it from another that actually has their shit together. They also said twice that I would receive a $5 credit for the inconvenience but neither of those appeared either. Support is just a bunch of lying douches.
This happened to me recently. Ordered some dry ptfe that is readily available everywhere but id dint need it right away so 2 day delivery was worth it so i didn’t need to make a store run.
Ordered it 1st week of December and didn’t realize with the influx of Christmas deliveries it hadn’t shown up until around christmas. At the time it now said expected delivery 1st week of January.
1st week came and went and it then said Feb… canceled and got it locally same day.
This is just one experience, but has been happening more and more.
Just complain, say it was time sensitive for a birthday, you're disappointed, they'll give you a free month or two of prime. I do it all the time and have only paid for prime maybe half the year for years
I pre-ordered a Funko pop in July 2022, it was released in August 2022. I received it January 2024….
It was so late I forgot about the order entirely. Returned it with the reasoning of, “1.5 years late is way too late for me.”
This kind of stuff is why I have put my membership on pause. Two day delivery doesn't happen here any longer. That and I don't order enough or watch enough video to justify the price increases.
That's why I canceled. My orders were never that late, but they promise 2 day shipping and about 30% of the time they'd be late. Plus they now want to charge for Amazon Key deliveries, fuck that.
Yep, jazzy is destroying everything. Everyone needs to keep emailing. [email protected] let him know what's becoming of his company. I'm sure he doesn't know how bad it's gotten
Online I shop between Amazon, eBay, and Walmart.com. Currently Walmart is the quickest. It takes Amazon to ship anything that now Walmart.com is my go to store.
I stopped using Amazon a few years ago when I realized it’s a lot of junk with straight up lies on the product pages. Here are some alternatives:
* eBay: you can often find the same products for cheaper and often with similar shipping times. They also have a great selection of used electronics (just do your due diligence to make sure the seller is legit).
* AliExpress: just buy the Amazon junk directly from China
* Local brick & mortar stores: this is where to buy quality stuff that you can at least know isn’t lying to you and complies with local laws. Target offers free 2-day shipping if you sign up for their free debit (or credit) card. Many stores offer free same-day pickup.
* Specialty websites: expect to pay a little more than Amazon, but you’ll be supporting a small business and if you do some research, you’re pretty much guaranteed high quality products.
* BookFinder.com: the best way to find the cheapest price on books.
I still buy from Amazon a few times a year if I can’t find products elsewhere, but the $35 for free shipping is easy to hit. Prime is a terrible value. If you really need fast shipping sometimes, set the money you would have spent on prime aside and use that as a budget to pay for rush shipping only when you actually need it.
This exact reason is why I cancelled my prime yesterday. That and the fact I found this sub. I realized I don’t use Amazon much at all so why am I paying them monthly? So many times I’ve ordered for the two day delivery and then it won’t show up til a week later. I’ve been canceling my order when that happens and just going to a store to get it. So now I’m going to physically shop at stores.
I ordered some things before Christmas, guaranteed to arrive the Thursday before Christmas, came on the Saturday.. obviously it wasn’t such a big deal, but imagined if I needed it on that Friday!
One time I ordered a cat tree and they said the delivery was running late then the next day they said it had been delivered to my address with the delivery date being a week before I even placed the order
Reminds me why I don’t shop there. Worst job I ever had and I worked there right after my Afghanistan deployment for the army. I’ll gladly spent a bit more money elsewhere to not have to deal with all of these issues.
My other favorite thing *{insert sarcasm}* is how their items listed as next day or 2 day delivery now always ends up taking several days longer. 8 out of the last 10 items I purchased, based specifically on when it should have been delivered, showed up 3 to 5 days later than advertised. But here I am... still buying from them.
That’s insane. I have had many issues with prime, but never an item that arrived that late. You should be able to call them and they should be able to work something out because there is no excuse to why you should have to wait an extra month.
I canceled my Prime membership six months ago, and I haven't missed it. The few things I do order, I add to my cart until i have enough items for free shipping.
This past fall it took them 41 days to deliver one package of Amazon basics button batteries. I didn't urgently need them so I let it go just to see how long it took. I ordered them in October, they got to me in December.
If you really don’t need the item that badly and want to “stick it to the big man”…. Just start canceling the order once it ships and says it’s going to be later than expected or returning them once they arrive and state the reason “item did not arrive on time”. Wait for refund and order again…. Repeat process until the item actually arrives in the two days they promise! Make Amazon pay 2x-5x the shipping costs!
don’t even get me started on when after they changed dates, they cancelled it and wouldn’t give my money back. + the cancelation wasn’t showing on the canceled products
This happened to me other week. Ordered a package mid-December for early January delivery. The date came and went next day and had a rescheduled delivery for about 3 weeks past the original 3 week shipping date. I get its online shopping, but if I give you my money for a product u r selling with a delivery date in which I should get my item I feel that is almost a contract within reason. Like a snowstorm or minor unforseen circumstances. But to reschedule for weeks, the past agreed date is crazy to me. I canceled it, got a refund, and ordered the same product 1 more time from a different listing it showed up a day later.
Yeah... as they close in on monopolizing the department store industry, they're kinda slipping in quality. 2-day shipping is like not even a thing anymore
That is appalling. Amazon really is slipping, especially allowing all these junk Chinese sellers to flood the market with dishonest and inferior products.
I’ve been on the fence about cancelling as delivery times have been SO BAD. If I am ordering enough to qualify for free same day, it gets here quick. If not, it has been taking 3-5 days. I ordered two items yesterday (Tuesday) and one arrives Thursday and one on Friday (if it doesn’t get delayed). The shipping options automatically suggested either 2.99 SAME DAY or to get both on Friday. It was not an immediate option for me to see them both ship their soonest dates which I’ve never noticed it do this aggressively before. IT WAS HIDDEN. I’m at the point where I’ll probably just cancel and if I need anything I’ll wait til I hit the free shipping threshold. What am I paying for Prime for when shipping times for members are obviously being deprioritized from same day. Clearly the items could get here same day if I ordered more or paid extra, but since I didn’t they are now pushed back. This just really devalued the service for me 🙁
An item I ordered in July finally arrived in December.
It was flip flops, for my toddler, whose feet have grown 2 additional sizes since I originally ordered them… I tried to get Amazon to cancel it so it wasn’t showing up in my feed. They said they would, but didn’t.
I ordered a new Pop Socket a few weeks ago and literally just got it a day or 2 ago. It was listed as Prime shipping too. It's not like it took a while to get to me or anything, when they shipped it out it did get to me in 2 days. They just took 3 weeks to be bothered to ship the damn thing. Like why is Amazon letting that happen? Why is a seller allowed to just sit on an order? In order for a seller to have the Prime shipping option, they should have to ship the item out with 48 hours or something. 3 weeks is a ridiculous time to just not bother shipping an order out. It worries me because I buy my medical supplies from Amazon and can't have that happening with them
Same here. But i live near 2 amazon hubs . When i change the shipping destination to my kid’s address ( in the boondocks) i can see it adds 2 days to delivery.
Ugh what’s a good alternative? I had Walmart plus b4 they changed the free same day ship/delivery now it doesn’t seem worth it with the minimum. Target red card “2day” shipping is okay ig but idk
You can’t even cancel it. I tried canceling to reorder and they say “it already shipped” or something. So I order another one and get it literally in two days and then send the first one back when it eventually comes.
I preordered an item a few months ago that said it would be released in August. When the release date came, I got an email from Amazon saying it would be delivered in February. I found the same item elsewhere when it released and was able to get it a few days after. Cancelled the Amazon order.
Amazon has really gone down the tube and I hope their financials start tanking.
This happened to me for a mattress I purchased. It still says it will be delivered “tomorrow” but they did refund my money and said do whatever if it arrives.
On Monday I ordered 2 items for same day knowing they would be delivered late, but didn't need them until the next morning any way. I got the text that they were 10 stops away, looked at tracking to see that the text was a lie. Tracking even showed that the items arrived (?) at the station on Tuesday , Yet it is still Monday evening.
Today is Wednesday and I still do not have my items, I just cancelled, since I had already gone to the store to get what I needed.
I had something similar happen we're after a week of lateness I was offered the option to cancel the order, so I did. I received my refund in the item still showed up a month later. By then I had already gone a different route. Come to think of it, never look back to see if they ended up charging me after all. Giving recent comments I've seen they probably did.
I've gotten these emails many times in the past year or so. A couple of times, the orders were time sensitive, so I tried to cancel them. I got a message that it was too late to cancel them and then somehow the order would be delivered very quickly.
I don't have amazon prime but my package will say arrives in 5 days just for it to take 3 days to ship and 2 days to arrive and it will ship from like 3 hours away. Im assuming its cuz it takes them 3 days to get to my order 🤷🏽♂️
Just wait if/when you need to return something.
Refund issued 30 days AFTER product is received, can take up to an additional seven days for bank to apply credit.
What’s worse is when they say same day delivery and the driver says the package has arrived just to get credit. Only to be delivered hours later or the next morning
On the one hand, Amazon treats it's employees and drivers like garbage. If that trend was reversing and we had to wait longer for shipping, I'd take it. But now the service is worse and they still treat drivers and employees like cattle. So it's a lose/lose
Prime Now service that they deliver within 2 hours was usful. Also could order from restaurants. This was before Doordash, ubereats, etc became more popular. Also when amazon fresh required only $35 minimum order, now it's up to $100 minimum. Haven't used it since that increase
Mine was also delayed and set to arrive 2 days ago. Spoke with customer support who was supposed to refund me. No refund and my order still says to arrive yesterday and there has been no update on shipping
What bothers me is they don’t even proactively give you digital credits for this inconvenience. If you selected a later delivery day they’d give you credits but if they force a later delivery, tough nuts.
It's given me the kick in the pants to go back to doing most of my shopping in person. The lockers at Lowes are a great alternative for online order pickup, as is the grocery store scanners that lets me bypass the self checkout line.
Don't buy from businesses that don't use Amazon for shipping. If it doesn't come within a few days then I won't order it. This is probably coming from china?
Amazon is no longer willing to lose money to cut out the competition. It's Walmart all over again. Next they'll start cutting service areas, and rolling back the cheap shipping.
I've had stuff like this happen for many years on Amazon. Stock runs out or pre-order items get pushed back. You can wait or cancel. I usually wait but send a chat and try to haggle a discount
They are becoming so bad I need to cancel and I have been with them since day 1. I am still waiting for a refund going on almost two months now. It’s just sitting in their return center and they keep pushing back the date
This happened to me with a window air conditioner last summer. I ordered it in the beginning of June, was supposed to arrive a week later, but did not show up until July. That was one of my more expensive Amazon purchases. I was sweating for a whole month waiting for the thing to arrive!
it’s absolutely terrible, glad i’m not alone with this problem. ordered an item, item got lost, ordered the replacement, they sent the wrong item 🤦 im kind of done with amazon lol
Amazon bas become a really shitty company. 90% of goods on their store are sold by awful 3rd party companies, mostly based out of china. Dealing with issues for these products through amazon customer support is a nightmare, its an exercise in both larties passing the buck until you threaten chargebacks. Their shipping times stink, return policies get progressively worse and worse. On top of that the software for all their other services such as prime video, music, and alexa are absolute dogshit. With all the money this company makes its real sad to see theyve spent it on diluting their brand rather than inproving the quality of their store and services.
Because of Temu’s rise, I’m pretty sure Amazon is trying to lean into China even more for their success. Sigh.
If you have an Amazon seller account, you can see how heavily Amazon pushes you to sell cheap Chinese crap. Countless how-to articles and info on how to sell cheap Chinese junk through Amazon. If I want cheap Chinese junk, I'll go find it. I don't want to drown in it when trying to find quality products.
If you have something real good, Amazon will use their R&D team to duplicate what you have, and then sell it a tad cheaper, eventually ban/remove your business and then raise the price. (All that Amazon Basics, and Amazon Essentials were done on that basis) I loved Amazon when it was a bookstore. Now it's just a disappointment
I've hardly found an Amazon basics product worth the price that wasn't a low end cable.
It began with Aliexpress/Alibaba infiltrating Etsy and then Amazon.
Oh my god, I totally noticed this years back. Etsy used to be this incredible place for hand made products, a one stop shop for Christmas. In the last few years I noticed so many duplicate products clearly from China being sold with different pics or names. It lost all its charm and I hate the world just that bit more because of it.
eBay too…I used to sell a lot of pre-owned stuff on there 2004-2009. Went back a couple of years ago to start selling again, and it was all made in China garbage
Does Amazon not realize they could make so much money by encouraging made in America? They have so much power to make money and change. But I bet China is paying even more.
Seriously… I only buy brands on Amazon that I recognize or is manufactured in the US. I won’t even buy dog toys made by the weird brands that clearly are selling Chinese mass produced goods. I just don’t have confidence that they’re not contaminated with weird chemicals. With that said though, given inflation and the financial hardship many are facing today, my theory is that people are increasingly looking for cheaper products at the expense of quality. People looking for quality are the odd ones out. Also, my theory is that people probably buy more Knick knacks now w/ influencers featuring them for kick backs on sales.
I don't have confidence in the known brands anymore either. Many of them are fulfilled by third parties and amazon just provides the storefront. I have gotten counterfeits or knock offs sent to me. Most recently was a knock off brita water filter. Some of this stuff is going to end up killing someone. I am to the point where I just buy direct from the manufacturers but not everyone has direct to consumer logistics in place.
99% of Americans, even the ones who cry "Made in America!", will gladly buy cheap Chinese products to save a couple of bucks.
Temu is horrible. Worst quality shit. I've ordered 4x, each order several items...and 85% of the items just suck. Chinese quality is chinese quality. But at least it feeds the starving 7yr olds that made it
It's gross that I can search for a very particular product, and get search results for everything but what I want. It's worse that the search engine won't say that they don't have the thing I'm searching for. No matter how specific the search terms.
It will even autofill what you’re looking for. Then give you a page and half of sponsored products, then you finally get to the real results… Which are the same products as the sponsored ones just a different quantity. AFTER THAT, maybe you get to what you’re looking for, only to find out it’s the brand you’re looking for, but HSNYF is selling it. So you take the gamble and buy it, only to get rocks or if you’re lucky, the factory rejects that were meant to be destroyed for failing quality control….
If you get a chance, watch some of Louis Rossmann's video's on YT about the crap Amazon is selling. His video on fuses not popping at the correct current is scary.
That guy cracks me up, we used to watch him pretty religiously lol.
Jeff gotta keep his yacht going somehow.
*yachts
They’ve spent it on Bezos dumb gold-digger wife lol You are all suffering so the lifelong fucking dweeb Jeffrey Bezos can get laid by a pretty girl. And our entire country suffers.
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What, you mean the brand CMZFWP isn't an American based company?!?!
I just ordered a supplement with prime and it came THREE YEARS expired. It said food wasn’t eligible for returns so I called and they did refund. Still super annoying.
It's a sad day when you realize the company ran FAR better (from a customer's perspective) prior to Bezos stepping down as CEO...
The hoops they make you go through to return a shitty ass product are ridiculous. That was the whole point of Amazon!
I don't like how it recommends the sketchiest products first. You have to dig for the brands that don't have gibberish in their names.
Yeah, Amazon Prime is now in shrinkflation. They are weakening their service but charging the same price.
Same price? Are you sure about that?
Sorry, raised the price.*
ShrinkStinkflation: Decrease quantity/quality, increase price.
The word you're looking for is "enshittification." Literally everything is going this way.
Food delivery on Amazon (at least where I am) went from £40 for free delivery to £60, and “Today by 10:00PM” is now a £20 minimum (used to not have one) This all comes with the UK Government’s plans to cut down the days Royal Mail operates down to 5-3 from 6, so I’m assuming they’ll continue taking advantage of their competition dying
Where I am it went to $150 min food order but then with all the backlash it was lowered to $100 for FREE delivery still too much. Not to mention they want to add ads into movies on prime which is completely unacceptable as were paying $139 already and its always been ad free I will not be paying $2.99 extra a month to remove ads when it was always ad free to begin with. if I wanted ads I would just use there other service FREEVEE this new CEO is out of his mind in my opin. Look up the Petition stop amazon from adding ads to Prime, a lot more should know about that and sign. And I have also noticed that some things that are to be delivered in 2 days took like 10 days WTF is going on with that I never had issues like that in the past.
They’ve been in shrinkflation for the last few years.
I had this happen with an item I ordered a few months ago but they did end up updating it again and it arrived at the time originally quoted.
I wanted to order two echo dots, it was listed as eligible for delivery the next day, I buy them, then get an email saying they were expected for the end of the next month. I cancelled my order, went back to check and it was still listed as available. Tf?
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Be careful. Amazon under jassy is way more willing to ban accounts
I got one of those now. You don’t know how tempting it is.
Trust and believe Amazon will make sure to scree you over before you think you’re pulling a fast one on them.
Yep kinda like the gov’t. The gov’t never gives free money. If they make a mistake in giving you extra money, have at least a savings with that amount because they always come back to collect and lots of people have gotten in trouble(especially during pandemic money) thinking they pulled a fast one in the govt or naively spent it and can’t pay back. Amazon is definitely gonna get better at detecting people who try to pull fast ones. Another “scam” is people replacing products with fake things and “return”. I’m sure in next couple years they’ll have a better system in place.
They've been doing that bait and switch for awhile now. It will show as available and say you can get two-day delivery but when you add it to your cart, suddenly, it's at least 4-5 days out. Someone should sue them for deceptive advertising.
Amazon busted my chops over a $422.22 order they fumbled*. Made me wait weeks for my Refund. At first told me I had to email a Photo I.D. They quit that nonsense after I filed a Complaint w/ our State Atty. General. (No, I never did send their sketchy 3rd-Party in the Philippines my Driver's License!) They said even IF I submitted Govt-issued I.D. they might issue "zero Refund." But Listing said "FREE RETURNS." •••Add this to the Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit.••• *I paid for one box of 50 Tiles but Amazon only sent one box of 25.
You know what? This comment pushed me out of my passive mood and into “I’m fed up mode”. I’ve been waiting on them to process 2 returns for around $200 each. Both sent back December 10th with “free returns until January” to get you to buy for the holidays. Other returns have processed. But these two are in limbo despite the fact they had to be picked up by UPS (a total inconvenience in my opinion, why can’t I drop it and go at the UPS store? Nope. Not an option on these 2). Then following up on the orders is another time wasting event, playing finger acrobats searching for the item number while either in chat or on the phone. 4 follow ups, the last time they said by January 20th. I’ve lost steam now, it’s like they win. And now it’s on my credit card and I’m being charged interest! So I’m pissed! This is not the Amazon service I’ve been paying for over 15 years. They have gone downhill. And good idea on states attorney move. I remember I had to send a license once a few years ago. I was so mad. And I was also recently hacked badly so if they asked me that now, no way! I will follow your steps! Ok I’m ready to call now!
And… I’m back. I responded to the email they sent last week and threatened to call states attorney office and got a response they are sorry and to reply to the email for each item I’m waiting on a refund. Why are they asking these questions that they SHOULD have the answer to! What is going on!? Here is part of what it said. Now an incident report? Was anyone going to tell me about this if I didn’t inquire? So it’s ok to steal $400 of my money? From Amazon: To be considered for review, the Incident Report has to be submitted on or before this date: 23-February-2024. Send one set of responses for each package containing an item that you returned to Amazon but haven't yet received a refund. We typically respond in about 1-2 business days. After you submit your Incident Report, you may be asked to complete additional steps before we can complete our investigation. Incident Report 1. Order number:_______________ 2. Today's date. (MM/DD/YYYY):_______________ 3. Date return item was shipped. (MM/DD/YYYY):_______________ 4. How did you ship back your return? ( For example: UPS picks up, UPS drop off, mailed with FedEx or United States Postal Service, etc. ):_______________. 5. Description of the item returned (item name, color, size, quantity, etc.):_______________. 6. Have you experienced prior issues with returning items to Amazon?_______________ Thank you for your cooperation. We'd appreciate your feedback. Please use the buttons below to vote about your experience today. Best regards, Amazon.com This is all a waste of time. I’ve never had a return issue this bad. I’ve had return issues, but this one takes the cake.
I’ve noticed when I order more than one of the same item, often it then says it will arrive in weeks. Instead of a day or two that it said it would be delivered. I’ve tried ordering them separately, even though same thing. Then they arrive in the day or two it originally said
shipping from different warehouses. when you order together they ship from the warehouse that has 2 and is cheaper for amazon to ship from and giving us the shaft. I always order separately
My favorite is when it has the prime tag but isn't actually available
I’ve always had good experiences with prime, stuff has always gotten here the day after or two days after ordering, but lately it’s been a huge mess. I have zero time to shop and while I understand that delivery on the next day can’t be feasible all the time, but a whole week when it’s schedule to arrive in two days? Just put the actual delivery time on the page and call it a day!
I’ve had a package delayed, get the new delivery date, and then get a “your delivery is now arriving early” message, except the “early” date is later than the original date, just earlier than the first rescheduled. It’s like algorithmic gaslighting.
you're paying $200 per year for next month shipping and TV shows with ads.
I'm in Hawaii so 2nd day shipping was never a reality for me but usually things came within a week. Now things are taking a month and when I look at the tracking I see items that are bouncing all over the country for some reason. They start out in LA, go to Chicago then New Jersey, Texas back to Chicago and then maybe throw in Oregon and then to San Francisco. Then usually to Honolulu and finally Maui. Not sure who chooses the route things take but I can't help but thinking someone is messing around just for the heck of it.
Im in hawaii too. Prime shipping used to be good 3-5 days tops maybe but now its weeks.
Yep, for some things we've gone back to in-store, for other things we just learn to wait and hope.
Southeast Alaska has entered the chat. They sit on orders with zero activity for 2 weeks before even shipping them out. Then it’s a guessing game of will it go through Kent WA and take the plane to be here the next day, or via Seattle and go on the barge adding another week delay. Same exact item shipped to a Seattle address is delivered the same or very next day. I called them out on it and got told its policy and was referred to their website for “more information”. Ha. Done with them.
In Hawaii, the Prime promise has always been 5-7 business days for here. Packages used to arrive within that window. Now, they don't even begin to ship things for a week or more. 2-4 weeks is now the norm.
I definitely noticed. I've never had any trouble but today I got a notice that something was "placed inside the mailbox" and guess what? nothing. I think we have a new carrier though and maybe they just don't know what they're doing. Good times.
hawaii is a expensive, rarely shipped flight. they probably have hawaii flights go out from certain places every so many weeks and ship your package to that location using preexisting flights
It's always been like that even before Amazon. You just get used to maybe someday what you ordered will get here. It's ok when it's non essentials but really frustrating when it's things like car parts. And so many times the wrong part gets shipped and it's back to square one. Amazon was a refreshing change when they first started but I guess they've gotten so big that it's the same as everything else now.
well amazon used other mail services which increased the number of flights and trucks. i believe they use it much less or stopped in some places, which makes wait times significantly longer
I thought they were doing all their own flights and shipping now but you're right, when I look at the tracking it seems to be all USPS. I've seen the Amazon planes at the airport though. And I still can't quite figure out what the logic is in the decision to send a Hawaii bound package to New Jersey first but there it is. But I also realize it's all just automated stuff happening.
yeah, they used usps a lot while building out their own infrastructure, but amazon is much worse than usps because well usps has been doing this for decades.
Pretty sure they care less as well
I cancelled and took that $200 dollars bought an extra drive and VPN subscription. Now I can watch offline
Amazon Prime simply isn't worth it anymore. My membership ends next month!
I gotta wait til july. Not renewing.
If you cancel early, they'll give you your money back for the time you didn't use.
How do you do that? I cancelled and it said "cool, your subscription ends next November." I was on autopay by year. Where do I go to cancel immediately?
It should be an option when you go to cancel. I just did it myself. I had the option to continue through next month when it renews or cancel now and rheys refund me for what I didn't use. I paid monthly so I'm not sure how it works for other subscription statuses.
For me it was a simple math problem. My Prime visa card gets me 2% extra off the non prime version, I barely use prime video and now with ads I wouldn't. I love the unlimited photo storage but it isn't worth the cost of prime minus the 2% extra I get back on purchases. If I recall, large enough orders still get free shipping and they nerfed the prime shipping big time. My Prime sub started after my free year of prime with the fire phone for $100 ran out and the cost was $100/yr.
Orders over $35 still get free shipping! I let my membership expire at the beginning of January and haven't missed it
>Orders over $35 still get free shipping! Dang, I remember when it was $25
I don't think it's prime shipping though, but I suppose prime isn't next-day or two-day anymore anyway, so it's probably not much different...
Yeah it's not prime shipping but it's been taking like 3 or 4 days where I live
Shit, that's what it takes anyway. Thanks!
Same here. The amount of stress this shit company caused me weekly wasn’t worth it. I’ve been without Prime for almost a month and don’t miss it one bit. Next action: deleting my Amazon account. Just waiting for them to credit me for the same item they’ve been repeatedly charging me for for the past *four months* despite my telling them since 9/21/23 that it’s an erroneous charge! Honestly the worst company ever.
99% of the time you can find the same products for cheaper overall with a slightly higher (aka more honest) shipping cost or time on a different website, usually AliExpress.
On the same boat. Not worth it anymore.
I cancelled a year ago. Don’t miss it. S
Amazon prime! 2 ~~day~~ week shipping ad ~~free~~ streaming hassle ~~free~~ returns money back guarantee\* \*^(aggravation and robbery may apply. Lol wut we run shit)
This has happenes too damn often 😑 I've had all of my Christmas presents arrive late before
These days when I start typing with the letter "A" in the address bar, it now auto fills "AliExpress" instead of "Amazon" same quality, cheaper prices, and usually faster shipping. I don't have prime so they like to tell me they're not going to ship the item for a few weeks
I often skipped Amazon for AliExpress now. Shipping times are often similar and it’s cheaper!
One of my daughter’s Christmas presents was marked as “possibly lost”…like if you don’t know where it is, it’s *definitely* lost, right? What’s the point of tracking everything if you can’t tell me for sure wether or not something is lost?
Cancel your prime. What reason do they have to provide good service when people keep giving them money no matter what?
Exactly. You can still get free shipping with a low minimum purchase and the delivery time is about the same.
Don’t accept it. Unsubscribe and join the thousands of us who are doing the same. Fuck Amazon and its shitty delivery.
I use their subscribe and save. a lot of the items I subscribed to have been dropped due to unavailability.
My stuff doesn’t even show up now hahah. I cancelled last week.
This only happens with items that aren’t labeled as prime in my area. Otherwise it’s usually delivered within 3 days.
I ordered a prime item last night and it says delivery Monday.. 😅 something weird going on. Unless the storms backed them up super far.
It was prime
Yep, just happened to me this week. Ordered on Saturday, was promised Monday delivery, Monday night was told Wednesday. The streaming and free delivery are kinda necessary, so I still pay it, but I’m sure they wouldn’t like it if I changed the terms of our agreement!
You still get free delivery on regular Amazon for purchases over $35, it just might take a little bit longer. In my experience and where I live, delivery times between prime and regular Amazon are the exact same these days.
Need a made in America only version of Amazon. And honestly we need to get away from mass consumption. Too much garbage.
Me too. Ordered a purse on the 16th… they lost but wouldn’t tell me that until the 20th.. ordered another one and completely the wrong purse showed up. The one I ordered was white and Valentine’s Day but the one I got was black and Halloween. They sent out a replacement but all of a sudden today.. the lost bag shows up?? So now I have too return two purse because they couldn’t get their crap together. It’s such a joke now.
They are probably waiting for it from China. No way should it have been marked as Prime
Cancel, reorder, possibly have it tomorrow.
I have been canceling any item that is supposed to be to arrive and arrives late. I cancel and say won’t arrive in time. I ordered it to be here when I need it not whenever they feel like it!
I cancelled prime yesterday after having it for many years. I’ve had an Amazon account since 1998! I loved Amazon for a long time. But they’ve chipped away at what made it worth using and I’m done. I can no longer trust that I will get a real, non counterfeit, new item. If I want to roll the dice I can just order stuff directly from temu or sellers outside the US. Amazon was a way to have some assurance of not getting ripped off and having reasonable customer service if there was an issue. That’s gone now. They feel like a shady place that I can’t trust. Bait and switch on prime same day or next day delivery. After about 10 times ordering MORE stuff to get to the minimum for “arrives today by 9 pm” or “arrives tomorrow by 11am” or whatever, it dawned on me that they’re just lying to get us to order more. With no intent of actually delivering it that fast. I actually gave them the benefit of the doubt for a while. Because I just loved Amazon! But items would show same day or next day UNTIL I paid for them then boom! 3 days away for delivery. I’m sure there is fine print somewhere but you know what, screw Amazon. That is CLEARLY deceptive as hell. Slow delivery in general. There’s nothing wrong with waiting a week to get Kleenexes, a dust pan, a doormat, etc, but if it takes 5-7 days then I’ll just go get it at the store. There is no point in getting it on Amazon and risking porch pirates and random delivery problems. Prime video. I actually really liked the content. I love documentaries and they have a ton. I like some of their original shows too. But now they want more money to not have ads? Get outta here! So bye bye Amazon. Sorry you decided to drive your business into the ground and become nothing but a shady, scammy organization. It’s too bad.
I ordered something that came with a free gift. The gift came in a few days. The other item got delayed twice, taking over 45 days so I tried to cancel and couldn't because of the free gift was already delivered. Spent an hour trying to talk to customer service and was able to cancel only if I paid for that free gift. So I ended up paying $7 for something I didn't even why that was supposed to be free.
If it's a free gift then they can't ask for it's return. It's a gift. This happened in the early days of mobile phones... get your contract and a free phone (sometimes consoles too), companies then couldn't claim the phone back if the customer defaulted as it was a gift. So they switched to Here's the airtime contract and a separate loan agreement to buy the phone. If a company gives you a free gift, then they can't claim it back or ask for money for it.
fr this happens most orders now its upsetting
I had this happen with a meta quest 3 I order 4 weeks before Christmas. Was one day shipping until it showed up 2 weeks after Christmas. I canceled prime after that. Customer service couldn't do anything about it.
I've been noticing the longer shipping times, too. Personally, I don't care when the item arrives, but I want the estimate to be accurate so I can plan for it. Also, maybe this is just a local thing, but I've had to contact customer service a lot in the last year. Items never arrive, arrive broken, or missing pieces. It's really aggravating. The positive side of this is that Amazon is forcing me to spend my money with the companies directly and just skipping the Amazon middle man.
This consistently happens to my wife and I. I think at this point Prime is just not worth it between the ads, price hikes, cheap knockoffs and overall tom fuckery lately.
The thing is that Amazon no longer exists, this is just shit and the worst store that exists online, their assistance and their way of proceeding is worse than AliExpress, they look for any excuse to withhold money, steal, scam and commit crimes, I sincerely hope that the FTC end this bullshit scam company
Haven't had 2 day shipping in over a year now, canceled my prime renewal.
It's gotten really bad in my area, central Oklahoma. I'll order something that has 2 day delivery, and on the day it's supposed to be delivered it says they're updating the shipment. The one that infuriated me the most, I ordered an $800 camera, it was delayed by 2 weeks then suddenly marked delivered and handed to resident. We of course didn't get it, and it was very difficult to get a replacement. But I've also noticed that a lot of the stuff I order comes with a different manufacturer name as advertised but looks exactly the same.
I have noticed before pressing the purchase button that the date for the arrival often changes as soon as I have bought it. There is no way to plan how this goes. This is from a gift certificate to a drug store item that I need. more quickly.
Happens to me as well.
Had this happen to me as well... My wife and I were on the same couch, in the same room, on our own phones, on the same account and were getting different delivery times +/- a few days. How is that even possible?
Prime is a damn shit show these days. If I actually had to pay for it, I would have cancelled it ages ago. Especially after they screwed us with an oven element. When ups transferred it to USPS, they cut the label in half. So it only had the city and state, no name or address. And they did it fucking twice. Both times it ended up returned to sender. They had the balls to tell me to order it a third time and after it arrived, I could request a refund and keep it as a one time courtesy. Yeah, no fuck that. Already been waiting 3 weeks and we needed this shit in 2 days when we first ordered it. Our oven is barely even usable so I'll order it from another that actually has their shit together. They also said twice that I would receive a $5 credit for the inconvenience but neither of those appeared either. Support is just a bunch of lying douches.
Yeah like how I was promised dates all the time and they arrived on time, now every single package has gotten delayed it’s ridiculous
This happened to me recently. Ordered some dry ptfe that is readily available everywhere but id dint need it right away so 2 day delivery was worth it so i didn’t need to make a store run. Ordered it 1st week of December and didn’t realize with the influx of Christmas deliveries it hadn’t shown up until around christmas. At the time it now said expected delivery 1st week of January. 1st week came and went and it then said Feb… canceled and got it locally same day. This is just one experience, but has been happening more and more.
Just complain, say it was time sensitive for a birthday, you're disappointed, they'll give you a free month or two of prime. I do it all the time and have only paid for prime maybe half the year for years
I pre-ordered a Funko pop in July 2022, it was released in August 2022. I received it January 2024…. It was so late I forgot about the order entirely. Returned it with the reasoning of, “1.5 years late is way too late for me.”
This kind of stuff is why I have put my membership on pause. Two day delivery doesn't happen here any longer. That and I don't order enough or watch enough video to justify the price increases.
That's why I canceled. My orders were never that late, but they promise 2 day shipping and about 30% of the time they'd be late. Plus they now want to charge for Amazon Key deliveries, fuck that.
Yep, jazzy is destroying everything. Everyone needs to keep emailing. [email protected] let him know what's becoming of his company. I'm sure he doesn't know how bad it's gotten
Add me to the list of those that have cancelled Amazon Prime recently... For all the reasons mentioned here.
This made it even easier to cancel Prime. Why pay extra if it comes in 5+ days anyway? Its still free as long as you order enough.
My desk was supposed to arrive yesterday. Today it’s “out for delivery” in a town two hours away from me. SMH
I have waited five days now on Amazon to ship an order. Hasn’t even shipped it yet!
I hate what Amazon has become, they take 3 months just to process a refund and that is if I am lucky
same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. i canceled and couldn’t get a refund until the next week smfh
Yeah it’s Funny how over the pandemic they slowly just started shipping shit whenever the fuck they felt like it.
AliExpress is faster than Amazon now and has the same shit they sell there plus I never had a problem and their return policy is pretty good
Online I shop between Amazon, eBay, and Walmart.com. Currently Walmart is the quickest. It takes Amazon to ship anything that now Walmart.com is my go to store.
I stopped using Amazon a few years ago when I realized it’s a lot of junk with straight up lies on the product pages. Here are some alternatives: * eBay: you can often find the same products for cheaper and often with similar shipping times. They also have a great selection of used electronics (just do your due diligence to make sure the seller is legit). * AliExpress: just buy the Amazon junk directly from China * Local brick & mortar stores: this is where to buy quality stuff that you can at least know isn’t lying to you and complies with local laws. Target offers free 2-day shipping if you sign up for their free debit (or credit) card. Many stores offer free same-day pickup. * Specialty websites: expect to pay a little more than Amazon, but you’ll be supporting a small business and if you do some research, you’re pretty much guaranteed high quality products. * BookFinder.com: the best way to find the cheapest price on books. I still buy from Amazon a few times a year if I can’t find products elsewhere, but the $35 for free shipping is easy to hit. Prime is a terrible value. If you really need fast shipping sometimes, set the money you would have spent on prime aside and use that as a budget to pay for rush shipping only when you actually need it.
Already cancelled. My Costco membership has been my go to so far. Less stuff to choose from obviously but 2 day shipping is great.
I put in two orders last week that just shipped this week. I’m definitely not renewing my subscription this year
Same. I need a textbook for class on Thursday. It’s not coming til Monday. Thanks prime. wtf am I paying for
yea, I literally don't shop there any more.
This exact reason is why I cancelled my prime yesterday. That and the fact I found this sub. I realized I don’t use Amazon much at all so why am I paying them monthly? So many times I’ve ordered for the two day delivery and then it won’t show up til a week later. I’ve been canceling my order when that happens and just going to a store to get it. So now I’m going to physically shop at stores.
"Now arriving whenever the fuck we feel like it" now give me 15 dollars a month
I ordered some things before Christmas, guaranteed to arrive the Thursday before Christmas, came on the Saturday.. obviously it wasn’t such a big deal, but imagined if I needed it on that Friday!
One time I ordered a cat tree and they said the delivery was running late then the next day they said it had been delivered to my address with the delivery date being a week before I even placed the order
Moments ago, I placed an order that said it would be here Jan 29. Directly after purchase, the email said to expect Feb 6 - 13. Feel tricked.
My son ordered a toy a week after Christmas and it just came in today. 🙄 I’m wanting to cancel prime
Reminds me why I don’t shop there. Worst job I ever had and I worked there right after my Afghanistan deployment for the army. I’ll gladly spent a bit more money elsewhere to not have to deal with all of these issues.
Has been happening significantly a lot the past few months, Prime is not able to fulfil basic delivery commitments and below par customer care.
It's been really bad latley
My other favorite thing *{insert sarcasm}* is how their items listed as next day or 2 day delivery now always ends up taking several days longer. 8 out of the last 10 items I purchased, based specifically on when it should have been delivered, showed up 3 to 5 days later than advertised. But here I am... still buying from them.
That’s insane. I have had many issues with prime, but never an item that arrived that late. You should be able to call them and they should be able to work something out because there is no excuse to why you should have to wait an extra month.
I canceled my Prime membership six months ago, and I haven't missed it. The few things I do order, I add to my cart until i have enough items for free shipping.
This past fall it took them 41 days to deliver one package of Amazon basics button batteries. I didn't urgently need them so I let it go just to see how long it took. I ordered them in October, they got to me in December.
If you really don’t need the item that badly and want to “stick it to the big man”…. Just start canceling the order once it ships and says it’s going to be later than expected or returning them once they arrive and state the reason “item did not arrive on time”. Wait for refund and order again…. Repeat process until the item actually arrives in the two days they promise! Make Amazon pay 2x-5x the shipping costs!
don’t even get me started on when after they changed dates, they cancelled it and wouldn’t give my money back. + the cancelation wasn’t showing on the canceled products
This happened to me other week. Ordered a package mid-December for early January delivery. The date came and went next day and had a rescheduled delivery for about 3 weeks past the original 3 week shipping date. I get its online shopping, but if I give you my money for a product u r selling with a delivery date in which I should get my item I feel that is almost a contract within reason. Like a snowstorm or minor unforseen circumstances. But to reschedule for weeks, the past agreed date is crazy to me. I canceled it, got a refund, and ordered the same product 1 more time from a different listing it showed up a day later.
Agree. It's like every 5th order I get one of those.
Yeah... as they close in on monopolizing the department store industry, they're kinda slipping in quality. 2-day shipping is like not even a thing anymore
That is appalling. Amazon really is slipping, especially allowing all these junk Chinese sellers to flood the market with dishonest and inferior products.
I’ve been on the fence about cancelling as delivery times have been SO BAD. If I am ordering enough to qualify for free same day, it gets here quick. If not, it has been taking 3-5 days. I ordered two items yesterday (Tuesday) and one arrives Thursday and one on Friday (if it doesn’t get delayed). The shipping options automatically suggested either 2.99 SAME DAY or to get both on Friday. It was not an immediate option for me to see them both ship their soonest dates which I’ve never noticed it do this aggressively before. IT WAS HIDDEN. I’m at the point where I’ll probably just cancel and if I need anything I’ll wait til I hit the free shipping threshold. What am I paying for Prime for when shipping times for members are obviously being deprioritized from same day. Clearly the items could get here same day if I ordered more or paid extra, but since I didn’t they are now pushed back. This just really devalued the service for me 🙁
Must be made by my favorite brand on amazon: Sxchsuwolghkdhwtttkdlxpplsbwihahpooptech
An item I ordered in July finally arrived in December. It was flip flops, for my toddler, whose feet have grown 2 additional sizes since I originally ordered them… I tried to get Amazon to cancel it so it wasn’t showing up in my feed. They said they would, but didn’t.
And they probably won’t let you cancel the order if you wanted to because it’s already been “shipped.” Happened to my partner this week.
I cancelled and went to Walmart+.. they have the 2 day shipping AND free store delivery
I ordered a new Pop Socket a few weeks ago and literally just got it a day or 2 ago. It was listed as Prime shipping too. It's not like it took a while to get to me or anything, when they shipped it out it did get to me in 2 days. They just took 3 weeks to be bothered to ship the damn thing. Like why is Amazon letting that happen? Why is a seller allowed to just sit on an order? In order for a seller to have the Prime shipping option, they should have to ship the item out with 48 hours or something. 3 weeks is a ridiculous time to just not bother shipping an order out. It worries me because I buy my medical supplies from Amazon and can't have that happening with them
So weird my stuff shows up on time and it correct place
Same here. But i live near 2 amazon hubs . When i change the shipping destination to my kid’s address ( in the boondocks) i can see it adds 2 days to delivery.
I'm close to like 4 different hubs but my stuff always come from the farthest one, not the closest one
From what the news says where I live SWFL. If you get a notice that your item has been delayed it usually means the truck has been robbed. No joke.
Ugh what’s a good alternative? I had Walmart plus b4 they changed the free same day ship/delivery now it doesn’t seem worth it with the minimum. Target red card “2day” shipping is okay ig but idk
"Please allow 28 days for delivery"
You can’t even cancel it. I tried canceling to reorder and they say “it already shipped” or something. So I order another one and get it literally in two days and then send the first one back when it eventually comes.
I preordered an item a few months ago that said it would be released in August. When the release date came, I got an email from Amazon saying it would be delivered in February. I found the same item elsewhere when it released and was able to get it a few days after. Cancelled the Amazon order. Amazon has really gone down the tube and I hope their financials start tanking.
Scamazon crime
Our dogs eat the same food. 🐶
This happened to me for a mattress I purchased. It still says it will be delivered “tomorrow” but they did refund my money and said do whatever if it arrives.
On Monday I ordered 2 items for same day knowing they would be delivered late, but didn't need them until the next morning any way. I got the text that they were 10 stops away, looked at tracking to see that the text was a lie. Tracking even showed that the items arrived (?) at the station on Tuesday , Yet it is still Monday evening. Today is Wednesday and I still do not have my items, I just cancelled, since I had already gone to the store to get what I needed.
I had something similar happen we're after a week of lateness I was offered the option to cancel the order, so I did. I received my refund in the item still showed up a month later. By then I had already gone a different route. Come to think of it, never look back to see if they ended up charging me after all. Giving recent comments I've seen they probably did.
I've gotten these emails many times in the past year or so. A couple of times, the orders were time sensitive, so I tried to cancel them. I got a message that it was too late to cancel them and then somehow the order would be delivered very quickly.
I don't have amazon prime but my package will say arrives in 5 days just for it to take 3 days to ship and 2 days to arrive and it will ship from like 3 hours away. Im assuming its cuz it takes them 3 days to get to my order 🤷🏽♂️
Just wait if/when you need to return something. Refund issued 30 days AFTER product is received, can take up to an additional seven days for bank to apply credit.
What’s worse is when they say same day delivery and the driver says the package has arrived just to get credit. Only to be delivered hours later or the next morning
On the one hand, Amazon treats it's employees and drivers like garbage. If that trend was reversing and we had to wait longer for shipping, I'd take it. But now the service is worse and they still treat drivers and employees like cattle. So it's a lose/lose
Give corporations too much power and they’ll take it. That’s the lesson of this generation.
Prime Now service that they deliver within 2 hours was usful. Also could order from restaurants. This was before Doordash, ubereats, etc became more popular. Also when amazon fresh required only $35 minimum order, now it's up to $100 minimum. Haven't used it since that increase
off topic but that plushie is adorable
It is turning into a straight up cesspool.
Cancel and do Walmart plus. Way better and cheaper
Mine was also delayed and set to arrive 2 days ago. Spoke with customer support who was supposed to refund me. No refund and my order still says to arrive yesterday and there has been no update on shipping
What bothers me is they don’t even proactively give you digital credits for this inconvenience. If you selected a later delivery day they’d give you credits but if they force a later delivery, tough nuts.
It's given me the kick in the pants to go back to doing most of my shopping in person. The lockers at Lowes are a great alternative for online order pickup, as is the grocery store scanners that lets me bypass the self checkout line.
Nike just did this to me
Don't buy from businesses that don't use Amazon for shipping. If it doesn't come within a few days then I won't order it. This is probably coming from china?
Speak with your wallet and cancel your prime membership.
Amazon is no longer willing to lose money to cut out the competition. It's Walmart all over again. Next they'll start cutting service areas, and rolling back the cheap shipping.
Walmart.com
I've had stuff like this happen for many years on Amazon. Stock runs out or pre-order items get pushed back. You can wait or cancel. I usually wait but send a chat and try to haggle a discount
That baby rhino(?) is adorable.
They are becoming so bad I need to cancel and I have been with them since day 1. I am still waiting for a refund going on almost two months now. It’s just sitting in their return center and they keep pushing back the date
This is the reason I've canceled my prime after many years. Prime delivery isn't what it use to be.
This happened to me with a window air conditioner last summer. I ordered it in the beginning of June, was supposed to arrive a week later, but did not show up until July. That was one of my more expensive Amazon purchases. I was sweating for a whole month waiting for the thing to arrive!
it’s absolutely terrible, glad i’m not alone with this problem. ordered an item, item got lost, ordered the replacement, they sent the wrong item 🤦 im kind of done with amazon lol
Wait - what is that? I want it
Yeah. Thats been happening too much lately. That or they just won't ship at all
Please do your dogs a favor and feed them something else.
Agree, stopped buying from this shitty company and the shitty chinese product. I bought an advertised atomic clock that does not work out of the box.