Amazon.Com - More Suck For Your Buck

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I used to love Amazon.Com, back when they just sold media of various types. Back before they decided to become the Wal-Mart of the internet. Yes, I realize Wal-Mart has a site as well, but they don't suck as much as Amazon.Com, which is something I never thought I would find myself writing.

I used to have to limit my purchases to Amazon.Com only, as most of the secondary sellers would not ship to P.O. boxes, and I do not have a street mailbox where I live since the snowplows always knock them down. There are many roads and streets where I live where you will not see a single street mailbox. This was never a problem in the past though, as Amazon always had everything I wanted to order.

Sometime between my last purchase and tonight they seem to have implemented some new policy. I can still buy books through Amazon and have them shipped to my P.O. box, but they will no longer ship video games to me. I double and triple checked to make sure they weren't coming from Target or another of their secondary sellers, but no, they were all from Amazon. My $250.00+ purchase wound up having to be trimmed back to $40.00, and I would have taken the entire order elsewhere except they had one book I was ordering as a gift that B&N doesn't have.

Cliffs: Amazon.Com sucks.

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Who are you?

Have you called them and asked why the policy change?
Amazon.com: 800-201-7575

 

[eflat]

I love Amazon too.

 

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[Squisher]

Originally posted by: adambooth
I feel your pain. I'm in Alaska and we don't have mail delivery to residences. Everyone in town gets their mail from private couriers (UPS, FedEx, DHL) or we have to go to the post office where everyone has a PO Box.

I believe the OP is a fellow snow eater.

 

[StageLeft]

I still like amazon.

 

[loup garou]

I :heart: Amazon

 

[jandrews]

Actually I love amazon and frankly dont use it if you dont like it. I was lookin up friggin ogre battle 64 on the internet the other day and amazon came up as the first place selling it. Not to mention I got new in box baldurs gate games 10 years after it was released. Anyway, they rock, end o story!

 

[nakedfrog]

It sounds to me more like your snowplow drivers and/or mailbox placement sucks.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: mugs
I :heart: Amazon.com with Amazon Prime.

:thumbsup:

 

[Engraver]

One of our local UPS drivers is a jackass and doesn't deliver sometimes, or won't deliver in this case. He failed to deliver it for some reason and it was sent back to Amazon. I e-mailed them about it and the same day they shipped me another one Next Day Air. A week later the original package came and they told me to just keep it.

 

[lokiju]

I use Amazon all the time.

I do most of my Christmas shopping with it even.

It's a hell of a lot nicer than going to the stores and fighting th crowds.

 

[wyvrn]

I recently ordered books from their used section, and it takes almost a month to get them. Their delivery time is like a 2 week window, and that is 2 weeks after you order. I won't use that service again, I'll just go to half price books instead. Their main service has been fine for me when I have chosen to use them.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Argo
I was just able to pick Grand Theft Auto for PSP and ship it to the P.O.Box. Is there a specific error you're getting? It's possible that certain games are only available at certain FCs that do not support USPS, although I find that highly unlikely.

You can always call customer support as well.

It was every single video game in the order, all were from Amazon. They could deliver the books from the same order to my P.O. box, but none of the games.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I used to love Amazon.Com, back when they just sold media of various types. Back before they decided to become the Wal-Mart of the internet. Yes, I realize Wal-Mart has a site as well, but they don't suck as much as Amazon.Com, which is something I never thought I would find myself writing.

I used to have to limit my purchases to Amazon.Com only, as most of the secondary sellers would not ship to P.O. boxes, and I do not have a street mailbox where I live since the snowplows always knock them down. There are many roads and streets where I live where you will not see a single street mailbox. This was never a problem in the past though, as Amazon always had everything I wanted to order.

Sometime between my last purchase and tonight they seem to have implemented some new policy. I can still buy books through Amazon and have them shipped to my P.O. box, but they will no longer ship video games to me. I double and triple checked to make sure they weren't coming from Target or another of their secondary sellers, but no, they were all from Amazon. My $250.00+ purchase wound up having to be trimmed back to $40.00, and I would have taken the entire order elsewhere except they had one book I was ordering as a gift that B&N doesn't have.

Cliffs: Amazon.Com sucks.

no amazon does not suck

get a real shipping addy like the rest of the modern world and stop bitching because you live in the dark ages

 

[torpid]

I love amazon, but I do wish there was a flag I could turn on that would only show prime items in my searches, or at least segregate the screen showing prime on one side and non prime on the other.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I used to love Amazon.Com, back when they just sold media of various types. Back before they decided to become the Wal-Mart of the internet. Yes, I realize Wal-Mart has a site as well, but they don't suck as much as Amazon.Com, which is something I never thought I would find myself writing.

I used to have to limit my purchases to Amazon.Com only, as most of the secondary sellers would not ship to P.O. boxes, and I do not have a street mailbox where I live since the snowplows always knock them down. There are many roads and streets where I live where you will not see a single street mailbox. This was never a problem in the past though, as Amazon always had everything I wanted to order.

Sometime between my last purchase and tonight they seem to have implemented some new policy. I can still buy books through Amazon and have them shipped to my P.O. box, but they will no longer ship video games to me. I double and triple checked to make sure they weren't coming from Target or another of their secondary sellers, but no, they were all from Amazon. My $250.00+ purchase wound up having to be trimmed back to $40.00, and I would have taken the entire order elsewhere except they had one book I was ordering as a gift that B&N doesn't have.

Cliffs: Amazon.Com sucks.

no amazon does not suck

get a real shipping addy like the rest of the modern world and stop bitching because you live in the dark ages

Did you even read the whole post? Does it not strike you as stupid that they would ship some items to my address but not others, despite the fact that all were coming from Amazon.Com?

 

[maddogchen]

Originally posted by: wyvrn
I recently ordered books from their used section, and it takes almost a month to get them. Their delivery time is like a 2 week window, and that is 2 weeks after you order. I won't use that service again, I'll just go to half price books instead. Their main service has been fine for me when I have chosen to use them.

i ordered new books and it took them a week to ship my order and another week to receive it.

 

[Reckoner]

I for one welcome my amazon.com overlord

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
When I lived in the dorms, I was able to get stuff from amazon.

My address was something like this:

Name
40XX Mesa Road, 102C
Irvine, CA, 92612

But we did have a mail room where we had to pick up our packages from.

That's how it was like for me. When you received a package, you had a paper in your mailbox and later on they started sending e-mails. All carriers worked with the college so I had no problems.

I also use Amazon fairly often as their prices are just that nice. I'm an Amazon Prime member as well so I get free 2-day.

 

[wyvrn]

Originally posted by: maddogchen

Originally posted by: wyvrn
I recently ordered books from their used section, and it takes almost a month to get them. Their delivery time is like a 2 week window, and that is 2 weeks after you order. I won't use that service again, I'll just go to half price books instead. Their main service has been fine for me when I have chosen to use them.

i ordered new books and it took them a week to ship my order and another week to receive it.

Read comprehension = teh win.

I was talking about used books, which come from other people who use amazon as an intermediary. The general format is loosey goosey and it takes too long. As far as normal new orders, Amazon is ok for me.

 

[SmoochyTX]

I :heart: Amazon!

 

[oogabooga]

The used books depend on the seller. I usually get books in 1-2 weeks. If I really want to dig into the book, i'll go to Barnes and Nobles to pick it up right then and there. If a seller takes too long I don't think it's really amazon's fault for that but the seller just sucking.

Does anyone have experience with returns with amazon? I was reading their policy and it isn't particularly lenient and they have almost no mention of opened items with 30 days.

Originally posted by: FleshLight
40XX Mesa Road, 102C
Irvine, CA, 92612

Sup mesa court atot buddy.

 

[Flashram]

No problems with Amazon here. Amazon Prime FTW.

 

[Jschmuck2]

I lived in Middle Earth. Christ that place was full of nerds. I should've seen it coming.

 

[KLin]

I have no problems with Amazon. Of course I have all my stuff delivered to my work office.