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Amazon I'm impressed

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dmcowen674

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Coincidentally I happened to make two different orders for things on Amazon on Tuesday. One in the morning and one later around dinner time. One box arrived the next day with both items.

I didn't check for overnight shipping either.
 
You're probably near a major shipping facility for those items.

I don't think I've ever had it happen that fast either. I lived in Seattle, PDX, and rural Oregon though... 🙁
 
I paid $5.99 for same day shipping the other day, ordered at like 6am. Was there by 7:30PM or so. Amazon is pretty good for that around here.
 
About half of the stuff I order comes in 1 day (2 day prime shipping) and the rest is there by the second day.
 
I live in the Seattle area and frequently get 2 day items the next day...or have 2 orders same day, pay overnight for one of them and have both show up the next day...never had a problem w/ them and shipping speed- or customer service/refunds.
 
I have no idea how Amazon manages to sell stuff overseas with free shipping over $125 and still make a profit even with corporate shipping rates.

I'm thinking of it because I ordered a $100 Seasonic PSU and a $100 Corsair H100i with well over 7 kg in total weight...yet free shipping from U.S to Singapore, but the cheapest return shipping is more than $200 easily...
 
Amazon has quite recently been criticized for its work conditions .. here on AT as well .. people falling over from exaustion, zero downtime from workers, constantly increasing workloads (gotta pick dat cotton, boi) ..
 
StrangerGuy said:
I have no idea how Amazon manages to sell stuff overseas with free shipping over $125 and still make a profit even with corporate shipping rates.
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They don't. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/24/amazon-announces-second-quarter-results/13107009/

"Amazon.com shares tumbled Thursday after the e-commerce giant posted a... $126 million loss for its second quarter despite revenue of $19.34 billion."

"Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru blamed the loss solely on Amazon's Prime program, which offers two-day free shipments to customers for $99 a year."
 
dmcowen674 said:
Coincidentally I happened to make two different orders for things on Amazon on Tuesday. One in the morning and one later around dinner time. One box arrived the next day with both items.

I didn't check for overnight shipping either.
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Indy has several major Amazon warehouses (my suburb has 2 warehouses within 4 miles of my house). So in general, things arrive pretty fast here and in many (most?) cases, you can even get same-day delivery.
 
allisolm said:
They don't. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/24/amazon-announces-second-quarter-results/13107009/

"Amazon.com shares tumbled Thursday after the e-commerce giant posted a... $126 million loss for its second quarter despite revenue of $19.34 billion."

"Forrester analyst Sucharita Mulpuru blamed the loss solely on Amazon's Prime program, which offers two-day free shipments to customers for $99 a year."
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Yep, that's why they introduced the "No Rush" shipping option to stem the losses associated with Prime shipping. It is pretty cheap for them to give $1 video credits (which expire and can't be used on many of the really new titles) rather than eat shipping costs. And for my part, I don't generally REALLY need most things in 2 days so I'll just pile up video credits instead (even though most of my "No Rush" items do tend to arrive in 2 days).
 
IndyColtsFan said:
Yep, that's why they introduced the "No Rush" shipping option to stem the losses associated with Prime shipping. It is pretty cheap for them to give $1 video credits (which expire and can't be used on many of the really new titles) rather than eat shipping costs. And for my part, I don't generally REALLY need most things in 2 days so I'll just pile up video credits instead (even though most of my "No Rush" items do tend to arrive in 2 days).
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The shipping losses will seem like peanuts when losses from the failed Fire phone hits. And I expect their tablet sales to underperform going forward as the cheap tablet market is saturated.
 
Ordered something for $1200 the other day via Amazon from a third party. Prime eligible.

They sent me the correct item but in a wrong color. Amazon offered me -25% for keeping it. I said yes. Awesome.
 
id probably order a lot more stuff i didnt need if they gave a way to know if it was the warehouse thats only an 1.5hrs away in richmond, va. its almost always in sitting my city post office the next day ~4am but doesnt always get delivered that same day for some reason.
 
Why would you, of all people, order from the Walmart of online shopping? A company that deflates prices to knock out mom-and-pop shops, that allows small companies to sell through them and then notoriously competes against them when their product becomes hot, and has an abysmal track record with employee welfare in their distribution centers? That's not like you Dave.

BTW, I love Amazon. Just ordered the Amazon Fire TV today.
 
ponyo said:
The shipping losses will seem like peanuts when losses from the failed Fire phone hits. And I expect their tablet sales to underperform going forward as the cheap tablet market is saturated.
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And their FireTV is already on sale, so that is looking bad.
 
Most recent order I placed with Amazon was on 8/6 for an in-stock item, and it still hasn't arrived (scheduled for delivery today).

Sometimes they are fast. Sometimes they are not.
 
We live far enough from a distribution point we rarely get stuff in 1 day that is supposed to take 2.

So one day I order something I really need and pay the $3.99 upgrade to next day. Later in the day I think of something else I need and choose the 2 day prime shipping. Next day I get a box with both items.
 
amazon just doesn't give a crap about their margins. they work volume. ups and fedex started charging amazon more for their wasted space so that cut into their margins. I noticed they started using lasership more for my packages.

bezos is currently more interested in making money from amazons services. streaming, cloud, fulfillment center, grocery services, etc.
 
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