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Why I am Breaking Up With Amazon

olds

olds

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For work purchases.

I am supposed to find the cheapest deal when buying items for work. That is often Amazon.

But Amazon, you have this annoying habit. I tried to overlook it at first but it has grown into a festering sore.

Let’s say I want to order nine of the exact same items. Before I do this, I have to fill out a purchase document and get it signed. It shows the number of items and the cost. When I get my invoice, it has to match the purchase document.

So I add the nine items to my cart and process the transaction, seems easy enough. But wait, what does Amazon do? They ship the nine items in 9 shipments and bill my credit card 9 times. (Total cost/9).

Now, I have to edit my purchase document to reflect 1/9th of the original cost and make 8 more purchase documents. Then my boss has to sign all 9.

But I am not done yet. When Admin audits my credit card they will want to know why I ordered 9 of the exact same items from Amazon in nine separate transactions.

So Amazon, you may tempt me with the tight dress and low prices but we are through. I am moving on to the next girl.

/notNuclearNed
 
Hmm, I haven't looked, but they don't have an option against split shipments?

BRB

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Hmmm, there seems to be language stating you can choose to have it shipped in as few packages as possible. But I walked through an order of a few items and there was never a box to check for such an option. Maybe with free Prime shipping they don't give the option, not sure.
 
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My wife is going to be very confused when nine copies of Deadwood: The Complete Series arrive at our door. I don't know if "I was testing the veracity of the claim that ordering duplicate items parses out into multiple shipments" will fly as an excuse.
 
Yeah, I have similar issues at work. I just put everything on a company credit card now & prep financial because they way they ship & bill can be a headache. Although I had similar issues with Newegg Business, especially with the different types of pricing & shipping (both of which were supposed to be better & were not). Switched to a regular Newegg Premier account, MUCH better. I still use an Amazon Prime account for a lot of stuff (yay for included 2-day shipping on most stuff) though.
 
Howard said:
Why would they ship in separate shipments, if stock was available? It's not good for either party.
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Maybe it's not all in one warehouse...?
Although 9 different ones seems rather extreme, although it's possible OP is exaggerating.
 
Wow that does sound pretty retarded. I don't order that often from Amazon but I find it's hit and miss as far as shipping goes. If it comes from a 3rd party vendor it can take weeks before it even leaves the warehouse (guessing the 3rd party's warehouse and not Amazon's).

Though I find places like Tigerdirect and NCIX can be bad for that too. All the times that I've ordered stuff to build a computer they send each component as a separate package. I end up having to track and pickup like 10 different packages.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow that does sound pretty retarded. I don't order that often from Amazon but I find it's hit and miss as far as shipping goes. If it comes from a 3rd party vendor it can take weeks before it even leaves the warehouse (guessing the 3rd party's warehouse and not Amazon's).

Though I find places like Tigerdirect and NCIX can be bad for that too. All the times that I've ordered stuff to build a computer they send each component as a separate package. I end up having to track and pickup like 10 different packages.
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a lot of times when you buy from a 3rd party at amazon they are dropshipping it, possible even from a foreign country like china, hence the long delivery time and multiple shipments
 
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How are you ordering these items? And how are they being sold? If you are purchasing 9, from 9 separate vendors within Amazon, this makes sense. If they are all from Amazon, you have to be ordering them individually.
 
amazon is in the fulfillment business themselves. meaning they store and sell things for 3rd party sellers, but ship them as if they are their own products (you can get prime shipping) but that means then arent stored in the same warehouse
 
amazon uses their fancy metrics to determine what distribution centers carry stock. if it's fulfilled by amazon a third party has to send their items to multiple distribution centers. if it's commingled inventory, what the customer receives could actually be the inventory of another third party. it's basically a shared pool. example would be true detective blu rays.

if it's merchant fulfilled, the third party stores the items and handles distribution themselves.

I thought there was an option to keep everything in one shipment.
 
You think that's bad? I need 3 signatures for everything over $1K and two of these guys are never available. 90% of the things I buy cost over that. Oh, I'm sorry, did the price change 10 times since you started that paperwork process?

REDO!
 
I think there business model is geared very much for selling to the end home consumer and not B2B although they should update their options because they eventually will lose customers like you who can't justify 8-9 shipping charges for the same thing.
 
And then it turned out there was only one girl, and you just scorned her.
 
oldsmoboat said:
For work purchases.



I am supposed to find the cheapest deal when buying items for work. That is often Amazon.



But Amazon, you have this annoying habit. I tried to overlook it at first but it has grown into a festering sore.



Let’s say I want to order nine of the exact same items. Before I do this, I have to fill out a purchase document and get it signed. It shows the number of items and the cost. When I get my invoice, it has to match the purchase document.



So I add the nine items to my cart and process the transaction, seems easy enough. But wait, what does Amazon do? They ship the nine items in 9 shipments and bill my credit card 9 times. (Total cost/9).



Now, I have to edit my purchase document to reflect 1/9th of the original cost and make 8 more purchase documents. Then my boss has to sign all 9.



But I am not done yet. When Admin audits my credit card they will want to know why I ordered 9 of the exact same items from Amazon in nine separate transactions.



So Amazon, you may tempt me with the tight dress and low prices but we are through. I am moving on to the next girl.



/notNuclearNed
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Sounds like your companies practices are not flexible enough.
 
I still did not get an answer if you had this all in your cart and proceeded to do a single check out. Or, if the item in question was sold and distributed by Amazon itself.

I order off Amazon a lot and have never once had this happen, unless the item was a preorder, in which, that billed (and shipped, obviously) separate of my full order.
 
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