Amazon Prime Day 2019 (15th & 16th)

The high horse brigade

noodler wrote: »

Think that was the poster's point, that prime allows free delivery without needing to reach the £20 threshold.

Exactly my point, I ordered a single item for £7.99 yesterday and got it delivered to my door for free something I can't do without prime

dodzy

But it's tainted by the sheer amount of lovely stuff that has to be redirected to PM/PW, Prime aside. Firesticks and dots would have been pretty popular this week, along with plenty of other bits & bobs.

secondrowgal

secondrowgal wrote: »

Got another guy and it appears that my Irish credit card is the problem. But I have a UK credit card, so I can switch those over and I should have full content. I'll update you when I have done this (card is at home) and let you know if it works.

This works

sdanseo

teachinggal123 wrote: »

Any monitor recommendations?

Preferably something 4K and 28” -32”.

I grabbed two of these for £199 each. WQHD will be plenty for me at 27" and my desk won't fit two 32" which would be overkill anyway.

Ebuyer weren't doing them for £201 at the time (and at that price not covered by Amazons usual policies) so I have to say it looked like a better bargain yesterday, especially since the prime benefit doesn't really exist re delivery. Still a good price, everywhere else is in the £300 / €350 range.

Update on the live chat: he allegedly assigned it to a different delivery agent, when it gets despatched tonight or tomorrow it "should" arrive faster. Watch this space!

Oh, and I also succumbed to an echo dot, 2 each of their chinest smart plugs smart bulbs, a pair of Taotronics headphones to replace the excellent £49 set I got last year a stupidly sat on, and some underwear that was half price. Odd combinations.

The high horse brigade

dodzy wrote: »

But it's tainted by the sheer amount of lovely stuff that has to be redirected to PM/PW, Prime aside. Firesticks and dots would have been pretty popular this week, along with plenty of other bits & bobs.

I have none of those, I'm already well kitted out with Google stuff I have a Eufy RoboVac coming to my door next Monday the only sale item I've bought. The only difficulty I've had is batteries.

Jaklmex

Does amazon use sophisticated selling techniques?

It always reminds me of an old fashioned Street market

my3cents

Jaklmex wrote: »

Does amazon use sophisticated selling techniques?

It always reminds me of an old fashioned Street market

Are you are troll or just very naive?

Jaklmex

my3cents wrote: »

Are you are troll or just very naive?

You first

TheDriver

Everytime I use the TV service, I get sick of trying to find included with prime stuff and just give up to go back to Netflix. For the student rate, its worth it to be able to order any value and get free quick delivery.

Suckit

The high horse brigade wrote: »

Exactly my point, I ordered a single item for £7.99 yesterday and got it delivered to my door for free something I can't do without prime

There are ways to do that without prime, very easily.

But my point was that I am unable to use prime at the moment. I could set up another account and it may work, but I only wanted it for the prime days and neither customer support chat or phone seem to know what the issue is.

It's not a big deal.

On a side note, do amazon have a large library of amazon made tv shows and/or movies?


I know of a few of them, just wondering if they were big. And the Live football coming this year too.

The high horse brigade

Suckit wrote: »

There are ways to do that without prime, very easily.

Do fill us in?

Monokne

Yeah I don't think you're getting overnight next day deliver from Amazon to ROI without spending a lot more than 7.99. I certainly never have without at least a Prime trial.

my3cents

Monokne wrote: »

Yeah I don't think you're getting overnight next day deliver from Amazon to ROI without spending a lot more than 7.99. I certainly never have without at least a Prime trial.

Without Prime they can take a week just to pick the item before they even send it out :mad:

DelBoy Trotter

I ordered three items in one order on Tuesday morning. They have decided to send them all out separately. One is due to arrive on Friday, one on Saturday and one on Monday :rolleyes:

my3cents

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

I ordered three items in one order on Tuesday morning. They have decided to send them all out separately. One is due to arrive on Friday, one on Saturday and one on Monday :rolleyes:

They could all be in different warehouses?

Have you seen the size of their warehouses? You'd want a courier just to deliver an item from one end of the warehouse to the other

Monokne

my3cents wrote: »

Without Prime they can take a week just to pick the item before they even send it out :mad:

Yeah for sure.

Think yer man is talking nonsense.

TheDriver

all mine are coming within 3 days, all via anpost

Kintarō Hattori

I ordered late-ish on Monday and had two separate orders on my desk late Wednesday morning. It's hard to argue with that really. I can never understand people who complain that they don't get items the next day. Prime is primarily a UK service that we're lucky enough to avail of. It might not be next day delivery but as already pointed out it's a whole hell of a lot quicker than ordering without Prime.

AvonEnniskerry

The poor postman on our part as everything has been packaged separately. Personally it doesn't bother me but I'm sure he could do without all the individual packages. Secondly. Has anyone seen refunds being issued back into their accounts also. It seems we were charged separately for all the packages. Which is fine and normal. But also issued with two refunds of two of the amounts. So I'm a little confused

Jaklmex

I asked the postman one day about packages, he said 90% is amazon

Prime is great for free delivery atm but I reckon they'll dilute the service when they get more switched over

Discodog

my3cents wrote: »

Without Prime they can take a week just to pick the item before they even send it out :mad:

I have had orders that took over a week to be dispatched.

The worst thing is the poor search & the swamping of some categories by products shipped from China.

Kenjataimu

Their search has always been poor.

I don't browse amazon randomly, too frustrating.

I'm usually looking for a specific item or I let HUKD do the bargain hunting for me (and repost it here)

Jaklmex

I see they have big warning labels on packaging with batteries

I wonder how long addresspal will keep taking them

my3cents

Jaklmex wrote: »

I see they have big warning labels on packaging with batteries

I wonder how long addresspal will keep taking them

They don't take them

ablelocks

my3cents wrote: »

They don't take them

I've had batteries delivered using addresspal? And I've an order from amazon arrived to them today...i hope it doesn't get stopped!

bromley52

I have ordered phones from Amazon and they were delivered with a battery label on the delivery box

Hayezer

Ordered a Huawei Matebook D and some Sony headphones on the 15th, headphones were delivered today and the Huawei order had no estimated dispatch/delivery date until today which is now estimated between 25th July-19th August....thats a pretty wide estimate.......and the app says "Arriving August 19th". Anyone have any experience with these kind of estimates and wheter they are normally on the sooner rather than later side?

my3cents

Just talking to my postman who asked if I got my saw the other day (son signed for it) I told him I'd sent it back because of the missing parts/damage and we got talking about Amazon Warehouse deals.

He delivered one TV to a woman from Amazon Warehouse and the box had a 3-4 year old TV in it not even the same manufacturer. She sent it back with the postman - rural post can take Amazon returns if you print out the returns label.

RoYoBo

Hayezer wrote: »

Ordered a Huawei Matebook D and some Sony headphones on the 15th, headphones were delivered today and the Huawei order had no estimated dispatch/delivery date until today which is now estimated between 25th July-19th August....thats a pretty wide estimate.......and the app says "Arriving August 19th". Anyone have any experience with these kind of estimates and wheter they are normally on the sooner rather than later side?

I have the same estimate for an Echo Show that was ordered as part of a deal that included a Neos web camera. The camera was delivered today but I'll have a long wait for the Show until August 19th. Since the webcam needs the Show to work properly for what I want, it'll be out of the return period before I can properly/fully test it!

RoYoBo

my3cents wrote: »

Just talking to my postman who asked if I got my saw the other day (son signed for it) I told him I'd sent it back because of the missing parts/damage and we got talking about Amazon Warehouse deals.

He delivered one TV to a woman from Amazon Warehouse and the box had a 3-4 year old TV in it not even the same manufacturer. She sent it back with the postman - rural post can take Amazon returns if you print out the returns label.

Reports like yours have put me off Warehouse 'deals' in the past - just not worth the bother. Even if the item is/seems apparently good enough at delivery, I'd be seriously concerned about hidden faults that might show up later.

Interesting to know about rural returns via the postman though.

my3cents

RoYoBo wrote: »

I have the same estimate for an Echo Show that was ordered as part of a deal that included a Neos web camera. The camera was delivered today but I'll have a long wait for the Show until August 19th. Since the webcam needs the Show to work properly for what I want, it'll be out of the return period before I can properly/fully test it!

Contact support I'd be surprised if they didn't extend the returns period.

Berty

my3cents wrote: »

He delivered one TV to a woman from Amazon Warehouse and the box had a 3-4 year old TV in it not even the same manufacturer. She sent it back with the postman - rural post can take Amazon returns if you print out the returns label.

I had wondered who delivers the AMAZON TVs, so it's An Post. This might explain so why they only really cater for TVs up to 50".

charlietheminxx

I bought a TV on Prime Day and it's being delivered to my office.... this may have been a mistake!

I'm after getting a total of £15 credit on my account because of 3 complaints about my Prime day orders.

First one was a keyboard I ordered that was supposed to arrive tomorrow. It changed to Monday and I got on to ask them why as I would need to make sure someone was at the house. They apologised for the change and gave me a fiver.

Then a pressure cooker I ordered gave a date of Monday but then changed to Wednesday. Same deal, another fiver.

Then finally the bloody keyboard arrived today instead of Monday. I got on to ask what the story was, and lo and behold, another fiver.

Amazon's customer service is deadly!

Only thing is, they only are valid against items sold and fulfilled by Amazon. Anyone got any suggestions?

Hogzy

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm after getting a total of £15 credit on my account because of 3 complaints about my Prime day orders.

First one was a keyboard I ordered that was supposed to arrive tomorrow. It changed to Monday and I got on to ask them why as I would need to make sure someone was at the house. They apologised for the change and gave me a fiver.

Then a pressure cooker I ordered gave a date of Monday but then changed to Wednesday. Same deal, another fiver.

Then finally the bloody keyboard arrived today instead of Monday. I got on to ask what the story was, and lo and behold, another fiver.

Amazon's customer service is deadly!

Only thing is, they only are valid against items sold and fulfilled by Amazon. Anyone got any suggestions?

I have made multiple complaints like these over the past 12 months and I have received nothing but a "were sorry" from Amazon, no complimentary months or 5 pounds credit or anything.

Im noticing that their customer service is getting considerably worse for my experiences anyway. I ordered a food item during prime day and after ordering noticed it was cheaper on amazon pantry. They refused to refund me the difference despite both being the exact same product and both sold and distributed by amazon. Wasnt impressed with that at all.

Hogzy

Hogzy wrote: »

I have made multiple complaints like these over the past 12 months and I have received nothing but a "were sorry" from Amazon, no complimentary months or 5 pounds credit or anything.

Im noticing that their customer service is getting considerably worse for my experiences anyway. I ordered a food item during prime day and after ordering noticed it was cheaper on amazon pantry. They refused to refund me the difference despite both being the exact same product and both sold and distributed by amazon. Wasnt impressed with that at all.

Jesus I am surprised to hear that. I must have gotten lucky.

AlmightyCushion

Hogzy wrote: »

I have made multiple complaints like these over the past 12 months and I have received nothing but a "were sorry" from Amazon, no complimentary months or 5 pounds credit or anything.

Im noticing that their customer service is getting considerably worse for my experiences anyway. I ordered a food item during prime day and after ordering noticed it was cheaper on amazon pantry. They refused to refund me the difference despite both being the exact same product and both sold and distributed by amazon. Wasnt impressed with that at all.

Could you have cancelled and re-ordered? Still not ideal obviously.

Discodog

RoYoBo wrote: »

Reports like yours have put me off Warehouse 'deals' in the past - just not worth the bother. Even if the item is/seems apparently good enough at delivery, I'd be seriously concerned about hidden faults that might show up later.

Interesting to know about rural returns via the postman though.

I have bought a few warehouse deals with no problems. They have always been perfect apart from damaged packaging.

k3v1n

Just went to cancel my Prime trial. They offered to extend the trial by 30 days. (Actually before I went to do this - it just popped up when I went to the My Prime page on Amazon.)

I chose the extend trial option, and then cancelled anyway.

Free prime until September 14th now.

Hogzy

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Could you have cancelled and re-ordered? Still not ideal obviously.

It had already despatched, I know I have the right to refuse the delivery and have it sent back or return it under my cooling off rights but for the sake of 5 euro its not worth the hassle. Just frustrating to be honest!

my3cents

Hogzy wrote: »

It had already despatched, I know I have the right to refuse the delivery and have it sent back or return it under my cooling off rights but for the sake of 5 euro its not worth the hassle. Just frustrating to be honest!

I was told to refuse delivery of an item that I didn't need (bought to complement a Warehouse item that didn't work and was sent back) and it was delivered with no signature required by the postman.

seannash

Hogzy wrote: »

It had already despatched, I know I have the right to refuse the delivery and have it sent back or return it under my cooling off rights but for the sake of 5 euro its not worth the hassle. Just frustrating to be honest!

Fulfilled by Amazon could be two different shops selling it though and Amazon handles the fulfillment. Those shops can set prices at whatever level they see fit.
I'm not sure why Amazon should have footed the bill for this

Hogzy

seannash wrote: »

Fulfilled by Amazon could be two different shops selling it though and Amazon handles the fulfillment. Those shops can set prices at whatever level they see fit.
I'm not sure why Amazon should have footed the bill for this

Both were sold and distributed by Amazon. Not a third party seller.

machiavellianme

Noticed that I had an email from Amazon prime in my spam folder telling me that if I watch 5 minutes of any prime video before midnight, I'm eligible for a 5 pounds promo code.
Maybe others are too?

Enrico Palazzo

Monokne wrote: »

Yeah for sure.

Think yer man is talking nonsense.

Well, that was my experience too with free delivery non-prime orders, especially those that were a combination of several low value items. A week or more of waiting till dispatch was pretty much a standard. It was different with higher value, single-item orders - those were dispatched quicker.

Standman

Ordered a Huawei phone as part of the Prime Day promo on the Monday, by Thursday it was still showing "We'll email you when we have a delivery date".

Talked to support and they initially told us to wait as it was being prepared for delivery, but when pushed they admitted it was out of stock. They said they'd send it on once they get restocked but they'd no idea when that would be.

Why do they sell things that are out of stock? Kind of bad form especially when half the reason you get Prime is for the quick delivery...

Enrico Palazzo

Standman wrote: »

Why do they sell things that are out of stock? Kind of bad form especially when half the reason you get Prime is for the quick delivery...

They may be copying airlines and overselling to account for, in this case, the statistical share of orders that will get cancelled before they are dispatched.

leck

I got my Prime Day orders yesterday. I subscribed to Prime on 16th (Tue) and cancelled Prime sub last night. I thought there was about a seven-day grace period but it seems not.

sweetie

My top bargain of the Prime days arrived on Saturday, the ADJ focus spot one moving head, cheers to whoever posted it and sorry if I got the only one. Also got the Kraftwerk 3d album boxset for €70 from the warehouse with a tiny split in the seam of the case.