Amazon

MugsGame

Sorry and thanks, you're quite right, great stuff! I was confusing it with other Brexit grace periods.

1huge1

spakman wrote: »

Yes, but between 8-9am there's a tailback to get into citywest. Now you'll have a fleet of amazon trucks on top of that.
Maybe they'll be on the road earlier, and maybe citywest offices will never be as busy again post-covid, who knows...

Interestingly, Amazon are also in talks to take over a large warehouse in Shannon industrial estate.

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/amazon-in-talks-over-key-facility-at-shannon-airport-40033977.html

Would presumably be responsible for the Western seaboard, Limerick, Cork & Galway. May significantly reduce the demand for the trucks at the Baldonnell facility to head south/south west.

spakman

MOD- <SNIP> No need to quote the whole post.

The Baldonnel Road is a country lane and already has big trucks from NVD centre using it, they have to take up the whole road when exiting their depot which is just after a 90 degree bend in the road!
I've often had to go hard on the brakes to allow room for the truck to pull out and then put on my flashers and hope nobody runs up my arse.
That will be a nightmare if Amazon trucks are also trying to use the road.

starlit

1huge1 wrote: »

Interestingly, Amazon are also in talks to take over a large warehouse in Shannon industrial estate.

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/amazon-in-talks-over-key-facility-at-shannon-airport-40033977.html

Would presumably be responsible for the Western seaboard, Limerick, Cork & Galway. May signficialt yreduce the demand for the trucks at the Baldonnell facility to head south/south west.

Really that be handy for the Kerry region aswell. They have a warehouse in Cork aswell I think but say things are slow coming in from the UK at the best of times. They were on the news recently that things were moving slowing. It be great if they had an irish amazon website!

skinny90

Spent nearly 400 euro on camera filters from formatt hightech last week. They deducted the vat at checkout so I was expecting a customs bill. It arrived today with everything correctly declared on the package but I payed nothing on top
Yet with Amazon they have charged 5 pounds on top of an order with 21 pound

VG31

skinny90 wrote: »

Spent nearly 400 euro on camera filters from formatt hightech last week. They deducted the vat at checkout so I was expecting a customs bill. It arrived today with everything correctly declared on the package but I payed nothing on top
Yet with Amazon they have charged 5 pounds on top of an order with 21 pound

Sounds like you got lucky there. You definitely should have had to pay Irish VAT and possibly import duty.

The same happened to me with something from the US in December.

whiterebel

skinny90 wrote: »

Spent nearly 400 euro on camera filters from formatt hightech last week. They deducted the vat at checkout so I was expecting a customs bill. It arrived today with everything correctly declared on the package but I payed nothing on top
Yet with Amazon they have charged 5 pounds on top of an order with 21 pound

Which courier delivered it? FedEx only collect outstanding money after the delivery.

kathleen37

whiterebel wrote: »

Which courier delivered it? FedEx only collect outstanding money after the delivery.

Yes- I've been caught out this way before. Hopefully it got through.

skinny90

whiterebel wrote: »

Which courier delivered it? FedEx only collect outstanding money after the delivery.

An post via Royal Mail. It had left the UK Monday last weeek and an post only updated the tracking on Saturday. I was convinced there’d be a charge. The cost of what I paid in Sterling was declared by the company I bought it from and they had deducted tax from the check out so it really had me by surprised. Happy out mind you

skinny90

VG31 wrote: »

Sounds like you got lucky there. You definitely should have had to pay Irish VAT and possibly import duty.

The same happened to me with something from the US in December.

Yeah I know I was chatting to a few people who bought equipment lately and around 80-90 was due on equipment for similar a price

skinny90

Ordered something on Sunday from Amazon Uk, paid a little extra charge (think its import costs) and it arrived today :eek:

Im a prime customer i was expecting at least a week.

So far so normal with Amazon minus the little extra charge but sure if its not too much i wont mind

jonnybangbang

I also ordered something on Amazon on Friday Night and it arrived yesterday. I'm a prime member. it was a great turn around.

The item I ordered was advertised as £229 . When I went through the checkout it came up as £190 + £41 import/duty fees. which I assume was the UK vat being taken off and the Irish VAT applied.

MugsGame

skinny90 wrote: »

Ordered something on Sunday from Amazon Uk, paid a little extra charge (think its import costs) and it arrived today :eek:

Im a prime customer i was expecting at least a week.

So far so normal with Amazon minus the little extra charge but sure if its not too much i wont mind

Probably this was not an extra charge, but the same Irish VAT Amazon UK always charged us. Just it's now shown as import duty. If the item is cheap (<= €22) you may even escape the VAT altogether (if that's the case, you'll see the price drop at checkout once you supply a delivery address).

Mimikyu

My order still hasn't updated since Belgium scan last Monday. Think it might be missing at this stage.

VG31

My order that was shipped last Wednesday has been stuck on "Initiated customs clearance process" since then. It's due by tomorrow but it's not looking likely that I'll get it any time soon. Two orders shipped on Saturday arrived Sunday and yesterday.

Wednesday, 27 January
6:34 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Dublin, Swords
6:29 AM
Completed customs clearance process
Dublin, Swords
6:27 AM
Completed customs clearance process
Dublin, Swords
4:21 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Dublin, Swords
Package has shipped

delly

Got some items ordered on Sunday night just now, so great to have the 2 day back.

davetherave

Same as Delly, order from Sunday morning arrived in the letterbox this morning via the Amazon Man in a Van.

Gadgie

davetherave wrote: »

Same as Delly, order from Sunday morning arrived in the letterbox this morning via the Amazon Man in a Van.

What was the delivery date on the site when you ordered?

1huge1

Gadgie wrote: »

What was the delivery date on the site when you ordered?

Ordered Sunday morning early and delivered this afternoon, delivery expectation was Thursday.

Last 2 deliveries has been received within 2-3 days and are usually 2-3 days better than the expected delivery.

davetherave

Gadgie wrote: »

What was the delivery date on the site when you ordered?

This Thursday, the 4th.

harr

Captain Morgan wrote: »

My order still hasn't updated since Belgium scan last Monday. Think it might be missing at this stage.

I had an order scanned in Belgium on the 19th January with no updates at all until I got a notification that it was 4 stops away this evening and it arrived at 19.30 ..
I was definitely expecting it to be a lost cause because of the lack of scans ..

Ohmeha

Ohmeha wrote: »

My latest tracking status for my order randomly sent from Rochester to Mouscron Belgium due to be delivered my home address in Dublin now states "unable to forward parcel to different address"

Anyone any idea of the implications of this? Website and google pull nothing and my order is EU S.a.r.L

Delivery By Amazon
Trackinřg ID:
Wednesday, 27 January
9:49 AM
Unable to forward parcel to different address
Mouscron, BE
Saturday, 23 January
6:01 AM
Customs Clearance delay
Mouscron, BE
Thursday, 21 January
11:31 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Mouscron, BE
Wednesday, 20 January
9:23 PM
Completed customs clearance process
Rochester, GB
7:00 PM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Rochester, Kent GB
5:54 PM
Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Rochester, Medway GB
Package has shipped
Times are shown in the local time zone.

Quoting my own post from Jan 27th, Amazons tracking getting even more dodgy now, my laptop stuck in Mouscron now has Thursday 21st January 1.15pm retrospectively appearing stating Completed Customs Clearance Process


Delivery By Amazon
Tracking ID:
Wednesday, 27 January
9:49 AM
Unable to forward parcel to different address
Mouscron, BE
Saturday, 23 January
6:01 AM
Customs Clearance delay
Mouscron, BE
Thursday, 21 January
1:15 PM
Completed customs clearance process
Mouscron, BE
11:31 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Mouscron, BE
Wednesday, 20 January
9:23 PM
Completed customs clearance process
Rochester, GB
7:00 PM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Rochester, Kent GB
5:54 PM
Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Rochester, Medway GB
Package has shipped
Times are shown in the local time zone.

Ogham

Ohmeha wrote: »

Quoting my own post from Jan 27th, Amazons tracking getting even more dodgy now, my laptop stuck in Mouscron now has Thursday 21st January 1.15pm retrospectively appearing stating Completed Customs Clearance Process


Delivery By Amazon
Tracking ID:
Wednesday, 27 January
9:49 AM
Unable to forward parcel to different address
Mouscron, BE
Saturday, 23 January
6:01 AM
Customs Clearance delay
Mouscron, BE
Thursday, 21 January
1:15 PM
Completed customs clearance process
Mouscron, BE
11:31 AM
Initiated customs clearance process
Mouscron, BE
Wednesday, 20 January
9:23 PM
Completed customs clearance process
Rochester, GB
7:00 PM
Package departed an Amazon facility
Rochester, Kent GB
5:54 PM
Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Rochester, Medway GB
Package has shipped
Times are shown in the local time zone.

The orders don't go to Belgium (pretty sure). It's where Amazon's customs agent is located. Customs processing can be done remotely.

ED E

1huge1 wrote: »

Ordered Sunday morning early and delivered this afternoon, delivery expectation was Thursday.

Last 2 deliveries has been received within 2-3 days and are usually 2-3 days better than the expected delivery.

+1.

3 days seems about on point now for Prime. Estimates about 4 days after for me.

ED E

spakman wrote: »

MOD- <SNIP> No need to quote the whole post.

The Baldonnel Road is a country lane and already has big trucks from NVD centre using it, they have to take up the whole road when exiting their depot which is just after a 90 degree bend in the road!
I've often had to go hard on the brakes to allow room for the truck to pull out and then put on my flashers and hope nobody runs up my arse.
That will be a nightmare if Amazon trucks are also trying to use the road.

The trucks would be coming from EIDW in the early AM, before NVD are mobile. The rest of the day its vans coming back out. Should be fine.

skinny90

MugsGame wrote: »

Probably this was not an extra charge, but the same Irish VAT Amazon UK always charged us. Just it's now shown as import duty. If the item is cheap (<= €22) you may even escape the VAT altogether (if that's the case, you'll see the price drop at checkout once you supply a delivery address).

yeah I know it was above that but the point im making was that I waited what 2 days for an item to shipped and posted, thats better than pre brexit times

MugsGame

normal with Amazon minus the little extra charge

And my point was there is no little extra charge - it's the same amount we were always charged.

I agree with you the service is pretty much identical as before. Amazon UK are padding the advertised delivery dates so we don't get upset if there are customs clearing delays, but I'm getting things in 2-3 days of ordering. That's actual days including weekends, which is pretty amazing. Amazon can deliver from the UK before most Irish shops have even processed and dispatched an order.

Leftwaffe

Ordered Sunday night, got it this morning and only got the An Post text an hour before hand. The An Post text normally means next day for me. Very happy. Seems to be coming back to normal.

ussjtrunks

Last week I put a few blurays In my basket, this week they are no longer sold directly by amazon but if you login with a U.K. address they are sold by amazon. What’s going on here are amazon now not selling select blurays to Ireland that doesn’t really make much sense. Could it be a corona or brexit thing?

drake70

ussjtrunks wrote: »

Last week I put a few blurays In my basket, this week they are no longer sold directly by amazon but if you login with a U.K. address they are sold by amazon. What’s going on here are amazon now not selling select blurays to Ireland that doesn’t really make much sense. Could it be a corona or brexit thing?

Were they also fulfilled by Amazon?