Amazon

Mine is still stuck nearly week later. Will ask Amazon for refund tomorrow. They can stick it now at this stage

I pre-order a lot of physical media & in about 25% of cases, Amazon are not getting the stock in until after release date. I had three pre-orders for 26 August which worked out as follows:

Blondie - shipped yesterday, arrived today

Kool & The Gang - shipped yesterday, arrived today

Now Yearbook Extra 1980 - just shipped today, arriving tomorrow.

However the Swing Out Sister box released on 19 August & pre-ordered three months beforehand still hasn’t shipped.

When I wrote this my package arrived the following day. The tracking information on my amazon account updated just before the item arrived also. I ordered an Nvidia Shield on Friday and it's out for delivery tomorrow as I got the AnPost text message yesterday. That was £178 and no issues at all. Must be some random checks or missing paperwork like someone has said earlier.

What is the story with amazon and their returns?

Attempting to return something that arrived today and is faulty, I have to pay for the return and they will refund up to £9. This happened to me in the past and the return postage came to more than that and I had to fight to get the full postage refunded. If an item is faulty I should not be left out of pocket and I should not be expected to jump through hoops to ensure I'm not left out of pocket either.

Their customer service has gone downhill over the last 3 years or so, do they still claim to be " customer-centric?"

Fight them before you send it back. I got €60 out of them for one item. I got an estimate and got onto chat and said it was mad having to pay that and they were fine about just asked for a picture of the receipt emailed to them.

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Is it not almost already configured as 'Irish', i.e, display in euros, our vat rate applied, delivery costs for roi, possible duty if source is non EU. The only caveat is, or was, buying goods not delivered by amazon, which may not be properly customs processed, or is that kind of supplier even permitted anymore? The euro setting is only guideline btw, the final transaction is calculated in £, but confusingly may present in € if you've chosen to pay in € at their exchange rate, which used to be unfavourable. The last item I bought, a heavy duty ball joint puller set, was in January. £41 delivered. It was almost impossible to clearly determine what the final price was in € as the calculations jumped up and down so I stuck to £ and revolut. Shopfront was in China, but I just paid 23% vat and free delivery, so I've no idea where the goods were stored, and delivered from. It cost less than buying from amazon.de, as I got the free delivery, which was a £6 deduction.

Fwiw, an Italian based EU wide agricultural and garden machinery supplier, Agrieuro, had to pull out of supplying UK due to the complexity of Brexit, and now their .co.uk site is in euros, and seems to be aimed at Ireland, or european ex pat UK residents. Great place for lawnmowers and tools. It's strange, after a lifetime of almost dependency, ( from when our £ was exact value of their £, you exchanged at 1 to 1 with no fee), it's as if the UK is becoming dead to us. Johnson and his ship of fools as O'Leary said t'other day

Just a heads up for anyone that assumes that Amazon have refunded you when you return something and then get an email to say you have been refunded, CHECK!

I'm on to Amazon now, they refunded me for half the order. I bought 4 items that came in 2 boxes. The email said I'd been refunded but when I finally checked a week later the refund was for 2 items not 4.

Easy enough to get them to sort it but I've found you have to check all refunds and that often you have to ask for your refund as it isn't automatic like they say it is.

They likely don't collect VAT for Georgia. Georgian Customs would be responsible for that. They likely have to collect it for stuff they send within the EU

When you see a difference between the product page and the checkout, that is due to a difference in VAT rates between Germany and Ireland.

349.99 = 294.11 + 19% VAT (German rate)

361.76 = 294.11 + 23% VAT (Irish rate)

Roughly what you are seeing

It may, but the previous post is the answer. For delivery to EU countries prices have to be shown including VAT.

Not sure if this was mentioned already, but I would have thought the first obvious things to stock in the new Irish Amazon fulfillment centre would be power banks.... Surely these would be the main items that we'd buy if we could, but cannot due to shipping restrictions.

But no....., everyone I look at on the UK site still cannot be delivered here. If they are using historical Irish purchase data to stock this warehouse then they won't appear on it.... Annoying.

Amazon is getting funny with Irish deliveries.

Placed a larger order with Amazon.de yesterday morning with priority delivery (some of the items are not on.co.uk) and they split it up into multiple shipment. So far so good.

This morning I'm getting an "out for delivery" notification from for one item. It shipped from Dublin instead of Germany by the looks of it.

Great, now here the kicker, I paid 2.45€ for the item and the co.uk site has it down as 6£ (kid you not).

I ordered a new router last week and as of Friday i am also getting a message that it is 'Delayed in Customs'. Did this ever get resolved for you?

I wonder what it is about routers that is causing this to happen??

If someone in the USA wanted to buy a gift for someone in Ireland could they buy on Amazon UK or Amazon European sites to avoid duties etc ?

Don't see why not, if they add the address to their list of addresses. Like when we could use parcel motel, you'd set delvery address to NI, then get free UK postage and 20% vat. Them were the days. I send gifts to a Netherlands address from amazon.de, its no problem, but I remember at first I couldn't log on to amazon.de until I registered my email and and password, it didn't use the .co.uk one. I guess someone in America would be registered on .com, may need to register on .de or .co.uk.

You can use the same account for all the Amazon sites.

Yes.