Amazon

Jess Kelly on Newstalk has just said that Amazon Germany no longer deliver outside Germany.

Any idea if this is true?

I suspect if one were to analyse what the likes of weckler, weston, Jess Kelly and all the other radio spacefiller persons say one would find a fair percentage of guff or broadly accepted but not necessarily entirely accurate pronouncements

It worries me that people might take them as being 100% accurate tbh

But I doubt I'd be any better if part of my job was to talk on demand on various radio stations and not let it go silent for a millisecond....must be a terrible job...you can't really go into the minutiae or people would tune out so you have to make relatively safe bland pronouncements as if they are some sort of expert tip or trick or interesting....that presumably anybody current or with a brain already knows and if they don't whatever little tidbit it is probably won't help much in isolation.....some of them drop some fairly terrible inaccurate shite occasionally too.

Amazon.de have always had sellers that don't ship to Ireland or outside of Germany afaik.....and again afaik there's no blanket policy on amazon.de not yo ship to another EU market ...

I've noticed it tends to be bulkier items like tools gardening appliances when I buy but tbh there was usually another seller willing...although it was sometimes too expensive to be worth it

And in every case I could get around it with a forwarding service if I wanted to et c

tbh I either usually tune them out as useless soundbites or listen waiting for the clanger

Weston is the master of not saying anything inaccurate often but just summarising what the dogs on the street know....

I can't wait until some of the newer ones try to get a profile by saying and printing stuff thats "edgy"

She may have confused the no free delivery thing.

Hi,

I placed an order on Amazon a few days ago. It was not dispatched yet.

I got an email today informing me that my order has been cancelled?

Has this ever happened to anyone? What are the possible reasons?

Thanks very much for the info @The Continental Op.

I've re ordered the item from a different seller, so fingers crossed it works out better! 🤞

Third party sellers are so hit and miss on Amazon that I tend to just ignore them (unless they are fulfilled by Amazon). There's always some hassle.

Thanks, I got a bit of a startle when I got the cancellation email, as I order quite a bit from Amazon, and this is the first time Amazon actually cancelled an item. Glad it's cleared up now though.

Thats whats happened to me. Mostly for items that are heavy. Waited 4 months for one item and finally got on to CS everyday for two weeks (sat down with my morning coffee) seems the item was too heavy for the courier they used and they couldn't find another courier to take it????? Item was only stocked in one warehouse that would deliver to UK next day (Prime) no problem but wouldn't deliver to Ireland even though the listing allowed me to buy it.

After all my complaints including iirc a couple of complaint escalations it arrived. Great deal as it went up in price about 50% over the time I was waiting.

I think at least 10 reps promised me the item would be dispatched within 24 hours on one chat 5 reps just left the chat so I had to start again with a new rep.

If you want the item don't give up.

My usual argument is "Why do I pay for Prime when I get second class service".