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The good news for you is, Amazon doesn't give a fuck about their sellers and really couldn't care less whether or not they ever get the item that you returned. I have a couple of friends who import containers of crap that they sell on Amazon and from their experiences, Amazon will take the customer's side 99% of the time. After all, it doesn't cost them anything and literally makes the seller pay to make Amazon look good.
Amazon has access to the tracking info so If you can work your way through all the layers of their terrible, canned response automated customer service and get to a real person chat or email, they'll give you credit.
 
Does Amazon have better than like a 10% fulfillment rate when it comes to next-day delivery? I always order assuming it's going to be at least one extra day.

I think their old model of underpromising and overdelivering was better than their current model, which is exactly the opposite.
 
Of all days for you to mention this, today I actually had an overnight, early morning delivery just say "running late" with no further information. Doesn't happen very often, so maybe it really depends on where someone lives. I've had a bigger issue with a trend in obviously fake, used, or quality control surplus stuff being sold to me as new and authentic, from name brands and sold/shipped by Amazon. No bueno.
 
It's perfectly okay for a package to take 2-3 days instead of one. Expecting something in a single day is unreasonable. But because they tell you it's going to be there in a day, I find myself bummed and annoyed when I have to wait an extra day.

How am I going to entertain myself tonight without the anal beads I ordered?
 
rome8180 said:
Does Amazon have better than like a 10% fulfillment rate when it comes to next-day delivery? I always order assuming it's going to be at least one extra day.

I think their old model of underpromising and overdelivering was better than their current model, which is exactly the opposite.
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It must vary by location. I order boatloads of stuff on Amazon, almost always next-day, and can only recall 2 times that it didn't show up. A lot of stuff I can get delivered by 8am now.
 
Pantone287 said:
Weirdly, I also almost never have delays from them, despite also being in Durham. Maybe it's an AnalBeadsDepot.biz seller issue or something?
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Delays 90% of the time is probably an exaggeration. But it happens more often than not.
 
If an item is in stock, I almost always get my Amazon package delivered free the next day. I've only had it happen a couple times since I moved to Vegas where I wasn't able to get my delivery the next day. As a result, I order from Amazon way more than I did back in Nebraska.
 
ZackM said:
rome8180 said:
Does Amazon have better than like a 10% fulfillment rate when it comes to next-day delivery? I always order assuming it's going to be at least one extra day.

I think their old model of underpromising and overdelivering was better than their current model, which is exactly the opposite.
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It must vary by location. I order boatloads of stuff on Amazon, almost always next-day, and can only recall 2 times that it didn't show up. A lot of stuff I can get delivered by 8am now.
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I jinxed myself. Something that was supposed to show up yesterday got rescheduled for today.
 
I signed up for Walmart+ two years ago on a Black Friday deal because I thought, hell yeah, I'll give you $59 to not set foot in Walmart for a year. I have to say it's the best delivery service subscription I've used, and I've used most of them.

I got it again this year on Black Friday and I'm shocked they're still doing this. Right now, Tiffany is on the way to my house with a single $2.97 bag of potting soil. There is no minimum order and not even an option to tip the delivery people. I'm going to pay $2.97, plus tax, a Walmart employee is going to process and pull the order, then an independent delivery contractor is going to pick up that $3 bad of dirt and drive across town to leave it at my front door.
This is such a weird business model that must be losing a fortune if there are many people like me who will place an order for one tube of toothpaste or multiple orders of single bags of cheap dirt.
 
deepdarkblue said:
I signed up for Walmart+ two years ago on a Black Friday deal because I thought, hell yeah, I'll give you $59 to not set foot in Walmart for a year. I have to say it's the best delivery service subscription I've used, and I've used most of them.

I got it again this year on Black Friday and I'm shocked they're still doing this. Right now, Tiffany is on the way to my house with a single $2.97 bag of potting soil. There is no minimum order and not even an option to tip the delivery people. I'm going to pay $2.97, plus tax, a Walmart employee is going to process and pull the order, then an independent delivery contractor is going to pick up that $3 bad of dirt and drive across town to leave it at my front door.
This is such a weird business model that must be losing a fortune if there are many people like me who will place an order for one tube of toothpaste or multiple orders of single bags of cheap dirt.
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That's intriguing. Can you use it for groceries too?
 
I always see an option to tip on Walmart+ but never do because Amazon set the standard that if you pay for a free delivery service, you should not have to pay for delivery. I don’t feel good about it, though. I wonder why you’re not seeing the tip option. Walmart uses rideshare services to make their deliveries. It actually sucks that those people aren’t getting tipped, but I think of it as Walmart’s fault for setting up this system. Like I’m not paying a monthly fee for the right to pay tips for delivery.
 
Pantone287 said:
deepdarkblue said:
I signed up for Walmart+ two years ago on a Black Friday deal because I thought, hell yeah, I'll give you $59 to not set foot in Walmart for a year. I have to say it's the best delivery service subscription I've used, and I've used most of them.

I got it again this year on Black Friday and I'm shocked they're still doing this. Right now, Tiffany is on the way to my house with a single $2.97 bag of potting soil. There is no minimum order and not even an option to tip the delivery people. I'm going to pay $2.97, plus tax, a Walmart employee is going to process and pull the order, then an independent delivery contractor is going to pick up that $3 bad of dirt and drive across town to leave it at my front door.
This is such a weird business model that must be losing a fortune if there are many people like me who will place an order for one tube of toothpaste or multiple orders of single bags of cheap dirt.
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That's intriguing. Can you use it for groceries too?
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Yes, we get grocery deliveries from the Walmarts
 
We have had instances where something wasn’t in stock when Walmart filled the order, and instead of removing it from the order, they bring it individually the next day when it’s back in stock. So like one bottle of shampoo or one box of Ritz crackers is the entire delivery.
 
I always end up tipping, but another aspect of this is that people doing those services want the orders. If you were to do pickup to save on a tip it wouldn't be doing them a favor.
 
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