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mgmueller · 09-06-2014, 12:38 AM

I've carefully been watching the details for my last few orders.
I found the system from Amazon about delivery schedules seriously flawed.
When checking out my shopping basket, I often find absurd schedules.
For example, when filling the shopping basket on Friday 11pm, the checkout states "delivery on Saturday".
My simple explanation: They don't consider actual times, but simply calculate calendar days. If I order on Friday 11am, of course I can get it Saturday morning. But if I order on Friday 11pm, no way they can make it. But their system simply seems to assume: "Order on Friday = shipment on Saturday" (in Germany, PRIME means 1 day). Seems like an unbelievable oversight, but it really seems to be that simple.
Personally, I've stopped bothering about their schedules in the shopping basket. I make my own schedule and that's relatively (>90%) precise then.

09-06-2014, 12:38 AM	#66
mgmueller Member Retired Posts: 3,308 Karma: 13024950 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Augsburg (near Munich), Germany Device: 26 Readers, 44 Tablets	Schedules I've carefully been watching the details for my last few orders. I found the system from Amazon about delivery schedules seriously flawed. When checking out my shopping basket, I often find absurd schedules. For example, when filling the shopping basket on Friday 11pm, the checkout states "delivery on Saturday". My simple explanation: They don't consider actual times, but simply calculate calendar days. If I order on Friday 11am, of course I can get it Saturday morning. But if I order on Friday 11pm, no way they can make it. But their system simply seems to assume: "Order on Friday = shipment on Saturday" (in Germany, PRIME means 1 day). Seems like an unbelievable oversight, but it really seems to be that simple. Personally, I've stopped bothering about their schedules in the shopping basket. I make my own schedule and that's relatively (>90%) precise then.