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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
It's not supposed to be two days after shipping, it's supposed to be two days from the order date.
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That may be what it used to be, but it's not that way any longer. From the Prime Delivery Promo page at Amazon:
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FREE Two-Day Shipping
Over 100 million items that arrive two business days after they ship
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* If the item you're ordering is out of stock or unavailable to ship immediately, the shipping method time starts when the item ships. For example, it will take two business days after an item ships to reach you with Two-Day Shipping.
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They're obviously playing fast and loose with the new "unavailable to ship immediately" catch-all.
If it's "in stock," then why on earth would it not be available to "ship immediately?" We're not talking about ordering steaks and waiting on the steer to be slaughtered, here.
They've clearly expanded their "unavailable to ship immediately" parameters to allow themselves some extra wiggle room.
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
When I order there is always a guaranteed delivery date on the order page before I tap "place order". If it's not there I don't order.
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Yes. The guaranteed delivery date is still there. They just started failing to make that date. Then after a while, they started upping the guaranteed delivery date by a couple of days--and were
still often failing to meet them.
What I'm currently seeing when I click on a Prime-eligible item that's fulfilled by Amazon (and that doesn't indicate any availability issues) is a guaranteed delivery date that's about 4-5 days out. I haven't gotten a 2-day guaranteed delivery date in a month (after getting 2-day guaranteed delivery dates nearly 100% of the time for years).
My last order, for example, was placed on the Wednesday the 9th. The item ordered was Prime-eligible, "fulfilled by Amazon," and in-stock. The guaranteed delivery date was for Monday the 14th. I got notification that it shipped in the wee hours Friday/Sat. It got delivered on Wednesday the 16th (after being unavailable in the tracking system from Monday on).