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We want you to buy with confidence anytime you make a purchase on the Amazon.com website or use Amazon Pay; that's why we guarantee purchases from third-party sellers when payment is made via the Amazon.com website or when you use Amazon Pay for qualified purchases on third-party websites. The condition of the item you buy and its timely delivery are guaranteed under the Amazon A-to-z Guarantee. (Emphasis mine.) Either this guarantee means something to them or it doesn't. If it doesn't then they're liars. My niece's experience seems to indicate they're liars. Quote:
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I recently had a delivery from Amazon. I got a text message that the package was left by the trash bins because nobody was home. I was home. The dammed driver was too lazy to bother to go to the front door. It was an Amazon Logistics driver.
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04-05-2018, 07:27 PM | #63 |
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Either lazy or too much to realistically get done. I think Amazon thinks they have the "golden touch" and thought they could set up a delivery service over night. It's been a mess. Ever since they parted company with FedEx their delivery service has suffered.
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04-05-2018, 08:42 PM | #64 |
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Hmmm... is that why their deliveries have started taking longer and longer? I just assumed they were deliberately "slow-walking" my orders to encourage me to pay for their stupidly overpriced Amazon Prime service with its "free" 2-day shipping (which isn't really free since you're paying nearly $150 a year for the privilege).
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However, I was sometimes finding that my orders were not shipping until almost a week after I had placed them even though the items continued to be listed as "In Stock". So, I canceled a few orders when they didn't ship out in a reasonable amount of time after having placed the order... Then, miraculously, or perhaps coincidentally, my orders started arriving in a more timely fashion. Received an item via free shipping just yesterday even though I had only placed the order on Monday evening and even though the estimated delivery date was not until next week. |
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Just speculating because I'm looking for distraction...
At first I downloaded the PDF from the FCC and wondered if there was any chance that the label on the A4 PDF page was fitted at 100% - which would make it a 7.8" screen. However, when I printed out the page I realised that the header (buttons and "Settings") is too large when compared to the same display on my Aura One. So then I tried resizing the page display until I got the header into proportions that seemed reasonably similar to the display on my Aura One, and that came up with a 6" screen. So if anyone's making book, I'll put my money on 6", 300 dpi. (I was going to keep this guess to myself - but where's the fun in that? ) |
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However, I often find it amusing when sellers from Amazon's Marketplace update the order to "Shipped" shortly after the order has been placed and when the item can't possibly have been shipped from the place where it has been claimed to be shipping from due to the time of day. And then there is the trick where they say it will be shipping from a given location, say the state or province which you happen to reside in, which enables you to estimate about how long it should take to reach you. But then it takes a week or two longer because it has shipped from overseas. |
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It seems to me that some of what is being discussed here with regard to delivery would be better ascribed to Hanlon's Razor. It can be a mistake to think that our own small involvement in these situations is even noticed in the larger scheme of people just trying to get through their day with the minimum effort and hassle.
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This thread seems to have drifted completely off-topic!
I keep opening it in the hope someone has posted an update about a new Kobo model. Instead all I see is complaints about Amazon's USA delivery service. Is is too much to ask that you discuss Amazon issues in the Amazon forum? |
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