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Amazon.co.uk now shipping from Ireland

  • 02-06-2006 11:03pm
    #1
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭


    Got two packages last week within two days of ordering and both shipped from Ireland.

    Still charge postage but stuff getting here that quick is good.

    Another well-deserved kick in the face for rip-off Irish record shops.


Comments

  • #2
    honru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,585 ✭✭✭honru


    What, so Amazon UK have set up a warehouse here?


  • #3
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    f®eak s&#169 wrote: »
    What, so Amazon UK have set up a warehouse here?

    Must have. The boxes have a return address of a Dublin PO Box.
    And when I rang the customer support line to query an order I got through to an Irish guy,

    Amazon.com are shipping via / from Germany which is good too.


  • #4
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    And when I rang the customer support line to query an order I got through to an Irish guy,

    Well, their support is migrating to Cork, so not so much of a surprise on that count.

    As for the shipping - perhaps their just transporting lots for Ireland in bulk from the UK, and allowing them to enter the postal network in Ireland.


  • #5
    wanwarlock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 398 ✭✭wanwarlock


    hmmm, i thought they don't deliver to ireland anymore? or is that just electrical/electronic stuff??

    btw, just out of interest, what did u buy?


  • #6
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    They deliver most products, but seem to have stopped shipping electronic goods to Ireland


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  • #7
    Zorbas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Zorbas


    Need to return a product but not sure if I am to send it to Amazon in Dublin (address for non-delivery) or if it has to be sent back to UK.


  • #8
    Jarren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭Jarren


    6 years man....

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/css/returns/homepage.html/ref=ya__12


  • #9
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    A good few online retailers have warehouses in Ireland and use shipping agents do returns.

    ASOS for example, has an address in Athlone. They simply collect all of the returns there and have them trucked back to the UK warehouses. It's a way of saving on postal charges if the retailer has to absorb them and being more customer-friendly.


  • #10
    sandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭sandin


    nlgbbbblth wrote: »
    Got two packages last week within two days of ordering and both shipped from Ireland.

    Still charge postage but stuff getting here that quick is good.

    Another well-deserved kick in the face for rip-off Irish record shops.

    eh?? - Amazon don't have to pay huge rents and rates and build big retail displays. Its costs money to operate in retail.

    CDs and books no longer are very suitable for retail as you don't need to taste them or try them on and they are the same whether bought in Galway or Gambia. But sometimes the convenience of being able to walk into a store and buy the product outweighs the online savings.

    As for Amazon shipping from Dublin - no, it is transhipped from Dublin to final destination.

    How it works

    From Amazon warehouses to central international dispatch centre, loaded onto truck and truck sent to An Post hub where an amazon team sort it into large envelopes, small packets & parcels and they get franked accordingly and put into the relevant local depot dispatch area.

    Same sort of system used by large companies worldwide.


  • #11
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    sandin wrote: »
    eh?? - Amazon don't have to pay huge rents and rates and build big retail displays. Its costs money to operate in retail.

    CDs and books no longer are very suitable for retail as you don't need to taste them or try them on and they are the same whether bought in Galway or Gambia. But sometimes the convenience of being able to walk into a store and buy the product outweighs the online savings.

    As for Amazon shipping from Dublin - no, it is transhipped from Dublin to final destination.

    How it works

    From Amazon warehouses to central international dispatch centre, loaded onto truck and truck sent to An Post hub where an amazon team sort it into large envelopes, small packets & parcels and they get franked accordingly and put into the relevant local depot dispatch area.

    Same sort of system used by large companies worldwide.

    Ok - my original post was made out of sheer frustration some six years ago. I was sick of walking around Dublin's record shops on release date only to find

    1) They didn't have the item in stock. "Oh we can order that for you"
    or
    2) They had it and the mark-up was excessive.

    Option 1) was far more common. Having given record shops my hard-earned cash on a weekly basis since 1981 the online choice gradually became far more palatable.

    I'm well aware of the costs involved in retail.

    Thanks for the explanation re Amazon's shipping.

    I still buy records from record shops but I buy more online. Downloads suck.


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