Amazon Delivery Restrictions to Ireland

canihave wrote: »

It's such a shame because it was great. Wonder what it's like from Germany for example. Its not worth paying prime if the deliveries can be made quicker through the likes of parcel motel etc.

Doubt it's free to Ireland. Am seeing more items on Amazon being "no delivery to Ireland"; there should be a "will deliver to Ireland" option.

Contacted them there. Other than the "if stuff is not at fulfilment, it won't get delivered straight away", but avoided why if stuff is going to UK it'll go straight away, if stuff going to Ireland it won't be dispatched for a week. Got a fiver credit, but would prefer getting my stuff on time!

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Has anyone tried Amazon.de Prime? What's shipping like? If it's faster than two weeks, and is free, may jump ship!

VG31 wrote: »

It seems to be exactly the same as far as I can tell.

Regarding the time it takes to ship, or what Prime was pre-COVID?

Interesting, I was convinced I only paid about £12 for my annual prime membership, but looking back through my history, and through a boards.ie bargain alert, it was actually £59 Now I'm thinking, why did I pay £59? Is there any benefit besides faster delivery (looks like it's no longer a thing)?

I know you're able to get free delivery on orders over £25 without Prime, and that you can get anything under £25 delivered free WITH Prime so you avoid delivery fees, on my page it says "You've avoided £284.24 in delivery fees", so obviously the £59 is worth it for me.

I try avoid ordering single stuff and generally wait until I've enough stuff to order a bigger delivery, it saves air miles, less hassle waiting in for stuff and I'm generally not in a rush for things I order, the prime delays spoken about in this thread aren't that big an issue for me. So waiting until I have over £25 worth of stuff has never really been an issue before I had Prime.

I'm just thinking is it worth the £79 renewal for me next month and what drew me to pay £59 for it in the first place as I can't really remember now :pac:

VG31 wrote: »

It seems to be exactly the same as far as I can tell.

I didn't know that we could get free deliveries from amazon.de with prime.

How long does orders take to arrive to Ireland?

I’ve had Prime since February, and not received anything I’ve ordered inside of a week - 34 orders so far. I placed an order earlier this week, expected delivery is 11 days (Thursday next week). I tried duplicating the order and despatching to Parcel Motel; I can have it this Thursday. I contacted Customer Services and the response wasn’t great. The two days only applies once it is despatched. They can’t tell me why U.K. orders are despatched quicker than Irish orders as they don’t believe it happens, even after I processed the duplicate order and gave them the two different order numbers. The CS Rep was quite condescending and told me that Amazon don’t force me to shop with them, I can go elsewhere or I can go to NI to collect my order if I want it quicker.

Thingymebob wrote: »

I’ve had Prime since February, and not received anything I’ve ordered inside of a week - 34 orders so far. I placed an order earlier this week, expected delivery is 11 days (Thursday next week). I tried duplicating the order and despatching to Parcel Motel; I can have it this Thursday. I contacted Customer Services and the response wasn’t great. The two days only applies once it is despatched. They can’t tell me why U.K. orders are despatched quicker than Irish orders as they don’t believe it happens, even after I processed the duplicate order and gave them the two different order numbers. The CS Rep was quite condescending and told me that Amazon don’t force me to shop with them, I can go elsewhere or I can go to NI to collect my order if I want it quicker.

I had the exact same response, literally paying for nothing. I have always been very impressed with amazons customer service but totally changed that opinion after how rude they were when questioned about this. Seems to me they don’t have the answer and are gettin frustrated with people asking the same question. It is annoying how if it’s uk it is dispatched straight away, but Ireland won’t be dispatched for over a week.

have some items on order and the ones dispatched are all coming from Hannover

the_syco wrote: »

Have two deliveries that were update today;

Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire GB

Package arrived at an Amazon facility
Lonate Pozzolo, VA IT

Both will arrive Friday. Both were ordered 9th June.

So, the top parcel I got today. It was dispatched on Sunday. The Amazon bot blamed lack of supplies going into the warehouse.

After COVID, I'm sure they'll use brexit as an excuse.

maestroamado wrote: »

I am not sure if i said this already.
It has become clear to me in reason months that the free postage to Ireland is being phased out.

it has been available for every order i've made recently. i only order items that amazon sells itself or that amazon fulfills.

maestroamado wrote: »

I am not sure if i said this already.
It has become clear to me in reason months that the free postage to Ireland is being phased out.

I do see a bit of stuff as "don't deliver to Ireland", but no more than usual.

I've noticed more not delivering to Ireland as well. Some odd things as well, like you can get a certain colour of something delivered but select a different colour & it won't deliver.
I've also had items in my basket that would deliver but left them a few days before ordering. When I went back they would no longer deliver so I had to select a different colour.

the_syco wrote: »

Check who fulfils the order. I'm assuming not Amazon?

There were a few hours on Monday/Tuesday when the two day delivery was back for a while.

Thought I’d try emailing the Amazon UK CEO in the hopes I might get a straight answer from the CEO Escalation team. I asked why RoI deliveries are being throttled but they told me the reason why packages can be delivered quicker to Parcel Motel NI than RoI addresses is due to air freight. I’m going to have to get more motivated about alternative suppliers.

I copied the big boss in, and got zip

mobby wrote: »

Ordered Samsung Buds Plus 11th June from Amazon.de. They have still not shipped was suppose to be 19th June now says 23rd.
Still €70 cheaper then here so I will wait.

Shipped from Germany on Thursday , arrived by An Post this morning at 1030. Not bad in the end.