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Just checked the amazon one again and it has also landed in Dublin, the amazon logistics one still seems to be in France though

ye gotta know how to play the game 😉

Arrived today

Yes can take a day or 2 to appear. An Post have stated if your package is in their tracking website by end of tomorrow you will have it for Christmas.

Thank you so much @jj880, my package is now in Dublin Parcel Hub on track for delivery tomorrow. YAY 😁

Waiting on two with Dec 20th delivery date.

I assume it's still the Holyhead issue. Won't look for a refund for at least another week.

I was at one time. It's by invitation only. They use your Review History apparently. You get sent quite a hit of stuff you'd never use though .

Unfortunately Vine is currently only available within the UK for Amazon.co.uk. This could change once Amazon Ireland launches. I got invited late 2020 when it was still available in Ireland, so got to review a handful of products until December 2020. On the 1st January 2021 they restricted access within the UK, i.e. when the UK left the EU.

During the time I had access, they provided a selection of products related to products I previously purchased, plus a selection of inexpensive products (could be phone accessories, light bulbs, etc.) available to all on the Vine programme. For any item I picked, I had 30 days to review it, including giving it a 1 or 2 star rating if deserved it. Vine participants are prohibited from making any contact with the manufacturer, etc. which obviously could influence the review / rating and also subject to a non-disclosure agreement, like reviewing for a tech website, magazine, etc. They also required keeping products for 6 months available to return, although I don't recall having to return any.

Anyone ever buy an Amazon/ Roku stick on Amazon uk or Amazon Germany to use here in Ireland? Any problems?

Whoops sorry 😂😂

Still waiting on two separate orders with a Dec 20th delivery date.

Both are DVDs from Europe that would have been put in regular post.

I'm still expecting they will eventually turn up. Anyone with similar?

One Germany, one France.

A package from Amazon was delivered fine on Saturday 4-Jan, yet for some reason was marked "Customer Refused Delivery", maybe a mistake / typo by the An Post employee.

Amazon say that the order was cancelled (it wasn't), and that the package is being returned (impossible, as I have it).

I contacted An Post over WhatsApp on Monday morning, 6-Jan, and they said that they will contact the postman to try to update his tracking.

I asked will that update be transmitted to Amazon.

An Post advised me to send an e-mail to Amazon to inform them of the situation.

Now, as I suspected, there is no way to send an e-mail to Amazon. I tried the webchat.

I told the webchat that I did not cancel the order, see below. There is no way for me to tell them that the package has been delivered fine.

Can I just forget about this?

Or will Amazon send me a refund which I am not due?

No emails, just each order says delivery was expected 20th December.

In the past they used to say package may be lost.

I don't have prime and had two orders delivered Friday that I ordered Sunday Night and Monday Morning. Dispatch was from the UK.

As time has gone on, it feels like shopping on Amazon has just got more and more frustrating.

Brexit, for one, has made getting certain goods from the UK an absolute nightmare, especially food and drink, where you used to be able to get some good deals on certain items that would be hard to source in Ireland.

Are there any NI-based UK food/drink suppliers who ship down here? Would be nice to get some Fentimans or Ben Shaws Shandy for a bit cheaper…

Anyway, because of the way Amazon work, logistically, you could order ten different items and end up with ten different deliveries and this really isn't very good at all. Amazon offer no indication of whether this will happen or not. You're pretty much left to check on your order, which you notice at some point has been split up, and different dates are reading above different groups of items. Best one is when something small you throw into your order (if only to get the free shipping) arrives in its own cardboard packet two days after everything else.

And, also, when you get a big order of stuff, go to the checkout screen, only to see that 3 or 4 of the items are arbitrarily unable to be sent to your address.

At least it'll be interesting to see what Amazon Ireland brings, but I fear it won't lead to much increased choice, but more that you'll be able to get the things you could already buy on Amazon UK, but a bit faster.

Personally speaking, I don't care so much about speed as I do about price, choice and consolidation of shipping, and would be perfectly happy to wait a bit longer on orders if this could be achieved.