Ordered from amazon.co.uk lately?

PropJoe10 · 08-05-2020 11:12am

Ordered some bluetooth speakers a couple of weeks back, was about a week in the item being shipped but in fairness, it turned up a day ahead of the estimated delivery time. No complaints here.

Wabbit Ears · 08-05-2020 11:21am

free shipping on amazon with prime ( yes , technically not free as its subscription) or 20 quid shipping for a 6 quid purchase on irish sites...just.. no.

addaword · 08-05-2020 11:26am

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

free shipping on amazon with prime ( yes , technically not free as its subscription) or 20 quid shipping for a 6 quid purchase on irish sites...just.. no.

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer. He does not pay rates in your local town or sponsor the local team or give a saturday job to your kid or recirculate the money locally.

Mr_Muffin · 08-05-2020 11:29am

addaword wrote: »

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer. He does not pay rates in your local town or sponsor the local team or give a saturday job to your kid or recirculate the money locally.

In fairness, ~90% of the items I purchase from Amazon can't be found in my locality. And now with the restrictions, that percentage is even higher.

Wabbit Ears · 08-05-2020 12:01pm

addaword wrote: »

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer. He does not pay rates in your local town or sponsor the local team or give a saturday job to your kid or recirculate the money locally.

you know what, I'm ok with that. He created a fantastic service that allows me to buy things easily for far cheaper than i can get here ( or, more often than not, cant get here). He saw how the market was evolving and filled that requirement. Hats off and kudos to him.

Amazon is modern shopping personified. Other businesses need to step up or GTFO.

murpho999 · 08-05-2020 12:23pm

addaword wrote: »

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer. He does not pay rates in your local town or sponsor the local team or give a saturday job to your kid or recirculate the money locally.

Yes but VAT for the purchase goes to the Irish Government.

An Irish delivery service gets paid to deliver the product and they employ staff in Ireland to deliver to you.

They also employ staff in Ireland to run support services in Ireland that needs over 2500 people and growing which has huge ancilliary business around it.

Much more than your local shop who probably don't have the product you need.

It's just not feasible in this modern age to shop local all the time or to stick to normal shop opening hours.

World is changing and it's time to just move with it.

The_Brood · 08-05-2020 1:13pm

I'm getting ****ed hard and not even getting updates on where my products are.

'Understandable' some are saying, but hold on. We can't buy anything locally because of the lockdown. So online is absolutely essential to be working effectively. If not, then what? **** us? Not everything that is essential comes in Lidl. If you expect people to stay under lockdown, you have to make sure at the very least postal deliveries are boosted substantially. The opposite has happened.

The_Brood · 08-05-2020 1:15pm

addaword wrote: »

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer. He does not pay rates in your local town or sponsor the local team or give a saturday job to your kid or recirculate the money locally.

95% of even regular everyday items are not available for purchase in Ireland. Whatever the reasons for that I do not know, but that is the consumer products situation here.

Xenji · 08-05-2020 1:16pm

I have no issues with Amazon Prime and using Parcel Motel and I get multiple items per week, most deliver within two days or you can use the Amazon Prime Day delivery option and if you order on a Friday you will have it by Tuesday.

markjbloggs · 08-05-2020 1:17pm

wetlandsboy wrote: »

Ordered books from amazon.co.uk around two weeks ago. Delivery scheduled for early June.

All the more reason to support your local bookshops.

The_Brood · 08-05-2020 1:20pm

markjbloggs wrote: »

All the more reason to support your local bookshops.

....which are closed, and/or not responding to any messages.

Wabbit Ears · 08-05-2020 2:05pm

and easons is way more expensive for literally everything

VG31 · 08-05-2020 2:17pm

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

and easons is way more expensive for literally everything

They also list books on their website which aren't actually in stock despite being available to purchase.

antodeco · 08-05-2020 5:41pm

@addword Do you drink tea/coffee?

spodoinkle · 08-05-2020 5:43pm

LeYouth wrote: »

Anyone ordered electronics from Amazon uk since the lockdown? Did it take you a long time to get your order?

I ordered some headphones a few days ago but it hasn't even been dispatched - used standard delivery too.

Nearly every day, different items have different despatch times, "essentials" take priority, it says all this when you order something

Foweva Awone · 08-05-2020 5:51pm

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Huge delays, much worse than any other site I've been ordering from. And at least one item has been lost in the post ... they said about 2 weeks ago they sent a replacement, but I haven't received that yet either.

Huh. Since posting that this morning, I received the replacement item I was waiting on, and got an email to say that all of the other items have now been dispatched.

They're watching! >.>

UrbanFret · 08-05-2020 5:57pm

Ordered 10kg bucket of fish,blood and bone meal Monday morning, delivered wedensday albeit to an Northern Ireland address. No complaints there.

addaword · 08-05-2020 7:03pm

The_Brood wrote: »

95% of even regular everyday items are not available for purchase in Ireland.

Rubbish.

Fuzzy Logic · 09-05-2020 9:55am

lulublue22 wrote: »

we’ve had two parcels go awol recently. One was ordered on the 12th April dispatched on the 22nd from Liverpool and has yet to show up on the An Post tracker.

addaword wrote: »

That's amazon

It’s not just Amazon as I’m waiting on stuff to arrive from the UK that’s sitting in an international sorting depot in Heathrow since the 12th April

fryup · 09-05-2020 12:14pm

The_Brood wrote: »

95% of even regular everyday items are not available for purchase in Ireland.

wha

...you mean since lockdown or generally?

marklazarcovic · 10-05-2020 8:40am

I'm a postie,I'll tell you the biggest increase in items since the lockdown,for my area at least, women's clothes,boohoo ,Zara mms etc, X 10 times regular amount, sports/fitness items Inc runners huge increase, gardening equipment,books ..lots of books,I've noticed that not all amazon items have a barcode now,just standard name and address ,no tracking. There are many images online of parcels held up in the UK,backlog ..I mean a lot,but that only means a couple or three days delay usually.

Also bare in mind, if you get a notification at 3.45 am that your parcel has been scanned into an posts system in Dublin,and you live in cork or something,your postie is out delivering at 7.30-8.am usually,it's not feasible to have the parcel in Dublin sorted and dispatched with all the others for cork,and in cork ready for your postie to scan out for delivery at his/her time of setting off on delivery at 7.am .. it would be the day after the 3.45 am notification .

People get confused by the first notification all the time.

The Bishop Basher · 10-05-2020 8:51am

addaword wrote: »

All you are doing by shopping on foreign owned businesses such as amazon is making the richest man in the world even richer.

I went to buy a guitar pedal online this week. It would have cost me €185 delivered from a Dublin music store so I bought it for €155 delivered from a German music store. If me saving money makes someone else richer then that’s ok with me.

Febreeze · 10-05-2020 9:51am

I've ordered a couple of things online over the last few weeks and probably a day or two later than the original date to be delivered but nothing to complain about. Understandably so. Otherwise, items I've ordered have been delivered in oraround the times estimated. Sure a week or so later isn't unusual. Dispatched times don't usually happen around the time you've ordered. I'm still getting emails about things being dispatched when I've got them sitting in front of me. I wouldnt worry too much.

ninebeanrows · 10-05-2020 11:01am

7-10 days for delivery here. Few items heading towards 14 days now , this with prime. Not great

fryup · 10-05-2020 11:29am

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but, was it sold by amazon or third party sellers?

GinSoaked · 10-05-2020 11:35am

fryup wrote: »

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but, was it sold by amazon or third party sellers?

100% people also need to realise that if you don't have a prime subscription it can be days before your item is picked off the shelf.

With Prime for in stock items longest I've had to wait is 3 working days for Prime items from Amazon themselves.

Even out of stock items have arrived within a fortnight.

og2k7 · 11-05-2020 11:48am

Sleety_Rain wrote: »

7-10 days for delivery here. Few items heading towards 14 days now , this with prime. Not great

Yup - i have ordered an item on 29/04 - apparently shipped on the 6th - to be delivered today but tracking doesnt work, no updates and no text messages confirming its with AnPost. I could wait for anything (use AliExpress a lot) but having issues with wifi and got the wifi mesh and this is making our working from home harder with the crap virgin router and disappearing signal

I do appreciate the global issues but it got really bad with Prime

cj maxx · 11-05-2020 12:09pm

Ordered a few things to the UK last week.
ETA 18-23 may.

Alun · 11-05-2020 12:14pm

It can take a long time for stuff to be picked from the time the order is placed, but from that point onwards it all seems to go relatively quickly and often arrives before the rather pessimistic estimated date.

E.g. I ordered an item on 3rd May, with an estimated delivery date of 15th May. It was dispatched on the 8th May and arrived today, 11th May, 4 days ahead of schedule.

og2k7 · 11-05-2020 5:49pm

Alun wrote: »

It can take a long time for stuff to be picked from the time the order is placed, but from that point onwards it all seems to go relatively quickly and often arrives before the rather pessimistic estimated date.

E.g. I ordered an item on 3rd May, with an estimated delivery date of 15th May. It was dispatched on the 8th May and arrived today, 11th May, 4 days ahead of schedule.

Most of the items in fairness arrive sooner than the estimates which is great - especially items for my mother in law which arrived ahead of the schedule. The item I really need is delayed and there is no way in hell the item will turn up by 8 PM today

autumnalcore · 12-05-2020 11:20pm

I have prime and have made 29 orders since start of lockdown. Something definitely changed at start of May, all my orders from 2nd May onwards suddenly had their estimates shoved out, stuff that has been in stock continously has been pushed out 2 to 3 times.

Its definitely crazy season in the UK though seconds class parcels taking 9 days to get to parcel motel, I have a royal mail first class parcel missing since 24th April, Royal Mail just laughed at the sender when he followed up and said come back in three weeks.

Lurching · 12-05-2020 11:29pm

GinSoaked wrote: »

Certainly keeps the rural postman busy.

Just as An Post had started to downsize their post vans in the last couple of years, they're now getting bigger again to accommodate the sheer number of parcels.

Flavour Diaper · 12-05-2020 11:37pm

I'm looking to buy a small portable box, very difficult to open for those without the key. But I don't want to pay a fortune. Has anyone any experience/recommendations? It MUST be tamper proof.

NewbridgeIR · 13-05-2020 12:11am

Yes, order stuff from Amazon regularly.
During lockdown, I place an order and the estimated delivery date is generally 10 days time.
The items might not dispatch for 5 days and usually end up arriving on or before the estimated date.
Great customer service if something does wrong / damaged etc.

The reason I started using Amazon in 2005 was because I got sick of going into shops looking for books, music, films and being told
"No, we don't have it. But I can order it for you."

SouthWesterly · 13-05-2020 12:14am

Ordered yesterday and it said 2 weeks. When I switched address to PM it was, 2 days.
Can't figure it out.
I have prime

VG31 · 13-05-2020 12:43am

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Ordered yesterday and it said 2 weeks. When I switched address to PM it was, 2 days.
Can't figure it out.
I have prime

I don't know why they're taking so much longer to dispatch Irish orders. Once dispatched they arrive very quickly. I can get two day delivery to a German address and yet it's not possible to Ireland.

marklazarcovic · 13-05-2020 5:46am

Non essential items are put to back.of the q, Amazon were told to do this I believe.

the-island-man · 13-05-2020 6:13am

I ordered something lately that was not sent by registered post. I raised a query with the seller and they said royal mail were advising them that parcels were taking 2 to 3 times longer.

I also spoke with the post man lately (I live in a relatively small country parish). He said in normal times if he had 30 parcels to deliver it would be a very busy day. On this particular day he had 60 parcels to deliver.

timetogo1 · 13-05-2020 7:03am

I'm not finding the post slow. The dispatch is slow. Once its dispatched its with me in a couple of days e.g. Stuff that dispatched on Saturday arrived yesterday. But it was ordered over a week before the dispatch day. And another order is still sitting there with an expected delivery date of 14th to 19th.

That's about normal for me and what I was getting pre Covid. I remember the old days when you might get something two days after ordering. But in the last couple of years they seem to want us to pay for prime for stuff to be dispatched quick.

un5byh7sqpd2x0 · 13-05-2020 8:27am

timetogo1 wrote: »

I'm not finding the post slow. The dispatch is slow. Once its dispatched its with me in a couple of days e.g. Stuff that dispatched on Saturday arrived yesterday. But it was ordered over a week before the dispatch day. And another order is still sitting there with an expected delivery date of 14th to 19th.

That's about normal for me and what I was getting pre Covid. I remember the old days when you might get something two days after ordering. But in the last couple of years they seem to want us to pay for prime for stuff to be dispatched quick.

I have Prime and it’s the same.

Mav11 · 13-05-2020 8:39am

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Ordered yesterday and it said 2 weeks. When I switched address to PM it was, 2 days.
Can't figure it out.
I have prime

Same here, ordered on Monday 11th, due on the 22nd for delivery here (11 days), changed to Parcel Motel, due today.

charlietheminxx · 13-05-2020 12:14pm

I'm currently onto Amazon about this. I've been paying for Prime for 2 years, but I'm not going to keep paying for it when I'm waiting 10 days for them to dispatch my parcel and it's still 2 day delivery to NI for the same item...

Lurching · 13-05-2020 2:06pm

Is it likely to get much more difficult following Brexit?
Or will they set up an Amazon.ie?

jamesbondings · 13-05-2020 2:08pm

bought a bike on decathlon - delivered in 5 days even through a bank holiday, was very impressed.
bought a pump for said bike on the same day, still not here 14 days later. Prime member and all!

Pump is badly needed.

Mrcaramelchoc · 13-05-2020 2:09pm

charlietheminxx wrote: »

I'm currently onto Amazon about this. I've been paying for Prime for 2 years, but I'm not going to keep paying for it when I'm waiting 10 days for them to dispatch my parcel and it's still 2 day delivery to NI for the same item...

You do realise that everyone and their cousin worldwide are ordering online at the moment?i would think Amazon and delivery companies are doing their best and a little patience and understanding is needed by some people.
And Amazon are warning people at every purchase that non priotity items go to the back of the delivery queue.

VG31 · 13-05-2020 2:24pm

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

You do realise that everyone and their cousin worldwide are ordering online at the moment?i would think Amazon and delivery companies are doing their best and a little patience and understanding is needed by some people.
And Amazon are warning people at every purchase that non priotity items go to the back of the delivery queue.

That doesn't explain why it takes the same item 1 day to be dispatched to NI and 7 days to Ireland.

charlietheminxx · 13-05-2020 2:31pm

VG31 wrote: »

That doesn't explain why it takes the same item 1 day to be dispatched to NI and 7 days to Ireland.

Exactly this. An item I ordered on 7 May hasn't been dispatched yet. Estimated delivery date is now 19 May. When I change my address, I can order it right now and have it delivered to Antrim in 2 days.

Someone made a policy decision to stop priority dispatch for Irish Prime customers, I wanted to know why this happened and why I'm still being charged full price for a service I'm not getting.

The_Brood · 13-05-2020 2:41pm

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

You do realise that everyone and their cousin worldwide are ordering online at the moment?i would think Amazon and delivery companies are doing their best and a little patience and understanding is needed by some people.
And Amazon are warning people at every purchase that non priotity items go to the back of the delivery queue.

Yes - not out of luxury but because the government decided to close down everything with little time for people to prepare. The least the government could have done is ensure the necessary support to delivery companies at this time.

yerwanthere123 · 13-05-2020 3:01pm

Ordered sanitizer back in March, still waiting ðŸ˜¬

SouthWesterly · 13-05-2020 3:04pm

Has anyone tried getting a refund from Amazon for their not adhering to their own 2 day delivery to Ireland in light of the quick delivery of same item to NO?

Ordered from amazon.co.uk lately?

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