Ordered from amazon.co.uk lately?

This is it · 13-05-2020 3:05pm

I'm getting deliveries about 7 working days after order with prime. It's to be expected and I'm not too bothered

Madame Gazelle · 13-05-2020 3:13pm

Same here, bit longer than usual. What is really annoying me lately and I don't know is it related to covid19 but I signed up to prime a few weeks ago and it seems now (a lot more than ever happened in the past) say I order 5 items all prime shipped from Amazon Eu, they are coming in 5 different packages. It's costing me a fortune in parcelmotel fees. Going to cancel prime membership as it's not really saving me any money.

Padre_Pio · 13-05-2020 3:15pm

Madame Gazelle wrote: »

Same here, bit longer than usual. What is really annoying me lately and I don't know is it related to covid19 but I signed up to prime a few weeks ago and it seems now (a lot more than ever happened in the past) say I order 5 items all prime shipped from Amazon Eu, they are coming in 5 different packages. It's costing me a fortune in parcelmotel fees. Going to cancel prime membership as it's not really saving me any money.

Rare enough that you need PM with Prime, you can often see what warehouse things are coming from, so order them like that.

LeYouth · 13-05-2020 5:40pm

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...

I ordered some headphones - they came yesterday in an Amazon prime box, but i just went with standard delivery - however, i was waiting 7 days for dispatch. I'm not sure how one gets Prime. Is it a subscription?

Pistachio19 · 13-05-2020 5:45pm

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.

What's your estimated delivery date? I ordered stuff (not electronic), estimated date was 5-7 may, it shipped on 4th and arrived on 6th. Another order I made didn't arrive, sender had no tracking info so they refunded me within 2 days.

Kerry25x · 13-05-2020 5:49pm

Things are taking a little longer, I understand that when ordering though so no big deal. Everything I've ordered comes on or before the estimated delivery date so can't complain really. I'm a prime customer too.

NIMAN · 13-05-2020 5:50pm

Ordered 3 books on 10th May.

Arrived today, 13th.
NI address.

Can't complain about that.
Not a Prime member either.

ablelocks · 13-05-2020 6:18pm

ordered coffee and phone accessories on 5th May, arriving tomorrow. I have prime. Not too bothered by delays - just glad that the service is still there.

I also think there may be delays on an posts side due to volume - our postman is really busy.

pleasant Co. · 13-05-2020 7:06pm

This is it wrote: »

I'm getting deliveries about 7 working days after order with prime. It's to be expected and I'm not too bothered

This is it, I'm finding the same and also using prime, though one thing did arrive a day early yesterday. Not a big deal for me anyway.

enniscorthy · 13-05-2020 7:18pm

ANYBODY GET ANYTHING FROM AMERICA SENT VIA USPS HOW LONG YOU WAITING REGARDS BRIAN

Esel · 13-05-2020 7:41pm

Say again - a bit deaf here! HELLO?

pleasant Co. · 13-05-2020 8:03pm

Esel wrote: »

Say again - a bit deaf here! HELLO?

Harsh, he's obviously waiting on a new keyboard to be delivered.

NewbridgeIR · 13-05-2020 9:13pm

enniscorthy wrote: »

ANYBODY GET ANYTHING FROM AMERICA SENT VIA USPS HOW LONG YOU WAITING REGARDS BRIAN

CD posted from US 21 March arrived 6 May

NewbridgeIR · 13-05-2020 9:15pm

Madame Gazelle wrote: »

Same here, bit longer than usual. What is really annoying me lately and I don't know is it related to covid19 but I signed up to prime a few weeks ago and it seems now (a lot more than ever happened in the past) say I order 5 items all prime shipped from Amazon Eu, they are coming in 5 different packages. It's costing me a fortune in parcelmotel fees. Going to cancel prime membership as it's not really saving me any money.

I only use Parcel Motel when seller won’t ship to Ireland or charges a fortune for the privilege.
Why get Amazon deliveries sent there?

Pacifico · 13-05-2020 9:35pm

charlietheminxx wrote: »

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.

Did you get anywhere with them? I asked the same question today and surprisingly they couldn’t answer! Ended up cancelling prime...

peddlelies · 13-05-2020 9:35pm

I cancelled a phone off amazon.co.uk, initially it said 5 days delivery but 10 days later it still hadn't dispatched. Ordered off three instead and the same thing seems to be happening...

madfcuker · 13-05-2020 9:41pm

I ordered something from Amazon on the 4th May. Was delivered today by DPD.

I am also a Prime customer but the majority of lead times on items I have looked at to be delivered is about 10 days now.

Madame Gazelle · 13-05-2020 9:54pm

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

I only use Parcel Motel when seller won’t ship to Ireland or charges a fortune for the privilege.
Why get Amazon deliveries sent there?

A lot of stuff I order lately (electronics, tools, food) won't ship to Ireland. "seller won't ship to this address" or something like that pops up. I've noticed this a lot more since Brexit. Don't know is it related.

ablelocks · 13-05-2020 10:00pm

ablelocks wrote: »

ordered coffee and phone accessories on 5th May, arriving tomorrow. I have prime. Not too bothered by delays - just glad that the service is still there.

I also think there may be delays on an posts side due to volume - our postman is really busy.

well, the delay on my package is nothing to do with Amazon. got a notice in my amazon account that DPD couldn't deliver to me today, (like, I'm here, with nowhere to go?) When i checked the tracking, my order was dispatched by amazon on the 6th, and arrived in Athlone on the 7th.

So DPD have had it since last Thursday, it wasn't scheduled for dispatch to me until yesterday and they failed to deliver it today.

Shamboo1801 · 13-05-2020 10:09pm

Ordered on may 6th and got delivery today. Not a prime customer so happy enough. Wasn't due till tomorrow.

VG31 · 13-05-2020 11:03pm

Pacifico wrote: »

Did you get anywhere with them? I asked the same question today and surprisingly they couldn’t answer! Ended up cancelling prime...

I complained about the much longer dispatch times for Irish orders and they said they would refund me for 3 months of prime.

autumnalcore · 14-05-2020 10:47am

VG31 wrote: »

I complained about the much longer dispatch times for Irish orders and they said they would refund me for 3 months of prime.

I gave it a go and got nowhere, they said that NI and Republic are served from different Fulfillment Centers, stock delays yadayada. Which if funny because looking in my recycle bin they are all from Man1 regardless of parcel motel or Irish address.

charlietheminxx · 14-05-2020 11:15am

autumnalcore wrote: »

I gave it a go and got nowhere, they said that NI and Republic are served from different Fulfillment Centers, stock delays yadayada. Which if funny because looking in my recycle bin they are all from Man1 regardless of parcel motel or Irish address.

This is what I got as well...

The_Brood · 14-05-2020 11:56am

Not Amazon but ordered 5 different items on ebay, all supposedly being delivered from the UK by Royal Mail - one item - not the first I ordered - somehow came on time, the other 4 have all gone missing past their delivery dates with no information about where they are and what is happening.

autumnalcore · 14-05-2020 4:11pm

The_Brood wrote: »

Not Amazon but ordered 5 different items on ebay, all supposedly being delivered from the UK by Royal Mail - one item - not the first I ordered - somehow came on time, the other 4 have all gone missing past their delivery dates with no information about where they are and what is happening.

My ebay Royal Mail ones from last 3 weeks
Dispatched 24th April to PM- Not delivered yet
Dispatched 4th May to PM - Delivered Parcel Motel 12th May - Not on PM account yet
Dispatched 4th May to PM - Not delivered yet
Dispatched 6th May to PM - Not delivered yet
Dispatched 7th May to Home - Not delivered yet
Dispatched 9th May to AP - Not Delivered yet

Had 7 Hermes, 2 parcel force 48, 3 deutsch post ebay parcels in the same timeframe with no significant delays.

Amazon from last 3 weeks (all in stock and, sold by amazon):

Placed 24th April - Dispatched 4th May - Delivered 11th May Cork
Placed 25th April - Dispatched 26th April - Delivered 1st May Cork
Placed 25th April - Dispatched 26th April Delivered 27th April Parcel Motel
Placed 29th April - Dispatched 5th May - Delivered 7th May Cork
Placed 1st May - Dispatched 3rd May - Delivered 4th May Parcel Motel
Placed 4th of May - Cancelled 13th of May as not Dispatched, Bought elsewhere (estimated delivery at time of order 7th- 8th May)
Placed 4th May- Dispatched 12 May - Not Delivered (estimated delivery at time of order 7th- 8th May)
Placed 4th May - Dispatched 12th May - Delivered 14th May
Placed 6th May - Dispatched 12th May - Delivered 13th May
Placed 9th May - Not Dispatched
Placed 12th May - Not dispatched

ted1 · 14-05-2020 4:12pm

Had a DPD delivered last Sunday. Must be doing deliveries 7 days a week

og2k7 · 14-05-2020 4:14pm

My item ordered on the 29/04 vanished - AN POST tracking number invalid (apparently sent on the 06/05, Support has no clue where it is

Ordered a replacement yesterday but now it is out of stock and the other seller has it at 30 quid more

Seriously annoyed as needed the wifi mesh solution to fix the Virgin crap router and disappearing signal

First time ever have an Amazon delivery that is just vanished

Private Joker · 14-05-2020 4:18pm

Everything on the site has an expected delivery date for may 24th at the earliest. Have gotten a good few things off them since the start of covid that usually arrived within a week.
It seems to be slowing down a good bit.

Just checked. The same item can be delivered to parcel motel on saturday.

NewbridgeIR · 14-05-2020 8:43pm

Ebay _ DVD posted 23 April arrived today

SouthWesterly · 14-05-2020 8:51pm

Spent an hour on chat trying to get an answer if delivery times to North and South for prime. Got as far as them saying it's 2 days to ROI. 3 different reasons off them. I gave up.

Thingymebob · 14-05-2020 9:02pm

ablelocks wrote: »

well, the delay on my package is nothing to do with Amazon. got a notice in my amazon account that DPD couldn't deliver to me today, (like, I'm here, with nowhere to go?) When i checked the tracking, my order was dispatched by amazon on the 6th, and arrived in Athlone on the 7th.

So DPD have had it since last Thursday, it wasn't scheduled for dispatch to me until yesterday and they failed to deliver it today.

DPD are having big issues. I got a notice saying that DPD tried to deliver to me today, but couldn’t and DPD are now awaiting further instructions. When I dug further into the tracking, the parcel is still in Hinckley UK hub, so obviously no delivery attempt. I sat on hold to DPD for 83 minutes this afternoon before I was told this an Amazon notification error, that actually the package couldn’t fit on the truck from the UK and it will hopefully get on in the next five days. They’re overloaded. DPD said I was one of many contacting them after receiving the same ‘failed attempt’ Amazon Generated notification

Tork · 14-05-2020 9:04pm

I've ordered a few things off them lately which were given dispatch dates way into the future. All of them were dispatched much earlier than it said on the site.

fryup · 14-05-2020 10:35pm

question - do amazon have a warehouse based in Ireland or does everything come from the UK and the continent?

ted1 · 14-05-2020 11:15pm

fryup wrote: »

question - do amazon have a warehouse based in Ireland or does everything come from the UK and the continent?

Just data centres and a big office. All stuff. Ones from mostly UK but can be various European warehouses

Eircom_Sucks · 14-05-2020 11:52pm

Parcelmotel would wanna get their fingers out of their rears

Got notification off amazon that order delivered to parcelmotel on Monday morning , only just got notification it teached dublin 10 mins ago ffs

Mervyn Skidmore · 15-05-2020 12:14am

Looking at tvs on amazon and it seems in a lot of cases they don't deliver them to Ireland. Any way around this? I assume the packages are too large for parcel motel, addresspal etc?

Eircom_Sucks · 15-05-2020 1:43am

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Looking at tvs on amazon and it seems in a lot of cases they don't deliver them to Ireland. Any way around this? I assume the packages are too large for parcel motel, addresspal etc?

They just deliver them to your local parcelmotel depot ( big warehouse and not locker ) then charge you €7 for oversized item

pgj2015 · 15-05-2020 2:16am

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Looking at tvs on amazon and it seems in a lot of cases they don't deliver them to Ireland. Any way around this? I assume the packages are too large for parcel motel, addresspal etc?

I use parcel wizard when the sellers on amazon don't post to Ireland.

The_Brood · 15-05-2020 3:44pm

All silent and dead. Funny thing is even food stores that have books - like Tesco - have specifically closed their book sections in store for no other reason than that books are not essential - again, even though the books are in the fully opened store itself.

Zebra3 · 15-05-2020 4:26pm

fryup wrote: »

question - do amazon have a warehouse based in Ireland or does everything come from the UK and the continent?

Coming soon.

They're recruiting atm.

Tork · 16-05-2020 1:18pm

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

Parcelmotel would wanna get their fingers out of their rears

Got notification off amazon that order delivered to parcelmotel on Monday morning , only just got notification it teached dublin 10 mins ago ffs

I'd say they're pretty snowed under at the moment because of so many people online shopping. It's not helping that many (more?) items on Amazon can't be shipped directly to Ireland these days, leaving people with no option but to avail of redirection services.

I'm finding them a bit slower now but that's understandable given the circumstances. I got an email from them this morning to say that my item has arrived into their Dublin Depot - it was delivered to Belfast yesterday. The email says it could take up to 3 days for it to make into the local locker so I'll see how that goes.

ED E · 16-05-2020 1:27pm

fryup wrote: »

question - do amazon have a warehouse based in Ireland or does everything come from the UK and the continent?

Fife, Bristol and Manchester.

sdanseo · 16-05-2020 1:34pm

They are (or at least pre Covid, they were) reported to be scouting for a warehouse location here.

An Post told me on a call a little while back that a normal week has 15-20k packages from Amazon for Ireland. At the moment it's at or above christmas levels, around 40k weekly.

This crisis will only be good for Amazon in the long run - it'll convert a lot of people from bricks and mortar to online and not just for goods but for working and meeting too. (A significant proportion of those services powered by AWS).

The benefits people discover now will in some cases last a lifetime, and when you add the benefit of delivery times going back to normal, they'll be even happier.

pgj2015 · 16-05-2020 3:06pm

Im not sure that it will, I will never buy clothes online again, too many times the item has come and its too big, too small, doesn't look like i thought it did. also for a lot of people shopping in a bricks and mortar shop is a hobby, you cant replace that with buying online. it is better to buy here in a bricks and mortar shop as the money is staying in the country.

lisasimpson · 16-05-2020 4:42pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

Im not sure that it will, I will never buy clothes online again, too many times the item has come and its too big, too small, doesn't look like i thought it did. also for a lot of people shopping in a bricks and mortar shop is a hobby, you cant replace that with buying online. it is better to buy here in a bricks and mortar shop as the money is staying in the country.

If your ordering books remember local indepedent book stores have a special postage rate now with on post. Some of the older ones may not have a website site but all you have to do is pick up the phone.

Reducing what im buying from Amazon after the whole issue with wearhouse workers at the beginning of the covid crisis. Also bare in mind of fakes goods on the site. Channel four recently had a programm on Amazon and this was one issue highlighted..one example was they were selling kyle jenner lip kits which were knockoffs as she doesnt sell via amazon. Also toys may not have passed the CE mark either

autumnalcore · 16-05-2020 5:24pm

Frikken ridiculous dispatch times at the moment waiting 10 days for a power saw I needed last week to dispatch, I can still order the same saw now and have delivered to addresspal on Monday. I'm cancelling all my outstanding urgent orders as 'would not arrive on time' and reordering elsewhere.

addaword · 16-05-2020 5:42pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

Im not sure that it will, I will never buy clothes online again, too many times the item has come and its too big, too small, doesn't look like i thought it did. also for a lot of people shopping in a bricks and mortar shop is a hobby, you cant replace that with buying online. it is better to buy here in a bricks and mortar shop as the money is staying in the country.

Correct. All the money going out of the country means people unemployed here. Full stop.

pgj2015 · 16-05-2020 5:46pm

lisasimpson wrote: »

If your ordering books remember local indepedent book stores have a special postage rate now with on post. Some of the older ones may not have a website site but all you have to do is pick up the phone.

Reducing what im buying from Amazon after the whole issue with wearhouse workers at the beginning of the covid crisis. Also bare in mind of fakes goods on the site. Channel four recently had a programm on Amazon and this was one issue highlighted..one example was they were selling kyle jenner lip kits which were knockoffs as she doesnt sell via amazon. Also toys may not have passed the CE mark either

I used to buy a good bit of stuff from amazon but i have hugely cut down, one reason is i want the money to stay in Ireland so i shop local and the other is there is an awful lot of very poor products on amazon, a lot of it is fake i think, yet you pay the proper price.

Tork · 16-05-2020 6:43pm

addaword wrote: »

Correct. All the money going out of the country means people unemployed here. Full stop.

Time for Irish retailers to up their online game.

marklazarcovic · 16-05-2020 6:52pm

Tork wrote: »

Time for Irish retailers to up their online game.

And their customer service,simple things like responding to questions about items for sale, delivery details like which courier,Irish companies use the internet as a last resort to selling,rather than a first option,stick a staff member online for half a day to reply to emails ,it will help .

Ordered from amazon.co.uk lately?

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