Amazon delivery speedy

[okeydokey]

By and large I like to see what I am buying in a shop before buying it from them, I also try to support buy locally when I can.
Others in the household click and buy and it just arrives on the doorstep.

To the point ----- my wife ordered some gloves via Amazon about 11.30 yesterday ---- ok -----then they were delivered about 19.30 the same day --,-- still ok and better than ok
But it doesn't sit well with me, I cant easily explain why but its just not right!

 

[MikeJhn]

When you where young did you knock on your neighbours door and run away, if so Amazon are recruiting and you are an ideal person for their work force.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

By and large I like to see what I am buying in a shop before buying it from them, I also try to support buy locally when I can.
Others in the household click and buy and it just arrives on the doorstep.

To the point ----- my wife ordered some gloves via Amazon about 11.30 yesterday ---- ok -----then they were delivered about 19.30 the same day --,-- still ok and better than ok
But it doesn't sit well with me, I cant easily explain why but its just not right!

Don't know what gloves - gardening, woolly or fancy - but I assume search and click took less than 10 minutes.

Contrast with go to town to buy - perhaps 5 miles each way, parking, find shop with stock etc. All in cost £5-10 and 1-2 hours.

No surprise why click has diminished the high street.

That it doesn't sit right may be a function of age - I was brought up in an era where gratification involved effort (catch bus etc) and payment involved real money (not click or tap).

 

[Rhossydd]

That it doesn't sit right may be a function of age - I was brought up in an era where gratification involved effort (catch bus etc) and payment involved real money (not click or tap).

As someone in their mid 60s I absolutely love it.

It's easy to forget just how difficult it could be to buy anything out of the ordinary before the internet.
Wading through magazines, catalogues or the Yellow pages to find suppliers, phoning to check stock. Then either half a day travelling somewhere to buy it or worse having to send a letter with a cheque and then having to wait for it to get there, the cheque to clear, the supplier to package it and the post office deliver it.
Now search, a few clicks and it's on the door mat the next day.

 

[Vulcan]

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon provided it’s the right price. Just recently I’ve been getting stuff like cleaning materials in bulk and it’s half the price of the supermarket.
I bought some booze a while back at a hefty discount over the shops. Sadly they sent me a 1 Litre bottle by mistake instead of the 70cl I paid for.

 

[Inspector]

When it is something I know where I can get it locally and the price difference isn't ridiculous I'll buy it when out making the shopping rounds. When it will entail hunting around going from store to store then I'll order from an online business or Amazonk. An example being the switch on my 20ish year old asian made bench grinder broke. I would have had to search the city, burning a lot of gas before finding a place that would have to order it in. A tool company Busy Bee (the people I got the grinder from in BC) had it for $16Cad plus shipping and were out of stock. Amazonk had it for $14Cad with free shipping. Had it a few days later. I'm rural so it takes longer than you city dwellers. The grinder was back in action 5 minutes later. The convenience of buying from Amazonk can't be understated but you have to weigh it against someone local having a business.

Pete

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

As someone who is disabled and often house bound I find on line ordering a real benefit

 

[treeturner123]

I'm with Okeydokey, BUT, as so much now is sold on line, shops, ie physical entities that you go in, chat to the sales staff etc, have less and less of what I'm after.

It's very rare form me to get home after a shopping expedition and say ' I got everything on my list'!

However, I do click and collect from Screwfix which is on an industrial estate in town AND I have discovered that our local hardware which mixes Dulux paint, is CHEAPER than B&Q!!!!

Anyway, I'm just off to town to see if I can get a left handed toothbrush and decent sized Skyhook!!!

Phil

 

[Chubber]

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon provided it’s the right price. Just recently I’ve been getting stuff like cleaning materials in bulk and it’s half the price of the supermarket.
I bought some booze a while back at a hefty discount over the shops. Sadly they sent me a 1 Litre bottle by mistake instead of the 70cl I paid for.

Hmm, I am moving to Scotland next week, where additional taxes make alcohol more expensive. I wonder if Amazon would aďd the extra tax?

 

[Blackswanwood]

Hmm, I am moving to Scotland next week, where additional taxes make alcohol more expensive. I wonder if Amazon would aďd the extra tax?

I think it’s a minimum unit price rather than a tax that applies to anyone selling alcohol in Scotland. As such the retailer keeps the proceeds (albeit more VAT will be generated). I also recall there were press reports last year that Amazon was benefiting and Scottish shops losing out as the Scottish Government cannot tell a retailer who despatches goods from outside of Scotland what price to charge.

 

[stuart little]

Hmm, I am moving to Scotland next week, where additional taxes make alcohol more expensive. I wonder if Amazon would aďd the extra tax?

Stock up this side the border!

 

[Majimoto]

I appreciate the very real moral dilemma between buying local or online.

I would always buy local if possible, but so much stuff is more easily available online.
I do have to weigh up the concern of possible returns hassle with online-- therefore I'm slow to buy items where this may arise.

I also read all the one star reviews, which can weed out the poor / nonexistent customer service, and help define quality of product.

Very often ,articles are simply not available locally or at exorbitant prices. Example-- I needed work / gardening gloves for my grandchildren. Available in a garden centre (30km round trip )for crazy prices, I got multi packets of them for lower prices from Amazon.

You can get some Loo Las in Amazon as well. I bought a hand paper stapler which was advertised as 7cm long. But the reviews warned that it was really 18 cm long. That was ok with me and I purchased and am happy with a very powerful stapler-- but many customers were very unhappy.

So - as I say-- it's complicated.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Take notice of the 3* ones for more honest opinions. Too many false 5*s, and often the 1*s are nonsense - often because delivery didn't meet expectations etc. or sometimes unreasonable expectations - one first class chainsaw got a 1* because it was delivered without petrol in it. At least look at the contents of the 1* reviews and don't just count the number of them.

 

[Majimoto]

Take notice of the 3* ones for more honest opinions. Too many false 5*s, and often the 1*s are nonsense - often because delivery didn't meet expectations etc. or sometimes unreasonable expectations - one first class chainsaw got a 1* because it was delivered without petrol in it. At least look at the contents of the 1* reviews and don't just count the number of them.

I agree fully. There are some incredible eejits out there..
More relevant to the joke thread!!

I loved the one star review that said "" gotcha- you are reading the one stars to get the bad news-- I'm really giving this 5 stars, but wanted to catch you out."

 

[Inspector]

We have a Fisher&Pakel dishwasher, the New Zealand one with the drawers. It uses dishwasher powder which on the surface shouldn't be a big deal but with pods being the lazy person's choice we can't get the boxes of dishwasher powder anymore. Nobody sells it locally and using a pod in a drawer machine means you're using twice as much soap as needed. Amazon is the only place I can get the powdered soap, so you know where I get it now. It is a product I have no problem buying locally but the stores don't care to stock it for the few that want/need it so they reduce the number of times we walk through their door, thus loosing other business.

Pete

 

[Majimoto]

We have a Fisher&Pakel dishwasher, the New Zealand one with the drawers. It uses dishwasher powder which on the surface shouldn't be a big deal but with pods being the lazy person's choice we can't get the boxes of dishwasher powder anymore. Nobody sells it locally and using a pod in a drawer machine means you're using twice as much soap as needed. Amazon is the only place I can get the powdered soap, so you know where I get it now. It is a product I have no problem buying locally but the stores don't care to stock it for the few that want/need it so they reduce the number of times we walk through their door, thus loosing other business.

Pete

Exactly.
I particularly hate all these premeasured dose thingumibobs -- like washing machine , and coffee pods and even teabags.

Ok - I'll go back into the Ark now.

 

[Vulcan]

Hmm, I am moving to Scotland next week.

OMG why?! You know there are men up there that wear skirts don’t you!