Posted on 06/13/2018 2:45:54 PM PDT by cvolkay
You actually had a drone drop off your package?
I didn’t really believe they were doing that.
How big was the drone?
must have a serious battery in it.
do you think somebody was operating it or autonomous?
Amazon has bent over backwards in my dealings with them. The lesson is don’t leave valuable stuff in your car.
Here was our last Amazon delivery experience as Prime customers. My wife ordered a package and received an email that it would be delivered on Friday. No package. She phoned on Saturday and was advised it would be delivered on Sunday. No package. She phoned on Monday and was told it would be delivered that day. No package. That night our neighbor across the street rang our bell with a package that he said he found at his front door. It was not UPS. It was not USPS. It was delivered via one of the “fly-by-night” so-called delivery services that Amazon has started using. We live in a gated community, and every house has the address posted plainly on the front of the house next to the entry walk.
Always treat gift cards like cash
You ain’t got a suit
I used to use Amazon prime when I was working because I ordered stuff for work. A couple of times items didn’t arrive within the 2 day delivery time frame and each time they extended my prime membership by a month.
500 million satisfied customers and one who claims he got screwed.
Didn’t you know gift cards are just like cash?
You do now.
Sorry for your loss.
The amazon delivery couple that showed up last week were Haitian or something and could barely speak english. they were very nice but it could be a problem.
If there drivers can’t read english, are stupid and rely on their gps for deliveries amazon might want to not hire them.
“The amazon delivery couple that showed up last week were Haitian or something and could barely speak english. they were very nice but it could be a problem.”
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It would be a VERY big problem for me——and I do a lot of shopping on Amazon.
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“It was delivered via one of the “fly-by-night” so-called delivery services that Amazon has started using. “
One of their delivery services left 3 packages at my house. One for me and one for each of 2 neighbors in the mobile home park I live in. One was a same day delivery to a neighbor who needed it for his job the next day and was very happy I called and let him know I had it.
Back in ‘77, I got back from a two years overseas assignment. My bank (Crocker) has “lost” my account — all $25,000 life savings gone ($100,000 in 2018 dollars). The clerk was useless. The branch manager was useless (”you probably bounced a check”). Went to the library and got the names of the appropriate top execs and the state banking examiner / regulator. Wrote them all polite, detailed letters and named names.
A couple weeks later the branch Manager had changed his tune, was very apologetic and treated me like royalty. I think he was thankful to have been able to keep his job.
I learned that lesson early — don’t my screw around with feeble underlings if you have a serious problem. Go straight to the top.
For this OP’s problem — I don’t think Jeff Bezos is going to step in to solve it.
The foreign couple couldn’t figure out how to scan the package properly and for a week i kept getting sorry your package is late messages from amazon.
I finally called them to tell them i got it, didn’t want the nice illiterates to get in trouble.
They were very friendly but if amazon wants a smooth operation they got to hire better people.
I have stopped buying from amazon.
JoMa
I almost feel guilty about some of the prime items i ordered qhem we lived in BFE ...UPS and fedex guys both told me the shipping charges for the large 100 lb items they pulled off the plane 80 miles from bfe were likely 2x what the item cost
The box the power supply was in was very small and very light so it made sense a drone delivered it.
I was so excited to see the drone delivery by the time I got my phone out and the camera enabled it was too late to get any meaningful video of it. Just damn!!
I couldn't say if it was being operated or autonomous. I'd venture a guess that a simple plug-in of my GPS coordinates would've got it to my home.
........ suing Amazon ........
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So you need to go look in the mirror and see who the nut-fool is that you should be suing. Giftcards are like cash and should be treated as such.
I would be pretty pissed-off if this happened to me. But how you can spend that much effort trying to argue your (weak) case is really odd.
These are my experiences and opinions, what are yours?
It is more like your experience with one issue, while my experiences with Amazon CS have only been positive, and top of the line, as compared with Walmart and Ebay, two other main online sources. Their early white van delivery people could be rather sketchy though.
Walmart is usually cheaper for the same items than Amazon, but are often out of stock and do not have the variety, or have 3rd party sellers whose shipping it too high. Ebay is good for hard-to-find auto parts, or things like cheap watches,reading watches, etc.
Amazon and Jeff Bezos; utter disgraces to the business world. Pass it on. Maybe it will go viral.
Rather, one reason Amazon has the majority of online transactions because it has very good CS, unless you abuse it. I wish they all were closed on the Lord's day, but we can only wish the government, local to federal, had CS as good as Amazons.
I caught one parked a few feet from our front door, with a door bell and note telling deliveries to ring the bell, but the driver went 70' into the rear were some bicycles were parked. Suspicious? But the post office has delivered to the wrong persons in the wrong building, and also lost (tracked to another city and gone) about 80.00 of auto parts, which Amazon made good on nonetheless. Thanks be to God.
I got a gift card for X-mas. When I went to use it it had no money on it. Always check the card at the register before you leave!! I don’t buy gift cards from anywhere!!!
Completely agree. One must be very careful when purchasing anything but books from Amazon. I don't know how the scammers get away with it.
I made a mistake on a gift card and spoke on live chat with Amazon staffperson, who handed it professionally and quickly and in a friendly, intelligent manner.
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