From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 12:39:45 -0700, Bob La Londe    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 8/5/2025 5:47 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >> I've been seeing deteriorating tracking and delivery competence even   
   >> from Amazon recently. Perhaps the problem is new AI software. My dog   
   >> understood me better than the telephone AI I dealt with this morning.   
   >   
   >One of the things I really noticed with Amazon recently is blatantly   
   >misleading or false delivery times with a twist.   
   >   
   >I quit buying anything important from Amazon for a few years because I   
   >ordered some important items that had an option for a faster delivery   
   >time.  I selected the faster delivery time (a couple days), and then it   
   >was two weeks plus for shipping from out of the country.  Amazon tried   
   >to claim that was the normal delivery time and I agreed, and showed them   
   >their listing showing the option for faster delivery time, and my   
   >payment for the faster delivery time, and they refused to acknowledge   
   >the screenshots from their own website.  I never got a refund for the   
   >shipping difference, and they never acknowledge that they screwed me.   
   >   
   >Unfortunately the world has gotten to the point where sometimes you have   
   >no choice but deal with dishonest soulless if not outright evil   
   >corporations like Amazon, Ford, and Alphabet, or do without.  You have   
   >to choose the one that screws you over in a way you can tolerate best.   
   >   
   >I find myself having no choice, but order some things from Amazon.  I   
   >can find them elsewhere sometimes for a lot more money and a lot more   
   >lead time, but in business both of those things matter.   
   >   
   >During my recent air dryer upgrade I decided to upgrade everything.   
   >Stainless braided outer lines for all my flex lines, assorted fittings,   
   >bigger badder pre and post filters, and ... stuff.  In order to get   
   >several pieces in any reasonable time and price I had to order it from   
   >Amazon.  My wife gets a lot of household stuff from Amazon, so of course   
   >we have a "Prime" account.  Whatever that means.  I used to have a   
   >business account, and it didn't mean anything really.  Anyway, in order   
   >to find items that would deliver next day I selected "Prime" listings   
   >and looked for next day (or two day) items.  I did not sort by price.   
   >There were cheaper prices on Amazon, but not with next day delivery.  Of   
   >course local industrial suppliers would say, "We can get it for you,"   
   >and online industrial suppliers were either much more expensive or much   
   >longer lead time or both.  Anyway, I would find spec items listed as   
   >next day delivery, add them to the cart, and then look in the cart to   
   >see they had changed it to 2-5 days delivery.  At one point I added   
   >every single spec item, checked the cart, and deleted all those that had   
   >changed delivery times.  It was the only way to find those that actually   
   >had next day delivery instead of the BIG FAT LIE.  Since no job ever   
   >goes to plan around here I wound up doing this three different times,   
   >and I experienced it every single time.   
   >   
   >In my opinion Amazon has gas lighting you deliberately BAKED IN to their   
   >software.  "Oh, no.  See in your check out it said you wouldn't get it   
   >for 2-5 days."  You thought you ordered next day delivery items, BECAUSE   
   >YOU DID, but before check out they change it.   
   >   
   >   
   >--   
   >Bob La Londe   
   >CNC Molds N Stuff   
      
   Surprisingly I have had EARLY delivery at least as often as late - up   
   here in Canada.   
      
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