{"id":761,"date":"2010-12-29T12:36:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:07:25","slug":"when-amazon-prime-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/when-amazon-prime-isnt\/","title":{"rendered":"When Amazon Prime Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like Amazon.com likes to teach me lessons about shipping<\/a>. Amazon likes to occasionally offer free trials of their Amazon Prime service. For those who aren’t familiar with it, for $79\/yr you get “free” 2-day shipping on your orders and can get overnight shipping for $4.<\/p>\n

I’d learned from past purchases that the free super saver shipping can take forever, so when I decided to try and find a copy of Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360, shipping time was important because I planned to play it while my brother was visiting. Amazon was offering the trial, so I signed up and ordered the game.<\/p>\n

I learned that 2-day shipping is not the same as 2nd day air. They will use closer warehouses and ground shipping to get your item to you in 2 days. The main problem here is that UPS does not time guarantee ground shipments so they have no incentive to get your package to you if they make a mistake because there’s no financial consequence. I called Amazon, and they said sorry and offered me a $5 Amazon.com credit (that never showed up). UPS said they can’t do anything (like re-route it using a faster delivery method).<\/p>\n

So here is what my package did:<\/p>\n

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Amazon (and UPS) Not So Prime<\/p><\/div>\n

Two days turned into 12 (7 business) and I got it the day my brother left. I had never seen so many problems with a package.<\/p>\n

On the bright side, a couple days later I got an e-mail from Amazon refunding my purchase. That meant a free copy of Burnout Paradise for the trouble!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like Amazon.com likes to teach me lessons about shipping. Amazon likes to occasionally offer free trials of their Amazon Prime service. For those who aren’t familiar with it, for $79\/yr you get “free” 2-day shipping on your orders and can get overnight shipping for $4. I’d learned from past purchases that the free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[271,372,374,373],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-shopping","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-delivery-exception","tag-ups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}