Hey Amazon, guess what? You suck.

[impy]

Grr. I ordered my brother's present from Amazon on the 15th. That gave them plenty of time to ship it out and have it be here on time, especially since they were touting their whole "Still PLENTY OF TIME FOR CHRISTMAS DELIVERY! Even with free shipping!" promise.

And then 24 hours later I caved and bought some other stuff. Because I'm weak. Whatever. Order 1 still hadn't budged, btw, but that wasn't/isn't unusual for Amazon without Prime. So I didn't think too much of it, other than cursing on day three when the price of one of the things in box one was cheaper by $2 and my orders continued to sit there until the 19th, though I swear nothing registered until the 20th.

Amazon is still saying, "Dude, it's cool. We shipped it Smartpost. It'll be there on Christmas Eve. You're fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine."

Fedex is saying, "Hey, look, we're overworked and possibly underpaid and you, you ain't gettin' shit before Friday at the fucking earliest, okay?"

So I go back to Amazon which is still saying, in the best stoner voice you can conjur up, "Duuuuuuude. You're fiiiiiiiiiiine. Smartpost, remember?"

So I look at the USPS site and it blinks at me, cocks its head to the side and says, "Eh? Oh, yeah, um, we recieved word that Fedex was gonna do... something with that. I'm kinda busy and honestly, you're probably hosed."


Meanwhile Walmart took an order the 16th and delivered bits of it all week, starting at 8am on the 17th.


Walmart just stomped your ass, Amazon. Then went back and lapped you six times all while laughing at you. Do you realize how embarrassing that is? Walmart.


I will be royally pissed if the boy's gift doesn't get here on time. ROYALLY PISSED.

Comments

[irishgypsie.livejournal.com]

Man, that sucks! I have Amazon Prime (have had it for a few years now) because I love the two day shipping, but they shouldn't put non-Prime shoppers on the back burner like that. Especially at Christmas. :(

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

When I'm not using a Prime trial, my orders usually take about a week to process and get here, longer if it's near my birthday because I think Amazon just gets their kicks that way... but I've never had them play chicken with Christmas before. :(


I'd really considered going to Prime once they hiked their free shipping limit (naturally I didn't realize that until after I'd cancelled the last round of prime goodness and spent the money I would have used to get Prime for real) but this is pissing me off to the point that it's not making me think, "Should get prime to avoid this." It's making me think "Fuck Amazon."

[luxken27]

Meanwhile, I impulse-order Friday morning and have to change the address where it's going to ship because its going to arrive faster than their estimated delivery o.O WTF? You must've ordered something they had to go to the ends of the earth to find.

(I just...can't with Walmart. Even after this whole brouhaha with Target, I can't subject myself to the misery that is shopping at/supporting Walmart.)

[snarky-imp.livejournal.com]

I can't figure out what it could be because the iniital order had three things and two of those got price slashed even further in the following week so... maybe the boy's gift had to be made by very slow elves?


Not a Walmart fan and I'd rather there was a Target right down the road instead (ugh, Super Walmart is not super!) but Widget is in the middle of a growth spurt and I figure there's no way I'm spending a billion bucks on clothes he's gonna outgrow before the season is even over. But I will never site to store again. Evvvvvvvvvvvvvver again.

I do tell myself it's to support the boy's friend who works there, though.