I have a question perhaps someone here can answer.
In years past, I used to order quite a bit from Amazon and do it with free shipping. The stuff shipped quickly and arrived in a week, no more than two. Now, however, when I order and do free shipping, I get a "ship date estimate" that is two, three, four weeks into the future. It takes forever to get my order. My question: Does Amazon now put the free shipping orders at the very end of their "To Do" list?
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They've always said that shipping would take two or three weeks, but it usually doesn't.
They will wait to ship until everything is in stock. Are you ordering pre-orders or back-ordered items?
If I use free shipping, I figure it will take me two weeks to get the item, and I haven't noticed much difference. I have long suspected that they do push us free loaders to the bottom of the pile but can't prove it.
Okay, this one shipped pretty quickly, just got notice today.
I can't complain this time, but I am with you and suspect the free shipping orders get pushed to the end of the list. (No pre-orders or back orders, which would obviously take longer.) I thought they might be intentionally dragging their feet in order to encourage (force??) people into joining the Super Shippers club thing they have now.
That's a legitimate suspicion, but I have never experienced any problems when it comes to order fulfillment. Free or not, they ship very fast... and I usually accumulate stuff I want so that there's enough there to get free shipping. So, no, I have to say that -- in my (very long!) experience -- Amazon is very fine in that department. No recent changes.
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