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[Poke_4_Life]

This bugs me too. I have an Apple remote and I can't believe there is no back/previous button. Or maybe I haven't found it.

So google gave me a solution for YoutubeTV that's not too bad. While watching a channel, click down 3 times then enter. This will take you to your last channel. In some ways it is slower than a single button, but it also shows the last handful of channels on the screen (the others are to the right after clicking down 3 times) so you can actually quickly jump between several channels.

 

[Poke_4_Life]

Anyone find any good deals on this Prime early access sales? I noticed the cordless vacuum that I paid $199 for with a $60 coupon is currently listed at $199. LOL.

Been thinking about getting a pellet smoker, and this see deal as pretty solid. Traeger Pro Series 575, $497

 

[MTskibum]

Anyone find any good deals on this Prime early access sales? I noticed the cordless vacuum that I paid $199 for with a $60 coupon is currently listed at $199. LOL.

Been thinking about getting a pellet smoker, and this see deal as pretty solid. Traeger Pro Series 575, $497

The deals are not that good except for Amazon branded electronics and the deals that are exceptional but last all of 5 seconds because the deal is too good and everyone wants it.

Then they leave that deal as "sold out" on the front page so that they can play us like suckers.

 

[Poke_4_Life]

Anyone find any good deals on this Prime early access sales? I noticed the cordless vacuum that I paid $199 for with a $60 coupon is currently listed at $199. LOL.

Been thinking about getting a pellet smoker, and this see deal as pretty solid. Traeger Pro Series 575, $497

The deals are not that good except for Amazon branded electronics and the deals that are exceptional but last all of 5 seconds because the deal is too good and everyone wants it.

Then they leave that deal as "sold out" on the front page so that they can play us like suckers.

Yeah, that's basically the way it has been in the past as well. I don't need any Amazon branded items right now, that's why I'm just now looking on the second day of the sale.

 

[jrt103]

early access to what exactly?

 

[Psychopav]

early access to what exactly?

Your mom

 

[CGRdrJoe]

early access to what exactly?

Norm’s mom

fixed

 

[rustycolts]

Terminal List.

Great series. Lots of fun even though the critics seem to think it’s a right wing revenge fantasy. Personally, I didn’t see anything political in it at all. Good people and bad people are both men and woman and both military. Oh well, sometimes a TV show is just a TV show and meant to be enjoyed not picked apart going in with a bias.

Yep I really enjoyed it. My favorite line was Yea Army cuz even SEALS need heros. Hooah.

 

[Chadstroma]

Terminal List.

Great series. Lots of fun even though the critics seem to think it’s a right wing revenge fantasy. Personally, I didn’t see anything political in it at all. Good people and bad people are both men and woman and both military. Oh well, sometimes a TV show is just a TV show and meant to be enjoyed not picked apart going in with a bias.

Yep I really enjoyed it. My favorite line was Yea Army cuz even SEALS need heros. Hooah.

I don't remember that line but that is a good one.... specially if you are of the Army persuasion.

 

[rustycolts]

Terminal List.

Great series. Lots of fun even though the critics seem to think it’s a right wing revenge fantasy. Personally, I didn’t see anything political in it at all. Good people and bad people are both men and woman and both military. Oh well, sometimes a TV show is just a TV show and meant to be enjoyed not picked apart going in with a bias.

Yep I really enjoyed it. My favorite line was Yea Army cuz even SEALS need heros. Hooah.

I don't remember that line but that is a good one.... specially if you are of the Army persuasion.

A few minutes before the mudslide when he was talking to the female fbi agent that was ex Army.

 

[Phil Elliott]

FWIW - for those not familiar with AmazonSmile, you can set up an organization that Amazon will donate .5% of your order cost. Just set it up once and it's handled automatically on every order. Select from just about any 501c3 charity.
AmazonSmile info

 

[apalmer]

FWIW - for those not familiar with AmazonSmile, you can set up an organization that Amazon will donate .5% of your order cost. Just set it up once and it's handled automatically on every order. Select from just about any 501c3 charity.
AmazonSmile info

Including BigBottom's "Chance For Hope" Foundation. Do it.

 

[Chadstroma]

Terminal List.

Great series. Lots of fun even though the critics seem to think it’s a right wing revenge fantasy. Personally, I didn’t see anything political in it at all. Good people and bad people are both men and woman and both military. Oh well, sometimes a TV show is just a TV show and meant to be enjoyed not picked apart going in with a bias.

Yep I really enjoyed it. My favorite line was Yea Army cuz even SEALS need heros. Hooah.

I don't remember that line but that is a good one.... specially if you are of the Army persuasion.

A few minutes before the mudslide when he was talking to the female fbi agent that was ex Army.

Oh yea!

 

[jhib]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

 

[stbugs]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

Damn man, where do you live? Their last earnings call highlighted the record same day deliveries. I get same day, overnight and next day options all the time. I order more now than I ever did. Saves time and gas. I don’t even mind the ads, way less ad time per show than others and I don’t feel like paying more.

 

[jhib]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

Damn man, where do you live? Their last earnings call highlighted the record same day deliveries. I get same day, overnight and next day options all the time. I order more now than I ever did. Saves time and gas. I don’t even mind the ads, way less ad time per show than others and I don’t feel like paying more.

Ithaca, NY. Apparently just out of reach of the closest warehouses in Syracuse and Bath (each about an hour away) to ship to us directly. Places half hour away all around us show up as next day delivery right now, while ours is 5 days. I've never once gotten something delivered next day here, but at least other than a few months in 2022, it's usually been two days.

 

[stbugs]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

Damn man, where do you live? Their last earnings call highlighted the record same day deliveries. I get same day, overnight and next day options all the time. I order more now than I ever did. Saves time and gas. I don’t even mind the ads, way less ad time per show than others and I don’t feel like paying more.

Ithaca, NY. Apparently just out of reach of the closest warehouses in Syracuse and Bath (each about an hour away) to ship to us directly. Places half hour away all around us show up as next day delivery right now, while ours is 5 days. I've never once gotten something delivered next day here, but at least other than a few months in 2022, it's usually been two days.

That sucks. I’ve needed stuff quickly and that can be convenient but just next day is really nice and often doesn’t have a minimum (like $25 for same day, which isn’t much).

 

[WVU Alum]

I live in the podunk backwoods of nowhere, but I have two Amazon distribution centers within 40 miles of my house. About 1/3 of the things I have ordered from Amazon in the past 6 months have been delivered next-day.

 

[Keerock]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

Damn man, where do you live? Their last earnings call highlighted the record same day deliveries. I get same day, overnight and next day options all the time. I order more now than I ever did. Saves time and gas. I don’t even mind the ads, way less ad time per show than others and I don’t feel like paying more.

I ordered coffee beans at 9am today and they were here before noon. My other option was Friday

 

[Phil Elliott]

I am starting to be able to order in the afternoon and get the product first thing in the am (4-8 am).

 

[BoltNlava]

And..... back to 5-day shipping on Prime for my town the last couple of weeks or so. Hopefully it's just a very temporary thing and doesn't last as long as the issue back in 2022 (things had been pretty much back to normal since then), but it's a pain. Ordered something Sunday and it isn't even marked as shipped yet. But at least I now have ads on shows, so yay?

Damn man, where do you live? Their last earnings call highlighted the record same day deliveries. I get same day, overnight and next day options all the time. I order more now than I ever did. Saves time and gas. I don’t even mind the ads, way less ad time per show than others and I don’t feel like paying more.

I ordered coffee beans at 9am today and they were here before noon. My other option was Friday

Almost everything I order is either same day or next day. Updating my office atm. I have discovered furniture and electronics can be a few days tho.

 

[jhib]

Thanks, guys. Just keep rubbing it in.

 

[FreeBaGeL]

So Amazon has just completely given up on thinking they need to honor delivery dates anymore, right? I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

We ordred a Kindle Kids on Dec 14th as a Christmas present for our daughter. Got delayed a couple times but the email said no worries, it'll ship on the 23rd and arrive on the 24th in time for Christmas. That sounded reasonable to me, their shipping is super fast once they send it.

So it did ship on the 23rd, but delivery date is now the 28th.

If it does arrive by then it will be two weeks for a prime eligible delivery item with original delivery date of Dec 20th (which was already slow for prime shipping).

I do get that shipping gets screwed up around the holidays, but the real kicker is how support just does not care compared how they used to react to these things. The first couple support agents just said "no worries, my system shows that it's still on track to arrive by the delivery date of December 28th", and it took a while to explain to them that December 28th was not the original delivery date, but just what their system updated to this morning (I had to send them screenshots of the order confirmation). Even then it was just kind of "oh, bummer, oh well happy holidays!". They used to at least offer a month of free prime for this stuff, but now nada because really, what other option is there to get fast shipping at least some of the time, even if it's not every time anymore?

Kind of a bummer.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

early access to what exactly?

Your mom

 

[ghostguy123]

Everything we have ordered in the past month has been wayyyy past the date it was supposed to be, or hasn't arrived yet.
Wasn't their some sort of strike going on or something? Thought I heard that somewhere, I don't know.

 

[kupcho1]

I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

Of course there is an alternative. Drop them. Now you may not be able to order Christmas presents 10 days before you need them to be there, but since the presents aren't arriving then anyway, save some money.

 

[kupcho1]

FWIW - for those not familiar with AmazonSmile, you can set up an organization that Amazon will donate .5% of your order cost. Just set it up once and it's handled automatically on every order. Select from just about any 501c3 charity.
AmazonSmile info

Your link just keeps redirecting me to the Amazon home page, even when I type the smile.amazon link into the url.

 

[Joe Schmo]

FWIW - for those not familiar with AmazonSmile, you can set up an organization that Amazon will donate .5% of your order cost. Just set it up once and it's handled automatically on every order. Select from just about any 501c3 charity.
AmazonSmile info

Your link just keeps redirecting me to the Amazon home page, even when I type the smile.amazon link into the url.

Apparently Amazon Smile is now defunct as of 2023:

Why Shuttering AmazonSmile Was a Mistake

Amazon recently canceled its AmazonSmile program, which allowed customers to designate a small percentage of their purchases on Amazon to a charity of their choice. Amazon made the decision because it felt the program’s impact was spread too thin and didn’t provide a great benefit to any...

hbr.org

But in January of this year, Amazon announced that they would be closing the AmazonSmile program. “The program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped,” the company explained in an email to AmazonSmile customers. “With so many eligible organizations — more than 1 million globally — our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin.”

 

[Chaos34]

I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

Of course there is an alternative. Drop them. Now you may not be able to order Christmas presents 10 days before you need them to be there, but since the presents aren't arriving then anyway, save some money.

I just did. I have Prime through 1/9 and then save $15 a month. My deliveries have been slow. I don't use it as much as I used to. I started looking at the company whose product I was about to order. Found their web page and order direct from them most of the time. I've exhausted Prime Video for shows that interest me. I got Hulu for a buck a month on Black Friday. Bye Amazon.

 

[thecatch]

The shipping is still on time 99% of the time for me

 

[belljr]

The shipping is still on time 99% of the time for me

Same. Every once in a while a product is prime eligible but says it won't ship for a few days before I even order it

 

[stbugs]

The shipping is still on time 99% of the time for me

I had one delay recently for a random item that I know isn’t a stocked item so it wasn’t a big deal. Everything normal I get right away. Most stuff I order is eligible for next day type of deliveries. I still love it and watch enough Prime video that I feel like the fee goes to that and shipping is a benefit.

 

[Joe Bryant]

The shipping is still on time 99% of the time for me

Same. It's been exceptionally good this year.

I live in a town where we don't normally get the crazy fast same day delivery. But ordered something yesterday during the day and they delivered it during the night last night. What a world.

 

[ghostguy123]

It's normally fine for us, but the last two months has been worse than any other delivery platform I've ever used. eBay or straight from the store website has been way better.

 

[Tick]

The shipping is still on time 99% of the time for me

Must be regional - no issues for us either. I guess one item I don't need until summer is delayed, but everything else has been fine.

 

[Buckna]

Same, no issues with delays lately. FIL did have one item go awol a month ago, reordered and it was delivered on time and the original refunded.

 

[Phil Elliott]

FWIW - for those not familiar with AmazonSmile, you can set up an organization that Amazon will donate .5% of your order cost. Just set it up once and it's handled automatically on every order. Select from just about any 501c3 charity.
AmazonSmile info

Your link just keeps redirecting me to the Amazon home page, even when I type the smile.amazon link into the url.

That post is a couple years old.

 

[UncleZen]

We ordered 90% of our Christmas presents from Amazon and every single one arrived on time. The main thing to look for is if it's in stock at Amazon or if the order is fulfilled by the seller.

 

[ghostguy123]

My snowblower was supposed to come last night by 8pm. As of noon yesterday it was on schedule. I checked later last night and now it's delayed till the 28th.

 

[Wingnut]

Wasn't their some sort of strike going on or something? Thought I heard that somewhere, I don't know.

The strikes are taking place at three delivery hubs in Southern California, and one each in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois,

Amazon workers are striking at multiple facilities. Here's what you should know

Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union are on strike for a second day at seven of the company’s delivery hubs just days before Christmas.

apnews.com

 

[ghostguy123]

And there it is. Another item that was delayed once already, then yesterday it said would be here today. Now delayed till Dec. 31st.

My wife's gift receiving will be a bit lacking tomorrow. Thanks Amazon

 

[FreeBaGeL]

So Amazon has just completely given up on thinking they need to honor delivery dates anymore, right? I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

We ordred a Kindle Kids on Dec 14th as a Christmas present for our daughter. Got delayed a couple times but the email said no worries, it'll ship on the 23rd and arrive on the 24th in time for Christmas. That sounded reasonable to me, their shipping is super fast once they send it.

So it did ship on the 23rd, but delivery date is now the 28th.

If it does arrive by then it will be two weeks for a prime eligible delivery item with original delivery date of Dec 20th (which was already slow for prime shipping).

I do get that shipping gets screwed up around the holidays, but the real kicker is how support just does not care compared how they used to react to these things. The first couple support agents just said "no worries, my system shows that it's still on track to arrive by the delivery date of December 28th", and it took a while to explain to them that December 28th was not the original delivery date, but just what their system updated to this morning (I had to send them screenshots of the order confirmation). Even then it was just kind of "oh, bummer, oh well happy holidays!". They used to at least offer a month of free prime for this stuff, but now nada because really, what other option is there to get fast shipping at least some of the time, even if it's not every time anymore?

Kind of a bummer.

I just want to note that it is now February 13th, a full 2 months after I originally placed this order, and we still do not have a working Kindle device.

When we set it up it tells us there is an error with our account and we should contact customer service. If we try and switch the kindle to our daughter's profile, it gets a white screen of death (blank white screen, no options).

We have had at least 15 calls with Amazon support. They eventually can't fix it, promise they will escalate it and the tech team will call us back, and they never do. There are reddit posts out there with lots of people having the same problem, and no solution.

We have exchanged the device 3 times, and even tried a different kindle model (the larger version).

We have factory reset maybe 50 times.

We have tried setting up the kindle under both my account, and my wife's. They both have the same error.

I am at a loss here. Amazon support is useless. Has anyone figured this problem out and fixed it?

At this point we've spent probably 20 hours of our time over a 2 month period just trying to give our daughter a kindle for Christmas. It's unbelievable that they haven't solved this and are still selling these devices when they know there is a major bug that they can't figure out.

 

[El Floppo]

So Amazon has just completely given up on thinking they need to honor delivery dates anymore, right? I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

We ordred a Kindle Kids on Dec 14th as a Christmas present for our daughter. Got delayed a couple times but the email said no worries, it'll ship on the 23rd and arrive on the 24th in time for Christmas. That sounded reasonable to me, their shipping is super fast once they send it.

So it did ship on the 23rd, but delivery date is now the 28th.

If it does arrive by then it will be two weeks for a prime eligible delivery item with original delivery date of Dec 20th (which was already slow for prime shipping).

I do get that shipping gets screwed up around the holidays, but the real kicker is how support just does not care compared how they used to react to these things. The first couple support agents just said "no worries, my system shows that it's still on track to arrive by the delivery date of December 28th", and it took a while to explain to them that December 28th was not the original delivery date, but just what their system updated to this morning (I had to send them screenshots of the order confirmation). Even then it was just kind of "oh, bummer, oh well happy holidays!". They used to at least offer a month of free prime for this stuff, but now nada because really, what other option is there to get fast shipping at least some of the time, even if it's not every time anymore?

Kind of a bummer.

I just want to note that it is now February 13th, a full 2 months after I originally placed this order, and we still do not have a working Kindle device.

When we set it up it tells us there is an error with our account and we should contact customer service. If we try and switch the kindle to our daughter's profile, it gets a white screen of death (blank white screen, no options).

We have had at least 15 calls with Amazon support. They eventually can't fix it, promise they will escalate it and the tech team will call us back, and they never do. There are reddit posts out there with lots of people having the same problem, and no solution.

We have exchanged the device 3 times, and even tried a different kindle model (the larger version).

We have factory reset maybe 50 times.

We have tried setting up the kindle under both my account, and my wife's. They both have the same error.

I am at a loss here. Amazon support is useless. Has anyone figured this problem out and fixed it?

At this point we've spent probably 20 hours of our time over a 2 month period just trying to give our daughter a kindle for Christmas. It's unbelievable that they haven't solved this and are still selling these devices when they know there is a major bug that they can't figure out.

outside of missing their delivery date, this sounds like a Kindle more than an Amazon problem... or did I misread?

 

[FreeBaGeL]

So Amazon has just completely given up on thinking they need to honor delivery dates anymore, right? I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

We ordred a Kindle Kids on Dec 14th as a Christmas present for our daughter. Got delayed a couple times but the email said no worries, it'll ship on the 23rd and arrive on the 24th in time for Christmas. That sounded reasonable to me, their shipping is super fast once they send it.

So it did ship on the 23rd, but delivery date is now the 28th.

If it does arrive by then it will be two weeks for a prime eligible delivery item with original delivery date of Dec 20th (which was already slow for prime shipping).

I do get that shipping gets screwed up around the holidays, but the real kicker is how support just does not care compared how they used to react to these things. The first couple support agents just said "no worries, my system shows that it's still on track to arrive by the delivery date of December 28th", and it took a while to explain to them that December 28th was not the original delivery date, but just what their system updated to this morning (I had to send them screenshots of the order confirmation). Even then it was just kind of "oh, bummer, oh well happy holidays!". They used to at least offer a month of free prime for this stuff, but now nada because really, what other option is there to get fast shipping at least some of the time, even if it's not every time anymore?

Kind of a bummer.

I just want to note that it is now February 13th, a full 2 months after I originally placed this order, and we still do not have a working Kindle device.

When we set it up it tells us there is an error with our account and we should contact customer service. If we try and switch the kindle to our daughter's profile, it gets a white screen of death (blank white screen, no options).

We have had at least 15 calls with Amazon support. They eventually can't fix it, promise they will escalate it and the tech team will call us back, and they never do. There are reddit posts out there with lots of people having the same problem, and no solution.

We have exchanged the device 3 times, and even tried a different kindle model (the larger version).

We have factory reset maybe 50 times.

We have tried setting up the kindle under both my account, and my wife's. They both have the same error.

I am at a loss here. Amazon support is useless. Has anyone figured this problem out and fixed it?

At this point we've spent probably 20 hours of our time over a 2 month period just trying to give our daughter a kindle for Christmas. It's unbelievable that they haven't solved this and are still selling these devices when they know there is a major bug that they can't figure out.

outside of missing their delivery date, this sounds like a Kindle more than an Amazon problem... or did I misread?

Kindle is Amazon.

 

[D-Day]

So Amazon has just completely given up on thinking they need to honor delivery dates anymore, right? I assume it's because they know they're the only game in town so people don't really have an alternative.

We ordred a Kindle Kids on Dec 14th as a Christmas present for our daughter. Got delayed a couple times but the email said no worries, it'll ship on the 23rd and arrive on the 24th in time for Christmas. That sounded reasonable to me, their shipping is super fast once they send it.

So it did ship on the 23rd, but delivery date is now the 28th.

If it does arrive by then it will be two weeks for a prime eligible delivery item with original delivery date of Dec 20th (which was already slow for prime shipping).

I do get that shipping gets screwed up around the holidays, but the real kicker is how support just does not care compared how they used to react to these things. The first couple support agents just said "no worries, my system shows that it's still on track to arrive by the delivery date of December 28th", and it took a while to explain to them that December 28th was not the original delivery date, but just what their system updated to this morning (I had to send them screenshots of the order confirmation). Even then it was just kind of "oh, bummer, oh well happy holidays!". They used to at least offer a month of free prime for this stuff, but now nada because really, what other option is there to get fast shipping at least some of the time, even if it's not every time anymore?

Kind of a bummer.

I just want to note that it is now February 13th, a full 2 months after I originally placed this order, and we still do not have a working Kindle device.

When we set it up it tells us there is an error with our account and we should contact customer service. If we try and switch the kindle to our daughter's profile, it gets a white screen of death (blank white screen, no options).

We have had at least 15 calls with Amazon support. They eventually can't fix it, promise they will escalate it and the tech team will call us back, and they never do. There are reddit posts out there with lots of people having the same problem, and no solution.

We have exchanged the device 3 times, and even tried a different kindle model (the larger version).

We have factory reset maybe 50 times.

We have tried setting up the kindle under both my account, and my wife's. They both have the same error.

I am at a loss here. Amazon support is useless. Has anyone figured this problem out and fixed it?

At this point we've spent probably 20 hours of our time over a 2 month period just trying to give our daughter a kindle for Christmas. It's unbelievable that they haven't solved this and are still selling these devices when they know there is a major bug that they can't figure out.

Could be hitting the limit of 6 devices on the account. It counts kindles, and devices that have the app. So phones and tablets could be maxing you out. Just a shot in the dark.