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belljr said:
I'm not complaining but I get a lot of orders from usps. Heck they are delivering one on sunday.

I also live in nj and many of the orders are not far.

I'm curious now and am going to check. Lol

My last 5 orders have all gone usps
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I just checked mine and 9 out of my last 10 Prime orders have been USPS. They all come from 1 state over.

 
Returned an item (iPhone cable) that was broken. It was actually a replacement for the original that I had bought a couple months ago that also died. When I received the notice about my refund there was a $2 restocking fee. Why should I be charged a fee to restock a broken item? It's not like I wanted a white one instead of the black I ordered, it was the second broken one I had of this product. I know $2 isn't much to quibble over, but it was $2 of the $10 the product cost. 20% seems high!

I have sent an email to amazon about it, but I wanted to see if this is normal.

TIA

 
What the heck is Amazon Underground? Their app game is now equally as confusing as their deal sub-categories on Prime Day.

It seems to me like they are trying to pry people away from Google Play store.

 
Quez said:
What the heck is Amazon Underground? Their app game is now equally as confusing as their deal sub-categories on Prime Day.

It seems to me like they are trying to pry people away from Google Play store.
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Yeah. The deals page is awful now also
 
Mr. Ected said:
Returned an item (iPhone cable) that was broken. It was actually a replacement for the original that I had bought a couple months ago that also died. When I received the notice about my refund there was a $2 restocking fee. Why should I be charged a fee to restock a broken item? It's not like I wanted a white one instead of the black I ordered, it was the second broken one I had of this product. I know $2 isn't much to quibble over, but it was $2 of the $10 the product cost. 20% seems high!

I have sent an email to amazon about it, but I wanted to see if this is normal.

TIA
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Received a refund, but it was termed a 'goodwill refund.' I would think that I should't have to pay for a restocking for a broken product.

 
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East Coast Bias said:
Most of the packages I get late are ones that are handed off to the post office for final delivery but they aren't given to the post office until mid-day on the day they should be delivered. Whenever I miss a shipment I do a quick chat saying that a package with a guaranteed delivery date hasn't arrived and ask them to check on it. They always come back and say it will be delivered that day (which I already know) and they will extend my Prime for one month. I don't even have to ask and it takes less than 5 minutes.
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No Prime packages are handed off to the USPS for final delivery. The problem is a postal issue but not the problem you think
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My last order that was placed on Friday night and delivered Sunday, was delivered USPS.

 
Got my $50 Fire tablet and I've been playing with it a little:

Feel of the device is good - even though it's plastic shell, it feels durable.

Setup is easy, but typing is not as smooth as other devices. Lots of double keystrokes and extra letters thrown in there. I would be annoyed if I shelled out a lot to get that performance.

Device speed is pretty good. Comparable (but slower) to my phone, faster than my iPad2. Touch sensitivity is not as good as other devices and is annoying.

I haven't played that much, but seems like this is pretty locked down to Amazon ecosystem. I went to Amazon Appstore for alternative to default Silk browser and none came up. I've tried looking for how to load other browsers on this thing and have come up empty. At least silk does have private browsing which keeps one potential device use in play.

So far, for $50 for a device that I can check email, read and watch movies, thumbs up. Be nice to throw in my backpack when traveling and not feel worried that it's gonna get stolen. Likewise, to load up some movies on a microSD card and give to the kids, also good use. I doubt I'll use it for anything that requires any major typing (so it's just like my ipad!)

 
Is this petty? I think it is on both sides. "You won't include our service, so we won't sell your product!" I bet it will hurt Chrome more than Apple, since most people head to Apple Stores for Apple Products.

Amazon to Cease Selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast Over 'Prime Video' Incompatibility

Amazon plans to stop selling some streaming video devices that compete with its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, reports Bloomberg. It will no longer offer Google's Chromecast or Apple's Apple TV for sale in its online store.

Amazon today sent an email to marketplace sellers notifying them of the upcoming change. The site plans to disallow new listings for the product and remove existing inventory on October 29. As a reason for the removal, Amazon is citing compatibility with its Prime Video streaming service, which is not available on devices from Google and Apple.

"Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime," Amazon said in the e-mail. "It's important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."

Other set-top boxes and consoles, including those from Roku, Microsoft, and Playstation, do have apps that allow customers to stream Amazon Prime Video and thus won't be affected by the new ban.

For Apple customers, this means the new fourth-generation Apple TV will not be available for purchase via Amazon.com. It also suggests the device will not be gaining an Amazon video app and will continue to be incompatible with the Amazon Prime Video service.
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Mr. Ected said:
Is this petty? I think it is on both sides. "You won't include our service, so we won't sell your product!" I bet it will hurt Chrome more than Apple, since most people head to Apple Stores for Apple Products.

Amazon to Cease Selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast Over 'Prime Video' Incompatibility

Amazon plans to stop selling some streaming video devices that compete with its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, reports Bloomberg. It will no longer offer Google's Chromecast or Apple's Apple TV for sale in its online store.

Amazon today sent an email to marketplace sellers notifying them of the upcoming change. The site plans to disallow new listings for the product and remove existing inventory on October 29. As a reason for the removal, Amazon is citing compatibility with its Prime Video streaming service, which is not available on devices from Google and Apple.

"Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime," Amazon said in the e-mail. "It's important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."

Other set-top boxes and consoles, including those from Roku, Microsoft, and Playstation, do have apps that allow customers to stream Amazon Prime Video and thus won't be affected by the new ban.

For Apple customers, this means the new fourth-generation Apple TV will not be available for purchase via Amazon.com. It also suggests the device will not be gaining an Amazon video app and will continue to be incompatible with the Amazon Prime Video service.
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The funny thing is that it's not Google's fault that Prime Video doesn't work on Chromecast. Amazon could easily include Chromecast streaming in their app if they wanted to. This is just Amazon trying to drive everyone to Fire TV and the Fire Stick.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Is this petty? I think it is on both sides. "You won't include our service, so we won't sell your product!" I bet it will hurt Chrome more than Apple, since most people head to Apple Stores for Apple Products.

Amazon to Cease Selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast Over 'Prime Video' Incompatibility

Amazon plans to stop selling some streaming video devices that compete with its Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, reports Bloomberg. It will no longer offer Google's Chromecast or Apple's Apple TV for sale in its online store.

Amazon today sent an email to marketplace sellers notifying them of the upcoming change. The site plans to disallow new listings for the product and remove existing inventory on October 29. As a reason for the removal, Amazon is citing compatibility with its Prime Video streaming service, which is not available on devices from Google and Apple.

"Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime," Amazon said in the e-mail. "It's important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."

Other set-top boxes and consoles, including those from Roku, Microsoft, and Playstation, do have apps that allow customers to stream Amazon Prime Video and thus won't be affected by the new ban.

For Apple customers, this means the new fourth-generation Apple TV will not be available for purchase via Amazon.com. It also suggests the device will not be gaining an Amazon video app and will continue to be incompatible with the Amazon Prime Video service.
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Not sure it is petty, but it is short sighted imo. People that want those products are still going to buy them, even if they are not on Amazon's marketplace.

 
belljr said:
I'm not complaining but I get a lot of orders from usps. Heck they are delivering one on sunday.

I also live in nj and many of the orders are not far.

I'm curious now and am going to check. Lol

My last 5 orders have all gone usps
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USPS is just doing the final mile. It travels the Amazon network all the way to your local post office. It's actually the way you want it to go - it's the highest performing and most reliable ship method available

 
#WhatIfWeLost? Exec. Producers Ridley Scott & Frank Spotnitz bring their epic vision of The Man in the #HighCastle to Amazon Prime. All episodes stream 11/20.

 
Leeroy Jenkins said:
#WhatIfWeLost? Exec. Producers Ridley Scott & Frank Spotnitz bring their epic vision of The Man in the #HighCastle to Amazon Prime. All episodes stream 11/20.
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I know the pilot is on there but I am waiting until more are released. I think there is a thread started.

 
Drifter said:
belljr said:
I'm not complaining but I get a lot of orders from usps. Heck they are delivering one on sunday.

I also live in nj and many of the orders are not far.

I'm curious now and am going to check. Lol

My last 5 orders have all gone usps
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USPS is just doing the final mile. It travels the Amazon network all the way to your local post office. It's actually the way you want it to go - it's the highest performing and most reliable ship method available
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there may be an institutional problem of falsifying scans to make Amazon happy . Jus saying. Sunday's are no problem when there is only packages involved . M-F ups has to be a better option
 
Ordered something on Wednesday with overnight shipping. Didn't arrive today. Customer service says there was a mechanical problem with the plane and the estimated arrival is now sometime in the next SIX DAYS. Useless to me of course, as I overnighted it because I needed it today.

They refunded the $3.99 shipping, didn't offer anything else. This thing is a shell of what it used to be.

 
FreeBaGeL said:
Ordered something on Wednesday with overnight shipping. Didn't arrive today. Customer service says there was a mechanical problem with the plane and the estimated arrival is now sometime in the next SIX DAYS. Useless to me of course, as I overnighted it because I needed it today.

They refunded the $3.99 shipping, didn't offer anything else. This thing is a shell of what it used to be.
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It's so unlike a corporation to get you hooked only to slowly degrade their quality over time.

 
Still have everything delivered on time out of 150ish orders a year :shrug:

Genuinely can't ever remember anything being late. I guess it might have happened but I usually am on top of it....

 
So I've recently been opting out prime shipping or orders for credits for certain things. Initially they were $1 credits for amazon videos and such, but this week it was a 5.99 credit for "Amazon Pantry", which I'm not familiar with. Anyone have any experience with it?

 
had a package delivered Sunday by a girl wearing an Amazon shirt in a white van. Tracking listed the carrier as AMZL_US

 
matttyl said:
So I've recently been opting out prime shipping or orders for credits for certain things. Initially they were $1 credits for amazon videos and such, but this week it was a 5.99 credit for "Amazon Pantry", which I'm not familiar with. Anyone have any experience with it?
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We did it. Big box with flat rate shipping. IT's deemed full based on a volume/weight calculation. Prices for pantry stuff are GENERALLY cheaper than prime, though not in all cases.

 
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matttyl said:
So I've recently been opting out prime shipping or orders for credits for certain things. Initially they were $1 credits for amazon videos and such, but this week it was a 5.99 credit for "Amazon Pantry", which I'm not familiar with. Anyone have any experience with it?
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We did it. Big box with flat rate shipping. IT's deemed full based on a volume/weight calculation. Prices for pantry stuff are GENERALLY cheaper than prime, though not in all cases.
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I've done it a couple of times. Not bad, if you check your numbers, I was able to buy a couple things that saved me the shipping. A couple of the items were close to Costco prices.

 
I have been doing the same thing with shipping. I will have quite a bit with of prime pantry $$$ by Dec.

What is the shark move to fill up a box? I'm thinking nuts.

 
 
 
No discussion of the early black Friday deals?

Fire tablet $10 off, Fire Stick $15 off, Roku 55" TV $348 are a few deals I am interested in.

 
JoeSteeler said:
No discussion of the early black Friday deals?

Fire tablet $10 off, Fire Stick $15 off, Roku 55" TV $348 are a few deals I am interested in.
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$10 off their stuff really doesn't set my pants on fire. Hammering refresh for 5 hours waiting for the 1.3 second window to get one of 8 cheap TV's isn't far behind that...

Will see.

 
Electronics on sale


$30 off Kindle and Kindle for Kids Bundle
$34.99 Fire 7-inch tablet (regularly $50)
Fire Kids Edition for $84.99 (regularly $100)
$25 off Amazon Fire TV (regularly $100)
$15 off Amazon Fire TV Stick (regularly $40) and Amazon Fire TV Stick with Voice Remote
Up to 45% off select Samsung and LG TVs, including:

Samsung 75-inch 1080p Smart LED TV for less than $2,000

A top-selling 60-inch 4K LED TV for $799.99
TCL 55-inch Roku Smart LED TV for $348
TCL 32-inch Roku Smart LED TV, $125
Hisense 55-inch 4K Smart LED TV, $448 (app-only deal)
Unnamed 50-inch 1080p LED TV, $149.99 (app-only deal)
Acer Home Theater Projector, $299.99
Vizio 38-inch 2.1 home theater sound bar for $79.99 (regularly $180)
$49 off Sonos 2-Room Streaming Music Starter Set (regularly $398)
40 percent off on a Polk Audio Omni S2 wireless speaker
25 percent off Denon Heos 1 wireless speakers
50 percent off Sony Extra Bass Bluetooth Headphones
50 percent off on Sennheiser HD 598 Special Edition Over-Ear Headphones in Black (Amazon-exclusive)
$100 off an Intel Dell 2-in-1 Laptop
Asus 15-inch laptop, $129
40 percent off select Acer desktops, monitors, Chromebooks and tablets
$99 Jawbone Up3 (regularly $150)
20 percent off on select Samsung Galaxy tablets
70 percent on select SanDisk memory cards and USB flash drives
A top-selling mobile printer for less than $100
 
JoeSteeler said:
<p>

Electronics on sale

[*]A top-selling 60-inch 4K LED TV for $799.99
[*]TCL 55-inch Roku Smart LED TV for $348
[*]TCL 32-inch Roku Smart LED TV, $125
[*]Hisense 55-inch 4K Smart LED TV, $448 (app-only deal)
[*]Unnamed 50-inch 1080p LED TV, $149.99 (app-only deal)
[*]Acer Home Theater Projector, $299.99
[*]Vizio 38-inch 2.1 home theater sound bar for $79.99 (regularly $180)
[*]$49 off Sonos 2-Room Streaming Music Starter Set (regularly $398)
[*]40 percent off on a Polk Audio Omni S2 wireless speaker
[*]25 percent off Denon Heos 1 wireless speakers
[*]50 percent off Sony Extra Bass Bluetooth Headphones
[*]50 percent off on Sennheiser HD 598 Special Edition Over-Ear Headphones in Black (Amazon-exclusive)
[*]$100 off an Intel Dell 2-in-1 Laptop
[*]Asus 15-inch laptop, $129
[*]40 percent off select Acer desktops, monitors, Chromebooks and tablets
[*]$99 Jawbone Up3 (regularly $150)
[*]20 percent off on select Samsung Galaxy tablets
[*]70 percent on select SanDisk memory cards and USB flash drives
[*]A top-selling mobile printer for less than $100
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Thank you. :thumbup:

 
ClownCausedChaos2 said:
JoeSteeler said:
<p>

Electronics on sale

[*]A top-selling 60-inch 4K LED TV for $799.99
[*]TCL 55-inch Roku Smart LED TV for $348
[*]TCL 32-inch Roku Smart LED TV, $125
[*]Hisense 55-inch 4K Smart LED TV, $448 (app-only deal)
[*]Unnamed 50-inch 1080p LED TV, $149.99 (app-only deal)
[*]Acer Home Theater Projector, $299.99
[*]Vizio 38-inch 2.1 home theater sound bar for $79.99 (regularly $180)
[*]$49 off Sonos 2-Room Streaming Music Starter Set (regularly $398)
[*]40 percent off on a Polk Audio Omni S2 wireless speaker
[*]25 percent off Denon Heos 1 wireless speakers
[*]50 percent off Sony Extra Bass Bluetooth Headphones
[*]50 percent off on Sennheiser HD 598 Special Edition Over-Ear Headphones in Black (Amazon-exclusive)
[*]$100 off an Intel Dell 2-in-1 Laptop
[*]Asus 15-inch laptop, $129
[*]40 percent off select Acer desktops, monitors, Chromebooks and tablets
[*]$99 Jawbone Up3 (regularly $150)
[*]20 percent off on select Samsung Galaxy tablets
[*]70 percent on select SanDisk memory cards and USB flash drives
[*]A top-selling mobile printer for less than $100
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Thank you. :thumbup:
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here is the actual link http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-black-friday-deals-2015/

 
So I'm thinking about finally getting an Kindle for reading. Why would I get a Paperwhite for $99 when the non-HD Fire is $49?

 
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shuke said:
So I'm thinking about finally getting an Kindle for reading. Why would I get a Paperwhite for $99 when the non-HD Fire is $49?
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I like reading on the Kindles because they're not back-lit (God knows, I stare at enough tech like that anyway). It's just easier for me to read on pw devices.

btw, looks like the Fire has been knocked down to $34.99 if you have a prime account.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TSUGXKE/ref=ods_gw_d_h1_tab_fd_text_bf_neon?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-kindle-A&pf_rd_r=04JCJ1VAFTCRKB2MNEBB&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2302395082&pf_rd_i=desktop

 
Uruk-Hai said:
shuke said:
So I'm thinking about finally getting an Kindle for reading. Why would I get a Paperwhite for $99 when the non-HD Fire is $49?
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I like reading on the Kindles because they're not back-lit (God knows, I stare at enough tech like that anyway). It's just easier for me to read on pw devices.

btw, looks like the Fire has been knocked down to $34.99 if you have a prime account.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TSUGXKE/ref=ods_gw_d_h1_tab_fd_text_bf_neon?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=desktop-hero-kindle-A&pf_rd_r=04JCJ1VAFTCRKB2MNEBB&pf_rd_t=36701&pf_rd_p=2302395082&pf_rd_i=desktop
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Quick question on the Fire Stick thing. I read all the descriptions, about how it offers Hulu, Netflix, etc - I don't need all that - I already stream it through another console. I'm wondering if I can stream anything at all to the stick to play on the TV. For example, a college basketball game that I can watch for free on my lap top - can I stream that to the TV with this Fire Stick even though it's not one of the paid services?

 
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