   amazon uk delivery really slow
  Hi,I ordered a readily available book on the 17th of april to be delivered to n. ireland. It still hasnt been dispatched.my house mate had to wait several weeks aswell.Has anyone else noticed poor delivery times with amazon recently?perhaps they are overflowing with orders and cant keep up anymore.Regards   
  I once had to wait a full year for an order from amazon us to come through. When i did have to wait a month for my last order from amazon uk, i thought that was a speedy delivery. Month long delivery times are in my experience rather the rule than the exception for these online services.   ;  What did you order? If they don't have it in stock, they can't send it.I find that Amazon usually dispatches the next day (sometimes the same day) if they have the item in stock. Also, I found that first class postage and the free postage tend to arrive on the same day (And the first class one looked like it'd been jumped on - Hooray for the Royal Mail [smile]).   ;  yes its in stock.delivery estimate ends on the 18th of this month.   ;  I ordered crap way before April 14th and my delivery estimate is May 14 - Jul 4. It's entirely possible it may never arrive.   ;  For the UK (and most of Europe), you should check out Play.comThey've really impressed me both with delivery times and price.Shipping is free, things usually arrive on day 3 for me (so that's a trip from England to Denmark, not bad in that time), and their prices are crazy. You don't want to check their games section. Too tempting... [lol]So far, I must have bought something like 15 games and 5+ books from them. One book took 3 weeks to get here, but everything else has been 3-5 days.   ;  I used to order at amazon.com, but the extra taxes I had to pay were absurdly high. Also, it took 2-3 weeks for the package to get here.Nowadays I order at amazon.co.uk. Dispatch often happens later the day I confirmed my order, and it arrives 3-4 days later (I don't pay extra for a speedy delivery, never tried that). Books and DVDs are the only kind of items I order, and I take care that I only order items with a "usually dispatched within 24 hours" availability (or, I put the less available items in a separate order).My only complaint would be that they should be more careful with how they package the DVDs: the case sometimes gets damaged by the weight of the books.   ;Quote:Original post by Riviera KidHi,I ordered a readily available book on the 17th of april to be delivered to n. ireland. It still hasnt been dispatched.my house mate had to wait several weeks aswell.Has anyone else noticed poor delivery times with amazon recently?perhaps they are overflowing with orders and cant keep up anymore.RegardsA couple of months ago I ordered Batman: Hush 1&2 from amazon.co.uk. After being fobbed off twice with my order delayed - they didn't have the book in stock, and couldn't source a copy - I cancelled the order and ordered them, along with The Long Halloween, off amazon.com. I expected to have to wait another month or two before I got them, as I opted for standard delivery.10 days later my books arrive, having been shipped from their German warehouse. In my opinion, no-one in amazon.co.uk seems to understand their interbranching process.Mind you, they have also recently changed their delivery policy, so no electronics or video games will be delivered from amazon.co.uk to the Republic. Mind you, other forms of software are fine. Crazy...   ;  I never had to wait more than 4 days for something to arrive from amazon.co.uk.   ;Quote:Original post by SpoonbenderFor the UK (and most of Europe), you should check out Play.com My Play.com account is approaching £700 since 2003 [oh]Talking of deliveries though... Play.com can be a bit dodgy as its very easy to identify their parcels without opening them - it even says the value on the outside!Less than honest posties (or whomever) seem to "mis-place" said packets every now and then. Happened to me twice, and know of several other people who've had the same... Luckily play.com is sympathetic to this and usually send out a replacement after the 14-day time period is up.Quote:Has anyone else noticed poor delivery times with amazon recently?Did you go for the "super saver" delivery option OR select "group all my items together as one package"? Both of those generate piss-poor delivery times.I thought saving ~£2.50 by getting free super-saver delivery was great, but now I just pay that extra 2.50 so that I actually get my item sometime within the next millenium [lol]Also, its not happened to me, but a friend of mine couldn't get a text book once; sounds similar to what you describe - in stock when ordered but never despatched. Turned out that the "in stock" was actually wrong and that the order was just sitting waiting for new stock to arrive - and it was an out of print textbook, so it would never arrive... [rolleyes]hthJack   