Amazon – how do they do it?

I suppose it depends on the cut-off time for next day and the location of what you want.  If your order is processed before the cut-off time I see no reason why the would not attempt it especially if you’re a prime customer.  Believe it or not, it’s not economical to hold stock longer than necessary.

I am still thinking about the rules of the forum and were I stand on links.

Ordered a new doorbell from Amazon late last night, not a Prime customer and used the Standard delivery option. Just got back online now, email says it will be here tomorrow. This is not unusual, I have had next day deliveries if I order early enough. Amazon has a lot of sneerers, but I like it.

Doorbell is German, also works as a burglar alarm inside on the two receivers. The last one was by some Chinese outfit, bought in a local *store. Cost half the price and let in water. Have to see if I get what I pay for I guess

*Called “Trotter’s Traders”. Seriously, they do a roaring trade in cheapo stuff, started with one shop and moved to a superstore-size place on the edge of town. Everything from carpets to food, to tools, curtains, blinds, loads of stuff, some good, some not so good. Cushty, Rodney!  :yahoo: This time next year, New York. Or Lincoln, anyway. :good:

And they didn’t have to buy the name, Beeb had not thought of copyright and was told that it was used in another context anyway. There is even Del Boy’s van pictured on the wall, without the graphics. B-)

Spedley wrote:

I bought this off ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252542372484 at 10pm Saturday evening and it turned up by Amazon courier noon next day.

I wonder if that’s Jason?  :unsure:

Could well have been me if it wasn’t for the Birmingham bit. As you say, close, but not Burton.

It’s not profitable. Not at all. Don’t do it. Waste of time. 😉

Just attempted an order to collect from Screwfix. Got to the checkout, entered card details & was about to press the confirm button when I noticed that on collection the card has to be presented at the counter & the PIN number entered. That means I can’t get anyone else to collect my order … so they lost the sale & I ordered from an Ebay seller instead.

One word answer ‘Fraud’.

I am not saying you or anyone else commits fraud, but a large number of frauds are being committed via ‘customer not present’ card transactions. Shops and other traders must balance lost orders through fraud prevention against lost good through fraud. Assuming a (high) mark up of 10% profit per order, one fraud costs about the profit from 9~10 safe orders. So they do the maths and in this case it worked against your order, I doubt that they were upset as they likely thought that your cancelled order meant that you were doubtful of passing the fraud tests, that is assuming anyone saw the cancellation.