I expect things in 2-3 days but realistically it never happens without paying a hefty premium.
Amazon's shipping schedule is really bad because they hold your items hostage unless you pay for Prime. It's essentially blackmail to get your item in a reasonable time frame.
As a non-Prime subscriber it usually takes 7-10 days to get an item if you use their free shipping or 5-7 days if you use the cheapest paid shipping option.
The funny thing is, in those non-Prime free shipping cases, the item is usually processed / shipped after 7-8 days and then arrives in 2-3 days.
That doesn't sound good. Luckily here in India, I have to pay $8 a year for Prime and most items get delivered within 36 hours.
I'm in the US and Prime is $99/year.
Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem
by WhyNotHugo on Monday December 25, 2017 @02:37AM
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It's also 99USD/year in Argentina, but we don't get the fast shipping US/India gets.
We're also a "poorer" country, I'm not sure what they base their prices on.
The post I answered was about Chinese sellers. A good US-based 3rd party seller will ship ASAP and use USPS flat rate. Amazon is much more than Amazon warehouses and Prime.
It's not recent, Vine has been around for years.
While it's a good program, there are millions of items, unlikely to have them all covered by Vine users. They would have to extend the program greatly for this to be an effective counter.
Fake reviews have been an easy exploit for sellers for a long time, and sellers will often buy from competitors just to leave verified bad reviews. It's an ugly game I don't have an answer to.
Amazon recently introduced Vine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/vine/help