Re:Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime S...
by baddox on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:53PM
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Amazon offered overnight or 2-day shipping, and it turns out that customers apparently love it. I suppose we can quibble over who "creates" the expectation, but note that other things Amazon have offered or tested did not lead to intense customer demand.
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Re:Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime S...
by pavon on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:20PM
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Amazon offered 2-day shipping, then changed their free shipping from 5-days to 8-days, deliberately changing a luxury to a necessity so they could up-sell it to more people.
I know I was perfectly happy when packages that I ordered on the weekend arrived in time for the next weekend most of the time, and never paid for expedited shipping. It was only when most of those packages started taking more than a week to arrive that I finally signed up for Prime.