I've always had the overseas experience so didn't think much of it, but was amazed when I got my boxing day package at 9am this morning.
Prices may not the the absolute best for everything, but I can see how useful it can be to many people.
Amazon Free Delivery Is Damn Fast
twig on 27/12/2017 - 10:05
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yeah, not many other companies have offered this kind of shipping at this scale so far.
will be interesting to see how the others adjust their business.
at least jbhifi seems willing to put up a fight!
I'm looking forward to seeing how they go with regional deliveries… Australia Post is, at best, laughable (as long as it's not your parcel being delivered) when it comes to regional deliveries.
i am in Southwest Vic ordered some HDMI cable from amazon when they opened arrived next day with a courier i was pretty happy with that.
What courier do they use?
@iratepirate:
Amazon have three preferred courier carriers. Toll and Startrack being two of them. I can't remember the third but I'm thinking Couriers Please
Chullora, every (profanity) time.
That place is a postal black hole
edit: Mine sat there for 4 days before shipping off to the wrong state
Chullora is the largest sorting facility in Australia. It's also the central facility for like 5 million Australians in NSW. Have a cry, they do their best.
the place is automated. i guess the barcode scanners are doing their
I can't believe it! I just ordered the Sonos speakers from the Amazon sale yesterday and it arrived this morning. I was expecting it mid-Jan next year - this is amazing!
Are you in Melbourne?
no, Sydney metro area
Hrrmm..me too. No such luck here, although I bought Switch games (at about 7:30am yesterday) and not a Sonos if that makes a difference.
@sTon3r: They could be different suppliers, both using the Amazon marketplace, so they would have different delivery times. Unless both are warehoused and fulfilled by Amazon directly.
The real acid test will be delivery to my area around 6101.
W.A means "wait awhile"
Amazon if you are listening, will you deliver or be like every body else and make us wait a while?
They're starting with 1 warehouse, I think, so that would mean the delivery times would be slow as usual to WA. Maybe further down the track they could do something about that.
Chiming in here (I know it's not Amazon AU)….
I ordered a toy from Amazon in the US - used expedited shipping and it arrived in Sydney in 3 days! (Ordered Friday 15 Dec in the afternoon and received Monday morning before 9am).
I had the same experience. They must be doing a special deal with AusPost, as my parcel was only sent “Parcel Post”, yet still arrived very very quickly.
It's the same postal network that everyone uses.
I am still laughing about all the knee Jerk reaction before they opened and I bet a large number of Australian Retailers are laughing as if they continue with current pricing -I just looked at Hard drives was looking yesterday at 2 stores 5 minutes from where I live and made note of 3 to check out 2 are the same price as Amazon and one with delivery is ONE THIRD DEARER but if I go to Good Guys and pay with cash it will be cheaper than Amazon.
AMAZON
Seagate Backup Plus Desktop Drive, 8TB $389.76 +13= 402.76
At OFFICE WORKS
$279.00 THAT IS $123.76 CHEAPER THAN AMAZON shows that Amazon is attracting the idiot online shoppers.Sold by Fireclay Computers - the item isn't stocked yet by Amazon. Still - good to see Officeworks still offering a bargain or two.
Still the AU Amazon site - have not seen one thing I would buy of the AU site and I don't care if it is Amazon or someone selling through their site. One thing I have not checked is if we can still use the Amazon US site and International section. Amazon has come to Australia to Price Gouge us like all the Foreign Companies operating as retailers or distributors.
You can still use the international sites, you just have to pay the shipping and yes - a lot of things would still be cheaper. Btw, it's not just those nasty foreign companies that are out to gouge us - Australian companies would happily do the same to us as well. eg. Australian banks
And this is how they’ll win. They won’t always be the cheapest but they are aiming to be the fastest - picking and packing orders as quickly as they can to get the goods to you. They want to be that trusted brand from which you’ll source everything because you know you’ll get it delivered faster than anyone else.