As someone who has never ordered from Amazon, how does the delivery work? Do I need to be home to sign off? Or will they just put it at the door?
I order a ton from Amazon and I would bet its about 90-95% of the time just left at the door, no signature or anything. 5-10% of the time it arrives through CanadaPost and if it is too big for the super-box it will require a trip to the post office.
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Same here. Tons of stuff ordered and they just drop it at your door. Only once have I had to go to the post office because of something.
Well worth the $80 or whatever the prime account is. The amount I have saved in the past three months on just the subscribe and save things has paid for that, let alone access to any shows/movies on prime TV.
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For more expensive items, I've started using the post office pickup option out of paranoia. I don't think I've had anything stolen from my front door, but any packages left there are easily visible on a moderately trafficked street. Is front door package sniping a thing at all or is that just in my imagination?
As someone who has never ordered from Amazon, how does the delivery work? Do I need to be home to sign off? Or will they just put it at the door?
Watch if it's sold through Amazon or not. I've purchased an item through a re-seller and it was a PITA. They used fedex and required a signature and I happened to be out of town when they were delivering. A $100 item almost ran me $30 in gas to go pickup at the airport.
As far as Amazon stuff goes though, it's either been dropped off at the door, left in the mailbox, or taken to the post office.
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Is front door package sniping a thing at all or is that just in my imagination?
Not out of the realm of possibility. Every Christmas it seems there's a few news stories about entire neighborhood's parcels being scooped up.
Personally, I'd wait until you have an issue. One of my packages was mis-delivered by Canada Post and was actually signed by someone else (one of the rare ones that required a signature, even though the value was relatively low: about $35 worth of soaps, shampoo, and other household stuff). I told Amazon about this, they immediately had a replacement sent out with free next day delivery, and when the original one turned up randomly a few days later they just said to keep both.
I'm sure that if a trend develops they'll take a closer look, but for one-off issues like that, I have heard that they are very good at ensuring that you get your stuff regardless (especially their own products - not so sure about the other merchants that use Amazon). I guess it depends on the visibility of your front door, the neighbourhood, etc. but I've never been too concerned. I have a nice little nook by my front door that the couriers use though.
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I've had some good experiences with Prime, and some bad ones. I bought a Nintendo Switch game and pre-ordered another game at the same time.
What was previously their "2-day shipping" turned into "3-week shipping" because they decided they should wait for the pre-ordered game to be released before sending the other item.
Same here. Tons of stuff ordered and they just drop it at your door. Only once have I had to go to the post office because of something.
Well worth the $80 or whatever the prime account is. The amount I have saved in the past three months on just the subscribe and save things has paid for that, let alone access to any shows/movies on prime TV.
Hmmm I just got Amazon Prime and it appears music/movies isn't available in Canada. Totally not worth it to me if I don't get access to those things.
Hmmm I just got Amazon Prime and it appears music/movies isn't available in Canada. Totally not worth it to me if I don't get access to those things.
Canadian customers do get Prime Video, although admittedly the selection is pretty poor. Unless you're referring to physical movies and music.
Being able to watch The Grand Tour was what pushed my to keep Prime after my trial, but I actually found it to be kind of bland and I haven't even finished it. In the meantime, my purchasing of products on Amazon has skyrocketed because of the delivery perks. Almost all of my orders are things that I would be buying anyway, but I have definitely shifted a lot of purchasing from other retailers over to Amazon because of price and convenience. My goal was to save the $80 Prime cost within the year, and I'm easily on track.
Hmmm I just got Amazon Prime and it appears music/movies isn't available in Canada. Totally not worth it to me if I don't get access to those things.
Two of the perks that has Prime pay for itself for me is on video games, you save 20% off of pre-orders.
Also not having to pay for shipping on smaller orders. I used to hate trying to get the total value of my order to that threshold that qualify for free shipping.
so I guess then, treat Amazon orders like the zero fraud liability on credit cards and assume you will be taken care of in case of theft. that works for when the package is not time sensitive, but I still think I'll do post office for Christmas shopping, when a guaranteed delivery date is critical. but maybe having things get temporarily lost and sometimes ending up with two of the item in the end is bizarrely tantalizing.
Hmmm I just got Amazon Prime and it appears music/movies isn't available in Canada. Totally not worth it to me if I don't get access to those things.
Well the entire thread was discussing delivery, no one ever mentioned music/movies.
With Canadian Prime you get:
Amazon Prime Video (amazon exclusive shows)
20% off Amazon Basics
20% off pre and new release video games
1 day delivery in Calgary
2 day delivery everywhere else.
and I think subscription discounts and some other small perks.
Well the entire thread was discussing delivery, no one ever mentioned music/movies.
With Canadian Prime you get:
Amazon Prime Video (amazon exclusive shows)
20% off Amazon Basics
20% off pre and new release video games
1 day delivery in Calgary
2 day delivery everywhere else.
and I think subscription discounts and some other small perks.
You also get Twitch Prime and I think you get books on Kindle?
so I guess then, treat Amazon orders like the zero fraud liability on credit cards and assume you will be taken care of in case of theft. that works for when the package is not time sensitive, but I still think I'll do post office for Christmas shopping, when a guaranteed delivery date is critical. but maybe having things get temporarily lost and sometimes ending up with two of the item in the end is bizarrely tantalizing.
All I'm saying is that cameras and lockboxes might be overkill unless you're actually suspecting/expecting theft.
Amazon chooses to instruct their carriers to leave items without a signature (I don't even think that you can request this) because of speed and convenience. And the level of loss must be low enough for them to do it this way.
