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Amazon is a horrible organization -- as is pointed out here quite often.
However -- it's time to give the devil his due.
Yesterday, my Kindle went dark. I use my Kindle at least two hours a day so I immediately ordered a new Kindle for $204. It arrived this morning . . . less than twelve hours after I ordered it.
The setup took about fifteen minutes . . . mostly due to uploading my old content.
The process was easy and effective.
And, I accepted an offer for an Amazon credit card which knocked $200 off my bill. I was in the market for a credit card because I only have one -- having just sold my businesses and terminated all my business credit cards.
It's a happy day in my house!
Mussolini made the trains run on time and I use the trains two hours a day.
Jill
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Glad it worked out for you.
I have a kindle but I to read printed matter which is more expensive. I ordered a laundry basket because the big ones I have I can no longer manage on the stairs. It arrived this morning just after I'd left the house and normally they pop a card through the door and say they left it in the recycle bin. Today I had to collect from the sorting office which required me to drive. Since I had the stroke I no longer enjoy belting around in the car, I feel like a learner driver so it gets quite stressful. I am probably driving more safely than ever but it still feels strange.
Angharad
The bigger picture ...
The bigger picture may be that had you purchased locally, you would have had a trip to do that shopping. Mail order sometimes saves such trips. On average, do you have to make fewer such trips by using mail order? I hope so!
The recycle bin sounds like a good idea if you are the only one who empties it when it sits there! Does Amazon tell the delivery service what to do if no one answers the knock? Or is that between you and the delivery service? Here, delivery actions depend on who is driving the truck that day! Mostly things are tossed on my porch (out of sight from the street) or delivered in error to my neighbor because their GARMIN (or whatever they use) is not calibrated well for my address and the driver du jour is a newby.
I also wish for your driving impairment to be temporary and that good driving habits are reestablished soon. Mobility is really important, especially to those of us who wish we were younger.
Sara
Between the wrinkles, the orthopedic shoes, and nine decades of gravity, it is really hard to be alluring. My icon, you ask? It is the last picture I allowed to escape the camera ... back before most BC authors were born.
Amazon may be evil
and base their performance on exploitation but they are very good at what the do.
Personally I'm quite often in a quandry of chosing between two evils. The local main carrier, through incompetence, discriminates against books from outside the EU (e.g. the UK) slapping a (equivalent of) 7.5 USD declaration fee on books even if VAT is prepaid. Had I bought clothes or a sex toy there wouldn't be any declaration fee.
Amazon bypasses that (I still pay the appropriate VAT but not the "declaration fee").
If we are giving Amazon Kudos
I've never been a big user of Amazon and I've refused to pay for Prime since I wouldn't use it enough. But about fifteen years ago, I did order something from them three or four times a year. I had filed bankruptcy in 1984 and went on a cash only lifestyle since. Needless to say, my credit rating disappeared. (Not enough activity to generate a credit score -- according to Credit Karma.) However, one time when ordering from Amazon, they offered me free shipping if I would apply for a credit card. I knew that no fool would approve me for a credit card, but I'd gladly accept free shipping. So I applied.
To my surprise two weeks later a credit card appeared in my mailbox. I went to Amazon and made the card my preferred payment and then went to Chase Bank and set up auto pay and forgot about it. Total credit card usage couldn't have amounted to more than $40 to $50 a year. But about ten years later, I went to buy a used car and had saved up the money for the purchase. When we settled on a price for the car the salesman was at the computer doing the paperwork and announce that they could finance the whole price. I thought he was nuts. But he assured me that my credit rating was about 735.
That gave me hope and decided that before I retired, I'd buy a house to stabilize my housing costs so my fixed income would be able to keep up with my bills. Five years ago I did just that. Now my credit rating is hovering around 800. All because Amazon got me a credit card.
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann
Auto credit score
Auto credit scores nowadays have a higher top score of 900 compared to the 850 of the regular FICO.
Last time I bought a car I had a score of 865 and that is how I discovered the different rating.
For a regular FICO, 800 is fantastic and I had to have that when I bought my house in 2012 shortly after the home mortgage debacle to qualify for a loan I think. Lending standards were severe at that time in contrast to the wild west level of lending in years prior.
Kudos to an Amazon...
Love, Andrea Lena
Exactly
You nailed it!
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Start-Ups
Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, along with thousands of start-ups that never make it big, start up vowing to do the right thing and be good. The sheer size of the rare major success, plus all the corporate requirements -- government by committee (board of directors) and numerous other features -- corporate management -- cause them to turn into standard huge corporations, evil.
-- Daphne Xu