DC suing Amazon because Amazon avoids crime-ridden area of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

Interesting. I haven’t had too ma y issues with things not arriving on time (in Northern Va). My mom lives in Hawaii and her Prime gives her clear delivery estimates, usually of about a week. Maybe Amazon is having trouble getting drivers to take certain routes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

They tell everyone that Prime doesn’t guarantee fast shipping. And everyone can understand that when they shop and it shows you the shipping times for different items.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how he’s mad with Amazon for not delivering to these areas, but he’s not mad at the criminals and the crime that are making these areas undeliverable.

I might be mistaken, but were there some food deliveries that stop delivering to these areas too? It may have been Dominos or Uber eats. I don’t remember exactly but this is not the first company that stopped servicing certain areas.

You didn’t read the story. The AG made it clear that they’re not mad about not sending laser ship drivers, the lawsuit is about still charging people for prime membership without telling them about the limits in their zip code.

Prime membership is not just about shipping. It also gives you access to Prime Video and Whole Foods discounts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

They tell everyone that Prime doesn’t guarantee fast shipping. And everyone can understand that when they shop and it shows you the shipping times for different items.

Wow, you have a lot more tolerance for Amazon misleading customers than I do. Or than the law does, according to the DC attorney general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

Interesting. I haven’t had too ma y issues with things not arriving on time (in Northern Va). My mom lives in Hawaii and her Prime gives her clear delivery estimates, usually of about a week. Maybe Amazon is having trouble getting drivers to take certain routes

Not me. I'm in Chevy Chase MD (hardly very crime ridden compared to the rest of America) and 1/3 of my items are arriving delayed, and Amazon doesn't even send a message. And if you try to contact customer service, they'll say they are sorry and that the item is arriving the next day and it still doesn't arrive and you've wasted your time trying to deal with their Kafkaesque customer service and still don't have your items. I find myself buying much less from them these days because their estimated delivery upon checkout is so unreliable. I've been thinking of cancelling my Prime membership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

They tell everyone that Prime doesn’t guarantee fast shipping. And everyone can understand that when they shop and it shows you the shipping times for different items.

Wow, you have a lot more tolerance for Amazon misleading customers than I do. Or than the law does, according to the DC attorney general.

They aren’t misleading anyone. Apparently only people in DC are confused about Prime benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

Interesting. I haven’t had too ma y issues with things not arriving on time (in Northern Va). My mom lives in Hawaii and her Prime gives her clear delivery estimates, usually of about a week. Maybe Amazon is having trouble getting drivers to take certain routes

Not me. I'm in Chevy Chase MD (hardly very crime ridden compared to the rest of America) and 1/3 of my items are arriving delayed, and Amazon doesn't even send a message. And if you try to contact customer service, they'll say they are sorry and that the item is arriving the next day and it still doesn't arrive and you've wasted your time trying to deal with their Kafkaesque customer service and still don't have your items. I find myself buying much less from them these days because their estimated delivery upon checkout is so unreliable. I've been thinking of cancelling my Prime membership.

According to the OP and the DC AG, this is because Amazon is lying to you to hide a racist policy. You should sue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how he’s mad with Amazon for not delivering to these areas, but he’s not mad at the criminals and the crime that are making these areas undeliverable.

I might be mistaken, but were there some food deliveries that stop delivering to these areas too? It may have been Dominos or Uber eats. I don’t remember exactly but this is not the first company that stopped servicing certain areas.

You didn’t read the story. The AG made it clear that they’re not mad about not sending laser ship drivers, the lawsuit is about still charging people for prime membership without telling them about the limits in their zip code.

Prime membership is not just about shipping. It also gives you access to Prime Video and Whole Foods discounts.

Then they can work out the value of those services and discount the shipping part accordingly for the parts that Amazon isn't shipping to as they do for other geographic areas. But I would suspect that 90% of Amazon Prime Customers don't value Prime for the Whole Foods "discounts."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

Interesting. I haven’t had too ma y issues with things not arriving on time (in Northern Va). My mom lives in Hawaii and her Prime gives her clear delivery estimates, usually of about a week. Maybe Amazon is having trouble getting drivers to take certain routes

Not me. I'm in Chevy Chase MD (hardly very crime ridden compared to the rest of America) and 1/3 of my items are arriving delayed, and Amazon doesn't even send a message. And if you try to contact customer service, they'll say they are sorry and that the item is arriving the next day and it still doesn't arrive and you've wasted your time trying to deal with their Kafkaesque customer service and still don't have your items. I find myself buying much less from them these days because their estimated delivery upon checkout is so unreliable. I've been thinking of cancelling my Prime membership.

According to the OP and the DC AG, this is because Amazon is lying to you to hide a racist policy. You should sue.

I don't think so. There's a difference between Amazon's incompetence and lack of caring for their customer base now that they have a monopoly and deliberately targeting a geographic area for crap service.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

They tell everyone that Prime doesn’t guarantee fast shipping. And everyone can understand that when they shop and it shows you the shipping times for different items.

Wow, you have a lot more tolerance for Amazon misleading customers than I do. Or than the law does, according to the DC attorney general.

They aren’t misleading anyone. Apparently only people in DC are confused about Prime benefits.

factually incorrect statement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how he’s mad with Amazon for not delivering to these areas, but he’s not mad at the criminals and the crime that are making these areas undeliverable.

I might be mistaken, but were there some food deliveries that stop delivering to these areas too? It may have been Dominos or Uber eats. I don’t remember exactly but this is not the first company that stopped servicing certain areas.

You didn’t read the story. The AG made it clear that they’re not mad about not sending laser ship drivers, the lawsuit is about still charging people for prime membership without telling them about the limits in their zip code.

Prime membership is not just about shipping. It also gives you access to Prime Video and Whole Foods discounts.

Then they can work out the value of those services and discount the shipping part accordingly for the parts that Amazon isn't shipping to as they do for other geographic areas. But I would suspect that 90% of Amazon Prime Customers don't value Prime for the Whole Foods "discounts."

This is delusional. Folks in DC live in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

Interesting. I haven’t had too ma y issues with things not arriving on time (in Northern Va). My mom lives in Hawaii and her Prime gives her clear delivery estimates, usually of about a week. Maybe Amazon is having trouble getting drivers to take certain routes

Not me. I'm in Chevy Chase MD (hardly very crime ridden compared to the rest of America) and 1/3 of my items are arriving delayed, and Amazon doesn't even send a message. And if you try to contact customer service, they'll say they are sorry and that the item is arriving the next day and it still doesn't arrive and you've wasted your time trying to deal with their Kafkaesque customer service and still don't have your items. I find myself buying much less from them these days because their estimated delivery upon checkout is so unreliable. I've been thinking of cancelling my Prime membership.

According to the OP and the DC AG, this is because Amazon is lying to you to hide a racist policy. You should sue.

I don't think so. There's a difference between Amazon's incompetence and lack of caring for their customer base now that they have a monopoly and deliberately targeting a geographic area for crap service.

Now you are just making up complaints. Not even the DC AG is alleging this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how he’s mad with Amazon for not delivering to these areas, but he’s not mad at the criminals and the crime that are making these areas undeliverable.

I might be mistaken, but were there some food deliveries that stop delivering to these areas too? It may have been Dominos or Uber eats. I don’t remember exactly but this is not the first company that stopped servicing certain areas.

You didn’t read the story. The AG made it clear that they’re not mad about not sending laser ship drivers, the lawsuit is about still charging people for prime membership without telling them about the limits in their zip code.

Prime membership is not just about shipping. It also gives you access to Prime Video and Whole Foods discounts.

Then they can work out the value of those services and discount the shipping part accordingly for the parts that Amazon isn't shipping to as they do for other geographic areas. But I would suspect that 90% of Amazon Prime Customers don't value Prime for the Whole Foods "discounts."

This is delusional. Folks in DC live in a bubble.

Yeah, you've said that already. Stop being a low vocab bot on this thread. And I don't live in DC. And I know enough people who do data analytics to know it's feasible for Amazon to do this, they just don't want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in America do people think Prime = fast shipping only. Point is that Prime benefits are much more than just shipping. DC AG just wants a payout

Then Amazon can tell people up front when they're paying for Prime - "You at [address] will not get the fast shipping we advertise" - so that the people can decide for themselves whether the Prime benefits are worth the money.

They tell everyone that Prime doesn’t guarantee fast shipping. And everyone can understand that when they shop and it shows you the shipping times for different items.

Wow, you have a lot more tolerance for Amazon misleading customers than I do. Or than the law does, according to the DC attorney general.

There are a lot of people in this area who work for Amazon and are doing PR on these threads. I am not a paid shill and agree with you. I don't have a lot of tolerance for how they're treating customers lately and am glad the DC AG is calling them out. The average customer doesn't have that power.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Funny how he’s mad with Amazon for not delivering to these areas, but he’s not mad at the criminals and the crime that are making these areas undeliverable.

I might be mistaken, but were there some food deliveries that stop delivering to these areas too? It may have been Dominos or Uber eats. I don’t remember exactly but this is not the first company that stopped servicing certain areas.

You didn’t read the story. The AG made it clear that they’re not mad about not sending laser ship drivers, the lawsuit is about still charging people for prime membership without telling them about the limits in their zip code.

Prime membership is not just about shipping. It also gives you access to Prime Video and Whole Foods discounts.

Then they can work out the value of those services and discount the shipping part accordingly for the parts that Amazon isn't shipping to as they do for other geographic areas. But I would suspect that 90% of Amazon Prime Customers don't value Prime for the Whole Foods "discounts."

you're kinda proving the point against the lawsuit - everyone values different elements of Prime differently, and remaining a paying Prime member when the website gives you clear shipping estimates before purchase implies there is enough value in those other elements to keep Prime. so you can't conclusively prove any deception, especially not against every member of certain zipcodes as a class