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Posted by el toro calvo grande on 14 January 2010 - 8:28am.
At 2.35pm on Tuesday afternoon I placed an order with Amazon for some CD's. Went for free delivery, usually takes a few working days and they had a message on the site about weather related delays etc etc.
Got an email telling me the order was despatched at 6.21pm the same day.
Parcel arrived in yesterdays post.
Now thats what I call service.....infinitely more choice than HMV etc, cheaper and delivery like that......makes me wonder why any of us still look elsewhere.
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Your vouchers are in the post Pete..
..Love, Amazon Marketing Dept.
Cheers Prestonia
Please don't take my glowing tribute to Amazon as anything other than a grateful customers response!
"makes me wonder why any of us still look elsewhere"
Well here's one reason that I have looked elsewhere (or only used Amazon as a shop-front for other sellers):
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/retailin...
Jesus
I'll think twice before I use them again.
Playing devils advocate here
but how many of us buy clothing, cheap or otherwise, that might be from a Bangladeshi sweatshop. I can't believe we all eat/wear/listen to "ethically sourced" product.
You're right
I probably buy loads of stuff which has been sourced or manufactured unethically, and make no effort to research it. However, on this occasion, someone has informed me about the working conditions endured by Amazon workers, and it's put me off.
You want cheap prices for any goods, then behind the scenes
there's probably someone getting paid peanuts.
Those thousands of sequins don't sew themselves onto that fetching new Primark top you only paid £4.99 for.
That's no big secret, surely? The question is, do you care enough to forego the cheap prices and make the effort to source ethically made, traded and sold products?
Some do but most people, me included, are happy to have cheap books, delivered the next day. Sad but true
working conditions endured by Amazon workers
Temp. staff rather than full time workers.
Then agency temp. work has never been a bed of roses.
I have done agency work
It sucks - no sick or holiday pay. No contract. No rights. No security.
If I can avoid it, I will never go back to it.
But I knew all that before I signed up. Driven by desperation!