Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[Tober]

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I ordered 3 items from Amazon: 1: The Covenant of Primus, 2: The Art of Prime & 3: The 2014 FOC Calender.

Now I asked for them all to be shipped together and to take the slowest form of shipping in order to save a few bucks. I received an email a few days ago from Amazon saying that they had posted The Covenant separately and it would arrive on Feb 12th. I then received an email today saying they posted the other two items and they would be here Jan 28th.

How the hell does that work?!?!

They're shipping from different locations.

[UltraMarginal]

Sorta TF related question:

I ordered 3 items from Amazon: 1: The Covenant of Primus, 2: The Art of Prime & 3: The 2014 FOC Calender.

Now I asked for them all to be shipped together and to take the slowest form of shipping in order to save a few bucks. I received an email a few days ago from Amazon saying that they had posted The Covenant separately and it would arrive on Feb 12th. I then received an email today saying they posted the other two items and they would be here Jan 28th.

How the hell does that work?!?!

and the selection is for least number of shipments. so they then choose how to break up the shipments if they wish.

[BigTransformerTrev]

They're shipping from different locations.

and the selection is for least number of shipments. so they then choose how to break up the shipments if they wish.

Ah, I've only ordered from Amazon a couple of times before so was not sure how it all worked. Cheers lads


Either date sucks though: Was looking forward to reading those books over my school break

[Trent]

Ah, I've only ordered from Amazon a couple of times before so was not sure how it all worked. Cheers lads


Either date sucks though: Was looking forward to reading those books over my school break

It will probably be earlier. The date they give is always kinda a worst case scenario in my experience.

[Iriorne]

In my experience, regular Amazon shipping tends to be around 5-10 working days. I think the long shipping estimates are partly a 'worst case' scenario if it's going to an out of the way country and partly to scare you into forking out for faster shipping.

[BigTransformerTrev]

It will probably be earlier. The date they give is always kinda a worst case scenario in my experience.

In my experience, regular Amazon shipping tends to be around 5-10 working days. I think the long shipping estimates are partly a 'worst case' scenario if it's going to an out of the way country and partly to scare you into forking out for faster shipping.

Great to hear! I must admit I was shocked at how quick BBTS got my last order to me over the X-Mass period, so was kinda surprised when a company like Amazon was at the complete other end of the spectrum

[DELTAprime]

I ordered a wave of Star Wars 3.75 inch Black Series figures. I selected the slowest toy shipping which is their medium shipping speed on books and wanted them grouped into as few orders as possible.

Despite the fact they come out of the one case Amazon sent them out one at a time over the course of 5 days with one shipment containing 2 figures in one box that was too small to fit them. They folded and ripped the card to fit them in. I'm going to be using Amazon as a last resort in the future, BBTS might be more expensive but they don't do stupid stuff like Amazon.