Amazon bashing part 3
This is my last stab at Amazon, at least until they do something else I don't like in the future >
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Prelude to set the mood:
I used to always get my oil from MC dealers, cycle gear etc. Slowly every one stopped selling it :surprise:. Then I found out I could order it direct from Spectro. That worked out well for a while. Then one time they sent me someone else's oil. Contacted them, and no problem (they're return policy much better than, well you know who). They send my order a few days later, and with it a prepaid shipping sticker to put on the wrong order to ship back to them. But the next time I try to order from them they're out of the shipping business :surprise:. But they put a few links on they're web site to vendors that either ship or sell it. So now it's always via shipping only through a third party.
Now the last time I ordered my oil (
Spectro 4 10w40 non-synthetic , was through Amazon. Ordered 6 liters, I usually get 9 or 12 but I believe 6 was all that was available. May have been 7 or 8 available, but my number needs to be divisible by 3, right :wink2: . Now they tell me the delivery date is a month away :surprise: . This is not a problem, this is why I order my MC parts and supplies well in advanced, the month I can handle.
Now it's about 2 days away from the delivery date and here comes an email from Amazon. Paraphrasing: There's been a problem with your order. It is going to take
another month before your order can be delivered. You will have to click on this button if you still wish to receive this order. So I'm like :surprise:. Bear in mind they never said
what the problem was. At this point I'm about 7-10 days from a scheduled oil change. I hit they're button so I know I have at least that oil coming. But now I'm in a bit of a pickle. My options are:
Stop riding for a few weeks until my oil arrives. Well that's not really an option, is it.
Just get different oil. Don't really want to go there either.
Go ahead and ride past oil change interval. Don't like the idea, but this may have to happen.
Check to see if I can get the oil quicker from another source. I'm giving this a shot.
I find another oil source. Someone I have never heard of, but I think probably a lot of members here have. I'm just going to keep they're name anonymous as they're not a vendor on this site and are competition to some who are. I will just pick a random name and call them "Bob" >
. Bob has the goods and claims orders are usually delivered in 1-3 days. I'm thinking nice :grin2:. I order 3 liters to stay on line with the up coming oil change. Bob never gives a specific delivery date.
Now the next day (Wednesday) Amazon sends anther email. Stating now my order will arrive in 2 days on Friday. Everyone knows that Amazon are hackers, they have a different name for it when they do it, but it is hacking none the less. They know I just placed an order with Bob. Now they're getting they're butt in gear, maybe. Now I'm pretty excited. If Bob fails me, I now have Amazon back up. But best of all, now we have a full fledged race going. I'm rooting for Bob all the way. Thursday comes and no oil from Bob. It's coming down to the wire, Bob has to get here the next day on Friday, and before Amazon to win. Actually was hoping Amazon would be delayed a day or 2, to let Bob win. But Amazon has never been late on a delivery, so I do give them credit for that. The bad part is, if both orders come in on Friday and I'm not home, I'll never know who won. As luck would have it, I make it home before any orders come in. It's starting to get to early evening and here comes a delivery truck. I'm thinking as late as it is, there will probably not be a second truck that day, and this one is probably going to be from Amazon :frown2:. I go out to retrieve, and low and behold
both orders came on the same delivery. I'm fully convinced Amazon just piggy backed off Bob to get a reduced shipping charge. And to top it off, I now see what the "problem" is that Amazon didn't want to mention. The whole bottom of their box was soaked in oil :surprise:. So the race is technically a tie, but Bob wins by getting them there with no leaks :grin2:.