Amazon splitting up shipments even when you don't want too?

So I ordered Some Like it Hot on blu with 2 other in stock dvds.

Thinking that they all won't ship until HOT is released as I chose that option.

Nope they shipped the other 2 items already and have HOT as not yet shipped.


I did this on purpose for the free shipping and the chance that I might cancel the order before HOT becomes available if cheaper or the wrong
version.

This happened previously for me with Malcom X. I ordered that and a $3 dvd of Star Trek comics and they shipped the Trek disc.

Just an inconvenience since I like the option to cancel and order before
it ships.

As far as I know, they've always done that. I always liked it because I never really wanted to wait for stuff, but I hate paying shipping.

You can still cancel the stuff that hasn't shipped if you want, I've done it before when I got a better deal in the meantime.

Now I have free amazon prime so I don't have to add all this additional stuff to my orders. It's pretty great so I may pay for it when the free runs out.

It probably comes from different distribution centers.

If you need to cancel an unshipped portion, call them. They will often work with you, as they have done that for me in the past.

They do always do this, as long as I've been using them (close to 15 years?! wow)

They have done it to me as well. If you choose the option of splitting them (as they are available) you pay extra. But if they do it it's at their expense.

I do recall years ago they wouldn't and would wait till all your stuff was ready to go, but it seems standard practice now.

They probably caught on to the people (like me) that wanted something on sale but didn't really have the funds at the time. So we would add something else to the order that wasn't due for release for a few weeks, or months, later. And when you had the funds, go and delete the pre-order one. Then they would then ship the one (on sale) that you only wanted anyway. LOL!

James

I didn't want to start another Amazon thread, so I figured I would throw this in here. For the past couple weeks, I haven't gotten the message at the top of the screen when you check your cart for price drops at Amazon. Did they disable this feature?

Who knows, I just use camelcamelcamel.com and the price drops are just emailed to me and I can set what threshold they need to drop under before being notified.

I checked my cart last night and had a bunch of drops/rises waiting for me.

It wasn't too far down, did you make it ppast the first page?

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/store-forum...e-updates.html

It's hard to appreciate how efficient Amazon.com is unless you order insane amounts of stuff like I do. As people have said above: if they do this against your shipping preferences they do it at their own expense. You'll never be charged an additional fee because they've decided to ship your packages separately. What almost certainly happened is the items were located in different distribution centers meaning they were never going to ship together in the first place.

For every OCD person who is mad that they didn't come in one box Amazon would be likely to face 100 (valid) complaints from people upset if they did something as absurd as shipping two items to another distribution center so they could be included alongside a 3rd in one box, which would be woefully inefficient.

I've noticed in the last year or so that Amazon.com will combine unrelated shipments if they all ship on the same day. As a Prime member I order 99% of my new releases from Amazon.com as they generally offer release-date delivery for no additional charge. With all the different distributors and announcements and no concrete correlation between a product's announcement and its release (not to mention the many things I DON'T order right away, though Amazon.com's guaranteed release-date pricing encourages you to pre-order ASAP) I may place orders for items on any given street date weeks apart and they will frequently arrive together.

Amazon.com also gives you the option to combine orders but I find that it rarely works when I try it for the reasons above: it can't be done if the items are shipping from different centers. Generally if a more efficient delivery configuration is possibly Amazon.com will figure it out on their own.

I did miss that, and I even searched before I posted. Don't know why that thread didn't pop up. The good news is that I started getting the updates again today. So whatever the issue was it seems to be fixed.