Got an alert from the driveway camera. Looked and saw the postal truck so I ran out to get the package. He was almost at the door so I talked to him and he said it just started and they might even get TV's to deliver.

Amazon delivered a $400 chair and just left it in the lobby for anyone to pick up. Then I bought my 43" Samsung TV and though they sent me a photo of the delivery, it was not at my door. I notified them. I guess if they take a photo that clears them of responsibility if the porch bandits get it. That night I heard a huge fight next door. The next morning, my TV was at my door, and my next door neighbor happened by and asked if I got my TV. She knew way too much about the delivery and seemed nervous. Apparently she is a klepto, and her husband made her put it out at my door. It is no fun buying stuff and then having to worry about actually receiving it. My place is next to an elevator. So she would come off the elevator and see my packages and grab them and duck into her apartment. I finally caught her in the act one day and that was that. They were evicted. Now I just use USPS, and try to use smaller companies for my buying, and find stuff made in the US. Their customer service has been a lot better too without robot flying monkeys.. Screw Amazon! /rant

Amazon has to leave it at the correct location or they have to take responsibility.

Just got an email notifying me of no more sharing Prime benefits. I only share with my wife and my parents. Kind of a bummer, but I’ll just give my wife my login so we can order what we want.

I believe you can still share with people in your house, which presumably includes your wife, just not people with different address, which I am surprised you could do anyway. You also still get free shipping to other houses if you buy it. Not sure if the household can only include one other adult (which doesn’t matter to me since there are only two of us here).

Looking at the comments on Facebook about this story, no one seems to have known this was a benefit.

People on Reddit did. I know several people who use the same account with multiple ship addresses and credit cards. So far Amazon hasn't cared.

My sister added me on to her account many years ago at my request. I thought they stopped allowing that as an option a long time back but anyone already connected was able to continue.

I believe that's what Amazon is killing now. Affected accounts are supposed to be notified by Sept 5th.

Yes. I received the e-mail this week.




Why would anyone even need to share with someone living in your home? If my wife has a Prime account and I want to order something with Prime I'd just order it from her account in her name and have it shipped to our house.

I can think of one situation... My wife received a $300 Amazon gift card from her co-workers. She added it to her account, but I'm the one with Prime. So she has $300 to spend, but no prime benefits if she wants something quickly, or something that is below the free shipping limit.

FWIW, we've never been able to do this, in Canada, because Amazon likes to fuck us. We also never get incentives to use slower shipping.

I know this is common knowledge by this point but just be ready to have any and every book you ever order from Amazon at minimum get a corner crunch.

It is so frustrating. For a company that started as a book retailer, you would think they could at least teach their robots or whatever is packing this shit on how to pack book to receive at least zero to minimum damage.

I can't image the number of returned books they get yet they still insist on shipping books in a flimsy envelope 10 times large than it needs to be or throw a small book in a large box with a laughable one 4x6 sheet of packing paper.

I mean, what the fuck?

Lots of married couples keep separate bank accounts so separate amazon accounts doesn't seem too out of line. Plus roommates. Why children would need their own accounts, I have no idea, maybe for amazon prime/music (and so they can track you individually)?

I wonder if they're going to do absolutely dumb things to enforce this, like if you deliver regularly to your work place, flag your account for possible sharing or something.

My personal Amazon account has Prime and I am able to share it with my business account. Never had an issue.

Lots of reasons. Christmas presents for me. We both have Kindles and we don’t read the same stuff, so that’s better on a separate account, and why should either of us have to get the other one to order stuff for them? My wife got a couple of things today. I don’t know or care what it is.

We actually used to have both our Kindles on the same account. It was kind of annoying but the only way we could share in the rare case we wanted to read the same thing. Split them when they added family sharing, and work# great now.

Our bank accounts, on the other hand, are not separate. Actually weren’t even before we were married. Luckily our approaches to purchases sync well.

Anyone else having problems with the orders page loading?

Amazon Web Services are having issues today. Not only are orders not loading, but I also don't think deliveries are going out today either.

I did receive a delivery, today. Status only showed as 'Arriving today' and still shows that.

Alexa is also down, due to the outage, along with many other sites that use AWS.

Everything I was supposed to receive today showed Now Arriving Tomorrow the one time I was able to get my orders page to load.

Technology is great.

Major Amazon Web Services outage today. Everything on my Amazon browsing history page was suddenly days out instead of ready to ship.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ine-rcna238594

Is anything getting delivered today? I have something that says it'll come today but tracking says it hasn't left the distribution center.

I got my D3 vitamins delivered from them today.

Did you get an email that it was delivered? I guess I'll go outside and see if it's there.