Posted in Helsinki on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
In November 7, I ordered two travel books (Lonely Planet Germany and Nepal) from Amazon (amazon.co.uk). Eleven days later, I realised that they might not arrive before my trip to Germany and it turns out that they didn’t come in time. Thankfully Finland has pretty good library system as far as book selection and searching mechanism for books goes and we were able to loan necessary books from library.
While in Germany, I thought that I probably will have delivery note from post office waiting me at home and I could use that one to calculate delivery time. However, it turned out that Lonely Planet books are small enough that they can be put into our mailbox without any problems and as a result, I can only say that their delivery took 9-12 workdays (plus two weekends). Good news in all this are that books did arrive in time and if I want to order something for Christmas, they should still be able to ship it in time.
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Posted in Shopping on Nov 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
It starts to look like I made one bad mistake on my Amazon purchase process and its going to be, relatively speaking, expensive one to fix unless some miracles happen. I ordered book two weeks before I need it, so I didn’t bother to pay too much attention to shipping speed, since it wasn’t like they would ship it from west coast of USA.
As the days pass by and there is still no note from Itella about delivery, I finally went to check what the heck is going on with my order and then I noticed note ’shipping method: standard 4-14 business days’ and there went my good mood out of the window. To make things worse, there isn’t any kind of tracking code with it, so its impossible to check whether there is any chance for it to come on time or whether its time to accept loses and go to local bookstore to buy it.
At least now I will remember to double check delivery times and assume worse, if I will one day buy more items from Amazon.
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Posted in Shopping on Nov 7th, 2007 4 Comments »
Today I visited two local bookstores so that I could take a peek on couple travel guides. After checking their prices, I decided that I definately want to check, what those books cost in Amazon. This started chain of events and at the end I placed my first order to amazon.co.uk. Only issue, that I didn’t like in ordering process is that I didn’t get any sort of discount on shipping costs, even though I ordered two books instead of just one.
The books, which I ordered are:
Now we just wait and see, how long it takes for wessexbooksltd.com to deliver those books to Finland.
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