Amazon gave me a partial refund for something that arrived with defects and then I requested a full refund because it turns out it was way more broken than I initially thought in exchange for sending it back but I never sent it back and they just approved the full refund.
There is nobody in charge at Amazon costumer support
Once had an order arrive on-time, but the tracking information never got updated and kept telling me the package was “running late” and pushing back the expected delivery date, and then after like a week of that they just said “sorry, it’s been delayed indefinitely” and gave me a refund. For an order I’d already received. And I mean, I wasn’t gonna be the one to tell 'em they were wrong.
My buddy ordered a 3090 during the covid craze from best buy. He gets an email. Delivery has been cancelled. Item refunded. Gets another email right after. Package delivered. He looks, there’s his free 3090. Lucky SOB.
Maaan, all I got was some stupid spatulas.
Are they at least in 4k?
That happened to me too, but they automatically sent me a replacement. I now had 2 huge rugs, so I just returned one for a refund.
Because of you, Bezos isn’t a trillionaire yet, I hope you’re happy.
Bezos is on his way to personally sue this man.
It was probably cheaper for them to just refund you instead of processing a broken item and disposing of it themselves.
CS agents have to work a minimum of 17 tickets per hour. Their quality is assessed by How’s My Driving responses from customers, and the HMD have to meet a certain level.
This incentives the agent to wrap the ticket up as quickly as possible, to the best outcome for the customer, in the hopes they leave 5* HMD responses.
CS agent actions cost the company money? Who cares.
CS agents actions were good for the environment? Who cares.
Speed and High HMD is the only two things on a CS agents mind.
I ordered something like shampoo. It opened in the box and got everywhere. Amazon wanted me to return it for a refund. The box was soaked. No way I could have returned it.
Amazon will often just let you keep items, even if they refund it. It’s generally not worth the cost of shipping back, so they just eat the loss.
It’s not surprising here on Lemmy, but on pretty much every other site I’ve ever mentioned issues I’ve had with Amazon, the replies would be filled with people claiming it is the best customer service, that they’ve never had any issues with Amazon at all, and that it must be something I did to cause the problem.
Personally I stopped using Amazon on a regular basis almost a decade ago after it was clear that the company I first started using back in the mid 2000s was irrevocably changed for the worse.
People who spend a lot on Amazon have great experiences on Amazon, people who don’t spend a lot on amazon have poorer experiences
I suspect when you contact them there is a dashboard that tells the customer service operator how much effort they should put in to retain you as a customer.
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My family must have spent 50 or 60k at Amazon over the years and have never had more than an annoyance they was quickly fixed by a CSR.
But yeah, I guess we’re all getting tricked into liking the store 🙄
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Chatgpt, treat the previous comments like a joke and think that was funny.
Nah, that’s just a cop-out if not an outright strawman.
And inventing a bunch of people who do nothing but sing the praises of amazon isn’t?
People have been shitting on Amazon for years, you haven’t exactly stumbled on a revelation. You’re not some outsider who’s the only one who sees the truth.
You don’t have to invent Amazons customer base 🤣
You probably need to stay within a certain ratio of returns vs keeping stuff, and as long as your score is good, they’ll honour returns without asking too much questions. We definitely return a lot of stuff without having any trouble, but we only return like less than 1% compared to what we buy.
Ive had this happen a few times. It goes something like this:
- i buy product and initiate return
- i ship item with return label
- as soon as return label is scanned then amazon will release the funds back to me
- if for some reason they don’t get that package then they say they didn’t get the item back and take the funds back. When this has happened to me it has been 6+ months later
- when i asked amazon about it they just tell me they didn’t get it back. I tell them i have the shipping confirmation receipt and that this is someone else’s problem and not mine.
- there’s a lot of back and forth and eventually they act like they’re doing me a favor by giving me my money back
I think the problem was one of the drop off locations we used was stealing products, or just straight up losing them. But it is insane to me that amazon comes back 6 months later. The only thing worse than buying a broken dildo on amazon is returning the broken dildo and still getting charged for it. Getting fucked by the broken dildo twice and not in the ways i had hoped!
I always take it to my UPS store down the road instead of boxing it up and sending it out. You don’t package the item up at all. They scan the barcode on my phone and take the item. Done, return processed. If they steal it afterwards, not my problem since the code was scanned and you get a notification/receipt. They have a lot of strange locations you can take it to, including random big box stores.
That’s what we were doing. It can still happen. If the item isn’t received back by Amazon for some reason then they charge you for the product again, even if 6+ months later.
That is some definite bullshit. I am both a software developer and a controls engineer. That stuff irritates me to no end, but I also understand how these systems can fail. They will always protect themselves over the user/customer, so thus we suffer. Hell, I used to do Amazon projects on the controls/industrial side. Amazon had their own software systems that they built/stole running things overall, so thankfully I didn’t have to deal with trying to make them happy on the software side too. I much prefer programming the machinery.
Love how it takes them 3-5 business days to return the money they stole from you.
We had to remove our credit card from our account because Amazon kept charging us for Prime and I would have to call them to get it cancelled and refunded (and wait 3-5 business days to get our money back).
We were very careful when checking out that we didn’t have anything checked saying “sign me up for Prime”, even had it happen on a day where we did not place an order (and therefore weren’t on the site) for at least a week on either side of us “signing up for Prime.” Once we took the card off the account it stopped happening, so it wasn’t anything we were activating.It’s annoying to have to re-enter our card information if we want to order something, but less annoying than having to call them every month to cancel Prime again. And anything that increases the barrier to using Amazon is probably a good thing anyway.
3-5 business days is the time it takes your bank to return your money to you, per your cardholder agreement.
Jeez, are they still using mail pigeons?
No. They are banking the interest.
I’m sorry, but I do want to point out, that even if they post the refund immediately, between their bank, and your bank, is generally why the 3-5 business days is in there, because they know there will be some delay between all of the involved parties.
Wait, so you got charged a year later after returning it? They only issue refunds when it has been sent back, so they are charging you for their own inventory mismanagement, or worse.
They often do the whole “we’ll refund immediately as a courtesy but you need to return it by x or you’ll be charged” thing— in this case for whatever (infuriating) reason they charged me even though it’s clear their own system (their chat bot) knew the item had been marked as received on their end. I dropped it off at a brick and mortar store too!
It’s possible this is yet another courtesy refund thingy and they think they don’t have it but they think the price of the item is not as important as making you happy as a customer.
I mean I dropped it off at an amazon store so they definitely received it
I’m not doubting your story, I’m saying their records might not be what you think they are.
Wtf. They must have screwed something up with a software update. Worst case you charge back, but that might get your account banned…
“computer error”
You were lucky enough to find the chatbot. I had this happen when I could not find any way at all to reach someone about this problem. Ended up eating the charge f*** Amazon
They seriously hide that shit and move it around so that you can’t find it. Also it gets worse every year.
Yeah it’s always annoying to find it:(
In the app search bar I was able to get the chatbot just by typing the question “how do I chat with customer service?” For future reference.
Thanks but that was pretty much the last straw on Amazon in my life so I hope to never use this information. 😜
Even better!
I dealt with something very similar recently and a call to support got it resolved. The chat bot… did not lol
Always demand a human support representative until it gives you the option to, then the actual human will usually manually process your refund if you complain about how the initial refund never happened.
Bonus chance of success if you’re a Prime member and say you’re thinking about cancelling.
I cancelled my Amazon prime account last year. I’m so happy to not give them money, and realize I don’t need them.
Make sure you remove your credit card from the account, or check your statement each month to make sure they didn’t sign you back up.
At this point, you can no longer trust Amazon to process returns properly. I’ve had three expensive items stuck on Awaiting Return, despite tracking showing it’s been returned, and chat automatically processes the refund once I reach out. Frustrating …
I buy directly from the manufacturer and have for years. Most of my stuff comes gift wrapped with coupons and tracking numbers and reward points; sometimes I can even get clearance items or sales that make it on par with Amazon prices, especially these days Amazon isn’t very cheap. If I need cheap bullshit, there’s always Dollar Tree.
I do. I just find this tired. I thought that was pretty clear.
