Someone being a bit naughty at Amazon

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I ordered a crucial 1tb nvme drive yesterday. It arrived today…

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What you see there is 3 empty crucial 1tb nvme boxes. Security seal cut and the drives have been removed.

I can only assume there are 3 to make the weight up, as I guess stuff is weight controlled when packed.

Contacted them and they are sending another. At £70 each, someone's doing alright out of it.

Bet loads gets stolen at the packing warehouse.
 
Naughty.

I had an Amazon parcel arrive yesterday and it was just the item in its product box with no other packaging. That's never happened before. It made me think I was lucky to receive it as what it was was clearly visible to any light fingered people in the chain.
 
I ordered a gallon of Nikwax waterproofing a couple of years ago so that I could treat my fishing bivvy, bags, coats, shelters etc.

When it arrived, it only had about a pint of fluid in the container, but there was no sign of spillage. Someone had obviously used, spilt or stolen the rest before posting it. I think that throws the 'weight controlled' theory out.
 
If something has a value there is possibly someone who will steal it!

As for Amazon, I surmise they have 'pilferage costs' built in to their business model.................the trouble is, as above, it is the unwitting customer who has the extra hassle :(
 
Slightly different but I ordered some 15mm copper pipe from Amazon the other day. (I live out in the sticks, no diy stores nearby). The delivery turned up in a small brown packet…wtf? I was expecting six foot odd of pipe. It was a 200mm length not 200cm as stated in the description. Nearly £7 for 8 inches of copper pipe??!! Someone’s taking the p*ss. I complained and got a refund and the description has since been amended.
 
woof woof said:
Naughty.

I had an Amazon parcel arrive yesterday and it was just the item in its product box with no other packaging. That's never happened before. It made me think I was lucky to receive it as what it was was clearly visible to any light fingered people in the chain.
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I had the same a few weeks ago with a dvd player.
 
I bought a couple of padlocks from Amazon last year and they were shipped from Spain.
When the package arrived I could tell it was empty as soon as I saw it.
I could tell it had been opened and I showed the driver who didn't believe me and I handed it back to him
Amazon soon sorted it out then next delivery came from within the UK.
 
woof woof said:
I had an Amazon parcel arrive yesterday and it was just the item in its product box with no other packaging.
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I had that recently too, for the first time
There is and has been for awhile an option to have outer packaging or not.
I guess it defaults to no outer, now.
 
Cobra said:
I guess it defaults to no outer, now.
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I've previously had my susbcribe and save coffee delievered in Tassimo packaging and also inside an Amazon box
 
hashcake said:
I've previously had my susbcribe and save coffee delievered in Tassimo packaging and also inside an Amazon box
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There goes that theory then :D
 
Our Tassimo delivery from Amazon comes in an Amazon box with a roll of their brown paper cat toy scrunched up around it. So do the boxes that come direct from Tassimo when they have decent discounts. The Tassimo boxes of 5 packs aren't very well secured (they're designed to be easy to split open for display) so need the extra packaging. Doesn't stop the milk pods telescoping into each other if a box is dropped (which has happened to deliveries from both Amazon [who replaced the entire order despite me telling them that around 1/2 the pods were still fine] and Tassimo [who wanted to know exactly how many pods had popped and wanted to send creamer as a replacement to the latte milk pods...])

Anyone else remember the spate of expensive breeze blocks being sold in VCR boxes back in the '80s? Usually close to closing time in dodgy pubs!
 
My three Amazon orders from yesterday (Tuesday is my Amazon day), were flagged as delivered to my safe space late afternoon yesterday. This was strange, as one of us had been working in the front garden all afternoon. No deliveries to be found anywhere.

Amazon CS won't do anything until close of play tomorrow! Not exactly prime service, in my view.
 
I had an order of Apple AirPod Pros arrive as an empty box recently as well. The thievery at Amazon seems to be on the increase.
 
Dave * said:
I had an order of Apple AirPod Pros arrive as an empty box recently as well. The thievery at Amazon seems to be on the increase.
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Well when you pay peanuts....

So far, apart from a genuine mistake (I think) I have never had an issue with Amazon. The genuine mistake was that I ordered a 10m telescopic mast, but the 6m version arrived. I had hassle getting it back to Amazon but that was due to Hermes, not Amazon themselves.
 
Nod said:
Our Tassimo delivery from Amazon comes in an Amazon box with a roll of their brown paper cat toy scrunched up around it. So do the boxes that come direct from Tassimo when they have decent discounts. The Tassimo boxes of 5 packs aren't very well secured (they're designed to be easy to split open for display) so need the extra packaging.
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Mine have mostly been like that but two were just in the original Tassimo packaging.
 
Jelster said:
Well when you pay peanuts....
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They pay above the minimum wage, so not really peanuts when compared to many retail jobs these days.

Pay:
£10.00 per hour for day time shifts.
£11.00 (£1.00 Night Shift Allowance) per hour for night time shifts.
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They are possibly cutting costs and using mybandofrobbershermes for part of the delivery these days .I would hazard a guess that I’m correct . .
Like back in days of yore you never saw a skint London dock worker
 
the black fox said:
They are possibly cutting costs and using mybandofrobbershermes for part of the delivery these days .I would hazard a guess that I’m correct . .
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We get a mixture of the grey Amazon vans, white vans / rental doing the deliveries around here and recently it seems to be more of their grey vans.
 
the black fox said:
They are possibly cutting costs and using mybandofrobbershermes for part of the delivery
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Hermes would have been an improvement on “Amazon Logistics” which was just anyone who happened to be at the depot in a (usually old and rusty) van.

Fortunately there is an Amazon warehouse in the region now and the last month or 2 it’s been the blue Amazon liveried vans.
 
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gremlin16 said:
I got a half bottle of car polish not long ago. I’m pretty sure it had spilled in transit, but there was no evidence of any leakage???? Maybe a return.
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Perhaps the driver polished his van before delivering to you :D
 
Just like to make clear In my case at least, it wasn't the driver as the actual Amazon package was unopened, the empty boxes were opened at the packing stage.

A replacement arrived today sealed and with a drive inside!

I can't fault Amazon, just they have some chancers working for them.
 
woof woof said:
Naughty.

I had an Amazon parcel arrive yesterday and it was just the item in its product box with no other packaging. That's never happened before. It made me think I was lucky to receive it as what it was was clearly visible to any light fingered people in the chain.
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On some items, before payment, it will tell you that the item will arrive in its own packaging and the box will be visible. You then have the option of having it packed into an Amazon box.
 
I was referring to whoever the carriers are before it gets to the Amazon warehouse , once there they will be picking sealed boxes ,but if those boxes are re.arranged prior to delivery there lies the problem . Anything handled by humans is a target they inbound checkers can only do random checks
 
Dave * said:
Fortunately there is an Amazon warehouse in the region now and the last month or 2 it’s been the blue Amazon liveried vans.
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I've had an Amazon distribution depot, less than 5 miles away, for years.
I still get a mixture of rusty vans & Hermes, I've not seen a liveried van in years.

Dave * said:
Mine always look this colour now
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That must be the fleet of new all electric vans they keep banging on about on TV ads.
Maybe they are still charging ?
 
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Our local driver has an electric van (as does the DPD man). Can't remember what colour it is but it's probably described as grey. (A couple of years ago, we had 3 grey (according to their V5s) cars on the drive - one blue, one brown and one gunmetal...
 
omens said:
On some items, before payment, it will tell you that the item will arrive in its own packaging and the box will be visible. You then have the option of having it packed into an Amazon box.
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Nupe. There was none of that.

Since being caught with "In Stock" items really being "In Stock" in China and taking 3 months to come I've been reading everything lately.
 
This was in the Manchester Evening news yesterday.....

POLICE are investigating a major theft from the Amazon distribution centre at Over Hulton after a stash of electronic goods and £250,000 in cash were discovered at a property.

A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering but has since been bailed pending further police enquires.

Police say they received a report of theft from the distribution centre on Wednesday last week in relation to the loss of a large quantity of stock including high value tech and mobile phone products.
 
beyond the blue said:
This was in the Manchester Evening news yesterday.....

POLICE are investigating a major theft from the Amazon distribution centre at Over Hulton after a stash of electronic goods and £250,000 in cash were discovered at a property.

A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering but has since been bailed pending further police enquires.

Police say they received a report of theft from the distribution centre on Wednesday last week in relation to the loss of a large quantity of stock including high value tech and mobile phone products.
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Sounds like very sieve like security at that site ........can only surmise more than one person involved in it!
 
the black fox said:
Like back in days of yore you never saw a skint London dock worker
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Lol true that. Danny Baker would often talk on the radio about his dad who was a docker. He reckoned they eventually had to send the left hand ones of pairs of shoes to London and the right hand ones to Liverpool…. to stop them getting nicked.
 
boogie man said:
Lol true that. Danny Baker would often talk on the radio about his dad who was a docker. He reckoned they eventually had to send the left hand ones of pairs of shoes to London and the right hand ones to Liverpool…. to stop them getting nicked.
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as a teenager I worked at the original Covent Garden market , there was a warehouse there with underground storage area where you could buy anything to order that was stolen in London at the time ,best customers were the judges, solicitors, police from bow street court and Scotland Yard .actual factual seen it myself
 
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