Cindder
02-12-2002, 12:41 PM
I am giving a "thumbs down" for Amazon.com for 2 reasons. The first being their extremely high shipping charges. I was going to order the Euro Bath from them at $24.99. S&H was a whopping $16.99 for regular ground delivery!!! I bought it instead at Buy Buy Baby; same price and shipping was only $5.00! Baby Depot also had the same product, same price and shipping was $7.95...
My second reason for thumbs down, is their obscure fine print on how gift certificates can be redeeemed when purhcased from a store on their website. My sister-in-law knew I had registered at BabiesRus, so for my shower she ordered me a gift certificate from what she thought was "BabiesRus" store on Amazon.com. Turns out that the gift certificate was actually for "Amazon.com" to be used at any of their online stores. It cannot be used for any retail stores. I live only 30 minutes for the retail store BabiesRus and would have liked to use the G.C. there. Instead I had to order it online and pay those HIGH SHIPPING charges! ($22.00, I think)
When my sister-in-law contacted Amazon.com about the confusion of ordering a G.C. through them for a particular store, they just said that while this confusion has happened to many others, she should really read the fine print before ordering....guess we learned our lesson!
Regards,
Deanne
My second reason for thumbs down, is their obscure fine print on how gift certificates can be redeeemed when purhcased from a store on their website. My sister-in-law knew I had registered at BabiesRus, so for my shower she ordered me a gift certificate from what she thought was "BabiesRus" store on Amazon.com. Turns out that the gift certificate was actually for "Amazon.com" to be used at any of their online stores. It cannot be used for any retail stores. I live only 30 minutes for the retail store BabiesRus and would have liked to use the G.C. there. Instead I had to order it online and pay those HIGH SHIPPING charges! ($22.00, I think)
When my sister-in-law contacted Amazon.com about the confusion of ordering a G.C. through them for a particular store, they just said that while this confusion has happened to many others, she should really read the fine print before ordering....guess we learned our lesson!
Regards,
Deanne