Amazon provides an incredibly valuable 3 month return policy during the holidays (buy on Nov 1, return window ends on Jan 31). This is particularly useful when buying a bunch of computer parts that might exhibit failures after more than a month.
Amazon Is Capturing Bigger Slice of U.S. Online Holiday Spending
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#12Amazon provides an incredibly valuable 3 month return policy during the holidays (buy on Nov 1, return window ends on Jan 31). This is particularly useful when buying a bunch of computer parts that might exhibit failures after more than a month.
Failures should be covered under warranty, for any case that warrants a return.
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#13Their return policy is really great during the holidays, which might contribute to it.
As a (late) holiday shopper and Prime member, their shipping guarantees are top notch though. No praying that it arrives in time.
(Whereas Amazon says, order within x hours for delivery tomorrow, a lot of other shops here just feel like "Usually shipped within 1-2 days, if your hair is green, Tom is working in the office and your order number ends with 4")
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#14I shopped for Christmas on Amazon, it was kind of a pain. I had to ship it all to myself, wrap it, put on gift notes and then pack it all up and ship it all to my family across the country. I was going to do their individual gift wrapping but it was $6 PER ITEM. Considering I got about 15 items, that really adds up. I think I'll still do some shopping on there next year, I just wish they had cheaper gift wrapping and…
How much time did it take for you to wrap it? I usually say for myself if I were paying myself minimum wage and it exceeds that then I rather pay someone else.
People usually would only be paid minimum wage for the hours they work in a day (~8). So just pretend you gift wrap after those hours, where you are paid $0/hr.
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#15I shopped for Christmas on Amazon, it was kind of a pain. I had to ship it all to myself, wrap it, put on gift notes and then pack it all up and ship it all to my family across the country. I was going to do their individual gift wrapping but it was $6 PER ITEM. Considering I got about 15 items, that really adds up. I think I'll still do some shopping on there next year, I just wish they had cheaper gift wrapping and…
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#16I went with BestBuy this year, and was pleasantly surprised. I've noticed Amazon is slowly raising prices. I'm not knocking it; just like the competition.
Plus--I've always liked Bestbuy. I bought a iPad mini ($under 350.00) at 12:59 p.m. Pacific time, on the 23rd of December. For $12.00 it was delivered to my door at 11 a.m. the next day.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Problem is that Amazon's gift wrapping is crap. They just throw it into a blue felt bag and attach a gift note.
I've only seen the blue felt bag once, when buying my wife some (cheap) jewelry. For items big enough, they use plain blue wrapping paper. That's what I usually see. It seems like a perfectly adequate wrapping job to me -- certainly better than my notoriously uncoordinated self would do. For the record, Amazon charged me 3.95 per item for gift wrapping. I don't know if it changes based on the size of the item, whethe…
My son received the game Operation for Christmas from his grandparents. That game came from Amazon in a blue felt bag.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've only seen the blue felt bag once, when buying my wife some (cheap) jewelry. For items big enough, they use plain blue wrapping paper. That's what I usually see. It seems like a perfectly adequate wrapping job to me -- certainly better than my notoriously uncoordinated self would do. For the record, Amazon charged me 3.95 per item for gift wrapping. I don't know if it changes based on the size of the item, whethe…
My son received the game Operation for Christmas from his grandparents. That game came from Amazon in a blue felt bag.
My girlfriend gave my family presents. All presents (7+ ?) came in felt bags.
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#19I shopped for Christmas on Amazon, it was kind of a pain. I had to ship it all to myself, wrap it, put on gift notes and then pack it all up and ship it all to my family across the country. I was going to do their individual gift wrapping but it was $6 PER ITEM. Considering I got about 15 items, that really adds up. I think I'll still do some shopping on there next year, I just wish they had cheaper gift wrapping and…
The biggest savings of Christmas shopping on Amazon is not having to go to a physical store to do the shopping. No driving around wasting hours in traffic, waiting in lines, and dealing with cranky people. The added benefit is that Amazon also usually has the thing you are looking for too. So if you add up all that time saved, time spent wrapping is really not that bad.
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#20Amazon provides an incredibly valuable 3 month return policy during the holidays (buy on Nov 1, return window ends on Jan 31). This is particularly useful when buying a bunch of computer parts that might exhibit failures after more than a month.
They have an incredible return policy period. I've had items that I bought, completely forgot about, contacted them a year later and they gave me a full refund, shipping and all. Granted, I do have over 200 orders from them in the past year.