Coincidence? In three days, two items I ordered from Amazon ---

[3Hotdogs]

Monday, I get an email that an order cannot be filled and they are refunding my money. = No profit to Amazon.


Today, I get an email that an order is being delayed. Do I want my money back or do I want to wait in case it shows up? I chose to wait. If I cancelled, = no money to Amazon.

Anyone else with similar experiences?

If this is magnified, many orders will be cancelled and this will be a substantial loss to Amazon. Jeffie will be pissed.

[ret5hd]

1. my first guess: these were items...

that needed to be shipped from china

[Hugin]

2. I have had only one issue so far...

When I placed the order I got a notice that I would receive an email for when the item would be delivered. It was a “two day item” and it actually took four days. That item was sourced from Indonesia, but I am sure contained components from China.

Along side of that order was an uncommon item wholly from China. It was on time.

I spent some time in Soviet Russia and the system there at the time is what I am expecting to eventually develop from Trump’s second Imposition. The shelves of the state stores were piled high with so-called luxury items. Luxury items being a broad based term for anything from medical supplies to furniture. That nobody could afford and even the rich who had them usually sourced them from the black markets. The lines for bread and other food items could be three days long.

Does this sound like a Great America to you? It sure doesn’t to me.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. My guess they're running out of inventory of goods made in China

I'm seeing stock outs or products unavailable in retail stores. I think one is being prepped for closing, but still. Stores have this massive online catalog and I know I've seen some of the items in the stores in years past, but suddenly you have to order it online and pick it up in 3 days. A big building supply store had zero copper plumbing fittings in the section labeled 'copper fittings'. Perhaps it's the price of copper these days, a theft problem in other words. fittings go roughly $2-10 each. A simple 1/2" straight coupling with a center stop - $2.

[3Hotdogs]

4. I guess many wholesalers stocked up at the beginning of Orangeanus's tariff war.

Now they are cleaned out. Maybe they don't have the $$ to restock at the higher prices.

[Eugene]

5. I've seen it happening with computer parts. When they come back, prices have nearly tripled.

For example, name-brand RAM modules:

In April/May prices actually went *down* from January.

Unavailable in July

Available again in August, but 45 percent above January

September: a whopping 160 percent above January

Alternative product comes from Chinese companies I never heard of.

Finally, buyer beware: watch out for sneaky "shipping charges" that can be more costly than the product.