Next day delivery at amazon, see if you can get Prime free trial

claire21

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_200182130_top_sig?nodeId=200421690#sig

You can still get stuff before xmas with amazon if you qualify for free Prime trial, you must make sure you cancel before the trial is up so you are not charged.

smartly

I've been using the trial for the last two weeks and it's been excellent

JimmyTheWig

Note that the default is to pay for the service once the trial ends.
But you can change your settings, straight after signing up, so that the service ends once the trial ends. My thinking is that it is easier to remember to do this at that point than when the trial is due to end.

girl_withno_name

If you're planning on leaving your Christmas until Sunday and relying on Amazon Prime to get your parcels to you on Monday (Christmas Eve) - be aware that I've been using the trial and two of my orders (four parcels) haven't actually arrived the next day, but the day after instead (assuming the Tuesday's lot do actually arrive today)... which could mean you get your stuff after Christmas Day!!

P.S. Both orders made before mid afternoon and had delivery estimated as the next day, even when they were obviously not there the next day!

youth_leader

How awful - I've been paying £49 a year for this since 2009 without realising because I'm so disorganised and don't check my statements!

MisalignedHalo

youth_leader wrote: »

How awful - I've been paying £49 a year for this since 2009 without realising because I'm so disorganised and don't check my statements!

This happened to me, called them and they refunded me :T

Give it a try:)

3010

youth_leader wrote: »

How awful - I've been paying £49 a year for this since 2009 without realising because I'm so disorganised and don't check my statements!

If you have not used the next day service in the last three years you could claim the money back.

moneysavingkitten

youth_leader wrote: »

How awful - I've been paying £49 a year for this since 2009 without realising because I'm so disorganised and don't check my statements!

I got caught out this year because I didn't cancel. I forgot all about it. I called Amazon to see if I could get my money back and explained politely it was an honest mistake not having cancelled.

They told me because I had never used it, aside from the first time I used it when I signed up on the trial, they would give me all my money back as a good will gesture. I only got stung for one years worth, but it' surely worth asking them nicely and giving it a try. That's not a small amount of money.

lexilex

girl_withno_name wrote: »

If you're planning on leaving your Christmas until Sunday and relying on Amazon Prime to get your parcels to you on Monday (Christmas Eve) - be aware that I've been using the trial and two of my orders (four parcels) haven't actually arrived the next day, but the day after instead (assuming the Tuesday's lot do actually arrive today)... which could mean you get your stuff after Christmas Day!!

P.S. Both orders made before mid afternoon and had delivery estimated as the next day, even when they were obviously not there the next day!

I've also had the same experience. Even with Prime Amazon still send some orders through Royal Mail and I've found it's mostly these orders that don't arrive on time.

Obviously still much quicker than the free standard delivery but I wouldn't leave ordering til Sunday.

fabsaver

It's better to sign up to Amazon Family as it is free for three months, rather than the standard one month Prime trial.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/family/signup/welcome/ref=sv__2

You don't have to have a child of your own to qualify as you can just say you are a family member

custardy

moneysavingkitten wrote: »

I got caught out this year because I didn't cancel. I forgot all about it. I called Amazon to see if I could get my money back and explained politely it was an honest mistake not having cancelled.

They told me because I had never used it, aside from the first time I used it when I signed up on the trial, they would give me all my money back as a good will gesture. I only got stung for one years worth, but it' surely worth asking them nicely and giving it a try. That's not a small amount of money.

just for future reference
you can set Prime to not auto renew as soon as you set it up
so no need to remember