Another interesting tidbit;

The percentage of shipping cost to order total averaged 21% up through 2014. Since 2015, it has averaged 0.6%.

cryption said:

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Honestly I've started going to stores for things vs buying online more and more

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Saw an article earlier this week in the WSJ about how higher-end malls are making a comeback.

Maybe we are seeing a small resurgence with in-person shopping?

My wife orders these "milk bottles" often for her Etsy and it normally comes packed in a box designed for the bottles with top and bottom foam inserts. This order came in a box about 30% bigger and the missing the top foam insert. I guess they thought the air pillows would do

I see your Heath bottle over there. A fellow man of distinction.

Better for me to the west of FW. The # of Sunday deliveries are a nice touch. Remember catalogs and waiting 4-6 weeks. I tried to explain it to my kids a few months back…

Had something ordered on Wed evening, delivered 5am on Thurs morning in SW Houston. We really haven't seen any issues but have a huge distribution center 5 miles from us so I'm sure that helps

The Collective said:

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Remember catalogs and waiting 4-6 weeks. I tried to explain it to my kids a few months back…

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and what a S.A.S.E is lol.
Acronyms of yore.

And USPS MO only.

It was a gift…

You have good friends

I guess this is more of a rant against Amazon fulfillment.

I ordered some books awhile back and what arrived was the wrong set of books by the same author. No problem, I initiated a return and they arrived a few days later, except it was the same set of incorrect books. Returned both sets and attempted to review the product. Of course I gave it one star since it was a completely different item than what was represented in the listing. Amazon rejected the review since it didn't pertain to the content of the item, but instead I was directed to the seller to give feedback.

Ok so i review the seller warning others to not buy the item because you would not receive what you thought you were getting. Amazon rejected that review as well and gave me some baloney about "Amazon Fulfillment" bring responsible for the error. This left me with no way to communicate to others that Amazon was allowing bad listings.

I found the books I wanted in another format and placed another order. the order contained items represented as new, definitely not in any other used condition. Quickly I received part of the order in brand new condition. However the last part of the order was delayed a few weeks.

By this time I figure out one of the books is not in print and basically ONLY available in some variation of used condition by looking at B&N and other book sellers. I finally get a notification from Amazon the book shipped but when I go back to my original order confirmation, it has been updated with a used book listing rather than the listing for the brand new copy I KNOW I ordered.

It's not worth wasting time getting placated by some customer service cretin so I am just sharing my rant that Amazon is still capable of stupid mistakes on their end.

TLDR:
1) Amazon fulfillment coordinated two incorrect shipments to me and left me with no mechanism to call out their mistakes.
2) Amazon will absolutely substitute used products for you without giving you a say (other than cancelling the order) and cover their tracks by updating your order invoice with the product they are sending you rather than the product you originally ordered.

I just looked. Can't find the historical data poster at the bottom of page once said, but here is what it said for 2023...

464 orders placed in 2023

Tabasco said:

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I just looked. Can't find the historical data poster at the bottom of page once said, but here is what it said for 2023...

464 orders placed in 2023

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Just looked at my first amazon order...

Order Details

Ordered on December 4, 2003 Order# 103-3048154-3385xxx

It was a fur-real cat

Tabasco said:

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Tabasco said:

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I just looked. Can't find the historical data poster at the bottom of page once said, but here is what it said for 2023...

464 orders placed in 2023

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Just looked at my first amazon order...

Order Details

Ordered on December 4, 2003 Order# 103-3048154-3385xxx

It was a fur-real cat

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you have to request your data history (and I don't know how they give it to you) or there is a chrome extension that with a single click will csv each year for you.

My first order was in 2001, a cd.

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rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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yeh that says it takes up to a month lol.

I found a chrome extension that pulls it by year and puts it in a csv.

I'm at just over $30k for ~1000 orders since 2001.
And only about $600 from 2001-2010.

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just for fun, I put in a request earlier today via Amazon. Took a couple hours

I'm quite disgusted with how much I've spent over the years.

4,282 orders

Anyone in the "six figure" club?

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62strat said:

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rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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yeh that says it takes up to a month lol.

I found a chrome extension that pulls it by year and puts it in a csv.

I'm at just over $30k for ~1000 orders since 2001.
And only about $600 from 2001-2010.

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just for fun, I put in a request earlier today via Amazon. Took a couple hours

I'm quite disgusted with how much I've spent over the years.

4,282 orders

Anyone in the "six figure" club?

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Can you walk me through how you did it? Chrome extension?

I searched Chrome extensions. Searched "amazon" and it said No search results found

I used rilo's instructions from the previous page

rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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Diggity said:

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I used rilo's instructions from the previous page

rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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Thx. Did not see it before. While I wait, here is what I found year to year for orders (not items... and order of course could, and usually do, have multiple orders.

2003- 1
2004- 4
2005- 0 (wow)
2006-5
2007-11
2008- 22
2009- 22
2010-26
2011- 41
2012- 90
2013- 93
2014- 135
2015- 143
2016- 160
2017- 173
2018- 161
2019- 224
2020- 321 (covid)
2021- 336
2022- 477
2023- 466

Yall big spenders outta get the Prime Chase card for 5% back on purchases. Im getting 7-8 hundo back annually.

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I searched Chrome extensions. Searched "amazon" and it said No search results found

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it's called amazon order history reporter



you just click a year and it generates a .csv on the screen, with a total line on the bottom.

Appreciate that man will try it later Amazon never emailed me confirmation link, so I will give extension a go.

Non-stop. Delays, cancellations etc. Becoming a big enough annoyance to make it worth looking around at alternatives

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Subscribe & Save has been scammy lately. "Sorry, this item isn't available - no delivery this month." Ok, well that item shows in stock. Let's buy one at normal price and see what happens. Sure enough - order fulfilled.

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Subscribe and save is such a useless feature IMO. You barely save anything and they never fulfill it when you want it.

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TriAg2010 said:

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Subscribe & Save has been scammy lately. "Sorry, this item isn't available - no delivery this month." Ok, well that item shows in stock. Let's buy one at normal price and see what happens. Sure enough - order fulfilled.

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Subscribe and save is such a useless feature IMO. You barely save anything and they never fulfill it when you want it.

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The only thing I use it for are my electric razor blades. Never had an issue.

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rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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yeh that says it takes up to a month lol.

I found a chrome extension that pulls it by year and puts it in a csv.

I'm at just over $30k for ~1000 orders since 2001.
And only about $600 from 2001-2010.

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I'm terrified to look at my total dollar amount. Family of 5 and 90% of what we buy feels like it comes from Amazon and HEB. Order totals:


Amazon Orders
2023: 204
2022: 343
2021: 327
2020: 510
2019: 349
2018: 314
2017: 302
2016: 300
2015: 243
2014: 200
2013: 180
2012: 166
2011: 124
2010: 77
2009: 93
2008: 104
2007: 46
2006: 15
2005: 9
2004: 8
2003: 1
2002: 7
2001: 0
2000: 6
1999: 2

TOTAL: 3930


My wife has her own account.

What in the ever-living hell are some of you buying where you need an order a day from Amazon??

I knew we were pretty light compared to our neighbors when we order once or twice a month and they have packages seemingly multiple times a week, but damn… didn't think it'd be that crazy.

My wife has her own account and probably has similar order quantities. One thing the order quantities don't account for is total items; a lot of times I have 2-3 items per order (especially older years).


2023 42
2022 63
2021 48
2020 67
2019 54
2018 34
2017 51
2016 64
2015 98
2014 72
2013 25
2012 6
2011 3
2010 2


I feel like we buy a TON of amazon; and nowhere close to your order total.

Are you buying tons of stuff for a business through Amazon or what? Not sure how could do 500+ orders in a year for just family stuff.

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Yall big spenders outta get the Prime Chase card for 5% back on purchases. Im getting 7-8 hundo back annually.

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Yep. We've had this card for years and just apply the 5% back each month to purchases, when available.

Take 5% back as a payment to your card instead of applying to purchases. I don't think you accrue rewards on purchases made with rewards. Small note that barely makes a discernible difference, but that's what I do.

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62strat said:

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rilloaggie said:

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I googled "how to download data" and found some articles. In the app, click on "your account" > scroll all the way down to "data and privacy" > select "request your information and then "orders"

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yeh that says it takes up to a month lol.

I found a chrome extension that pulls it by year and puts it in a csv.

I'm at just over $30k for ~1000 orders since 2001.
And only about $600 from 2001-2010.

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I'm terrified to look at my total dollar amount. Family of 5 and 90% of what we buy feels like it comes from Amazon and HEB. Order totals:


Amazon Orders
2023: 204
2022: 343
2021: 327
2020: 510
2019: 349
2018: 314
2017: 302
2016: 300
2015: 243
2014: 200
2013: 180
2012: 166
2011: 124
2010: 77
2009: 93
2008: 104
2007: 46
2006: 15
2005: 9
2004: 8
2003: 1
2002: 7
2001: 0
2000: 6
1999: 2

TOTAL: 3930


My wife has her own account.

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The data request for order history said it could take up to a month, but it took less than 2 hours.

The "Retail Order History" spreadsheet had 6,638 rows with an order total of $220K. My wife has a separate account, but I doubt she's spent 10% of my account. I would guess around 15-25% of total spending was Christmas related.

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What in the ever-living hell are some of you buying where you need an order a day from Amazon??

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Groceries?

In my order history, for instance, I filtered data and looked at the cheapest item at only $0.89, it's a can of peas lol.

We tried that for a little while, but no longer do it. I only did it because my company (a general contractor) built the warehouse that amazon uses for 'fresh' or whatever it is now, and my office is like a mile away, so I was curious how long it took. It took about an hour to get my grocery orders. I only did pantry stuff though, nothing perishable.