Other New Amazon Kindle

This, I want one just to have a ton of classic literature that I can carry and read. The PDFs are all available even without a kindle, but reading PDF books on a computer is just a bit bleh. Somehow it doesn't work.

 

My kindle arrived today and so far i'm impressed. The screen is a lot clearer and responds faster than my colleagues old Sony ereader. Thankfully the keyboard is not needed the majority of the time as its rather clumsy to use. The wireless syncing of books is fantastic although on a 2 bar GPRS signal at work it takes a few minutes to download a book.

The biggest surprise has been that the lighted case weighs more than the kindle.

 

So much for expedited delivery, mine didn't arrive today even though it was dispatched on Sunday.

 

Mine almost arrived today but Royal Mail turned up 5 minutes late and there was no-one in. They are redelivering tomorrow.

Have Amazon refunded your delivery charges (for not delivering on release day)? If not and you ordered when they were promising release day delivery ask. They refunded my both the Kindle's and the Cover's delivery even though the cover arrived on time.

 

I rang up asking for my delivery refunded which they reluctantly gave back. Loads of people got upgraded to Expedited from Super-Saver, and I ask why I had to pay for it and he said it was because I chose it. A swift call to his Manager and it was sorted.

Then I sent an email as people who ordered like 4 days after had their orders tended to while mine was ignored and they had the cheek to say they've upgraded my shipping for free to expedited. Amazon lost a huge amount of respect from me from this farce.

 

Postman's just been and no Kindle again.

 

RM are backed up due to bank hol. i'm missing a load of stuff i ordered on friday that was despatched same day. nevermind, eh.

 

I'd expect Expedited to still be next day as per the Amazon website. People got theirs dispatched yesterday and received them today. Even those who ordered a week after I ordered mine.

 

It should be next day but they chose to send Kindles by Royal Mail First Class so it is actually up to 2 days. They are delivered by the Royal Mail Parcel Van so it could still arrive today, unfortunately there is no way to track delivery. I'm still waiting for redelivery on mine but they didn't try until 13:05 yesterday so it could be a while yet.

 

yes that too - RM parcels don't come with main mail bits.

I ordered mine a couple days ago. three week wait :-/

 

My Kindle just arrived and is now charging.

 

Lucky, mine's still nowhere to be found.

 

Still nothing. Such an anti-climax now. Pathetic.

 

Hahahaha sorry man must suck to be you. May I suggest you kill time by reading an actual book?

 

I haven't bought any books due to expecting the Kindle.

 

Sounds like Royal Mail may have lost it. By now Amazon should be able to raise it with Royal Mail, who cannot do much, but Amazon should be able to ship you a new Kindle to replace it. They keep some back for DOA customer returns so you shouldn't have to wait. They may even ship using someone other than Royal Mail.

Also have you checked with neighbours? I once had a Special Delivery item (from Amazon) delivered to a neighbour by mistake and if my neighbour hadn't brought it round I may never have known where it ended up.

 

It's not special delivery. It's just First Class. Amazon have been lying to a heck of a lot of people about it.

And it won't be with neighbours as they would have sent it over by now. The tracking number I got given says it's at Amazon's warehouse still.

 

I didn't think they could track the shipments as they were First Class (I was using the SD one as an example). My Kindle certainly did not have a tracking number on the label, well not one Royal Mail could use anyway.

 

They didn't give out tracking numbers to us. I had to ring up and get it.

 

I'd take the tracking data with a pinch of salt as looking at the label that was on my Kindle there is no way for Royal Mail to identify the parcel in their system. The only unique code on there is the Amazon internal tracking code.

By now Amazon should be shipping you a replacement.