will I be left a bad record on Amazon?

I purchased something on Amazon which was shipped and sold from Amazon, but not a third party. However, they shipped with Australia Post but we were not there at the time they delivered. After a week of checking and asking our neighbors nobody knows about the package but it's "delivered" according to their record. I asked the Amazon's customer service but they were not able to provide any signs or proof of delivery but they said they were happy to refund but I told them to wait a few more days and I'll get back to them.

Very likely that the package has been lost, however, I am thinking that if
I should refund, I've been hearing kind of rumors that if you refund without
very supportive evidence like the case I am experiencing, Amazon will
leave a bad remark or record on my account permanently or at least for
an extended period of time or put me on their list of risk or surveillence. It will be more difficult (not impossible though) to ask for help or get trusted or
get special promotion in the future.

What do you think? Do you think my thought is going to be true? It's the
first time ever the package is lost. But it's only AUD 40, not too much.

 

Was it $40 worth of rubbers?

 

maybe he should send amazon a picture of a positive pregnancy test as evidence of the package's non-arrival.

 

Wrong attitude to say it's not much only 40$ they do that 10 people that shit adds up. Did you pay via PayPal? Put in a complain, Paypal are extrememly reliable in helping you out and getting your money back from misdeeds.

 

They take more than a week mate. Remember some places have floods and fires to deal with.

 

i bought a book on amazon once, the only thing i ever have, (and probably every will), and that becuse it had been out of print for decades, or maybe that we ebay, i don't remember for sure now,
and anyway they kept hounding me for years to write a review about it. seriously. (and to top that all off, someone stole it and i no longer have it)

so anyway, you can count on less the fingers on one hand how many times i've ever bought anything on line.
so what amazon thinks of me, if anything, is seriously not my problem.

as for time to delivery, something easy to forget on the internet, physically delivering anything involves moving it through the real world.
you know, like, when you physically go some where.

when i was growing up in very small towns up in the woods, in the mountains, near donner summit in the sierras,
anything other then the most basic groceries you had to go to a much larger town or order by mail.
and it came to you by parcel post, because that was all there was, and from the time you sent your order form along with a postal money order to pay for it,
you could generally count on, average time from mailing it off, to getting your package in the mail, was at least six weeks.
sometimes it would take longer. a lot of roads were still two lane and most things made at leas some part of their trip by rail,
and had to be sorted multiple times on their way.

if it was something small, light, and relatively high value, it may have spent part of its trip by air, but if you were out in the boonies like i was,
it was still a good 30 miles at least from the nearest airport, sometimes more then fifty, and that meant having to be sorted again once it was on the ground.

so the internet, you can order something directly and immediately, but the thing itself has to physically come from somewhere,
and be transported all the distances from there to you, and still likely has to be sorted a couple of times,
and then of course, things can happen on the way, trucks can fall of the road, freight can be destroyed one way or another.

these days everything moving is kept pretty good track of, and in charge of its movement are usually reliably responsible,
enough to let you know, if some disaster happens and there is a delay in having to reship it, that is, unless they don't find out about it right away either.

whatever anyone may try to promis you, we don't live in a universe that owes anything to what we tell each other to expect.
the only magic part is the internet, and that only when you've got a good connection to it.

 

so why would they list it as delivered then? did they throw it in the fire and consider that a completed delivery?

 

It takes at least 3 weeks to get something delivered from Amazon to Australia.
If you are in the USA it takes only a few days.

 

i'm not sure where the OP is, but he did say that amazon lists it as "delivered." which, at least theoretically, should mean that it has been dropped off at its final destination.

usually you can track a delivery through every stop it makes. so if he is in australia he could see if it just left detroit and assume it's going to be a while, or see if it went from sydney to "delivered" then it should be at his house already.

 

He's from Australia.
Amazon take forever to get things sent and worse they cost a lot more if you don't live in the usa.

 

yeah, looking back at his post he does clearly indication australian currency. i still don't see why amazon would mark it as delivered if it hasn't even left the states yet though.

 

No no no.... Let me clarify.....
I am in Australia and the items were sold and shipped by Amazon AU (Amazon Australia), it was shipped in Australia
and sold by Amazon AU. It's never anything related to United states of