All around the shops....

In my experience when Amazon say if it hasn't turned up by tomorrow you can cancel, it won't ever turn up!

pce612

I have found that returns to Amazon for a refund are really easy now - find your order; there will be several options, choose return and fill in the reason and then you get a page to book a collection.
I did one last night, it got picked up by the postman this morning. No need to print out a label or hike off to the post office. And it’s free!
Much better than it used to be.

I'll have to check that out.

Goodness knows it was not straightforward telling them to give me a refund yesterday. Got through on the phone (finally - after I'd got through the chatbot) - first guy sent email saying "giftcard" refund. Cue for a 2nd conversation with another one to point out "Not giftcard - refund via credit card is what I said". There he was gone part way through the conversation. Cue 3rd phonecall and finally got a more experienced person who got the message "credit card....credit card....credit card only" and sounds like refund is due to be properly sorted at last. Whew!

I have found that returns to Amazon for a refund are really easy now - find your order; there will be several options, choose return and fill in the reason and then you get a page to book a collection.
I did one last night, it got picked up by the postman this morning. No need to print out a label or hike off to the post office. And it’s free!
Much better than it used to be.

Da iawn chi Cariad

Fingers crossed then. It did - finally - turn up this afternoon.

As anticipated = it is more than a little slimey and totally unusable (though I've followed the suggestion of sticking some stalks in earth just in case it grows on).

I found that Amazon phone number and finally got through the "menu" to a person and he's agreed to a refund. Side note - why does no-one ever ever apologise for things going wrong? I know it wouldnt have been his fault personally - but "I'm sorry to hear of this" or something would have been nice. Anyways - all being well and that refund should turn up as knocked-off what I owe them on next months statement.

...and you don't want to know about the blimmin' ants. Back there I had one attack of ants once - where I spotted some getting in via the grille in sitting room floor after I'd been away for a few days and promptly broke off phonecall I was on to hoover them up quick and Job Done....end of.

Here - every summer for the last few years at the back of my house and I've been steadily working my way through a variety of ways of bopping them one and yet they're back again and with a few of those huge ones (flying ants) with them.

I don't know which I swear about most sometimes - loads more "livestock" and weeds than I've been used to or just how far I have to travel to get to somebody/something I require instead of doing a short walk to it.

Allira

^If anyone spots me harvesting and eating flowers from my garden then it will be something like nasturtium (which I basically regard as for eating purposes).^

Watch out for caterpillars! They love them too.

Don't they just - the little "darlings" (it was another word I thought of first).

Though they are easier to deal with than green leafy veg - with the slugs attacking as soon as my back is turned and out I go hoping for some chard or spinach or something and they've descended and left it full of holes (yep I know it's still technically edible - but it's more than a little offputting).

I still struggle in a variety of ways that there's a lot more rain than I'm used to here and try not to think about the fact that I never ever once noticed slugs on what I was growing for a while in containers back in my home city. So none there - but loads here???!!! I know what I had there was a tiny little backyard of concrete slabs leading out to back lane - so where would the slugs have emerged from - whereas here they're probably lurking in loads of crevices, etc, etc.

If anyone spots me harvesting and eating flowers from my garden then it will be something like nasturtium (which I basically regard as for eating purposes).

Watch out for caterpillars! They love them too.

I have eaten Morning Glory in Vietnam it's delicious my favourite veg when I was there. I have never found it in the UK, I know why now!
After your story, I will definitely pass.
Best of luck with the next stage

Yes Cariad I have heard of Huw Richards. My DD who lives high up, often in the clouds, about a half hour from me, has something of his I recall. Hope you get your parcel soon.

I'm not convinced I'd try picking that sort of morning glory and eating it - and I'm pretty experimental.

Thank goodness 😀

I've just been checking out photos of both things and they look rather different to me. The morning glory vegetable has sorta long arrow sorta shape leaves and I didn't see anything looking like flowers. The plant that grows from the seeds I've also ordered of this is clearly the same plant (leaves the same).

The morning glory flower here may just be decorative flowers and that's that. I'm not convinced I'd try picking that sort of morning glory and eating it - and I'm pretty experimental. Also I've had foraging courses over the years with some of the country's best-known foragers (national level type people) and they've never mentioned anything about it that I recall. Goodness knows - one of them has tried/will try pretty much anything and everything over time (errrr....eeek!)...and even he hasnt mentioned it that I recall.

Bar information to the contrary - I'll treat them as two separate things. If anyone spots me harvesting and eating flowers from my garden then it will be something like nasturtium (which I basically regard as for eating purposes).

I'll have to have a looksee at Indian Spinach and see what I make of it...

I am sorta generally on the lookout for what is edible/prolific/will grow in our climate and, if it's a bit unusual all the better for me personally (given I like to try new things). If slugs don't like it = all the better - as they are a pain and a half in my garden.

BlueBelle

Allira I was just going to ask the same I grow morning glory but never realised they were edible, I know nasturtiums are , leaf flower and seed but didn’t know morning glory was

Last year I accidentally grew some Indian spinach it was very pretty in flower have you tried that Cariad I think the seeds must have blown from my neighbours’ compost pile.

Don't eat the home-grown variety, Bluebelle!
I checked and some types are hallucinatory and even toxic.

Allira I was just going to ask the same I grow morning glory but never realised they were edible, I know nasturtiums are , leaf flower and seed but didn’t know morning glory was

Last year I accidentally grew some Indian spinach it was very pretty in flower have you tried that Cariad I think the seeds must have blown from my neighbours’ compost pile.

Ps I thought Morning Glory were those fast growing plants with glorious blue flowers? Are they edible?

Somehows a package sent last Wednesday, due to be dinner on Thursday is highly unlikely to be edible if/when it ever does turn up. Latest thing on Amazon reckons it's going to turn up tomorrow. I imagine it'll be a slimy mess by then - after all it is a type of spinach....

I shouldn't laugh but I am 😂😂😂
Thanks for cheering up a Monday morning CariadAgain

I did order something from Amazon once and, bearing in mind I know exactly where the Bristol warehouse is, I thought it would be delivered promptly.
It went from there to a facility in Kent then back again to Bristol while they thought about it then eventually delivered it. Wish I'd offered to pick it up but luckily it wasn't perishable.
Another parcel was left on an unknown doorstep, I received it a fortnight later when the householder came home from holiday.

Usually (not always) they are fairly prompt.

Latest position = Amazon info states it was at Kenfig Hill (ie the nearest Amazon place to me - as per usual) at this morning and will get to me at 14.45 to 16.45pm.

Hopeful comments from people here that I'll be able to just ring Amazon (if that number still works) or, presumably, "contact seller" (again) and say "Last Thursday's dinner is looking very wilted/slimey by now" and be told to "Just bin it - refund coming" - though I'll see if there is a bit of it that might just "take root as a cutting" (I have my doubts - as it's probably in pieces by now....but we'll see).

A 16 stage journey has got to be some sort of record for getting from Hemel Hempstead to West Wales.

Think the seller just "kicked their backside" part way through - when I contacted them (though they didn't bother to reply to me!). I'd almost not be surprised if that's another seller that just "pleads with me not to report them to Amazon for not doing their job properly". I had one do so much "pleading" crocodile tears with me before now for an item that was clearly never going to turn up - Clearspring Silk Tofu as I recall - and I had to block him as it was turning into harassment. One of the whole ideas of Amazon is shopping is supposed to be quick and easy - choose item/buy it/it gets delivered in time and in good condition.

I think I can pretty much identify which sellers are likely to be problematic one way or another by now. Cue for its always a sigh of relief when I see goods are actually from Britain, America, Scandinavia or Europe by now - as there's a much greater chance of everything working out fine.

ferry23

It's not always possible, but most of the time for an Amazon return I use the Royal Mail collect. You just tick the option for them to bring a label, wrap up and hand to the postman. In fact I now leave mine in my porch and the postie knows to pick it up.

And as said upthread, it's unlikely you'd have to return a bag of slimy veg, they'll just refund. There's been a few low value things that Amazon have told me to keep and have just refunded. I guess it's more cost effective for them to do nothing and leave me to get rid of them myself.

That's a Royal Mail postie - even if it's come via one of those private firms?

Sounds like a possible option.

Mighta worked for everything except the dress I ordered one time - which is short-sleeved/reasonable quality. But they sent me a sleeveless/cheapie quality dress (despite the fact I think it was around £45 - so should have been reasonable) and the only address of any description anywhere was in China and it was all written in Chinese. Cue for just putting a label saying "China" on it and arrow pointing to the address in Chinese in China and telling the post office - "Well as long as it gets to China - they'll be able to read that Chinese...". Never did get my refund on that....

It's not always possible, but most of the time for an Amazon return I use the Royal Mail collect. You just tick the option for them to bring a label, wrap up and hand to the postman. In fact I now leave mine in my porch and the postie knows to pick it up.

And as said upthread, it's unlikely you'd have to return a bag of slimy veg, they'll just refund. There's been a few low value things that Amazon have told me to keep and have just refunded. I guess it's more cost effective for them to do nothing and leave me to get rid of them myself.

JamesandJon33

Do let us know if it grows well Cariad I live in Carmarthenshire , a similar climate to you I expect. Always love trying something new.
Talking about convoluted journeys I sent a parcel to Aberystwyth last week, address taken from a serious website. Swansea, Chester, Shrewsbury and then ‘ lost ‘. A replacement was then sent. Same address, posted Thursday evening, delivered Friday morning. !!!!!

Then I guess you might have heard of Huw Richards?

I've been following him for years now - think pretty much from when he started as a young lad. I would think he's late 20s/early 30s now and there's a lot of stuff up on his YouTube channel and he's recently written several books. He's sorta expanding and experimenting and more expanding and experimenting here in Wales. He's latest thing is he's started up a firm/farm set-up here selling people a range of experimental organic fruit and vegetables to grow. I'm anticipating he'll go on expanding "onwards and upwards" - as I've been watching him doing exactly that for some years now.

Do let us know if it grows well Cariad I live in Carmarthenshire , a similar climate to you I expect. Always love trying something new.
Talking about convoluted journeys I sent a parcel to Aberystwyth last week, address taken from a serious website. Swansea, Chester, Shrewsbury and then ‘ lost ‘. A replacement was then sent. Same address, posted Thursday evening, delivered Friday morning. !!!!!

25Avalon

Have you tried actually speaking to someone at Amazon Customer Services? You click on the link along the top.

I'm waiting until it actually arrives - and then I can quote exact time/day of arrival. It looks like it might turn up tomorrow - which is the last day of their revised schedule for arrival. It was stated as being at Bristol at about 5 am this morning - hence I'm betting with myself it will turn up here tomorrow (ie just on their new deadline for it).

I got lost on the Amazon site yesterday trying to "talk" or email to them - and am keeping my fingers crossed that the phone number I have for them (which worked a while back to actually get through to a person) still works if I ring it. So I'm planning to try that number once I've actually got the package - so I can quote exactly, eg "90% of the bunch is as wilted as heck and browning round the edges or whatever".

Those Amazon fresh food firms really need to get their act together - I bought a fresh fruit basket from one of them before (when I was too ill to get out to shop for a few days recently) and only about half of it turned up, a bit more turned up later and was distinctly "over" and so on. So much for me hoping to get hold of some exotic fruit I'd not tried before that way....

Hmmm....that could be worth a try re the trying to root a section - at least get something back from this fiasco....

I have recently bought a Chatsie phone and am in process of trying to get it sorted - currently about halfway through. It is marketed as VERY VERY simple etc and will be my emergency phone. Have yet to summon up the nerve to try it - I've had phoneshop locally sorta start it up for me. I said I will just be in a position to use it for email and Facebook on top of the "mobile phone stuff" of calls and texts. So am guessing that - when I've got my act fully together on it - I could just physically wave the relevant email at a suitable place and they could "screen grab" the QR code from that?? and I wouldnt have to try to do anything other than "wave" my post at them and they'd do the rest?

Have you tried actually speaking to someone at Amazon Customer Services? You click on the link along the top.

If it ever arrives, and is not completely slimed, salvageable stems with leaves can be popped in a pot of water and will root. Maybe you could sneak a bit out before returning. They may not ask for a return though and do a straight refund.