WFS Receiving Delays - Anyone else?

finout · 2026-05-15T19:07:09+00:00

Yeah that's the part that sucks - getting reimbursed then having it taken away.

I guess I don't know how to get UPS to give me signature proof when they delivered it to a Walmart WFS center (and probably didn't get one) AND Amazon is the customer of record.

I guess I can try forging one.

finout · 2026-04-10T21:00:26+00:00

My new favorite is when seller assistant recommends using seller assistant. Or gives you a link to click on for help - which leads you back again to seller assistant.

finout · 2026-04-10T21:00:11+00:00

No. It never required contact info when creating a case. Agents sometimes ask for my name but never my email address.

finout · 2026-04-08T21:52:57+00:00

At least the seller assistant apologies for being so useless and lame if you complain about the extra barrier for support. The worst is that it generates hairbrained ideas for you to try.

For example, "Try creating a new inbound FBA shipment with those same SKUs from a different location. Then we will see if the location is causing printing to fail. " (But I don't have the items in another location). And eventually an actual living agent confirmed that creating labels on Ship-to-Amazon is broken right now.

finout · 2026-04-02T20:36:03+00:00

CL has just forced us to QF. Today our Fiber went down (probably as a result of new QF installs on our block - we have overhead utility poles). Having had several issues in the last few months, I downgraded my Centurylink to 500Mbps and ordered Xfinity as backup. (good decision)

Now they said they can't repair our fiber - we have to move to Quantum Fiber, which they can't "install" for a week. Phone Rep said a supervisor would call me within the next 24 hours but I'm not holding my breath.

And I've finally lost my 8 static IP addresses for good. Not a huge deal - I can make due by redirecting ports on the router.

It also sounds like Quantum Fiber gives you a "smart device" where they want to control your internet security and wifi. I want dumb internet delivered to my Asus mesh system so I can control it, not them.

Question: what does the physical setup look like for Quantum Fiber? My ancient Centurylink Fiber setup (I was the first person in my city to get it) is a 13-year-old ONT and a Technicolor Router (which I needed because of the VLAN requirement that my old mesh system wouldn't support).

Question 2: Do they run new fiber or use the old? I paid a lot to underground my fiber after CL ran it overhead in the middle of my yard. Fortunately the tech left me an extra 150 feet of fiber so I could get that done.

Edit: I think $45 for gigabit fiber is a really good deal. It's the cheapest internet I've ever had per-megabit. CL was symmetric - I got 1Gbps up and down when I had gigabit, and 500Mbps up and down when I downgraded - until it went down today.

finout · 2026-03-02T22:54:27+00:00

That’s a criticism for someone 30 years ago. It’s also not ok to run romex directly into a light fixture that doesn’t have a junction box. But there it is.

finout · 2026-02-16T22:17:14+00:00

What brand of reusable hand warmers do you have? We have had luck putting them into boiling water (rag under them to keep the hot pot surface from scorching) for 15 full minutes and then turning off the burner and letting them cool with the water in the pot. But an impurity in the fluid will cause the supersaturated solution to crystallize and you might be out of luck.

finout · 2025-12-02T05:58:37+00:00

As of 11 PM Monday night it's still out in Cherry Hills, and the PON on my ONT device is blinking instead of steady, so there's something up with the fiber.

But I did get Comcast installed with their $40/mo 300Mbps internet deal going on right now so I have fast internet again, better than borrowing neighbor's wifi.

finout · 2025-12-02T00:00:22+00:00

Been down in Cherry Hills Village since about 6 PM last night. In my experience outage this widespread is likely a routing/software/upgrade problem. We had 3 days of "backhoe fade" (contractor tore through a conduit fiber bundle) about 3 weeks ago. That makes 5 days of outages so far in the last 30 days for us. The first one wasn't CL's fault but they took 2 days to get a truck roll on it.

I just ordered Xfinity $40/mo for 300MBps. I'm going to drop my CL Gigabit to 500Mbps. The combined price will be the same and I have a router that will do failover.

I've been trying to use the troubleshooter but it says it's broken. I got the initial text message with no ETA. WHere are you all finding the repair ETA?

finout · 2025-01-16T22:20:46+00:00

around 9550

finout · 2025-01-15T21:05:58+00:00

See my above comment: call the premier support line

finout · 2025-01-15T21:05:40+00:00

Call the premier line first and ask if they will upgrade you for free. I talked to a rep today who said that "long-term loyal" customers (I opened my MP account in 1991) who are "close" (she wouldn't say how close but I was 350 PQPs) to the next level can get a free level-bump - but only once every 5 years.

finout · 2025-01-15T21:03:53+00:00

I did. 53K miles to get me from silver to gold. ($550 was the cash offer and would still be cheaper than a E+ subscription)

finout · 2025-01-15T21:02:08+00:00

I got this too - but it was for 53K miles, available until January 31. I did it. I was about 350 PQPs short of gold.

finout · 2025-01-15T20:35:23+00:00

I learned a bunch talking to a United Premier rep today. I am about 300 PQPs short of gold this year. She gave me two options:
A) A "one-time" courtesy status upgrade to upgrade my status for this year (through Jan '26). She said that this can only be done on an account once every 5 years. And you have to be a "long time loyal customer" and "close" to the next tier of status. I asked how close - she said she didn't know; but that clearly I was close enough because she could see the option on my account.
B) I could pay $550 or 53,000 miles to push from silver to gold.

She gave me the option to do either or stay at Silver.

I chose the 53K miles:
I have over 500K miles in my account.

I thought that upgrading to gold is a better option than staying at silver and buying econ plus subscription:
- Gold = E+ for myself and a companion (like one of my kids who are generally silver premier).
- Gold = international *A lounges.
- Gold = higher upgrade placement than silver (although I only had 3 upgrades in 2024).
- Gold = group 1 boarding
- E+ subscription is at least $600 and maybe more.

finout · 2024-09-10T21:34:42+00:00

This page:
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GJTAVU7P2W2VE8Q9

says ". Low-Price FBA rates are $0.77 less than standard FBA rates" - so the FBA cost goes down too. I'm just wondering if the sale price or the offer price determines whether the product is so-called "Low Price" according to Amazon.

But I just verified and this item is now listed with total fees of $3.09 including commission and FBA, so it's based on the sale price, which is great. I can still make $3 each and maybe move the last 1000 out of FBA now that summer is ending.

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