This weekend I had some free time so I decided to do some internet shopping. In February there is my mom’s birthday and my girlfriend’s. Amazon has been sending me emails for the past two weeks saying that they now ship many more products to Malta in addition to DVDs and books. On the shipping details website we now see this:
Amazon Shipping Details
Amazon now ship “Baby, Beauty, Clothing, DIY & Tools, Electronics, Health (excluding medicine), Home & Garden, Jewellery, Kitchen, Office Products, Shoes, Sports and Watches items” to Malta. This would surprise and excite people who shop often from this website.
After going through the site I managed to find some gifts which I wanted to purchase. I won’t mention all the presents I wanted to buy just in case they read this site. One of the items was I chose was this teddy bear. You simply pull a special wheat bag from the centre of the teddy bear and place it in the microwave. After some time (I have no clue the amount of time) the bag would be hot. You place this bag in the bear and hug it to your heart’s content.
I proceed to check out and the helpful people at Amazon not only remember my address but also all my credit card details including CVV number. I was then greeted with the following message:
Amazon Checkout Error
Their website clearly states that any “Health and Beauty” products would be shipped to Malta but their ordering process doesn’t seem to know this. I sent an email to amazon to see why they won’t ship this teddy bear to Malta. Once I get an answer from them I shall post the reason here.
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UPDATE: Seems like the products though on Amazon’s website are not sold by Amazon but by a third party. Amazon just place the product on their website and use their engine to accept payment for the item. Its up to the third party seller to decide where they ship their products to. Don’t you just love the consistency. Looks like no one is getting any presents this month 