'1-Click' , how do I avoid beeing fooled again.

[jpaul]

Amazon 1-Click -
I usually use normal checkout, but shopping basket was full and could not be faffed to move/empty it into the 'save for later' category leaving the one (bicycle tool) I wanted, so turned on 1-Click

It was a third party shipped product, the shopping baseket does not reveal shipping costs and 1-Click does not remind you either, so the email bill was the item price, plus an unanticipated £3 p&P
- It would then have been cheaper to purchase from Amazon.

Had tried to cancel this about an hour later, when I reviewed the email receipt.

Speaking to Amazon hours later, who gave me a £5 credit, they told me that there was a 30minute cancel window on 3rd parties, and they could not explain why they had no record of cancellation attempt.

Anyway why can Amazon not make the shipping charges clearer for 3rd party items, prior to checkout?
you can reveal them by reviewing vendor alternatives as I do below (w/something else), but if they made it obvious in the basket I would never have contemplated the purchase.
I told them I want 1-Click that becomes 2-click if postage is not free. ie hidden costs.

 

[jpaul]

Have you thought of asking Amazon

I asked amazon they gave me £5 compensation

@pepp77 indeed if I go to vendors store front first and search from there I see the clip you show, but once in basket, basket does not show P&P,
when I click on item in basket, NOW it does show P&P, but had not earlier in image I posted in op.

you could try using that to block the 1 click button

yes but, if you always have other stuff in your basket (I probably have 10+ 30 or so items in save for later) then you have to empty basket before purchase of a singleton.

 

[jpaul]

How does one fill a virtual shopping basket ?

metaphorically speaking - but lots of things I need to throw out, to leave just the item i wanted to purchase

you instead switched on an entirely different process.
Was this really faster?

No , but tried and tested process is laborious, and I always hope Amazon web site evolved. (ebay changed list management)
But it seems you + others use regular checkout.


I would have thought amazon telemetry, would have revealed to them if customers move basket contents before a purchase ..
but maybe they want people to checkout everything.

 

[jpaul]

I have never understood why Amazon does not have delivery cost clearly stated on an items page?

their excuse when I spoke to them (Ok not Bezos) was the inevitable until you consider the totality of the basket and the users specific delivery options, cannot determine shipping,
but I ended up buying from a 3rd party as a result of their 'system'

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Most people probably aren't filling their baskets with stuff they don't want to buy yet

Why are you putting things you don't want to buy in your basket

I'm not part of generation Prime, so there are very few needed that yesterday purchases,
so basket has potential purchases, and if I still covet it several months down the line, I might buy, or, if when logging into system, it notifies me price dropped to what I think its worth.

.. but if like other vendors, amazon sent limited time vouchers on unchecked-out items I might be pursuaded. ]

edit : how do you track offers on consumable items eg water filters, razers, toothbrushes ... if you don't have them in a list.