Amazon.in introduces one-day guaranteed shipping in select cities for Rs. 99

[Spacescreamer]

Amazon.in has launched a 'guaranteed one-day delivery' offer in select Indian cities, for an extra charge of Rs. 99. Amazon is also offering guaranteed two-day delivery for a discounted price of Rs. 49, as part of a limited period offer.
The one-day guaranteed delivery option is only for items 'Fulfilled by Amazon' and only certain pincodes in the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Pune are eligible for it.The cut-off time to avail the one-day guaranteed delivery option on any given day, is 3PM.
However, customers in Mumbai and Pune can place orders till midnight and receive them the next day.

Under the special offer, the e-commerce website is also not charging extra for delivering items in 2-4 business days. There's no minimum order limit under the offer. Usually, the site offers free delivery for orders above Rs. 499, but charges Rs. 49 if lower.
It also excludes 'large and heavy items'. Amazon will refund shipping charges if it's not able to deliver the items within the promised time frame.
Amazon.in offers books, movies, mobiles, electronics, toys, baby, personal care appliances, health care devices, watches, fashion jewellery, home & kitchen products and more. The site was launched in India in June selling only books, movies and TV shows.

It had recently made its catalogue available on the Amazon Mobile app for Android phones, allowing users to search, browse, compare offers, read reviews and make purchases on their mobile devices through Amazon.in.

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[raksrules]

Amazon Prime (with their amazon instant video benefits) would be great if it came. But guess amazon knows we are country with sh1tty internet.

 

[Vagabond]

What if they miss it to deliver ?

30 minutes or free ??

 

[ayanavish]

priority shipping...good for people with urgent need

What if they miss it to deliver ?

so minutes or free ??

most probably Amazon will give some store credits

 

[indy1811]

What if they miss it to deliver ?

so minutes or free ??

Amazon automatically refunds shipping charges if you dont get your One or Two-Day Delivery by the promised date. You can also contact us to get a full refund of the shipping charges incurred for One/Two-Day Delivery.

 

[Kuantum]

 

[rdst_1]

Amazon Prime (with their amazon instant video benefits) would be great if it came. But guess amazon knows we are country with sh1tty internet.

You can still pay and subscribe to Amazon Prime but will need a VPN or proxy to watch the videos.

 

[m-jeri]

Good. I have prime. When I am back, I want my dosage of Alpha house and Betas.

 

[raksrules]

You can still pay and subscribe to Amazon Prime but will need a VPN or proxy to watch the videos.

Yes but Internet connection is a bottle neck at least for me and over that I will need a reliable and probably paid VPN service, may be also buy a router which supports putting VPN on router itself and is good quality one.
Also i expect that if it ever comes to India, I can expect even Indian stuff to come as I am open to having both English and Hindi content.

 

[Niks]

^^ Been using Amazon Prime Video for 2 years now, here in India, along with Netflix, VUDU since before that and even Aereo for a while. For VPN, I found that the internet speed used to drop by half when using third party VPN providers, even popular paid ones. So I setup a server on a low end VPS I had and use it around the home via an RT-N16 configured with dd-wrt. I had a 2 Mbps connection when I started off and that seemed to be the bare minimum for videos to stream uninterrupted. But since upgrading to a 4 Mbps connection I've never had issues. I get ~3.8 Mbps bandwidth even when connected to the VPN.