Hi Amazon Customer, your next Subscribe & Save auto-delivery is estimated to arrive by:Monday, September 30Last day to manage delivery:Sunday, September 22Your payment will process on:Wednesday, September 25 Then, by about 19ᵗʰ December (or earlier) you would get a message in your Message center or your e-mail, with a title/ subject line like 'Review your monthly delivery'. Suppose it says, your scheduled delivery date is 30ᵗʰ of each month.Īnd your 'upcoming deliveries' ate for (let's say) December 30ᵗʰ. But unfortunately for now, AmazonIN only uses the Amazon Pay option for funding such orders, in so far as I know. (You may have missed to read that part during checkout/ creating the For bow, it will show in their system as a POD/ COD order. Otherwise the order was processed as 'POD' payment method.Īnd the blessing in disguise (called the Covid-19 pandemic) has meant, that now Amazon refuses to despatch SNS orders ?unless? each order or the combines subscription coming in a single shipment are fund from your Amazon pay this is normal for now, because the system took your consent to debit your Amazon pay balance, around eight (8) days prior to the scheduled delivery date for that month. So till before the blessing of the 2020 pandemic, all subscription were technically not prepaid, but order got converted to prepaid on despatch date, if sufficient Amazon pay balance was there for each order. To their Amazon Pay account being debited on the date of Invoice generation (usually the date of despatch).
So a few years back, all SNS orders at AmazonIN were placed with an implicit consent of the user, that although it is not a prepaid order (or prepaid mode of subscription), the user contents The AmazonIN system before that (before the 2016-2017 takeover of EMVANTAGE Payments) only had the COD (cash on delivery) option for SNS ( Subscribe aNd Save) orders.īut then, to improve operational efficiency and to promote Amazon Money ( Stored Value Account) their system was redesigned to auto 'opt in' payment via Amazon Pay (which includes 'Gifts and credits'. It happens because after all this UPI and semi closed wallet thing came, Amazon hopped on to that bandwagon. When I subscribed the product no option of payment has came & order was placed. Luckily though for some of those brands, their goodwill far exceeds their merit.
Initially, when Coca-Cola left India, it was scared that it might be forced to devolve trade secrets (product formula).Īs for the 'god knows what quality we eat now-a-days' is generally true of everything.Įspecially at star rated cakeshops/ bakeries, hotels/ restaurants, cruise ships.Īnd obviously also with fake brands, which try to stroke nationalistic fervour, but even their own production incharge openly (but off the tecord) claim, that when paucity of time necessitated them to speed things up, batch QC or testing the vendor supplier raw materials isn't a priority at all. It is called contract manufacturing when the items are also made by someone else and just a JV or licensing for packing if it is only that much (done by the vendor).īottled water and aerated beverage making plants usually operate that way. So God knows what quality we are eating now a days.
Even I came to know that big companies sell their brand name like franchise system to a local oil factories and get commission for every litre sold.