Frustrating...
The service does work as intended, however this evening has been has been a total unnecessary frustration because of this &#34;reload&#34; service.  Long story short, the past couple days I researched various parts for a new computer build and finally concluded my order summary.  The entire order was Prime eligible to have fast shipping, and I had been watching the Amazon purchase timer to make the indicated shipping date.  Then I found out that you can't use two cards to pay for your purchase, and perhaps this is well known for frequent Amazon shoppers, but I rarely order items these days.  After learning of this, I then spent the next 30 minutes looking at what options were available to get around this problem, and found at least three prominent suggestions between forums & videos. The most commonly suggested fix to this problem was to use the account &#34;reload&#34; option and within 5-10 minutes you could pay the specified partial amount towards the order using the loaded &#34;Gift Card&#34; balance.  Well two hours later it posts, and of coarse the shipping time is not eligible.  Given that I'm going to be working, I can't have an order as important at this delivered when no one is home.  UPS, Fedex, and USPS have all left packages sitting by the gates of my home, and of coarse things have been stolen (Multiple Houses) UPS is the only service which has noted the problem and now mandated their drivers to go to the actual door after I spoke up about to them.  I had arranged for someone to be home on delivery day which worked out well for them as well, but with the delay now in shipping it won't work.  I rarely ever complain about things, but this type of scenario should of been resolved years ago.  The solution should be clearly stated on the check out screen, and the alternative option convenient for the customer.  I mean seriously, when your the customer spending a large amount of money, you shouldn't have to go run around looking for solutions that may or may not work.  If I had known it would of taken 2 hours to use the balance, I would just done two orders, which has worked just fine in the past but requires more time to do but hell I would made the deadline.  Anyways I hope no one else makes my mistake.  Fry's Electronics had 80% of the items at the same price in store, with two items slightly cheaper, and 1 item $20 more.  If you have one or have something similar, it's can be worth while to just check them out.  The tax may be a little more which is what discouraged me, but you can use TWO payments, holy hell... out the door and back home for just a little more effort and $$.  Anyways, I just hope there is no more issues going forwards.  Don't get me wrong, I'm still gonna use Amazon in the future, but just for small stuff going forwards.
Rating: 2 stars