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Think yourself lucky, I also have Prime and ordered a chemistry set for the boy's Christmas on the 18th of November. It was also listed as 1 day delivery but as Christmas is still a few days away I didn't pay much attention. The set was priced at €17.99 which was a good deal as the RRP was around €24. FFW to the 23rd and I'd still hadn't received the package so I had a look at the delivery tracking and noticed that it had been sent out on the 18th and arrived in a collection centre in southern Germany, from there it was sent out to another distribution centre in Bielefeld northern Germany where it's arrival was logged as the 19th of November and it was registered as out for delivery. On the same day my package arrived back at the same collection centre where it started its journey. I called Amazon who told me to wait until Friday the 27th to see if it turned up because it was no longer by them in the system. Friday came and went so I called Amazon again who immediately refunded my money.

All fair and above board you might think, however I then had a look to see if I could reorder the chemistry set. A quick search found only one seller and that was the same one that I'd placed my original order with, the only difference was that instead of being priced at €17.99 the set now cost €79.99 with €8.85 post and package. You don't have to be a genius to work out what had happened, the dealer had obviously realised he could get much more for the chemistry set and had recalled the package.

As I always do when I get shoddy service I wrote a review and explained the reasoning why the review was bad. Today I received a mail from Amazon explaining that they won't publish the review because of "words of profanity" used in the review. The word they singled out was "shoddy".
I had something similar happen to me on Ebay once. No idea if the same advertising/listing fee's apply to Amazon sellers, but in my case when I went back to purchase my item and noticed it had changed to a ridiculous price way over the RRP, I contacted the seller and asked how this could be justified. The explanation I got was the original item had sold out and they didn't want to remove the listing as they were a business and would be charged again for creating a new listing when they received more stock. So they advertise it at such an inflated price because they know nobody will purchase it, to avoid further charges.