> You get a bunch of radio buttons to select [carriers]
No, I don't; I get a bunch of radio buttons to select the delay with which items are delivered, each with different prices. No doubt this influences the algorithm which picks carriers, but each time tier can be fulfilled by multiple carriers, even for the same item from the same seller. It's not at all the same as having a direct choice of carrier. (If I did have such an option, don't you think I'd have used it, rather than burning up time with customer support the way I described? I'm kind of a jackass, but I'm hardly a moron.)
No one with whom I've ever discussed this issue has mentioned having such a choice. If you do have it, how did you come by it? Is it perhaps a per-country thing, such that you have it because you live somewhere other than the US? Certainly there are enough other things about Amazon which differ from country to country; I wouldn't be surprised to learn this was another one. (But, from the attitude with which you respond, perhaps you might be!)
No, I don't; I get a bunch of radio buttons to select the delay with which items are delivered, each with different prices. No doubt this influences the algorithm which picks carriers, but each time tier can be fulfilled by multiple carriers, even for the same item from the same seller. It's not at all the same as having a direct choice of carrier. (If I did have such an option, don't you think I'd have used it, rather than burning up time with customer support the way I described? I'm kind of a jackass, but I'm hardly a moron.)
No one with whom I've ever discussed this issue has mentioned having such a choice. If you do have it, how did you come by it? Is it perhaps a per-country thing, such that you have it because you live somewhere other than the US? Certainly there are enough other things about Amazon which differ from country to country; I wouldn't be surprised to learn this was another one. (But, from the attitude with which you respond, perhaps you might be!)