Re: Amazon corporate account

As an added comment to this message, Amazon could put your account on
hold if your bill is not paid on time.  We had that happen in the past.

 

We discontinued our corporate account as well, due to some internal
processing complications.

 

Amie

Amie Pifer

Central Michigan University

Libraries - Technical Services

250 Preston St.

Mount Pleasant, MI  48859

Phone:  989-774-3031

Fax:  989-774-2145

 

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Hi Michael,

We tried the Amazon Corporate Account for a while.  The only problem we
had was based on our internal operations.  We have to send check
requests to a separate office, and the turn around time can be a little
slow.  We often ended up accruing finance charges (which we are not
allowed to pay) because the checks were being received too late.   I
don't remember the exact time limit that the bank Amazon used at the
time (about 2 years ago), but I think it may have been 30 days.  If your
institution has a slow turn around for checks, you might want to rethink
using this type of account.  Otherwise, we had no negative experiences,
and Amazon did work with us to resolve the late fees.  They did caution
us that they would not always do so.

 

Sincerely,

 

Lucinda M. Valero
Librarian, Head of Technical Services
West Virginia University
George R. Farmer, Jr. Law Library
One Law Center Drive, PO Box 6135
Morgantown, WV  26506-6135
lucinda.valero_at_mail.wvu.edu
p: 304-293-7284
f:  304-293-6020


>>> <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> 10/21/2009 2:22 PM >>>

Hey,

 

Would those of you who have used Amazon Corporate Account for ordering
relate to me your experiences with their billing?  We have used them for
ordering via credit card, but are looking at setting up a separate
account for a pilot buy-not-borrow program and I need to know how the
monthly billing (payment by PO) works for you.

 

Thanks.

 

Michael

 

W. Michael Bell

Assistant Dean and Head, Materials Processing

Lupton Library

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

423-425-2670

mike-bell_at_utc.edu

 



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