[BeetleB]

The dark pattern is actually the opposite. People who ordered in the next 2 hours might not get it the next day. If you tell someone "buy it in the next 2 hours to receive it tomorrow", you better make sure they get it tomorrow.

[tzs]

I don't see how that is necessarily a dark pattern. It would be a dark pattern if they were saying that when they knew it would not make it in time.

But if most of the time they do make the deadline, and the times that they do not are caused by problems that arose unexpectedly after the order was places, it is not a dark pattern.

[BeetleB]

> and the times that they do not are caused by problems that arose unexpectedly after the order was places, it is not a dark pattern

I think the contention here is that they intentionally overcommitted. One would have to see the statistics on how often they miss the promised timeline.

[lozenge]

Delivery date is part of the implied contract. They would be fine if they just called it an estimated delivery time, but they didn't.

Of course if there was a road closure or something like that then the consequences would be minimal, but it sounds like they caught Amazon systematically making promises it can't keep.