Amazon Kind of Sucks and We’ve All Just Come to Accept It
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#2I've found this to be true of a lot of time, but the shipping I somewhat disagree on. I don't know any third party store that offers free two day shipping with a prime equivalent. Maybe if I stopped buying Prime and used the savings to upgrade delivery on sites it would be equivalent. But on things like microwaves and refrigerators, I don't see anyone beating two day delivery. The Amazon markup is worth it at that point, for me at least.
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#3Yes. I actually do accept this, and it's OK with me. Prime has saved me so much time -- and, arguably more valuable, attention -- obtaining objects I need. I literally do not care about the price difference between a $1 and a $5 roll of tape: as long as I don't need it sooner than 2 days from now, it's comin' on amazon, because the alternative is either searching online and actually thinking about it, or leaving my home -- and my time and attention are worth much more than that.
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#4I have contacted Amazon several times to inform them about their Javascript that loads images from related/sponsored products. It causes Firefox to lock up and freeze with every image request because they are doing something that is out of the ordinary. I always tell them I would be glad to work with one of their teams to figure out the issue, but it just goes into some bin on their end to be forgotten about.
Basically just accept it and deal with it taking twenty seconds per page load before the web browser is usable again.
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#5Add-on items (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hp_... it possible to solve the first part.
Delivery drones (http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011) could make amazon better than actually going out to buy even 1 roll of tape, and returning stuff too.
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#6I have contacted Amazon several times to inform them about their Javascript that loads images from related/sponsored products. It causes Firefox to lock up and freeze with every image request because they are doing something that is out of the ordinary. I always tell them I would be glad to work with one of their teams to figure out the issue, but it just goes into some bin on their end to be forgotten about. Basical…
Does it cause Chrome to lock up?
Re: Amazon Kind of Sucks and We’ve All Just Come to Accept It
#7Unfortunately, there's nothing better than Amazon in the industry.
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#8This article is for people who haven't yet figured out that different stores sell the same things for different prices. This is the way it's always been. Come for the thing that's cheap/on sale, spend your money on something more expensive while you're there. Basic retail.
Also, you don't need packing tape or the original box to do a return. You go to a UPS or FedEx store, and they handle it for you for free. Or you order shipping supplies from FedEx, and they bring them to you for free and then come and pick up your package from you.
This isn't any harder than returning something to a physical store, and in fact it's still easier in many cases because you don't have to wait in line or answer annoying questions.
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#9His complaint about returns is curious, not sure if it's country specific. I returned something to Amazon a couple of weeks ago in the UK due to some missing parts. I printed out the label, put it in the box and the next day a delivery guy showed up, slapped his own label on the outside and took it away. I had the refund applied 2 days later.
I've never returned anything to Amazon before so was surprised at how well it worked.
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#10Wow, author's return experience is nothing like mine:
1. Process return request on Amazon.com.
2. UPS guy knocks on my door with his own label. My guy carries tape and tapes up the box for me, too.
3. Done.
The trick is not throwing out the box until you know you're keeping the item! Same as retail.