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Walmart still meets or beats them on price many times and I can buy online and pick it up on my way home which is effectively same-day delivery.
That requires leaving the house though. Even worse, it requires going in to Walmart .
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I've found that very helpful. Otherwise, I feel like I'm gambling when I buy something on Amazon. I could be getting the lowest price, or the highest. Amazon's price games are the worst (I know all stores do that to some extent, but Amazon's price swings are much bigger.. +-75% anecdotally)
Yeah, I guess I'd rather search myself if I'm actually considering buying a product. And most of the time, if I'm participating somewhere, I'm not actually looking for purchase advice myself, just reading, helping out, or discussing.
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What is it with the downvotes? Zombie is the moe of American culture; you just take something good put Zombie on it, and then idiots will lap it up at the movie theatre.
JustSomeNobody is right. fail-as-a-noun is in the same dumb bucket as overuse of zombies. Also outside of extreme cases, a silly product name should not be a big problem.
Although, if ever there were a company closure about which one couldn't be too sure...
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I'm confused. Was the mention of a tour just something that reminded him to give that advice, and it was completely unrelated to the rant? Was he assuming that anyone that wanted to go on the tour was in that situation, an assumption that makes very little sense?
In a room where he expected ~40 participants for the tour he had ~6 hands raised, which caused the core dump.
Here on HN a few months ago I remember person X saying "I have a successful business in that domain and I can help you. My email is in my profile." and the OP in that thread responding "OK, maybe I'll email you when I can" and being taken to task (correctly, IMHO) by another poster for not immediately jumping on what was really a great opportunity offered to him by a complete stranger.
For those of us who are trying to start businesses, it's very helpful to be occasionally dopeslapped on the side of the head by someone saying "stop being an engineer, this is business. TALK TO PEOPLE!"
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What's wrong with Google shopping? I've found deals using it, it's had greater than zero value for me. >What kind of service would one have to create that grabs prices but can charge consumers so it's not depending on affiliate vig? I've got a handful of ideas about this and have been considering a startup along these lines. I think that you need to take control of the actual purchase, so then it's just "Oh, I paid l…
Google Shopping requires vendors to pay for inclusion so it isn't a fair comparison of what's actually available. What makes matters worse is that they don't make that clear so people think it's fairer than it is.
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Walmart still meets or beats them on price many times and I can buy online and pick it up on my way home which is effectively same-day delivery.
That requires leaving the house though. Even worse, it requires going in to Walmart .
It is against Amazon's interests to have price comparison these days. Early on in my computer shopping days I'd hit pricewatch and buy from random vendors based on price. Eventually this company called Newegg often had the near the lowest price always and had great service. I soon went to shopping at Newegg consistently without bothering to go to pricewatch. Newegg could have raised prices slightly but I did not want…
I never got Prime because the yearly cost of it (even before the price went up) did not amortize to an acceptable shipping cost. I take the slower free shipping because I'm not impatient or buying on impulse. So I've never been locked into Amazon and always been free to shop around. And I can absolutely confirm that Amazon is no longer the "default" winner on price. Sometimes they are, but often not. I don't even hav…
For a single person, yeah it likley doesn't make sense unless you happen to use Prime Videos or something.
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As far as I understand it, this is different because they were "previously told we were in 100% compliance with the rules" So, it's more like a cop pulling you over even though you weren't speeding.
I think you guys are stretching the analogy way too far. As I see things: it's a private matter and doesn't map well onto a public analogy. The bottom line is that Amazon can deem it acceptable to allow behavior one day, and change it's mind the next. If you systematically rely on your partner's humor, you're doing something wrong.
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I never got Prime because the yearly cost of it (even before the price went up) did not amortize to an acceptable shipping cost. I take the slower free shipping because I'm not impatient or buying on impulse. So I've never been locked into Amazon and always been free to shop around. And I can absolutely confirm that Amazon is no longer the "default" winner on price. Sometimes they are, but often not. I don't even hav…
Prime makes a lot more sense if, say, you have spouse and/or parents buying stuff for 5+ individuals. For a single person, yeah it likley doesn't make sense unless you happen to use Prime Videos or something.
It cancels out the $99/year fairly quickly and then some. Also unlimited photo storage is a huge plus for me.
Against the TOS? Most likely.