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Re: Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

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Post by hardwaresofton » Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 8:40 AM UTC

karkisuni wrote: post #27

hardwaresofton wrote: post #16

This seems like a huge chance for some company more thoroughly obsessed with item quality to wade through the muck and offer some value in terms of product reviews, since reviews are being gamed. Seems like lots of free time to buy and try products in various niches, an easy to use browser extension and an extensive set of affiliate links, and a coupled website (probably not youtube since negatively reviewed companie…

you're describing Wirecutter and its many clones

A little late, but this just means that it's a good idea and people are doing it and making a living off of it...

But I don't frequent sites like Wirecutter because there's too much editorializing for my taste. I feel like the model could be tightened up so much more.

Re: Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

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Post by kajmagnusmobile » Sat, Sep 15, 2018, 7:00 PM UTC

Gustomaximus wrote: post #164

cs702 wrote: post #142

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> Their basic underlying assumption appears to be that they're no longer in danger of losing customers and can now act accordingly. Speaking as a longtime customer, I agree: this is what Amazon's behavior feels like to me nowadays. Search no longer works well for me. Reviews and product ratings are no longer trustworthy. The authenticity of products in key categories (e.g., electronics) can no longer be taken for gra…

Does it though? 1) The day Amazon feel threatened they can become the cheapest in the market quickly again. 2) Given purchasing power scale and people like fast delivery there will only be a handful of companies that can complete with Amazon ever, so it seems unlikely there will be a 'started in the garage' business compete with them now the market is maturing. 3) With the extra profit Amazon are making vs a competit…

Maybe Amazon won't ever be replaced or "obsoleted" by something similar to Amazon, but rather by sth like 3d printers, I mean sth completely different

Re: Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

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Post by ntsplnkv2 » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 1:52 AM UTC

jhall1468 wrote: post #500

ntsplnkv2 wrote: post #470

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Behavioral economics isn't a law of physics, much of it is completely unproven, relying on psychology, which has a huge reproduce-ability problem. Price gouging is raising prices to greater than what is fair for the value. The amount of price raised is almost certainly to be greater than what is deemed fair in these cases from the law of supply and demand. Despite one person demanding it more, one person may be deman…

> The amount of price raised is almost certainly to be greater than what is deemed fair in these cases from the law of supply and demand. That's not true. Price gouging is a term thrown around a lot, but generally it refers to drastically increasing prices when supply takes a sudden hit (due to natural disaster, often). > verses spying on them in their own home and offering them products. Spying on them? Are you joki…

"Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent."

There are classic examples as you mention - with regards to natural disasters.

> Spying on them? Are you joking? They are on Amazons website. How in the world is that spying? Man, more and more Hacker News is starting to sound like reddit.

Perhaps you're the redditor - this is talking about Amazon Alexa listening in and judging what mood the person is on. Did you not read at all? Please, reread, try real hard to follow, instead of spouting your nonsense on here.

Re: Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

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Post by dang » Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 8:34 AM UTC

ntsplnkv2 wrote: post #563

jhall1468 wrote: post #500

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The amount of price raised is almost certainly to be greater than what is deemed fair in these cases from the law of supply and demand. That's not true. Price gouging is a term thrown around a lot, but generally it refers to drastically increasing prices when supply takes a sudden hit (due to natural disaster, often). > verses spying on them in their own home and offering them products. Spying on them? Are you joki…

"Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent." There are classic examples as you mention - with regards to natural disasters. > Spying on them? Are you joking? They are on Amazons website. How in the world is that spying?…

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