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Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by bunderbunder »

ra1n85 wrote: post #9
toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip at best. I have to use Fakespot just to sift through the more obvious dreck. Of course it’s AWS printing their money, not retail.

It’s really quite surreal. Unless it’s a highly commoditized item, I don’t bother with Amazon anymore.

FWIW, it's still a decent place to buy books. I go to my local bookstore first, because reasons, but Amazon comes through whenever they can't source it through their distributor.

But yeah, when I die, I want Amazon electronics sellers to be my pallbearers so they can let me down one last time.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by whoisjuan »

toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #8
gcb0 wrote: post #5

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they finally stagnated. the site is still as unusable as when I first used it. Search and categories are complete garbage. The listings that breakdown price (e.g. $/unit or $/Gb or $/ounce) are a inconsistent mess in the same search result, sometimes showing different units for the same product from two sellers! and I still have no idea if a listing will be OK or from a seller worse thab ebay.

I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip at best. I have to use Fakespot just to sift through the more obvious dreck. Of course it’s AWS printing their money, not retail.

Fakespot is pure trash. That thing doesn't work at all. According to Fakespot everything in Amazon is fake. Even small legitimate third-party sellers get bad ratings from Fakespot. But that's not even the worst part. I have found dubious listings where Fakespot didn't detect anything and gave them a semi-decent rating when it's obvious that the reviews were manipulated just by looking at them.

If you want to understand a product reliability is pretty simple. Just browse the 1 and 2 star reviews. You can find a lot of valuable information about the products in those reviews.

If you still want to use something to evaluate the reviews use Reviewmeta. It's much better and transparent than Fakespot.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by bunderbunder »

whoisjuan wrote: post #12
toufiqbarhamov wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can live with the unpleasant UX as far as that goes, but where it implodes for me is having to sift through endless fake reviews, counterfeits, and shit products. “Amazon’s Choice” is frequently garbage, and everything else is a coin flip at best. I have to use Fakespot just to sift through the more obvious dreck. Of course it’s AWS printing their money, not retail.

Fakespot is pure trash. That thing doesn't work at all. According to Fakespot everything in Amazon is fake. Even small legitimate third-party sellers get bad ratings from Fakespot. But that's not even the worst part. I have found dubious listings where Fakespot didn't detect anything and gave them a semi-decent rating when it's obvious that the reviews were manipulated just by looking at them. If you want to understa…

> According to Fakespot everything in Amazon is fake.

http://www.chioka.in/class-imbalance-problem/

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by killyp »

tareqak wrote: post #13
zamalek wrote: post #6

Hopefully such a signal doesn't turn the market bearish. There's enough economists saying that we're overdue for a correction and I hope for them to be wrong.

Why do you hope for them to be wrong? Edit: Fix typo.

Are you getting against the market? Cause of not then you probably want it to keep going up.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by dylan604 »

dimva wrote: post #10
ra1n85 wrote: post #9

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It’s really quite surreal. Unless it’s a highly commoditized item, I don’t bother with Amazon anymore.

What do you use instead? I'd love to be able to ditch amazon for most purchases.

Literally any thing else. For photography equipment, B&H or my local camera shop. For non-Apple computer stuff, local MicroCenter, NewEgg, etc. For non-techy stuff, local stores. Even the dollar stores have laundry soap, dish soap, etc.

I've actually gotten used to taking a weekend afternoon for errands or maybe in the evenings on the way home. It's a good way to just unwind from the computer for a while. There are times to avoid certain stores (Central Market on the weekend). Shopping online pretty much means being in front of the computer all of the time.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by rorykoehler »

killyp wrote: post #15
tareqak wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you hope for them to be wrong? Edit: Fix typo.

Are you getting against the market? Cause of not then you probably want it to keep going up.

It healthier that the market reflects reality. Boom and bust is a stress inducing net negative pattern for society.

Re: Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

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Post by cm2012 »

tareqak wrote: post #13
zamalek wrote: post #6

Hopefully such a signal doesn't turn the market bearish. There's enough economists saying that we're overdue for a correction and I hope for them to be wrong.

Why do you hope for them to be wrong? Edit: Fix typo.

People suffer in recessions.
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