Amazon can already ship to 72% of US population in a day, map shows • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon can already ship to 72% of US population in a day, map shows

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Post by est » Tue, May 07, 2019, 1:05 AM UTC

briandon wrote: post #34

est wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are describing Ali-express or 1688.com, not the actual Taobao. And don't buy items from Taobao with zero sales per month.

Nope, we've never used Ali-express or 1688.com. I'm talking about Taobao. We also often purchase from Tmall, but Tmall sellers are usually better organized or less shady. Sales numbers and reviews aren't 100% trustworthy. If someone buys X but X is out of stock and the buyer asks the seller to send some Y of roughly equivalent value instead, Taobao won't show the next buyer any new sales of Y but will show the (nonex…

I never having out of stock trouble buying established brands from Tmall or Taobao. Maybe you are buying something different.

Re: Amazon can already ship to 72% of US population in a day, map shows

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, May 07, 2019, 1:22 AM UTC

kevin_b_er wrote: post #64

tracer4201 wrote: post #8

I own a decent number of Amazon shares. I’m sure they can ship most places, but to any Amazon management folks reading this - is the longer term plan to kill Amazon.com the store? The experience has gotten somewhat akin to EBay. It seems like it’s intentional, but I can’t tell. There are any number of shady sellers selling the item I want to buy. I have to manually click often times to ensure I’m buying from Amazon.…

I strongly suspect this is intentional. It feels as if amazon is doing the subcontractor/gig-economy scam, just slowly. Amazon is attempting to shift everything to being 3rd party. That way they're a middleman who gets a cut of everything sold, but without any risk. The risk is all on the sellers, who are can be at Amazon's whims, and on the buyers who get garbage from scammers. But sellers can come and go and the cu…

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Re: Amazon can already ship to 72% of US population in a day, map shows

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Post by thirdsun » Tue, May 07, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

tracer4201 wrote: post #8

I own a decent number of Amazon shares. I’m sure they can ship most places, but to any Amazon management folks reading this - is the longer term plan to kill Amazon.com the store? The experience has gotten somewhat akin to EBay. It seems like it’s intentional, but I can’t tell. There are any number of shady sellers selling the item I want to buy. I have to manually click often times to ensure I’m buying from Amazon.…

> I have to manually click often times to ensure I’m buying from Amazon. Even then, a few times I’ve received the wrong item in the wrong box.

It has been explained repeatedly here, but since Amazon commingles all products of the same SKU, regardless if they are genuine or fake, you can easily receive bad products from trustworthy sellers.