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I don’t need a massive hero image of a sports star to order gym shorts or a gym bag. I’m just searching amazon for what I need. My "experience" is worse if I never even see Nike's products, not better.
People don't mind buying from a vendor's site directly but the vendor should do their best to reduce the admin / pain of doing so. Some tips I wish vendors would follow: 1. Don't capture more information than is absolutely necessary for the transaction. 2. Don't force the user to sign up or join anything if they just want to buy something. 3. Don't automatically add the user to your newsletter and send their details…
I used Apple Pay on iOS to buy something direct from a vendor recently and was shocked at how smooth the purchase experience was. 1. Click "Buy with Apple Pay" button. 2. Double click power button on the side of my phone to confirm. I wish more sites would support it.
First Birkenstock, then Nike. I guess shoemakers don't like Amazon...
Hence, if I order a pair of Nike shoes on Amazon, there is a good chance I receive an absolutely inferior product and blame it on the brand. Once that damage is done, I - and a perhaps a portion of my friends - will never buy the brand again. Ever.
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This is a really common fraud scheme. As an independent seller with little fraud protection, it's foolish to ship to an address that doesn't match the billing address.
It's also a really common thing that people do. Like, I buy stuff on Amazon for my parents, friends, and family all the time. Not to mention the common cases of shipping to work address, having multiple residence addresses (e.g. students who have a home and a dorm address), shopping while visiting family out-of-state. It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that. Otherwise…
Lol, no. It’s a common fraud scheme because users of stolen credit cards can’t update the billing address. They would love to be able to use a stolen credit card with an address matching their drop location.
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It's also a really common thing that people do. Like, I buy stuff on Amazon for my parents, friends, and family all the time. Not to mention the common cases of shipping to work address, having multiple residence addresses (e.g. students who have a home and a dorm address), shopping while visiting family out-of-state. It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that. Otherwise…
> It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that. Lol, no. It’s a common fraud scheme because users of stolen credit cards can’t update the billing address. They would love to be able to use a stolen credit card with an address matching their drop location.
My point was that if only fraudsters were shipping to non-billing addresses, we wouldn't need to specify two addresses when making a purchase.
In itself, shipping to a non-billing address is not a scheme. It's what people do. That's why that is an option to begin with, and that's why all shopping sites support it.
If it was uncommon for people to ship to non-billing address, then it would cease being a fraud scheme, because we would be able to use this as a reliable indicator of fraud -- or we'd not have this option to begin with. Therefore, fraudsters do that because it's not uncommon in general.
First Birkenstock, then Nike. I guess shoemakers don't like Amazon...
Any brand who cares should dislike Amazon. As a consumer, at least half of anything I order on Amazon is fake, and Amazon gives no indication of caring at all. Hence, if I order a pair of Nike shoes on Amazon, there is a good chance I receive an absolutely inferior product and blame it on the brand. Once that damage is done, I - and a perhaps a portion of my friends - will never buy the brand again. Ever.
For example, how am I supposed to know if the Sandisk flash drive I bought was directly from the manufacturer, and not a 3rd party who is part of an industrial espionage effort? How about a Yubikey?
This is likely not just a problem with Amazon, but it sure would be nice if they gave me an option to buy things directly from the oem, guaranteed.
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I am 100% more likely to buy from your online store if you have a simple checkout process that lets me use Apple Pay. And if you want an email to send the confirmation to use Sign In with Apple and I will default to buying from you over another provider. It’s as simple as that: I get far less spam, I know my privacy is being secured, and I get to support a company that supports the easiest checkout process ever.
As long as it also supports regular credit card payment. Being locked into a single companies proprietary payment service doesn't sound like a good thing to me.
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No, Amazon segregates its own inventory from FBA inventory for items where Amazon.com is the seller. FBA inventory only gets commingled with other FBA inventory. Supposedly Amazon now maintains separate inventories for each FBA vendor at some but not all of their distribution warehouses (like their San Bernardino facility).
I've ordered from Amazon (shipped and sold by) and received fake goods with another vendor's stickers on them (essentially a barcode swap). If that was once accurate, I don't believe it remains accurate.
So I believe in your case something else must have happened.
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People don't seem to like the additional "convenience fee" when they're paying their bill online, though :P (which to be fair, is indeed more convenient than paying it in-person.)
I don't like the "convenience fee" for two reasons: 1) I object to being charged to give someone money. If you tell me I owe you $90 and that you accept this list of methods to pay and I go to use one of those methods and you reply "oh to use that method I will charge you an extra $3.95," I am going to use the method that costs me an extra $0 because I already agreed to give you $90; you can work out how to collect t…
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I used Apple Pay on iOS to buy something direct from a vendor recently and was shocked at how smooth the purchase experience was. 1. Click "Buy with Apple Pay" button. 2. Double click power button on the side of my phone to confirm. I wish more sites would support it.
Then they should also support Android. Apple isn't the majority anymore. Even if Apple Pay comes to others I won't use it. I absolutely don't think Apple has better privacy than anyone else.