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Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Post by realtalk_sp »

WhyKill wrote: post #13

Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.

It even sucks for books. Defaulting to the Kindle/Audible versions, changing the search category to Kindle/Audible, and the unique key of a book in a list is (format, title), so collision detection is predicated on you remembering which format you preferred. Absolute garbage overall and very hostile to prospective bookbuyers who prefer paper formats.

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Post by geodel »

jdoliner wrote: post #82

Has anyone else noticed Amazon shipping them more of items than they ordered? I've recently had this happen in two separate orders, including receiving 3 SSDs when I'd just ordered 1, for a free $300 of SSD.

Lucky you. We found empty packaging for Airpod in our baby toys delivery. I turned the cardboard box upside down a few times but no airpods unfortunately :-(

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Post by devit »

iagovar wrote: post #27
WhyKill wrote: post #13

Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.

This. I used to read this comments and think it only applied to the US. Also happening to Spain. Amazon has become useless. Rankings are weird, quality stuff is is very hard to find and I have to resort to forums that point to Amazon links that you cannot find using Amazon search. Also, I'm more and more attracted to specialized shops again. For example for the last two years I've been buying most electronic stuff fr…

Amazon ships in 1-2 days, while at least from Europe Alibaba/AliExpress seem to be in the 14-60 days timeframe, and I imagine returns would be more hassle.

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Post by burrows »

bnjms wrote: post #45
crazygringo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does eBay verify authenticity? No. No reasonable 3rd party marketplace dealing with millions of products can. And again... estimated delivery 5 weeks out is because of a pandemic . Or because you ordered something from a third party that shipped from China. Or it was out of stock, which is a normal thing to happen sometimes in any business.

Then Amazon shouldn’t mix being a first party marketplace with being a third party marketplace. They take care of distribution and refunds so at least some of the responsibility falls on them as long as they keep playing peekaboo with who the source of Amazon items is. Amazon should have a separate logo style for pages not sold by Amazon.

> Then Amazon shouldn’t mix being a first party marketplace with being a third party marketplace.

If this bothers people, they should stop using Amazon. Problem solved.

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

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Post by justin66 »

WhyKill wrote: post #13

Amazon sucks now. I can't buy most of the specific items I use in my work, and when I do find something it's swimming in a sea of clone crap. The best thing it does still is books. Anything else is a mizxed bag. AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.

> AMZ is just Ali Baba for people who can't wait for the ship.

So it's Ali Baba for... approximately every American?

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