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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 Kluny »

ethagknight wrote: post #109

My theory: Prime, and its 2-day shipping service, is a flat rate deal, priced according to 10.5 normal months and 1.5 batshit crazy delivery months. Since they can't charge on a demand basis for shipping like FedEx can, they've run into an internal train wreck where they can't afford to deliver all the orders the've received. So their bottleneck is actually a bottleneck of budgeted "delivery slots" for these Spring m…

Just to check, are you looking for the Amazon logo on the delivery vans? Because I've seen tons of deliveries for various services arrive in plain white Sprinters. You don't know whose van it is unless you can see the logo on the package. Some of them even seem to be subcontractors who work for multiple services, ie, Amazon and DHL packages arriving in the same truck.

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

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Post by noncoml »

nolok wrote: post #188
noncoml wrote: post #182

Those who complain about Amazon should try eBay. I recently bought a relatively expensive item ($3k) that was being advertised as "New - Open box" one month old item. What I received was a 5 year old used item. Trying to return it was the most stressful online shopping experience I have ever had. One you open a return request, eBay gives the seller 5 working days to reply to your request. Seller took advantage of all…

... And eBay/Paypal won their era's fight because they offered the better experience compared to the others, they were considered the safe and reliable one. Early web shopping really was wild. And not the good kind.

And then came Amazon an roller-steam them all. And in my opinion it's because of their super buyer-friendly, stress free experience.

Every time you would buy a book from them, and you were happy that they gave you the best possible price, they didn't give you hard time when the book was lost in the mail or you wanted to return it because the sent you the wrong book, or whatever, your trust in them would increase.

Once you consumers trust you with buying A, selling them B, is just a matter of making it available through your store.

I see a lot of online stores, operating the old way; with hidden discounts, dedicated seller-teams trying to sell stuff to you, pushing back when you want to return an item, etc. and can't help thinking how they are ever alive.

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

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Post by OzzyB »

Kluny wrote: post #191
ethagknight wrote: post #109

My theory: Prime, and its 2-day shipping service, is a flat rate deal, priced according to 10.5 normal months and 1.5 batshit crazy delivery months. Since they can't charge on a demand basis for shipping like FedEx can, they've run into an internal train wreck where they can't afford to deliver all the orders the've received. So their bottleneck is actually a bottleneck of budgeted "delivery slots" for these Spring m…

Just to check, are you looking for the Amazon logo on the delivery vans? Because I've seen tons of deliveries for various services arrive in plain white Sprinters. You don't know whose van it is unless you can see the logo on the package. Some of them even seem to be subcontractors who work for multiple services, ie, Amazon and DHL packages arriving in the same truck.

Can confirm, I got a Prime delivery from a guy driving a white Budget Rent-a-car van two weeks ago. Have to say I was very thankful.

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

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Post by frandroid »

barry-cotter wrote: post #181
champagneben wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone know how Alibaba and the like have fared in China?

I live in Shanghai. There were two or three weeks after Lunar New Year where deliveries were delayed or more expensive or both for everything and grocery delivery slots were scarce for a month. Things are back to normal with all deliveries now.

But since this was the Lunar New Year, I'm guessing that Ali Baba was already on a war footing?

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

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Post by baybal2 »

partiallypro wrote: post #130
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.

I've essentially stopped shopping at Amazon, their Audible product is really all I use. I used to be an Amazon seller, and ran through maybe 100K in sales a year, but I stopped (wasn't profitable enough for the time spent.) I should have known, with my experience all those years ago, how easy it would be for scammers to get into the market. Hijacking a listing or mislabeling your product under a listing was really re…

I did the same during my college days in Canada in 2009-2012.

Regularly made few hundred bucks a months from sunglasses, then my normal job took off.

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

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Post by baybal2 »

programmertote wrote: post #55
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.

Agree with you about Amazon experience becoming less ideal. Since the beginning of 2020, I submitted a couple of product reviews with detailed and factual explanation about why products in question aren't good enough. One of them was Amazon basic chair [ https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Low-Back-Computer-Chair-... ], which makes squeaky noises after 6 months of use (I'm a 135 lbs male), and another was Secura milk…

Aliexpress had round, upon round of bad UI redesigns.

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

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Post by Florin_Andrei »

paxys wrote: post #187

The headline is pretty sensationalist. It's not like he is coming out of retirement. He is just updating his schedule to focus on immediate problems rather than longer term projects (like every other CEO in the world right now).

I mean, it's an all hands on deck, putting out fires, type of situation after all. So it makes sense for him to be more involved with the daily stuff.

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

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Post by jlj »

Retric wrote: post #190
MattGaiser wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If true, Amazon is selling a service that isn't robust or flexible enough for such a season. Nobody in that area is robust enough for a once in a century pandemic.

This is still far smaller than other pandemics in the last 100 years. The 1957 "Asian flu" had around 1–4 million dead. AIDS is sitting around 770,000 dead per year and the total is vastly higher etc. What makes things different about COVID-19 is how people are responding to it in the hope of saving vast numbers of lives.

> This is still far smaller than other pandemics in the last 100 years. > What makes things different..

We are still in the early days of this pandemic. The history of COVID-19 is still being written. No one knows how long we're in for or what the final death count will be.

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

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

philjohn wrote: post #151
ethagknight wrote: post #109

My theory: Prime, and its 2-day shipping service, is a flat rate deal, priced according to 10.5 normal months and 1.5 batshit crazy delivery months. Since they can't charge on a demand basis for shipping like FedEx can, they've run into an internal train wreck where they can't afford to deliver all the orders the've received. So their bottleneck is actually a bottleneck of budgeted "delivery slots" for these Spring m…

I've noticed the opposite in the UK - saying they'll take up to a week to deliver, and then the item turning up the next day, or the day after.

Same in Australia. I've been amazed at how well Amazon has been sticking to quick deliveries even here. We don't get same day (or even next day, as I'm rural) but I haven't had anything take more than 3 working days, which is the same as pre-COVID, despite ordering 10x what I usually do.

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

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Post by lstamour »

2almalki wrote: post #168
jefft255 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can second that for Canada; I've ordered at least 4-5 non-essential items in the last month and only one took more than 3-4 days to arrive.

tldr.. get a PRIME account I'm in Canada.. you're right BUT you need a prime account. I ordered some stuff and it was due to come in a month (non prime account).. and after 1.5 weeks it didn't ship. I canceled it and used a family members Prime account (still the delivery date was ~1 month away).. I got the stuff within 3 days.

Have a Canadian prime account. Some items ship next day, others take over a month. I suspect locally-stocked deliveries are fine, it’s listings at further remote warehouses that are taking longer, maybe? Normally everything arrives within a day like clockwork at my location, especially during the holidays.

Also, despite delays, Amazon still delivers. Staples just cancelled my orders.

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