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Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by acdha »

jeffbee wrote: post #130
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the 1980s or so, when they first appeared (I'm old). They were free for quite a while. Folks figured that it was like your local heroin dealer: first one's free. We knew that it would just be a matter of time before ATM fees started showing up. At first, they weren't bad, but now, it can cost you five bucks to pull out a sawbuck.

Why would they be free? Before the ATM we had to go to the bank Friday afternoon or Saturday morning (9-12 only) to get money after pay day. If you couldn't wait in the big-ass line, or if you just had something else to do, then you just didn't have any money! It was ridiculous! The ATM brought revolutionary convenience. You could get twenty bucks at 11pm if you wanted to.

They were free because banks wanted to stop paying tellers. Giving you a financial incentive made years of habit evaporate quickly.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by jeffbee »

This doesn't seem to solve the main problem I have with Amazon: even when I know exactly what I want, it's impossible to find. Amazon hides the thing you want behind the items they want you to buy instead, and they allow fakes and spammers to flourish. They never have the right aspects in their search filters, either. Looks like Google is the same way. I can't find an A19 LED light bulb with 2700K color temperature and CRI 90 or better. I'm going to have a much better experience in an actual store.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by jeffbee »

acdha wrote: post #131
jeffbee wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would they be free? Before the ATM we had to go to the bank Friday afternoon or Saturday morning (9-12 only) to get money after pay day. If you couldn't wait in the big-ass line, or if you just had something else to do, then you just didn't have any money! It was ridiculous! The ATM brought revolutionary convenience. You could get twenty bucks at 11pm if you wanted to.

They were free because banks wanted to stop paying tellers. Giving you a financial incentive made years of habit evaporate quickly.

Our incentives were aligned then. I haven't spoken to a bank teller in decades, and it's not like I miss it.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by azinman2 »

jeffbee wrote: post #133

This doesn't seem to solve the main problem I have with Amazon: even when I know exactly what I want, it's impossible to find. Amazon hides the thing you want behind the items they want you to buy instead, and they allow fakes and spammers to flourish. They never have the right aspects in their search filters, either. Looks like Google is the same way. I can't find an A19 LED light bulb with 2700K color temperature a…

I'd like them to add country of origin to the facets, but that would allow me to eliminate 90% of Amazon so they never will...

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by stevespang »

Commission free until Google get's traction and then all kinds of bullshit rules and games, and ZERO customer support . . . would you really trust the same people who just arbitrarily cut off peoples gmail accounts and such, and you have ZERO ability to contact them and sort it out ?

then, imagine them taking it to the next level holding on to your money and not responding . . .

I can certainly sympathesize with that YouTube lady last year who went to YouTube headquarters and starting slinging lead . . . bastards.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

jeffbee wrote: post #130
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the 1980s or so, when they first appeared (I'm old). They were free for quite a while. Folks figured that it was like your local heroin dealer: first one's free. We knew that it would just be a matter of time before ATM fees started showing up. At first, they weren't bad, but now, it can cost you five bucks to pull out a sawbuck.

Why would they be free? Before the ATM we had to go to the bank Friday afternoon or Saturday morning (9-12 only) to get money after pay day. If you couldn't wait in the big-ass line, or if you just had something else to do, then you just didn't have any money! It was ridiculous! The ATM brought revolutionary convenience. You could get twenty bucks at 11pm if you wanted to.

I actually almost never use ATMs, anymore (I use Apple Pay, as much as possible, and plastic, for the rare times it is not accepted). I've had the same five-dollar bill in my wallet for a month. The place that I tended to use ATMs, was when I went to Tokyo, and they are definitely not free, there.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by treis »

gukov wrote: post #116
millstone wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's 100% about slowing down Amazon. They want people to search on Google instead of Amazon.

More specifically they want people to search on Google and stay there. Pretty much everyone starts their search on Google.

Lots of people will start with Amazon when shopping. It's definitely a threat to Google because those are some of the most valuable searches.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

#139

Post by breakfastduck »

Sounds noble but if google are at the helm then that's the opposite of what I want.

I'm not Amazons biggest fan but Google are the last people on earth I'd want to have my purchase history.

Yeah they look all corporate good with their no commission / seller first attitude but it's just another data harvesting excersize & I'd rather not buy at all than buy through Google for 'free'.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by nomadluap »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #77
sleepyshift wrote: post #18

Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?

Nintendo's CEO's last name is Bowser. Our AG is named "Barr" (Pun on a Bar association) Is there a cool collection of these somewhere? These are the only evidence I feel that we're in a simulation and the engineer is fucking with us.

I believe there was a man named Armond Hammer who was the CEO of the company that owns Arm&Hammer (the baking soda company) at one point.
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