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Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by steveBK123 »

Eisenstein wrote: post #159
FredPret wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Retail is so low-margin that it will never be very good. Amazon, Walmart, Ebay, are all very imperfect businesses. Even Costco is rough to deal with for the suppliers - there’s just no way to do this at scale while being all nice and fuzzy Amazon is especially bad though

All they have to do is get rid of the 3rd party storefront and hire people to stock and procure vetted goods instead of having it be a free-for-all.

Well, yeah but the margins on operating a platform for 3rd party sellers is way better than actually just selling stuff.

Think about it - Amazon gets to take a fee on - accepting inventory into warehouse, holding inventory, listing fees, listing ads, sales fee, shipping products, accepting returns, destroying returned merchandise.. and probably a few more things.

Amazon makes money whether the underlying sale of products is unprofitable .. because that's someone else's problem.

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Post by codexb »

moolcool wrote: post #132

Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.

It feels like it's reverting to how it was in the early 2010's -- dozens of identical super low quality knockoffs, normal brand name products that are overpriced or just absent from their store, reviews that can't be trusted, and dealing with third-party sellers of varying legitimacy. Around the time they started prime, there started having a lot more product variety and the prices of the knockoffs were pretty good for the quality. But over the last few years, prices have gone up a lot and a lot of the negative qualities of the past have returned.

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Post by forrestthewoods »

autoexec wrote: post #80
Laaas wrote: post #39

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Why is it fraud? Maybe it's a legitimate item.

A legitimate item from the totally legit company "FOPEAS" that's being sold for $100 less at vidaxl.com and is still probably made from formaldehyde-soaked wood and covered in lead paint.

Amazon is flooded with hilariously named companies all drop shipping the same cheap products.

It’s super weird and a horrible user experience. But it’s not fraudulent.

If anything it’s showing how much we’ve been overpaying for goods that cost literally cents to manufacture but sell for $30 or $50.

Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by criddell »

redcobra762 wrote: post #168
edgyquant wrote: post #163

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Yeah we must. Nothing I but from Amazon is what I expect and top that off with it arrives late despite me paying for prime. I ordered a blender last week that doesn’t even blend, which I only realized after I had loaded it up with stuff to make a smoothie. When things show up and actually are what I expect based off of the image and they work right it is a rare surprise.

Counting it up, I've ordered 58 times from Amazon in 2023 and every single item was exactly what I asked for, and arrived within a few days. I wonder why we're having such wildly different experiences...

My experience is like yours. Amazon has been very reliable for me and the few times I’ve had a problem, their phone support people have fixed it.

I think one factor might be what city you are in. I’m in Austin and I think there must be a big warehouse nearby because it’s not that unusual for something I order to show up a few hours later.

FWIW, I placed exactly 100 orders in 2023.

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Post by yojo »

notatoad wrote: post #111
avalys wrote: post #54

Ah, FOPEAS, that distinguished brand of kitchen counter drawers renowned throughout the world.

meh, probably not significantly worse than the actually well-known and distinguished furniture brands like KALLAX, HEMNES, FINNBY, or BAGGEBO https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/cat/bookcases-10382/

IKEA has huge economies of scale, a ruthless focus on efficiency, little marketing, and reasonably low margins (~8%).

At any given price point, their products are likely to be the best available, with the caveat that they do offer things at price points where everything in the market is disposable crap. Their mid-price stuff can be great value though.

I’ve bought a number of IKEA products made from solid wood that are 10+ years old, have moved multiple times, and still look/work great, including some Hemnes dressers.

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Post by codexb »

miki123211 wrote: post #185
TillE wrote: post #144

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They're fine at selling stuff, they're absolutely horrendous at being a place to search for a product if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. The solution is just to look for third-party specialist review sites who know what they're talking about.

> third-party specialist review sites Are there any that you can recommend? Google seems very unreliable in that department these days, it's very hard to say which reviews are honest and which ones are basically ads. There's also the additional complication that some sites that try to be honest receive products from manufacturers, which limits what they can say to keep their manufacturer relationships going.

wirecutter

Also, google "best [item] reddit"

Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by willis77 »

dathinab wrote: post #167

AI gone wrong or marketing stunt? Probably the former. But the thing doesn't look half bad one the pictures. Looks like something you might get from IKEA under one of their "slightly better quality" lines (which at least in the EU are pretty good choice if you don't want to spend too much on furniture but also feel that the main line lines from IKEA are a bit to cheap in quality).

The fine folks at FOPEAS would never tarnish their good name by stooping to such a stunt. I mean, we might expect such shenanigans from the likes of SMURGBLOZ, KINSURGE, or GSIROOZ, but not FOPEAS, fine purveyors of `FOPEAS an AI Language Model I do not Have Access to The Context of The SFD You are referring to. Can You Please Provide me with More Information so That I can Assist You Better`

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Post by cedws »

Retr0id wrote: post #55
AlecSchueler wrote: post #35

Easy fix since ChatGPT always apologises for not complying: any description or title containing the word "sorry" gets flagged for human oversight. Still orders of magnitude faster than writing all your own spam texts.

Sometimes it "apologizes" rather than saying "sorry", you could build a fairly solid heuristic but I'm not sure you can catch every possible phrasing. OpenAI could presumably add a "did the safety net kick in?" boolean to API responses, and, also presumably, they don't want to do that because it would make it easier to systematically bypass.

It's hilarious that people think ChatGPT is about to change the world when interaction with it is this primitive.

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Post by elamje »

moolcool wrote: post #132

Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.

You’re in a bubble if you believe this. On a personal level sure, but my middle aged and old family members use it for everything and they are the last ones to understand internet things. They have 0 complaints, though I personally have my own issues with listing quality and review growth hacking.

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Post by autoexec »

sophacles wrote: post #125
dns_snek wrote: post #95

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And pay no attention to the fact that the seller is registered in China and sells everything from furniture to underwear, UV lamps, and I kid you not, "effective butt lifting massage cream".

Walmart, cosco, and a hundred other stores sell a wide range of stuff too. (on their websites, even if it is available direct from the manufacturer's website or other websites). Is the problem "registered in China"?

Can you get one of these at Walmart? https://www.amazon.com/complete-information-provided-provide...

Cats with "Exceptional Read/Write Speeds" aren't sold at cosco either

Good old not-a-scam FOPEAS has you covered though!

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