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Post by redcobra762 »

criddell wrote: post #194
redcobra762 wrote: post #168

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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.

That’s the thing, I’m not in a city, my backyard abuts a farm!

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

CWIZO wrote: post #189
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #155

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It's barely even usable for buying Kindle books anymore. Half the time I get tricked into buying a book my Kindle doesn't support and I have to spend half an hour yelling at support to get my money back. Because they let you do the "buy and deliver to my kindle" thing even when your kindle is not supported. Then only when you grab your kindle to sync you learn the bad news.

This is very surprising to me. I've got a kindle from 2013 and never had any issue with unsupported books. Is yours super older or what?

It's a Kindle Paperwhite. I think colour is usually the problem. Doesn't make sense to me either.

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Post by Accujack »

TillE wrote: post #144
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.

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.

And also to hope hard that whatever you buy from Amazon is genuine and not a counterfeit copy. Amazon uses the same bin for both.

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

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Post by gs17 »

whamlastxmas wrote: post #112
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.

I would just make it respond ONLY in JSON and if it's non-compliant formatting then don't use it. I doubt it'd apologize in JSON format. A quick test just now seems to work

If you're using the API's JSON mode, it will apologize in JSON. If you prompt asking for JSON not in that mode, it should work like you're thinking.

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Post by Eisenstein »

steveBK123 wrote: post #191
Eisenstein wrote: post #159

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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 prod…

If you reduce usefulness of your product (your store) to the point where people can't get what they want and don't use it, it doesn't matter how much margin you have.

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Post by johnnyanmac »

sandworm101 wrote: post #37
packetlost wrote: post #27

I get that this is basically fraud and spam, but this should really highlight the dangers of letting an unattended LLM do anything for your company at all. It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later.

>> unattended LLM do anything for your company at all. It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later. So, just like any other random employee?

yes, but humans have contracts and plausible deniability and all that jazz from companies. A human can't go on a shooting spree that will end up getting the employer sued for that very reason.

Robot as of now, not so much.

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Post by jgilias »

otachack wrote: post #158
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.

I don't use Amazon at all anymore. In fact I uninstalled the app yesterday!

Oh, it has an app? Never occurred to me to look for one.

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Post by bombcar »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's nearly impossible to find, because even the "supposed good" third party sites are just amazon referral link farms these days.

More and more I've taken to just checking what Costco sells, and if Target or Walmart (or other "big, real stores") are willing to ship and sell it themselves.

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