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Post by dylan604 »

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.

Just fire up a news reader. Pretty much half of the content pushed is some sort of affiliate links assembled into an article/review

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Post by moolcool »

redcobra762 wrote: post #150
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.

As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.

Search Amazon for "Whetstone". You'll find tons of quality products from legitimate brands, mixed indiscriminately with the exact same dropshipped trash item repeated over and over for countless pages. Amazon has been entirely enshittified.

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

codexb wrote: post #196
miki123211 wrote: post #185

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> 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"

The second suggestion might work, but Wirecutter’s recommendations have sucked more and more after they got bought by NYT. Sometimes they don’t even test the stuff they recommend: they just go by Amazon reviews and what other sites say. Other times their recommendations are just bogus: their “cheap” wifi6 router was a nightmare for me, basically $120 thrown to the trash (well no, the first unit sucked and failed so I returned it but since it was a failure they just sent me a new one back with no way to get a refund, so the new unit is still in its box in my basement; I got a decent router based on someone else’s recommendation).

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Post by ace2358 »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #202
CWIZO wrote: post #189

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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.

Colour?! I’ve never had an issue of my kindle with colour! It’s only black and white! How can Amazon screw up a black and white conversion?

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Post by Reason077 »

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.

The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for.

In many categories, even when explicitly searching for brand and model names, you’ll get dozens of off-brand substitutions and even random unrelated products appearing above it in the search results.

Occasionally I’ve even noticed products that are available for sale (if you click on a direct link or have them saved in your favorites etc), but refuse to show up in search results no matter what!

Often it’s easier to find things on Amazon using Google search than using Amazon’s search.

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Post by bombcar »

Eisenstein wrote: post #207
steveBK123 wrote: post #191

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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.

That takes forever (every bankrupt store ever has still had customers to the very end) and meanwhile it looks great.

Especially when you realize that Amazon holds a gun to the head of all these "scammy/crappy" sellers and makes them pay even MORE to be the first suggested result, etc.

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Post by whacko_quacko »

dylan604 wrote: post #229
silisili wrote: post #149

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I'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors. Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.

If you're curated, you're not everything. If you want everything, well, expect everything.

Feels like arguing semantics instead of replying to the stated wish

I can't get a hitman on amazon, so technically it's not an "everything store" to begin with. But for the purposes of this conversation it clearly is

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Post by SoftTalker »

silisili wrote: post #149
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'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors. Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.

Sears still exists?

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

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’d create an embedding center by averaging a dozen or so apology responses. If the output has an embedding too close to that cluster you can handle the exception appropriately.

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Post by dan_bez »

jerf wrote: post #157
sandworm101 wrote: post #37

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>> 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?

To err is human. To fuck up a million times per second, you need a computer. Granted, here at the beginning of 2024, an LLM can not quite attain that fuck up velocity. But take heart! Many of the smartest people on Earth are working on solving that exact problem even as you read this.

"Fuck up velocity" goes straight into my vocabulary.
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