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Post by atlasunshrugged »

svachalek wrote: post #230
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...

It depends on the kinds of things you order and how attuned you are to the games they play. If it's all name brand stuff and you are careful to actually order from Amazon and not a store hosted by Amazon it's not bad (although there are a lot of counterfeit goods on the site, in mixed inventory so it can come directly from Amazon even if it was stocked by some other store). If you're getting commodity stuff from the…

I strongly agree that it's dependent based on what you order. I've had mixed experiences in the past so now I basically only use Amazon to order used books. I don't expect them on time (nor do they promise it) and they have almost every title I could ask for!

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Post by iteria »

yunwal wrote: post #333
dumbfounder wrote: post #282

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Amazon is just SO EASY though. It's a vortex I can't escape. I tried ordering a Nintendo Switch from Walmart for my son's birthday. 3 days they told me. It didn't even ship. The website said I could "try" to cancel the order. "Try" I did, and that try failed. I then waited a few weeks and had to call them up and they said oh we will just mark it as lost in transit. Oh yeah, that sounds perfect. They wasted my time, t…

I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re on

It's your distance to a warehouse and if you order what everyone orders. If I order a winter coat in summer while in Florida, I'm gonna have a bad time.

I live driving distance to two amazon warehouses. I can get a great number of products in the same day.

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Post by shinycode »

CydeWeys wrote: post #261
Solvency wrote: post #257

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While it's obvious that this is somehow commercially/financially advantageous to Amazon, I'd love to know more about why. What are the economics behind the shovelware merchandise Amazon upranks to users?

It's very simple. Amazon makes a lot of money on advertising and pay-for-placement within their store listings. So when you run a search, Amazon can easily make more money by showing items that they're paid the most to show, vs what you were actually looking for.

It looks like Amazon created the same thing Google did. Paying keywords for ranking and if you don’t they decide what comes up organically. They crawl and decide which goes into what order.

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #155
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'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.

Really? That's super surprising, I probably buy a dozen or so books every year now (and used to order far more when I was living abroad and there wasn't a decent english bookstore in my city) and have never had an issue. Now trying to use goodreads... that's a mess

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Post by neurotech1 »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #67
evan_ wrote: post #6

I wonder what they're prompting ChatGPT with, and what policy it violates. I asked the standard, free ChatGPT 3.5 > Please generate a product title to be used on an e-commerce site for a chest of drawers with three drawers, a metal frame, and a butcher block top and it responded with > "Modern Metal-Frame Chest of Drawers with Butcher Block Top - Three Drawers Storage Solution" which would be a fine title for this li…

You can see in this product: https://www.amazon.com/analyze-generate-product-avoiding-tra... ChatGPT is refusing to generate titles with trademarked names. So most likely they are prompting something like "competitor product: rephrase the title"

Archive: https://archive.ph/hzDIG

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Post by ketzo »

yunwal wrote: post #333
dumbfounder wrote: post #282

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Amazon is just SO EASY though. It's a vortex I can't escape. I tried ordering a Nintendo Switch from Walmart for my son's birthday. 3 days they told me. It didn't even ship. The website said I could "try" to cancel the order. "Try" I did, and that try failed. I then waited a few weeks and had to call them up and they said oh we will just mark it as lost in transit. Oh yeah, that sounds perfect. They wasted my time, t…

I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re on

Where are you located? Not specifically, but urban, suburban, rural, remote?

Anecodtally: I am in a super-urban location. I order Prime 2-day, on average, twice a week. It has been late maybe once in the past year; often, it comes a day early.

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Post by danjoredd »

123sereusername wrote: post #328
bluGill wrote: post #291

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If you go to a real lumber yard - the type of places the pros go - they will look at any blueprint print and prepare you the kit. Prices are better than Home Depot after you account for free delivery and they pick up your returns. The kit won't include plumbing, HVAC, electric... so it isn't 100% what Sears did in the 1910s, but it is actually pretty close.

what's a lumber yard?

Its a place that sells lumber. Usually a small business

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

emporas wrote: post #231
nitwit005 wrote: post #130

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I brought up translation as a risk with a friend. If you pay someone for a translation these days, there is a chance they will just feed it to some AI to cut costs. You'll have no way to validate yourself if you don't speak the language.

Just a chance? I routinely translate hundred pages of pdfs to greek, in 3 minutes. The translation is far from perfect depending the text and it still needs a human in the loop for corrections, but i couldn't imagine translating a 300 pages pdf to greek by hand. There is also the translaxy bot on poe.com which i use to translate english or modern greek to ancient greek. Out of this world good translation. I mean, are…

Have you seen any good translation tool from video to text yet? I'm trying to find something for Estonian to English and having little luck

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Post by lotsofpulp »

mrkstu wrote: post #327
lotsofpulp wrote: post #281

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Costco/Nordstroms/Apple/Lululemon/etc. Even BestBuy/Target/Walmart/Home Depot/Lowes/Staples/REI/etc to an extent, if the item is sold by them. Stores with physical inventory and presence that have to worry about rates of return will probably do more due diligence than an online marketplace.

With inventory mixing, in service of "Fulfilled by Amazon" that is what Amazon used to have, and lost.

Yes, but it’s been known Amazon has been commingling inventory for 10+ years.

It’s just an AliExpress with a better return policy, which is worth something when I need something cheap to solve a niche problem.

But my serious purchases all happen elsewhere.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #323
Reason077 wrote: post #245

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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…

> The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. Hey boss I made the site better! Through rigorous A/B testing I could figure out a way to tweak our search algorithm so people spend much more time on our site! It seems they now really enjoy browsing for products! Ok but seriously, I have witnessed A/B testing go wrong in the past so I'm bi…

> rigorous A/B testing

Also known as unethical, non-consensual human experimentation for profit maximization purposes.

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