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Post by llbeansandrice »

Reason077 wrote: post #245
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…

I also hate how the seller's pages are basically useless as well. I want to buy something from a specific brand and going to that page I can't find more than half of their product list on their own seller page.

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Post by guhcampos »

Capitalism might be eating itself, it has become impossible to shop online in the past few years.

Speaking from Brazil:

- Google shopping shows very few local stores, most of the listings I get are from overseas stores, many don't even ship to Brazil, and prices don't reflect shipping and import fees

- Google Ads are useless, as they're often unrelated to the query, tailored simply to whoever company pays more for words

- Amazon, besides the fake and bad listings, now has ads on itself, so it's not only hard to find what you need, now you need to scroll past the unwanted ads, too, just like in Google

- Most previously nice online shops have copied Amazon and turned into marketplaces, and suffer from the exact same issues, with shitloads of fake listings, drop-shipping scams, bot-reviews, etc.

- Local giants like Mercado Libre have their own issues, like absent categorization or indexing of listings, so you're left with randomly writing queries that might or not match what you need, so you never know if you can't find an item because it's not available or because you just didn't guess correctly how it's listed

- Chinese giants like Shopee and AliExpress suffer from the usual issues of long delivery times, bad customer service, low quality ripoff, etc.

So contrary to my own previous beliefs and predictions, I find myself doing MORE brick-and-mortar shopping, not less.

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

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Post by tester457 »

rcthompson wrote: post #143
wongarsu wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just feed the text to a new ChatGPT conversation and ask it whether the text is an apology or a product description. Or do traditional NLP, but letting ChatGPT classify your text is less effort to set up

What happens when ChatGPT apologizes instead of answering your question about whether the text is an apology or a product description?

You simply feed the text to another ChatGPT.

Just kidding, it should only require function calling[0] to solve this. Make the program return an error if the output isn't a boolean. It's easy to avoid this mistake.

[0]: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling

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Post by krick »

JimDabell wrote: post #107
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…

It’s “ -brown” and the item appears black but is listed as brown. It’s possible that they are using GPT to translate from another language. I think I’ve read about listings for other pieces of furniture inadvertently offending people by using the Spanish word for “black” due to similar mixups.

Woah, that must be it. I couldn't figure it out, but that explains everything. Jesus, that's ridiculous.

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Post by erichanson »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #360
iforgotpassword wrote: post #323

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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. 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.

You know the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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Post by boring_twenties »

mstipetic wrote: post #251
Rebelgecko wrote: post #187

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I uninstalled it a few weeks ago because the Android app started injecting a "search this term on Amazon" button that popped when whenever I selected text in any app

What is wrong with these people? Are they devoid of any taste or decorum? Who makes those decisions?

Someone probably got a bonus for that. It probably wasn't the dev who implemented it tho

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Post by esafak »

whitexn--g28h wrote: post #394
matheusmoreira wrote: post #360

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> rigorous A/B testing Also known as unethical, non-consensual human experimentation for profit maximization purposes.

You are consenting to the experimentation by accessing the software. It’s covered by the terms and conditions.

Terms and conditions? It's hard to tell when people are joking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhsyZ5V1pok

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Post by tester457 »

gs17 wrote: post #205
whamlastxmas wrote: post #112

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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.

I would use function calling instead to return a boolean and throw away anything that isn't a bool.
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