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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 pclmulqdq »

yunwal wrote: post #407
ketzo wrote: post #356

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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.

Small city (~70k). I’ve also ordered to some of my friends/families houses who live in suburbs and large cities. The only time I ever didn’t have issues is when I lived in NYC and ordered to Amazon lockers

Even NYC shipping to a house is shaky. Amazon's 3rd party last mile vendors are not all fantastic.

I live in a "suburb" of about 100k people right now, and Amazon 2 day delivery is fantastic. I still canceled my subscription to prime, though.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

basil-rash wrote: post #458
ssl-3 wrote: post #448

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Their search is terrible, though, and it is terrible in ways that have nothing to do with content that is or is not blocked by uBlock Origin. It's a very fuzzy and inclusive search, and that means that it is awful for finding specific things. If I need a bag of insulated crimp terminals ring terminals that work on #10 screws and 12 AWG wire, then: That's what I need, what I search for, and what I want to browse. And…

Did you actually try that search? I typed in exactly what you said and got exactly those results. No uBlock Origin either.

No, I didn't try it first.

I just made it up as an example of something that I had failed at in the past, on the basis that this kind of technical specificity has generally lead to daunting results in the past.

Finding specific things has generally been a frustrating mess for me on Amazon.

But I did try it just now: I searched for "ring terminals 12 #10" and got a long list of stuff that is actually worth considering.

WTF?

This is good and welcome, but it was certainly unexpected.

Perhaps their search engine has improved for some of this kind of thing.

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

ace2358 wrote: post #244
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #202

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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?

Maybe I'm wrong. I kind of just abduced it because it was the only plausible reason I could think of. My kindle only supports black and white. And I figure newer models might have colour support?

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Post by namuol »

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 recommend using a sophisticated ad blocker like uBlock origin or AdGuard for Safari to disable most of the irrelevant stuff and upsells that Amazon pushes to keep you shopping for hours instead of finding what you were looking for.

I started a personal collection where I just kept removing sponsored content or really anything that wasn’t relevant to what I was searching for or what was in my cart. I spend way less time on Amazon now. It’s not really meant for general use, and I don’t update it much, but here’s what I have if anyone wants to try it for themselves:

https://github.com/namuol/browser-qol/blob/main/blocker-rule...

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

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Post by theodric »

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'm going to assume you're in the USA, which may be incorrect.

I live in the third world, in Amazon's estimation-- Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands. If I search for something, there's a better-than-not chance that it will explicitly say in the search results under the item "ships to [Switzerland]," but when I click the item, I get "sorry, this item does not ship to your location" and I can't order it. It makes searching on Amazon incredibly frustrating because I have to click through every garbage 3rd-party knockoff of the thing I'm looking for to find the one garbage 3rd-party knockoff that ships to my uninhabited, remote shithole of the European backwaters (Zurich, Amsterdam, Cork). But will Amazon offer me an option to filter out things I can't have? No, of course not. Why? Shut up and stop asking questions, that's why.

What's worse, even this is still miles better than stuff-availability in Ireland was 20 years ago when I first moved over from Chicagoland. That was a blow to my expectations, I tell you hwat. I may have single-handedly kept eBay.com in the black between 2005-2016...

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

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Post by ImprovedSilence »

basil-rash wrote: post #458
ssl-3 wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their search is terrible, though, and it is terrible in ways that have nothing to do with content that is or is not blocked by uBlock Origin. It's a very fuzzy and inclusive search, and that means that it is awful for finding specific things. If I need a bag of insulated crimp terminals ring terminals that work on #10 screws and 12 AWG wire, then: That's what I need, what I search for, and what I want to browse. And…

Did you actually try that search? I typed in exactly what you said and got exactly those results. No uBlock Origin either.

i ise ublock origin, but I too suffer from abysmal search results on Amazon. Im sure their AI has decided ill just buy all the junk after i give up on finding what I actually looked for.

Ive also noticed lower prices for the same items if ive recently searched on walmart or target recently too…

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

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Post by kjkjadksj »

basil-rash wrote: post #458
ssl-3 wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their search is terrible, though, and it is terrible in ways that have nothing to do with content that is or is not blocked by uBlock Origin. It's a very fuzzy and inclusive search, and that means that it is awful for finding specific things. If I need a bag of insulated crimp terminals ring terminals that work on #10 screws and 12 AWG wire, then: That's what I need, what I search for, and what I want to browse. And…

Did you actually try that search? I typed in exactly what you said and got exactly those results. No uBlock Origin either.

Just the other day I dealt with this issue looking for usb 3.2 hubs, specifically powered hubs, which I kept in quotes that evidently were not respected. I was getting mostly usb 3.0 even some usb 2.0. A few usb 3.2 but not all like you’d think a quote should work for search. Also all over the place powered vs unpowered hub

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Post by crtified »

ketzo wrote: post #356
yunwal wrote: post #333

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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.

As somebody located outside the few main western market centres (US, EU, perhaps Australia), and thus having most Amazon orders also incur added domestic tax, plus shipping, plus wait-time, most of the advantages of Amazon are stripped away.

Once you can no longer get every cheap bauble under the sun delivered tomorrow for free, suddenly it all looks so much more like undesirable, wall-to-wall crap.

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

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Post by nabilhat »

drtgh wrote: post #393
nabilhat wrote: post #293

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Except when it doesn't: https://www.amazon.com/FOPEAS-Language-Context-referring-Inf... The seller account's entire product list is a stream of scraped images with AI-nglish descriptions slapped on by autopilot. If you can cast thousands of lines for free and you know the ranger isn't looking, you don't need good bait to catch fish.

That link already leads to a "not found" page. I hope it was because they are banning those catch fish, and not an isolated case due you put the link.

The mole was whacked, but only slightly. The seller's account and remaining scammy inventory is still up. The offense here was clearly the embarassment to Amazon from a couple of examples of blatant incompetence, not the scam itself.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=FOPEAS

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Post by mtlmtlmtlmtl »

johngossman wrote: post #345
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.

Not only does this almost never happen to me, but Amazon has added a Refund button that works automatically. If you select “Remove from Library” within a time window, it asks if you want a refund now. I have run into some bad scans, but never had a problem getting an instant refund. What’s fascinating is how different experiences are.

Do you know if that's a recent addition? That definitely wasn't the case the last time it happened to me. I'm very fuzzy about when that was exactly. Probably in the last year or so. I had to go through support, who initially told me there were no refunds, but relented after some cajoling.

Could also be a matter of differing practices in different countries, or prime membership(I have none).

I definitely agree it's weird how different people's experiences are though.

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