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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by mschuster91 »

andirk wrote: post #9

I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.

For consumers, it's easy: Amazon offers a consistent effortless experience. They already have all your payment and shipping data, so no need to create accounts and passwords at some random site with unknown security standards, you know what to expect in terms of shipping vs whatever that random shop is using, no need to worry if the shop will be around in a year or two to honor warranties, no worry about bullshit surrounding returns, warranty claims or refunds.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by perihelions »

Also available here,

https://nightbeatseu.ca/works/the-sad-bastard-cookbook/

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

- "We made it legal with Creative Commons (4.0 attribution non-commercial), but if you get a thrill from breaking the law, you can pretend it’s not."

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by dageshi »

andirk wrote: post #9

I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.

All the customers are there and the company has perhaps spent more time than any other figuring out how to sell books to people. They're better at it than everyone else.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by ufocia »

mschuster91 wrote: post #11
andirk wrote: post #9

I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.

For consumers, it's easy: Amazon offers a consistent effortless experience. They already have all your payment and shipping data, so no need to create accounts and passwords at some random site with unknown security standards, you know what to expect in terms of shipping vs whatever that random shop is using, no need to worry if the shop will be around in a year or two to honor warranties, no worry about bullshit sur…

How does Amazon handle warranties, especially in a year or two? Pray tell.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by ufocia »

wscourge wrote: post #2

> Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do. It indeed is, I had the same experience. Good idea to asking here, you might just find some

It is that, most likely by design. The harder to access a relatively expensive human, the better the bottom line.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by lwhi »

andirk wrote: post #9

I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.

I don't think the solution is quite as simple as choosing to normalise selling elsewhere.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by teeray »

mschuster91 wrote: post #11
andirk wrote: post #9

I understand the obsession with being on Amazon, but can we please normalize selling elsewhere? The internet is a vast expanse. Why do we think Amazon is the end all be all? I do not understand this.

For consumers, it's easy: Amazon offers a consistent effortless experience. They already have all your payment and shipping data, so no need to create accounts and passwords at some random site with unknown security standards, you know what to expect in terms of shipping vs whatever that random shop is using, no need to worry if the shop will be around in a year or two to honor warranties, no worry about bullshit sur…

The shipping is huge. I’m so much more inclined to purchase something that’s FBA rather than wait for some seller to see the notification that a sale was made, drive back from the lake house because it’s the weekend, pack up the item on Monday sometime, then finally drive it to the post office on Tuesday.
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