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Not going to pass up an opportunity to shill the business. :P https://espotek.com/labrador/
Bought! Too cheap though...double, or even triple the price.
Haha, thanks.
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Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing takes the past away like the future. Nothing makes the darkness go like the light. We can choose. We aren't actually compelled to just keep collectively being assholes because that's what we have currently.
> We can choose. This is true, but not in the sense of the leading candidates in the US presidential elections - both of whom oppose universal health care (despite its wide public support).
Your conceptualization of how the world works and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book.
So while what you say is no doubt true, it's got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm not expecting universal health care by June of next year or something.
You start by just getting people to say "Yeah, you know, that makes sense. I would support that." And when enough people can agree with that idea, eventually you get candidates who say "I have this terrific idea (parrots back to the world what the world is already saying is a good idea)."
If there were a general consensus that this is something all Americans like, you can bet money we would have a presidential candidate who not only supports the idea but already has a well-thought-out blueprint developed for how to implement it. In fact, you would likely have two candidates competing for your vote based on the idea that "My universal health care plan is better than theirs! Vote for me, Joe Schmoe, the guy with the better universal health care plan!"
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to give another perspective, I run a couple of small businesses with my wife and we handle support ourselves. This is an absolute pleasure for our USB oscilloscope business - intelligent, reasonable customers ask for help with a problem they have, we help them solve it and both parties move on with our lives. Our other business - dealing in retro video games, is an absolute nightmare. Almost all support question…
Whilst dealing with unsavoury people obviously isn't ideal, and I certainly don't envy your position. Is this not just the cost of doing business in that specific industry? Typically you'd just raise your prices to factor in support costs. You'd have different margins for each industry. Realistically, the reason you're unable to raise your prices is because you're stuck competing with companies that simply don't offe…
The issue is not so much about offering _customer_ service. Genuine customers will only ask for help when they actually need it and do it in a way that respects everyone's time.
Instead, it's more about taking time away from your business to deal with people who have no intention of buying from you but are just bored, lonely or mentally ill.
While the latter group might only represent 25% of the people who contact you, attempting to fulfill their needs is literally impossible and will eat up as much of your productive time as you allow it. Online reviews (which basically represent the "appropriate amount of public outrage") have only made this worse. If one of your non-customers feel slighted, they will drag your name through the mud in the foulest way possible. The whole "Karen" meme didn't come from nowhere (although in our case, it's usually 30-something single men).
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Got a link for the USB oscilloscope?
Asking the right questions! (I would also like the link)
Another shilling opportunity!? Sure, why not?
https://espotek.com/labrador/
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#185Does Amazon still commingle inventories between sellers? How could they keep track of who provided a fake item?
That doesn't seem very challenging to a logistics company and falls out of things they already have to do to keep track of their inventory. They probably do somethiing like barcode each thing when it comes in, record which barcode came from where. Scan each barcode when it gets dispatched out to a customer. Now you know the ultimate provider of the item that went to a particular customer.
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We can choose. This is true, but not in the sense of the leading candidates in the US presidential elections - both of whom oppose universal health care (despite its wide public support).
Your conceptualization of how the world works and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book. So while what you say is no doubt true, it's got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm not expecting universal health care by June of next year or something. You start by just getting people to say "Yeah, you know, that makes sense. I would support that." And when enough people can agree wit…
i wish that were the case, but there is a strong argument that it doesnt work that way. Unfortunately instead it looks like the consensus amongst citizens is largely irrelevant. this study in particular comes to mind. https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#187Yeah, you know, when people keep saying "You aren't as far from being homeless as you imagine you are" this is what they mean. Just because your life has not come unraveled overnight doesn't mean it can't for reasons beyond your control having nothing to do with personal virtues or lack thereof. We really need to get universal health care in the US, among other things, to limit how far people can fall when something…
I don't understand why people like you keep ranting about "universal healthcare" when obviously about 50% of your country so strongly opposes it that I think it's sooner that hell freezes than US getting social healthcare.
Instead, why don't you propose alternative solutions? E.g. in Switzerland, it's illegal for your healthcare to be paid by the company, and also it's obligatory to have healthcare insurance (probably the country pays for it if you're poor). That way, you establish a thriving and competitive health insurance market, forcefully eliminate all the benefits corporations get that are unavailable to individuals, and also align interests (because individuals will be in the middle of money flow, they'll have a vested interest in getting fairly- and transparently-priced health services). This would solve most of the problems US healthcare system has, while not triggering any anti-big-government sentiments.
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> We can choose. This is true, but not in the sense of the leading candidates in the US presidential elections - both of whom oppose universal health care (despite its wide public support).
Your conceptualization of how the world works and mine are so not on the same page, they aren't even in the same book. So while what you say is no doubt true, it's got nothing to do with what I'm talking about. I'm not expecting universal health care by June of next year or something. You start by just getting people to say "Yeah, you know, that makes sense. I would support that." And when enough people can agree wit…
We live in a world where almost half of Americans have so little empathy that they are enthralled by the idea of putting non-white children in cages and the American political system is completely indifferent to the policy preferences of the average person[0].
It's beyond the bounds of reasonable probability both that a majority of Americans would develop enough empathy to support the idea of a universal social safety net and that policy elites could be motivated to implement such a consensus.
[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
You left out the part where he tried to recall the inventory and it didn't work.
Sounds like he left it to the last minute though hoping that the account would be reinstated. Given the fees to remove he wouldn’t have wanted to until it seemed certain that he wasn’t getting the account back. There are companies like shipbob now which are essentially as good as FBA from a 3PL perspective. Just miss out on Amazon pushing FBA stock over cheaper competing offers.
Given that the judiciary report also has an example of someone being unable to remove their inventory, I think you’re giving credit where none is due.
Re: Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless
#190The merchants must navigate a largely automated, guilty-until-proven-innocent process in which Amazon serves as judge and jury. Their emails and calls can go unanswered, or Amazon's replies are incomprehensible, making sellers suspect they're at the mercy of algorithms with little human oversight. This is something our modern society was and is not ready for. Bureaucracy and the bureaucrats that administered it is a…
It's not bureaucracy, it's monopoly (or something so close to it to be functionally the same).