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US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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oblio wrote: post #197
Loughla wrote: post #130

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>I generally try to buy from companies directly This is the secret today. Find the product you want, buy straight from that company. Anymore the storefronts are all uniform and shipping (which used to be Amazon's advantage) is the same. The days of massive online retailers dominating is over at my house. I just wish more people would figure that out.

How does it work with refunds and returns?

Every company so far, I send an email or click the return link on the confirmation email they sent when I ordered. Print the label and send it back. I haven't had any problems yet.

Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Post by Loughla »

tiltowait wrote: post #149
Loughla wrote: post #130

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>I generally try to buy from companies directly This is the secret today. Find the product you want, buy straight from that company. Anymore the storefronts are all uniform and shipping (which used to be Amazon's advantage) is the same. The days of massive online retailers dominating is over at my house. I just wish more people would figure that out.

I find Amazon’s shipping to be fastest about 9 times out of 10—and that 1 is just the direct seller matching, not beating. With Prime, shipping is also “free” (so long as you’ve saved enough on shipping to recoup the cost of Prime itself). But aside from that, Amazon almost always has a better return process, and you only need to give one site your payment details rather than many. (That said, I often buy outside of…

>Amazon almost always has a better return process

Every company so far, I send an email or click the return link on the confirmation email they sent when I ordered. Print the label and send it back. I haven't had any problems yet.

>need to give one site your payment details rather than many.

Either use PayPal or your credit card. If it gets compromised, cc companies are really good at making sure you don't get screwed.

I have been doing this for 5 years now and haven't had any problems.

Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Post by refurb »

immibis wrote: post #229
refurb wrote: post #199

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Those are the facts of the case. Whether a murder occurred at all is rarely subjective.

Whether the assailant intended to cause death is unknowable.

Right but the crime is the death, not the intent.

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Post by jessriedel »

consteval wrote: post #227
jessriedel wrote: post #226

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A plethora or suspicious things? If the companies are breaking the law, the FTC can sue them and win. If the companies are complying with the law, the FTC should indeed do nothing. If the law is bad, congress can pass new laws. What's not OK is for the executive branch to not like the law, but be unsuccessful at passing new law through the democratic process, and then use the FTC to unsuccessfully sue companies in or…

It's not that simple, because people don't know if they're breaking the law. The job of the FTC is to clear that up. It's a fallacy that laws can just be followed or not, almost all the time it's in a gray area.

I’m specifically talking about the situation where you lose almost all the cases. When that happens, it’s not called “clearing up the law”, it’s called frivolous lawsuits.

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Post by dang »

yathaid wrote: post #170
jessriedel wrote: post #167

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I’m not suggesting the justice system should change. I’m suggesting that civil servants who file and lose a ton of suits should be presumed to be doing net harm. Just as we would for prosecutors in criminal law. And when it’s politically motivated, it is not just harm in the sense of economic inefficiency, but further is unjust and lowers public trust in institutions.

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Can you please not break the site guidelines when posting here? You did it twice in this thread unfortunately (the other place was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41773709).

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, we'd appreciate it.

Re: US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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Post by shermantanktop »

grotorea wrote: post #137
shermantanktop wrote: post #94

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Well nobody asked me before changing the meaning! And by the way, a “selfie” can only have one person in it, and a “video” is something on MTV. Don’t get me started on “hack.”

Well I hope you have a gay old time while surfing the world wide web.

Thanks! Twenty three skidoo!
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