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Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by semi_good » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

mav3rick wrote: post #249

semi_good wrote: post #248

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This conversation proves that you are clueless and arrogant (quote "everything you touched on the Internet today probably used Google technology" smh) and nobody good wants to work with you and that is why you cant build anything competitive in-house.

Lol "nobody good wants to work with you". Keep telling yourself that. Done engaging here.

Great idea, you should disengage from Hacker News entirely, and create your own forum called "Corporate Sellouts with 9 to 5 Jobs News" for delusional people who think engineers want to leave their startups and work with a megacorp that ships third rate products.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

#252

Post by mav3rick » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 7:20 PM UTC

semi_good wrote: post #251

mav3rick wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol "nobody good wants to work with you". Keep telling yourself that. Done engaging here.

Great idea, you should disengage from Hacker News entirely, and create your own forum called "Corporate Sellouts with 9 to 5 Jobs News" for delusional people who think engineers want to leave their startups and work with a megacorp that ships third rate products.

Ah "I work at a start up for half the pay, so I must be superior to others" angle.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by muro » Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 6:19 AM UTC

wand3r wrote: post #114

muro wrote: post #111

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A merchant doesn't have to use Spotify.

Right but also I think you meant shopify...

Doh. I think it was auto-correct. Thanks for the correction.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by semi_good » Sun, Jul 26, 2020, 7:49 AM UTC

mav3rick wrote: post #252

semi_good wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea, you should disengage from Hacker News entirely, and create your own forum called "Corporate Sellouts with 9 to 5 Jobs News" for delusional people who think engineers want to leave their startups and work with a megacorp that ships third rate products.

Ah "I work at a start up for half the pay, so I must be superior to others" angle.

Indeed. 99% of Google engineers secretly wish they had the courage and capability to quit and build a company. But what's the next best thing .. go to a forum for entrepreneurs building companies and downplay the community you couldn't get into :) Carry on !

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by yencabulator » Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 1:41 AM UTC

yencabulator wrote: post #241

cmonnow wrote: post #196

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fine, then come to a middle-ground: search bar (on the top) for window-shoppers selection boxes (on the left) for focus-shoppers If I select 1440p under Resolution, I do not want non-1440p monitors in search results.

The biggest problem with the selection boxes (when they do appear) is the garbage data. In this scenario, you'd get something like "1440p" "1440 pixels" and "1.4KP", sorted nowhere near each other.

Two days later, I'm looking at listings for Pet Supplies > Fish Food, and one of the filter categories is "Number of players".

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by xnx » Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 3:19 AM UTC

jeffbee wrote: post #133

This doesn't seem to solve the main problem I have with Amazon: even when I know exactly what I want, it's impossible to find. Amazon hides the thing you want behind the items they want you to buy instead, and they allow fakes and spammers to flourish. They never have the right aspects in their search filters, either. Looks like Google is the same way. I can't find an A19 LED light bulb with 2700K color temperature a…

The irony is that Google search does a much better job searching products on Amazon.com than Amazon does.

Re: Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

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Post by draebek » Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 7:28 PM UTC

beenBoutIT wrote: post #245

draebek wrote: post #200

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FWIW I would never trust USPS to deliver on time in my city. They regularly lose packages for a week or two before magically delivering them, with tracking information that is the long-form equivalent of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon have all been vastly more reliable than USPS. However, USPS has been fine for me in other cities. Maybe, like real estate and cell phone coverage, location matters when it comes to p…

More specifically, Priority Mail Express comes with a money back guarantee where any delay would entitle you to a refund on your shipping fees.

OK, so that's the same refund of shipping fees you get from Amazon if they're late, right?

Actually, I've gotten free months of Prime with Amazon easily by just going into support chat and saying more-or-less, "You missed the guaranteed delivery date, I'd like a free month of Prime".