Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

Post by iagovar » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 11:08 PM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #99

iagovar wrote: post #27

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This. I used to read this comments and think it only applied to the US. Also happening to Spain. Amazon has become useless. Rankings are weird, quality stuff is is very hard to find and I have to resort to forums that point to Amazon links that you cannot find using Amazon search. Also, I'm more and more attracted to specialized shops again. For example for the last two years I've been buying most electronic stuff fr…

> Why should I use Amazon if I can go to Alibaba or Aliexpress Because you want it tomorrow and not in 3 months (if ever)? And want to be able to return it? I'm all for hating things that are popular, but I don't think anyone suggesting AliExpress as a replacement for Amazon has seriously used it. AliExpress is for things like a replacement cable you don't need soon but you'll need sometime in the next few years, so…

It's not hating, I wouldn't buy something expensive in Amazon either. Anything where I need some real backup in case of something going bad I buy somewhere physical that I trust. In case of consumer electronics and pc parts I use Pcbox and App Informática, two Spanish franchises. Most of the times the price difference is under 5€ but guess most people is not aware.

It has been this way for me for two years or so. I think I made the right choice. Research on the internet, go fnac, pcbox, appinformatica, cetronic, decathlon... I don't even live in a big city and there are good options for almost everything.

And I'm +30, it's not like I didn't adapt to the internet.

Post by programmertote » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 5:34 PM UTC

intopieces wrote: post #94

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Agree with you about Amazon experience becoming less ideal. Since the beginning of 2020, I submitted a couple of product reviews with detailed and factual explanation about why products in question aren't good enough. One of them was Amazon basic chair [ https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Low-Back-Computer-Chair-... ], which makes squeaky noises after 6 months of use (I'm a 135 lbs male), and another was Secura milk…

I'm curious about your product review diligence. Mainly: why do you bother? I stopped around 2015 when I started to sense that I was shouting into a void. Now I don't give any feedback, ever, not even stars. I either keep the item or return it; that's about as far as I'm willing to go in terms of being unpaid to provide a signal to the producers of items.

I bother because I felt like these products were particularly bad and yet have good ratings. So I wanted others to avoid the same fate as I faced. But yeah, generally, I will stop providing ratings after these two incidents. It could be the beginning of Amazon's slow downfall if they don't fix it and IF another rival can consistently compete with them on the quick shipping front.

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

Re: Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon