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Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

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Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

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Post by ikurei »

AlexandrB wrote: post #210
ikurei wrote: post #134

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So you just helped continue the fraud? Things aren't gonna improve by complaining on HN.

It's not his job to fix Amazon's fraud issues. Amazon has billions of dollars at its disposal, it should invest some in quality control.

Of course it isn't his job. As it isn't his job to help an old blind woman to cross the street.

I am not intending to emit a moral judgement, just to point out that he was sufficiently outraged to complain about it and to use such strong vocabulary as "fraud", and yet he acquiesced.

Helping (a little bit) to fix the problem wouldn't have been that much of an inconvenience, and if we customers were more like that this kind of behaviour wouldn't be possible, or at least harder.

Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

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Post by wccrawford »

jaclaz wrote: post #274
wccrawford wrote: post #207

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I'm sure I could find the last automotive cleaner, diet foods, and more locally, if I cared to spend the time driving to places that might have it and checking. I'm also pretty sure they'd be cheaper there. I've also bought games and computer parts on Amazon instead of NewEgg because I dislike NewEgg's shipping system and customer service. I'd rather pay a little more and have a nicer experience. And if I have to ret…

I wasn't clear, my bad. For "locally" I meant "at the shop just around the corner", or however in a "convenient, known, usual, place" not a "drive in search of the lowest price across the city". I have no experience whatever with NewEgg, from what I have seen around they seem on par with other online shops, and I - maybe I am just lucky - never needed the customer service of either Amazon of other vendors, what I can…

I don't mean "lowest price". I mean at all.

For instance, I recently wanted to buy "Goo Gone Automotive" to get something off my car windshield. I'd read up online about it, and determined it was what I wanted.

My wife went to Target and the closest thing she found was "Automotive Glass Cleaner". Target has a dedicated automotive section, and I was pretty sure they'd have it or something like it, but they didn't.

In the end, I ended up buying it on Amazon rather than go from local shop to local shop hoping to find something close. (I could also have called first, but that's also very distasteful.) It was much easier to go on Amazon and just pay what they were asking.

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Post by jvzr »

gmac wrote: post #277
jvzr wrote: post #123

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Great idea! Do you happen to have a Workflow to share? I'm heavily interested in getting this.

https://workflow.is/workflows/e194d7fdef0343649b6d037293b18c... (There was a bug for a while where you had to insert an alert before opening the web page to make it work, but it seems to have been fixed recently so I've taken this out).

Thank for you for following this back!
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