I know this is the wrong takeaway from this post, but how lazy are these scammers? A simple regex would have caught this and saved them a huge amount of embarrassment.
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I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re on
Where are you located? Not specifically, but urban, suburban, rural, remote? Anecodtally: I am in a super-urban location. I order Prime 2-day, on average, twice a week. It has been late maybe once in the past year; often, it comes a day early.
That's my experience, and yes I am in an urban location. And returns are so easy too. In fact, I tried to return something the other day, and they said it was not returnable so they were like you just keep it and we will refund the money.
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#363I get that this is basically fraud and spam, but this should really highlight the dangers of letting an unattended LLM do anything for your company at all. It can, and will, fuck up dramatically sooner or later.
I don't find this any different than seeing an exposed jinja template: "{{product_name}} is perfect people who work in {{customer_industry}}" or the typical recruiter "Dear {{candidate}} I read your profile carefully and think you'd be perfect for {{job_title}} because of your experience at {{random_co_from_resume}}" If anything, I think it's kind of cool that we're seeing LLMs actually used for something very practi…
Those emails from recruiters is also spam.
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#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. In many categories, even when explicitly searching for brand and model names, you’ll get dozens of off-brand substitutions and even random unrelated products appearing above it in the search results. Occasionally I’ve even noticed products that are available for sale (if you click on a direct…
While it's obvious that this is somehow commercially/financially advantageous to Amazon, I'd love to know more about why. What are the economics behind the shovelware merchandise Amazon upranks to users?
Because just like Walmart, they're trying to get a price as low as possible to kill off competition. Amazon isn't "flooded" by these brands, they are purposefully seeking these sellers out and helping them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...
> A seller in America might start with a brand idea and need to figure out how to get it manufactured; a seller connected to a factory in China’s manufacturing capital needs to figure out how to sell to Americans, which Amazon has been working hard to facilitate.
> “If a Chinese factory is able to give a better price than a seller in America, Amazon is happy with that,” said Kian Golzari, who works with marketplace sellers and corporate clients to source products from China.
If amazon sells a push broom for $10, why would would someone buy a push-broom from the local hardware store for $20?
Local hardware store struggles, eventually goes out of business...now everyone has no choice except to buy online, and guess who dominates that?
And now you're reliant on Amazon for everything.
Same thing Walmart did to endless communities across America. Dump stuff cheap in an area to starve all the local businesses to death, and then everyone had no choice but to buy everything from, and work at, walmart. And if anyone gets uppity about unions, close the store and now everyone within an hour has to drive even further to get anything...so everyone is terrified of any sort of workplace organization.
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#365Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.
In theory this is Costco. I have a membership to both Amazon and Costco, but for some reason keep using Amazon. I assume this is because 1) habits are hard to change and 2) Amazon is guaranteed to have what I’m looking for, even if ultimately it’s not very good.
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#366Earlier quoted context omitted.
The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. In many categories, even when explicitly searching for brand and model names, you’ll get dozens of off-brand substitutions and even random unrelated products appearing above it in the search results. Occasionally I’ve even noticed products that are available for sale (if you click on a direct…
This is definitely the worst thing about Amazon. I pay them $120/year or whatever, and I search a specific product by a specific brand, and the entire browser screen shows me brands and even products I didn't even search for. I should not get ads in a store that I pay to use, especially in search.
Stop paying them. If you pay, you'll actually become a better product rather than cease being the product.
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re on
Where are you located? Not specifically, but urban, suburban, rural, remote? Anecodtally: I am in a super-urban location. I order Prime 2-day, on average, twice a week. It has been late maybe once in the past year; often, it comes a day early.
I’m within 15 miles of two Amazon warehouses and still share the poor-delivery experience.
I see more of the new Rivian Amazon vans than any other vehicle on the road in the morning, and yet somehow, every other item I order gets unexpectedly delayed for days and days.
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#368Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.
Seriously. Even worse there are things I want, I know the name and the brand but I can't order from Amazon because of the high risk of counterfeits. I hope they either get their house in order or someone eats their lunch.
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#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. Hey boss I made the site better! Through rigorous A/B testing I could figure out a way to tweak our search algorithm so people spend much more time on our site! It seems they now really enjoy browsing for products! Ok but seriously, I have witnessed A/B testing go wrong in the past so I'm bi…
> rigorous A/B testing Also known as unethical, non-consensual human experimentation for profit maximization purposes.
I hate what advertising has done to the modern web just as much as anyone, but this strikes me as hyperbole. Does making this sort of claim not make you… tired? What’s the point of arguing like this?
Nazi Germany and the Tuskegee Experiment are examples of “unethical, non-consensual human experimentation”. A/B testing features of software usually doesn’t make the same list.
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#370I know this is the wrong takeaway from this post, but how lazy are these scammers? A simple regex would have caught this and saved them a huge amount of embarrassment.
Embarrassment? Why would anyone be embarrassed? They’re scammers