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Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by mattnewton »

giarc wrote: post #381
1-6 wrote: post #372

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Welcome to the other side. I haven't renewed Amazon Prime in quite a while. It's not that bad because you can still shop on Amazon with free shipping as long as you hit the minimum amount. I may keep things in the cart and sometimes it becomes a reminder for me to grab those items at the local shop. The only time I get an 'itch' to get back on Prime when I'm at Whole Foods. Other than that, goodbye free shipping!

Do you know if you can still use Subscribe and Save without a Prime membership? We use that service quite a bit.

You can (I do)

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by eatonphil »

toast0 wrote: post #430
eatonphil wrote: post #268

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From personal experience, any cheap vps that can serve static pages will stand the front of HN. The blogs that go down here typically back every request by MySQL (ahem, WordPress) which is totally unnecessary and often actively harmful since MySQL has very low default total connections allowed. The point being: don't serve requests backed by a database unless the results are likely to change very dynamically!

> The blogs that go down here typically back every request by MySQL (ahem, WordPress) which is totally unnecessary and often actively harmful since MySQL has very low default total connections allowed. WordPress is not my favorite thing and some of the available plug-ins do terrible things with MySQL, but the problem is not too low default connections; it's too many PHP workers. WordPress is generally focused enough…

That makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

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Post by spacemark »

hhh wrote: post #389
blairanderson wrote: post #379

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Hi Cliff, I'm an independent amazon consultant. Your Amazon problems would be solved with a regular USPTO trademark. They don't recognize common-law trademarks because they are heavily arguable in litigation. USPTO is a database of trademarks already scrutinized by trademark attorneys and government. It's not perfect, but it is a collection that Amazon recognizes. You can do this for $2000-ish and never think about i…

While this would probably work , it seems insane to me that this would be the only thing to protect his listing from a completely different category of product being merged with another.

...or the fact that the only way to get this information is a HN comment from an independent Amazon consultant.

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

rickspencer3 wrote: post #362

We're finally going to not renew our Amazon Prime after many years. We don't have that much need for "free" shipping on cheap Chinese products, and the convenience of the Amazon marketplace is now counter-balanced by the inconvenience of sorting out the fake goods and fake reviews. We are choosing sellers' own marketplaces when we can these days, and just dealing with longer and paid shipping. Additionally, we are fi…

> we are paying for multiple streaming services anyway.

I just cancelled my membership, for all of the reasons you cite. I had been letting my membership ride only because of their streaming video, but recently, they've started yet another dark pattern.

I rarely finish a movie in one sitting. Three times in the past month or so, I've started watching something for free, and then come back to find that it was no longer free when I wanted to finish it. Like, the next day.

Most recently, this was Freakonomics. It was free when I started it, then I hit the wrong button on my Apple TV remote (THAT'S real hard, amirite?), and when I went to restart it, it had become for-cost. I mean, seriously?

I can live without their exclusives, and the standard defense around here that they're not, actually, a monopoly for online shopping is certainly true, so I'm done.

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Post by quickthrowman »

atatatat wrote: post #421
quickthrower2 wrote: post #386

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You are brave buying a high energy chemistry experiment from Alibaba. I’d stick to regular retail for that!

Like where?

I buy all my 18650 cells from https://illumn.com

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Post by minton »

rickspencer3 wrote: post #362

We're finally going to not renew our Amazon Prime after many years. We don't have that much need for "free" shipping on cheap Chinese products, and the convenience of the Amazon marketplace is now counter-balanced by the inconvenience of sorting out the fake goods and fake reviews. We are choosing sellers' own marketplaces when we can these days, and just dealing with longer and paid shipping. Additionally, we are fi…

I have also canceled after nearly 15 years of being a customer. I cannot trust what they’ll ship me will be a legit product and not a knockoff.

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by greyhair »

One more reason that I am no longer renewing my Amazon Prime this year when it is up.

Amazon is on a slow slide to hell. I came to realize this last year. And Prime membership is a large part of the problem. Two issues:

1) It reduces friction so it is easiest to default buy from them.

2) The price on those handcuffs / membership has gone up, a lot, and it is basically a driver to dilute the cost burden via volume.

So cancelling Prime is the key to kicking Amazon to the curb.

You can still use it, for times when you cannot find something anywhere else, but it no longer becomes the default.

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Post by apendleton »

cartoonworld wrote: post #270
furyg3 wrote: post #153

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Hey Cliff, I just have to say thanks. I read the Cuckoo's Egg in the early 90s and while I was already interested in computers, the idea that there were "networks" of them out there... well... it blew my mind. I immediately went to my school librarian and said I wanted to try to connect computers together, or try to dial-up to library information services, etc. We started learning together. You were a huge inspiratio…

There was also a television adaptation, "The KGB, the Computer, and Me" produced by PBS Nova in like 1992, starring Clifford Stoll as Cliff Stoll! Here is a bootlegged youtube link--it's the best I've got. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGv5BqNL164 A legend!

It looks like archive.org also has it: https://archive.org/details/The_KGB_The_Computer_and_Me_1990

Re: A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

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Post by greyhair »

krferriter wrote: post #427
Accujack wrote: post #416

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You're not wrong. Because Amazon's system is insane unless you realize it's designed only for the benefit of the corporation, not for any kind of fairness or quality.

The success of Amazon retail is in part because of the ~feature~ of seamless, rampant IP infringement and zero legal or financial liability on the part of Amazon for making money off it.

Which has gotten worse over time, and one of the several reasons why my Prime membership will not renew this year.
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