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Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by seaal »

Eisenstein wrote: post #664
spike021 wrote: post #647

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FWIW, I've noticed now that both Walmart and Target online stores have their own version of third-party sellers. I don't know if they do the same as Amazon (combining inventory in fulfillment centers) but just something to be aware of.

Yeah that is annoying, but at least with Walmart (I don't usually shop online at target) you can restrict to things available at the local store, which ensures you don't get anything dodgy.

Walmart+ combined with the InHome subscription has been pretty valuable service for me after moving to the city and getting rid of my cars. I never have to step foot in a Walmart again combined while still getting same in-store prices and never having to tip for delivery.

I miss wandering the isles of Costco though.

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Post by sph »

xp84 wrote: post #375
GCA10 wrote: post #348

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Amazon's founding principle of "customer obsession" has been turned inside out -- at least when it comes to thinking of us consumers as the cherished customers. Those days are over. The new "customers" at the center of Amazon's business model are a global assortment of insta-merchants that don't make the products, don't handle their own logistics and don't have recognizable brands. So -- whoosh! -- in comes Amazon as…

And it’s bonkers how little they care about things that impact the customer. I’m a “Vine” reviewer (free* products in exchange for a review). Sellers game this system by listing a dozen or two duplicate SKUs and submit them to Vine, each in very small quantities ( one non-skilled FTE could do the job of policing Vine for abuse like that, and they do not even care a bit to try. *Note, they 1099 you for full retail val…

Re: Vine reviewers (recipient of a free product): whenever I see only their reviews on a product, always 5 stars even on the most garbage chinese-made ones, I know what to avoid.

To me, seeing their review is an indication of terrible product that decided to pay off some easily corruptible reviewers that give away 5 stars just to keep receiving free stuff.

I understand your explanation, but as a user, established brands don't have to pay off reviewers at all.

Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by eyegor »

senden9 wrote: post #660
behnamoh wrote: post #650

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The good thing with Amazon is their lax return policy. You have 1 month to test the product and if you don't like it, you return it to one of several available places (Wholefoods, Amazon locker, UPS, even leave it at the door for UPS to pick up, etc.) No other store/website even comes close to this. BB gives you 2 weeks to try the product, and you'd have to drive all the way to their location to return the thing. I k…

A Amazon marketplace product I ordered was wrong. I ordered a memory module and got the wrong one. After checkingy order I saw that I ordered the right one. No problem, I thought. Filled a return form, entered "wrong product" as reason, send it back. The marketplace reseller denied my refund because he claims I swapped the product. I escalated the issue to the Amazon support. They told my that this decision is final…

I'm more curious what led you to contact a lawyer over a $20 loss... I don't think I've met a lawyer who was cheap enough for that to make sense. If you're going to fight a vendor, why not just do a bank chargeback?

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Post by jjbinx007 »

nabilhat wrote: post #293
AlecSchueler wrote: post #35

Easy fix since ChatGPT always apologises for not complying: any description or title containing the word "sorry" gets flagged for human oversight. Still orders of magnitude faster than writing all your own spam texts.

Except when it doesn't: https://www.amazon.com/FOPEAS-Language-Context-referring-Inf... The seller account's entire product list is a stream of scraped images with AI-nglish descriptions slapped on by autopilot. If you can cast thousands of lines for free and you know the ranger isn't looking, you don't need good bait to catch fish.

AInglish is such a good word, thanks for that

Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by mongol »

jethro_tell wrote: post #646
Eisenstein wrote: post #640

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I will give you my list (East Coast USA): Walmart, Staples, Best Buy, Microcenter, Ace Hardware (there is usually a local one near you that is a Mom & Pop with the affiliation so they can do online orders and inventory management, etc), Walgreens, Lowes/Home Depot, Digikey, Ikea, eBay, or if you don't mind waiting you can just skip the middle man and go right to Ali Express. Also, it is always a good idea to check th…

Additionally, buying directly from the company used to be painful, who knows what's going on there? 20 years later, basic eCommerce is relatively well understood and someone that makes a product can easily have their own site that functions well. Add a password manager and it's just a couple clicks, really no more work that amazon. So for a huge amount of my stuff, I'll see if I can buy directly from the person/peopl…

E-commerce is more than a site. You need to handle the inventory, shipping, returns, customer service etc. Amazon, when working well, could take care exactly of those things, and cut out middle men such as distributors. But to appear next to these ridiculous brands seem no longer a good choice.

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Post by adlpz »

JeffSnazz wrote: post #665
kortilla wrote: post #655

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You probably haven’t been using it long enough. 12 years ago+ it was amazing

Yea I guess I'm not sure what people envision when they say "amazing"—having an online store might have been revolutionary in 1994, but not by 2004, and certainly not by 2012. What set them apart was just inventory.

What truly set them apart wasn't inventory. Any large physical retailer could match back them.

It was inventory plus ease of use. Which is customer obsession.

One click purchase. Next day delivery. Flat fee shipping (prime). No questions asked drop-off returns. True, useful reviews. Good algorithmic sorting. Best in class logistics.

It was really much better than anything else online.

Now reviews are shit, searching products is a nightmare of sorting through clones and knockoffs, marketplace returns are hit or miss... and that's why it's worse.

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Post by recursive »

naikrovek wrote: post #675
recursive wrote: post #672

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It's remarkable the contortions I see to avoid blaming Amazon for anything. Surely we can't blame them for obvious scams on their platform. After all, they cater to humans .

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But somehow there exist retailers that don't have such a problem fakes and counterfeits. Even ones run by humans.

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Post by michaelbuck »

mint2 wrote: post #686
steelframe wrote: post #626

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It's Amazon's signature style to make the bad press go away without addressing the underlying issue that generated the bad press to begin with. Their culture is to hand everyone a pager and pull them in to fix the "problem" through just-in-time heroics rather than spend the money to build a system that's resilient to suckage in the first place. And "fixing" means tediously swatting down specific instances that are ma…

Wait but does Amazon even view these seller as bad? I get the feeling they love these sellers but just don’t like them messing up the titles. They’re perfectly happy with low quality drop shipped items with badly written descriptions. They make tons of money from those.

That's exactly why this situation feels a little weird. Usually Amazon usually just lets things like this slide.[1]

Amazon initially didn't take the product down from its site after being informed of these results, saying it had documentation supporting its safety, according to the Journal. Later Amazon did remove the product, saying it would ask for more documentation from the company it had used to test it.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-le...

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