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Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices
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Ive bought through amazon three times in my life. Each time i regretted my purchase because the absolute lowest quality shit arrived. Why the fuck would anyone buy anything from there?
Because you bought from shit sellers, amazon is just the marketplace
I've seen this famous global brand on ebay and aliexpress.
For me, it's simply that there's stuff I can't find without driving 4h to another city, and even then only maybe.
Another city hasn't discovered post services yet?
Right? People will very readily make up fictional scenarios in their defence of amazon. It is trully bizarre how effective they have been at convincing some people in believing that they are the only internet retailers in existence.
Is Amazon really your only internet retailer, or have you just not bothered looking for other online alternatives?
It's often the only one where the shipping costs won't be 30% of the item's price. I've had lots of times where I was gonna buy something somewhere only to find the shipping would double the price. Etsy is the worst for this. Lots of stuff where the price tag is just barely what I can justify paying, but the shipping (and often duties) would make it comically expensive. Those things I would buy locally for sure, but finding them locally is hard.
Ok, so it is not about amazon being the only player on the market, but of you not wanting to pay the actual cost of things.
In a lot of cases, not even that. Look at stuff like a "raspberry Pi CM4".
Pretty much EVERY single retailer I've checked in Canada is waiting on stock. You can't get them from anyone here, period, and I've been on a bunch of wait lists.
Even Amazon's stuff is coming from overseas but they do help handle logistics, currency conversion, and have some guarantee of a real product. Throw in shipping AND duties+fees and you could be paying 3x from an OOC store.
Other choice would be AliExpress, but if I receive a lump of metal with a chip glued to it at least Amazon makes it easier to get my money back.
Because you have like 3 weeks to decide you want to keep that purchase or not for a full refund
Oh yes, i forgot how well amaozn treats its drivers and that the cars produce no emissions so we can just test buy everything
Yea, you can't possibly have TWO concerns you maniac!
If the items were shit, why didn’t you return them?
Because it's convenient when I often can't get out, it has a good return policy, and your experience is radically different from my own. Mainly that last bit.
It used to be decent, but in recent years it's basically become wish.com with better logistics.