Amazon wants to be everything to everyone. (www.voanews.com)

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[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 25 points 3 hours ago

This is the main reason I cancelled Prime. They started advertising "More than just free shipping", and I realized that I only used it for free shipping, and as Prime got more and more expensive I wasn't getting any value from it.

Now I just put stuff in my cart until I have $35 worth of stuff, and get free shipping anyway. It's not that much slower. An extra day or two usually, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I can wait a little while for my $10 guitar strap and it's not the end of the world.

[-] omarfw@lemmy.world 5 points 39 minutes ago

I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

This is the correct answer. There's so much counterfeit garbage on Amazon you're better off going straight to the company that made whatever you're trying to buy or wherever else they say their product is sold

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 36 minutes ago

I also cancelled prime. It rapidly became clear that they were, and are, deliberately delaying my shipments by like 5 days or more. They don’t even ship my orders until at least 3 days after I place them.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 2 points 19 minutes ago

I notice the same thing. I think it's because they are busy moving it from a distant warehouse to one closer to you, because you can't possibly keep all of the same crap in all of the warehouses. So it's being transported, but not "shipped", allowing them to take longer.

[-] SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 4 points 52 minutes ago

I started the same thing earlier this year when my subscription to Prime was expiring. So far it really hasn’t been a big problem and has the nice perk that it encourages me to shop less at Amazon.

[-] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

It used to be $25. Now it's $35, waiting for them to raise the threshold further.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 39 points 3 hours ago

Except an employer, they don't want to be that.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

Well, they want to be everyone's former employer at least.

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago

There are things that you can't find anywhere but Amazon and it blows

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

you're saying that like their search works

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

You mean you didn't want the "ZVIANX USB Charging APPLE ANDROID TRUE WIRELESS Charging PAD"?

[-] _bcron_@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago

They behave exactly like black mold. They start coalescing in some adjacent space and suddenly BOOM. Online storefront, starts hosting its own servers, that becomes part of the business. Starts building out warehouses, that becomes part of the business. IoT things that run on their servers, then cameras, gobbles up Blink. They even had a pilot project for restaurant delivery, we'll probably see that again once they can tie it into their parcel delivery fleet

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 4 points 3 hours ago

Where’s my waifu Bezos body pillow?

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago

maybe they can start by fixing their search. yesterday i was looking up the cheapest rechargable lithium battery of a certain type across several sites. amazon was the worst experience. after i sorted by price, i noticed the top 3 results before sorting were missing from the results, one of them should have been near the top. i tried a few things, but they (and a few others) just show up without sorting. horrible.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 2 hours ago

They won't because it works exactly as they want it to

[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 hour ago

The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.

[-] lath@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Wow really? So nice of it to go ahead and start protecting its namesake from total annihilation.

this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024

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