In this addition of poker bro shows up to tell us about something everyone knew a decade ago (1/279):
https://twitter.com/ColeSouth/status/1550230795230781440
https://twitter.com/ColeSouth/status/1550230808681934851
So he’s breaking up with Scamazon, right?
Weird this topic got bumped. I canceled my Amazon CC yesterday and am about to cancel Prime altogether today. Not for any noble reasons, though. Just too expensive to renew with the recent price hike, and I’m no longer doing anywhere near the volume of business purchases that made the 5% cash back card so sweet.
The shipping could be due to the product coming from abroad.
I know that when I left America, there were way fewer prime products and shipping costs skyrocketed since things would have to come from outside of Czech Republic.
Honestly, I get the prime trial during the holidays, do a bunch of Christmas shopping and then immediately cancel it. No need for Amazon here.
Today Show had a feelgood segment today on how Scamazon drones will soon be ubiquitously coming to a neighborhood near you. Everyone seemed really excited. These UTYKOPP Chinese scammers could load the packages with grenades that explode on impact and nobody would do a god damn thing about it. Al Roker could come on missing a hand and they’d still be singing the praises.
it doesn’t really matter, the point is they could quite easily make it much, much more obvious that even though 28 of these colors are coming from their warehouse and will be at your door tomorrow with zero shipping, THIS ONE COLOR is going to be $90 extra and will take 9 weeks and they choose not to. They purposefully make it hard to notice. I have no way of knowing if this guy is just trying to get 90 bucks from idiots who aren’t paying attention or what.
I rant about this constantly IRL and people think I’m insane. These are all scammers, and every online third-party selling platform is infested with them. Morons adding stuff like Colgate toothpaste to their carts from sellers like XXYTUBAKKU blows my fucking mind. There’s exactly a zero percent change you are getting brand new, genuine merchandise and a non-zero chance you’re getting a trip to the hospital or worse.
Literally everything about Amazon is a scam.
I’d say, pound for pound, it’s one of the shittiest things an American can do as far as daily conveniences.
This is aggravates me to no end. I was briefly thinking of canceling Amazon and getting Walmart+ because they were just selling from their store and at a minimum I could trust what’s in a Walmart store, but they moved to third party vendors as well.
I know there’s some studies that show that people prefer cheap and shitty over more trusted but more expensive, but it feels like there’s got to be some limit. Some of the cheap stuff is of such poor quality as to be worthless, not to mention the scams and there’s so many of them and I don’t want to feel like I’m buying from a flea market for every random thing in life.
yeah, and now that they’re getting into the medical market, it’s just a matter of time before you push the OneMedical app on your phone and get connected to a “doctor” in Russia who signed up for the “marketplace”
Yeah there is no limit to it though. Completely incredulous guppies think they’re getting a real deal on $1.29 cosmetics or supplements from BEST FUKDONG SHOP, and then inevitably what happens is they break out into hives or some shit and are featured in the 629th CNBC article about it in the past five years.
Just think how much it’s gonna save Jordan Peterson in travel expenses.
Interesting and aligns with an observation I’ve made in ecommerce the last few years - amazon’s initial warehousing design was entirely dependent on an infinite supply of cheap relatively unskilled labor. Now, labor is neither infinite or cheap, and you can see over the past year or two their delivery times slipping, one of their biggest market edges and a weirdly strong factor when it comes to consumer choice on e-commerce websites. IMO amazon in the retail space is doomed, at least as dominant as they currently are, unless they undergo major major changes, the extent of which I’m not entirely sure is feasible.
Newer e-commerce companies are using far more advanced warehousing/picking technology that utilizes vertical space and automation in a much more efficient way, allowing them to hire more talented, satisfied employees at a higher wage, and reduces the amount of physical space required by a huge factor. It also allows rapid scaling of new warehouses - something that used to be really hard to do is becoming a looooot easier for ecommerce companies. The competition’s gonna gobble up amazon’s market share before they know it if they don’t change and change fast, and I don’t really think they can.
The biggest realistic competitors I see to amazon are target and walmart. They’ve been aggressively expanding their ecommerce business the last few years, and since they started way later, have the advantage of using much more modern tech than amazon uses.
another annoying thing with Amazon is automatically setting the buy option to subscribe and save, even for things that make no sense. No Amazon I do not want to order a monitor stand on a monthly basis.
If you buy a monitor stand on Amazon you might need to though.
Reddit people are saying they just straight up lie about Prime delivery times now. Is that true?
yes
The poor people at the UPS, they’re been shanghaied into being Amazon’s returns department. Always a line out the door of people with Amazon boxes.
Do they not have a Kohl’s nearby?
I’m happy with my one month per year relationship with Amazon.
Trial during holidays, cancel before 30 days, repeat.
