tOfficial Amazon Thread

Hu War Yu said:
Yeah, not sure how much of this is Amuhzahn's doing and how much is the seller. But, they've hitched their wagon to all these individual retailers, many of which are pure privateers.
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Privateers??! You mean to tell me that a 64-load bottle of tide laundry detergent for $34.00 isn't the current market rate??!
 
HammerDown said:
Can’t remember where but it’s been exposed that Amazon has very cleverly and deviously structured it so that technically they are only the shipper of the cheap Chinese shit they sell and profit from so that their liability is virtually nil.

Seriously, fuck this company.
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I have a friend that spent a few nights doing nothing but reading Amazon reviews and found items that were decent rated but had a flaw. Flew to china to meet with manufacturers and corrected the flaw with the same design and now is making 50k a month on 3 items.
 
huskers1217 said:
I have a friend that spent a few nights doing nothing but reading Amazon reviews and found items that were decent rated but had a flaw. Flew to china to meet with manufacturers and corrected the flaw with the same design and now is making 50k a month on 3 items.
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Your friend randomly decided to start a company that involves manufacturing products overseas on a whim, based on reading reviews for random products on Amazon? Which seems to involve patent trolling/ignoring patent laws? Gotta admire the ambition…
 
HammerDown said:
Can’t remember where but it’s been exposed that Amazon has very cleverly and deviously structured it so that technically they are only the shipper of the cheap Chinese shit they sell and profit from so that their liability is virtually nil.

Seriously, fuck this company.
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They seem a lot like eBay. Littered with suspect goods and sheisty merchants.
 
moxie said:
They seem a lot like eBay. Littered with suspect goods and sheisty merchants.
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Correct.

While selling goods that ignore American patent/trademark laws.

It’s corrupt as fuck.
 
You guys bitch when water is wet. Amazon is tha shit. Super easy to use and refunds are a simple
Drive to Kohls.
 
I like Amazon enough that I buy most of my stuff thru them... As long as I see the items are:

Sold By Amazon
&
Shipped By Amazon

I've rarely had to return Amazon stuff and those returns/refunds have "been a breeze" for me... as long as you can find the phone number and get hold of a "live" customer service rep on the phone. Depending on the time, I've had my refunds credited to my cc account within a day or two after they haved received my returned items. They haven't lost any of my returns... YET, anyway! :biggrin:

Their chat is worthless, tho. :nod:

I like to buy 'locally' when I can, but in my area there aren't really many stores with the stuff I usually need, like computer related parts and accessories. I pretty much do most shopping online. Had my Christmas shopping done and shipped out before the Thanksgiving weekend, thanks to online shopping!

:pop2::martini:
 
One of these days an Amazon driver who just stops right in the middle of a lane and backs everyone up during rush hour because they dont want to walk the extra five steps is gonna get their ass beat and I hope I get to see it.
 
The US has accused Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and making it difficult to cancel.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's consumer rights watchdog, made the claims in a lawsuit.
More than 200 million people globally subscribe to Prime, a subscription to Amazon that offers shipping perks, access to streaming movies and more.
Amazon did not comment immediately.
"Amazon tricked and trapped people into recurring subscriptions without their consent, not only frustrating users but also costing them significant money," FTC Chair Lina Khan said announcing the suit, which was filed in federal court in Seattle.
The FTC said Amazon used website designs that pushed customers into agreeing to enrol in Prime and have the subscription automatically renew as they were making purchases.

According to the FTC, Amazon attempted to make it difficult for users to opt out of auto-enrolment because "those changes would also negatively affect Amazon's bottom line".
The company also allegedly put customers seeking to cancel through a cumbersome "four-page, six-click, fifteen option" process, which the FTC said was known internally as "Iliad" in a nod to the Greek epic about the "long, arduous Trojan War".
The FTC said the company's tactics broke laws aimed at protecting shoppers.
Amazon altered the cancellation process shortly before the lawsuit was filed, the agency added.
It is seeking a court order to force Amazon to change its practices, as well as financial penalties in an unspecified amount.
Prime costs $139 a year or $14.99 monthly in the US and £95 per year in the UK.

About 70% of subscribers are based in the US, according to the FTC.
The FTC has repeatedly warned online firms against using "dark patterns" to manipulate shoppers.
It had been investigating Amazon's Prime programme since 2021.
It said the company had attempted to delay the probe on multiple occasions, including by refusing to deliver documents in a timely manner.
The lawsuit marks the third action from the FTC involving Amazon in recent weeks.
The company agreed to pay $25m last month to settle charges it had violate child privacy laws by keeping recordings children made on Alexa.

It agreed to pay another $5.8m to resolve claims that Ring, the doorbell company Amazon purchased in 2018, had violated privacy protections by giving staff unrestricted access to customer videos and failing to implement precautions against hackers.

Source: BBC
 
I gladly pay the yearly subscription. Free shipping, movies, music library, American made products. Love it
 
You better be super careful when you check out, that's for sure.
 
Can't be! Can't ***king be! The CEO is an almost human fellow who designed a dick-shaped rocket to charge millions of dollars to rich idiots to accomplish what was first done over 60 years ago.

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