Amazon.com, Inc. (/ˈæməzɒn/ or /ˈæməzən/), often referred to as simply Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. It is the largest Internet-based retailer in the United States. Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, later diversifying to sell DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys and jewelry.
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Saved!I checked some items on Black Friday, but a discount on Amazon still isn't as cheap as just buying an item from its brand's official webstore, or better yet, from Ebay. I remember years ago I would buy from Amazon all the time, but now I rarely have reason to do so. Their prices are just terrible.
The cheapest books on Amazon are always 1 cent + $3.99 shipping, but those sellers are listing the same books on Ebay for like $1.50 + free shipping. Electronics are usually hundreds of dollars cheaper if you get them anywhere but Amazon. Honestly, the most use I get out of Amazon now is in constructing my wishlist, so I can keep track of what to buy from other stores.-
Saved!NodleyEditing … Yeah, I bought nothing off Amazon this Black Friday.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Maybe Jeff Bezos also thinks Amazon sucks now. Maybe that's why he sold most of his shares.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … This is just like everything. Once a thing gets too big it becomes something else and loses what it was, Facebook, Netflix, Sky TV..... all shit now. I still use Amazon because it's convenient but it's not like the Amazon of old. It's a good target right now for an up and coming site to take over if somebody could put something together big enough.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Well... I don't think Jeff Bezos is the idealist type. I can only imagine financial incentives. Maybe he's leaving a sinking ship? Maybe he knows something?
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Saved!NodleyEditing … It'll take years and years to build something to compete with Amazon though. I'm up for trying a smaller site, I'm sick of paying £4.99 delivery for everything.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I'm fine with all my shopping being separated by storefront. I get clothes from Zara, and uh... well, I'm sure I buy other stuff too.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … Zara? Isn't that a girls store... OMG ARE YOU FEMALE?
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … i-it's not a store for girls
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … we have our own "large online store" here. They sell a few things in house but most of the things to buy are from stores over the whole country. Like a database of all the little stores everywhere. I like it more because you can pay after getting the package. Shipment is "free" but that doesn't mean anything because they usually calculate shipment in the price of the item. I almost never buy from amazon. I've always had bad experiences with them. I'd rather pay a little more and have a good experience and great customer service if something goes wrong with a product. But sometimes I cut out the middle man and buy from the individual stores because they are quite a bit cheaper.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … I'm short but I'm wide. I'm 5ft 4(162cm for the euros) but a medium man size in clothes. I'm not fat either I'm just kind of built squat. Claire say's I'm a Neanderthal. Shopping for me is easy in one way - I buy medium stuff for everyday and it's all fine. But if I need to look smart I need the help of God. Nothing fits me. It's not even a case of shortening the legs either in a tailors I'm the oddest shape in the history of shapes since the penguin in the 1989 Batman.
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Saved!I hate how Amazon is so flooded with chinese sellers and manufacturers – often disguiding themselves as western sellers, like "Oenbopo_StoreEU" … Then you go look up their address and it's Shenzen …
No wonder my bluetooth headset breaks after less than two years.-
Saved!Husky WingEditing … Yeah, Amazon's starting to look more like Aliexpress. So is Etsy, actually.
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Saved!SudertumEditing … Agree, trying to buy anything electronics type related is a pain. Usually ending up to get made in china at the end anyway...
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Oh god yes. The etsy thing gets me the most because some people pretend their products are handmade but they just buy them from aliexpress. Etsy is the place you go to to escape mass produced crap but here it is anyway.
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Saved!I left a user review on the shady creatine supplements I purchased. While I was at it, I went through my old reviews, about eight or ten of them, and decided to do some proofreading/tweaking, submitted edits for nearly all of them. I check back and noticed that one of my reviews disappeared! WHAT?!? And it's all because I decided to edit it! If I left it in its original state it would have stayed up! I guess the new submission reviewer this time had higher standard or was cranky. Whatever the case, my autistically coded weird criticisms/OCD were apparently not tolerated this time around.
All my other edits went live as far as I can tell. My review on the supplements also went live, as well as my review for a coffee table. So I have that going for me, at least. =P-
Saved!Husky WingEditing … Sometimes I've had reviews that were up for months, and then taken down. I don't think any negative reviews I've written have stayed online.
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … most of mine are negative, my oldest one is negative and still up, although the manufacturer tried to bury it under more fake/bought positive ones
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Saved!NodleyEditing … All my reviews are glowing 10/10s or ranting 1/10 never agains. I cannot be bothered to just simply like or dislike something so I don't bother.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Ever since I accepted my first paid review, I've been on an email list for more paid review offers. Usually I ignore them since I don't have any use for the actual products. Like right now I could review a dog shock collar.
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Saved!I ended up getting so fed up with a manager putting me on work that I didn't want to do a few months back that I switched my shift. Since switching shifts this job is bliss. The new manager puts me on the jobs I'd like to do which are working with the robots or jam clearing the lines and they don't constantly badger me to move to other sections of the building. If I get to jam clear I can do that job whilst reading and listening to podcasts/music and it's a solitary job up on a platform. If I get robots it's constant work for the day but nothing overly strenuous or tedious. It has some variety that makes the day go by a bit faster and you never get new hires to work with because it requires certain training so the employees down there tend to know what they're doing. I've accrued a ton of time off so I'll be able to get up to the mountains for quite a few extended weekends this summer and I just couldn't be happier with my current employment situation. Now to just figure out what I'm going to do in terms of living on my own again... One step at a time.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Good for you man. Sounds like you made things a lot better for yourself. Yes go to the mountains! Enjoy your summer! We don't have mountains here only flat land. I just pretend the ant hills are mountains.
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Saved!So now you can't buy books through the Amazon app, you have to go open a web browser. What a stupid idea!
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … That's weird.. I googled it just now, supposedly it was done this way so amazon doesn't have to pay Apple a cut each time someone buys a book through the app. So I assume you're using an iPhone or iPad. (which is odd because I pegged you as an Android user)
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … well there's the Kindle app, maybe you have to use that. That's how I used to do it. I never used the regular Amazon app for anything. I prefer shopping on browser, since you get to, y'know, have multiple items open in separate tabs. The inability to do this made the app pretty useless imo. (not to mention other perks to using the browser, like being to copy/paste urls to items that I want on favslist! or other sites besides favlist)
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Saved!NodleyEditing … OK, when I try to buy a book it says: To remain in compliance with the Google Play Store policies, you will no longer be able to buy new content from the app. You can build a reading list on the app and buy on Amazon website from your browser.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … I might try that kindle app. It should get delivered to my kindle right, not just my phone?
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Saved!rockshard PhDEditing … It should be on all your devices I think? unno if you'd have to manually download it on each device. That may depend on your settings.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … You've tried apps though right? A good mobile app optimised for a phone is head and shoulders above a browser.
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Saved!Mandatory overtime days suck. I want my 4 day work week back. At least the paychecks will be nice the next few weeks...
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Saved!WoodrowShigeruEditing … I hear ya. I've been working 9-11-hour days for two months in a row now. This is garbage … Do you work at Amazon now?
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … Yea still working at Amazon. My normal workweek is four 10-hour days. But we have a mandatory OT day that they can tack on. They've added it the past three weeks. I wouldn't mind so much if it seemed busy but half the day I'm standing around waiting for work. There's no reason for me to be there. What do you do for work Woody?
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Saved!WoodrowShigeruEditing … A mandatory overtime day! What the fuck?! — I develop websites, very similar to what I do for Favslist. Though, I'm looking for another job now; one that respects my spare time, boundaries and contract more.
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … Yea the MET sucks but at least I get 4 day workweeks most of the year. Apart from the past few weeks they only added it twice since January.
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Saved!After 4 weeks at this new building it's alright. I'm still waiting to find these Amazon warehouse horror stories... it's clean as hell and the work is a piece of cake. Building is only two months old so management seems pretty green, a mix of new hires and people brought over from other locations. Feels like a good environment to work my way up through pretty easily. Much better than the last building I was at where all the higher ups seemed to have held their positions for awhile and didn't look like much room for upward movement. The building is right next to a river I've paddled often and I can't wait for spring time when I can just pop my boat in the water after work for a quick evening jaunt. After bouncing around for a few years I think I might've found somewhere to stay awhile. Finally feeling hopeful about the future and having a bit of a plan.
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Saved!Going back to work for Jeffy B again. It's so damn easy to get an Amazon job and they pay better than most places around here. Hopefully it's not one of the horror story facilities, fhe last one I worked at was pretty chill. I'm amazed I was able to get the day shift 7-5:30 4 days a week.
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … Yea, I hear all the facilities run very differently. This is newer one with a robotics floor so I'm hopeful it won't be a total shit show.
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Saved!aaah... Jeff... harder... don't stop now...
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Saved!LizardTaroEditing … I don't have anything interesting to post, so I have to resort to these ultra shitposts now
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … dude im suffering without my headphones. they're still in shipment so they can be repaired. i cant stand listening to ghost with these cheap earbuds. im listening to clear blue sky right now. pain. i should have speakers why dont i have speakers. you know i dont have a tv? i watch movies at my desk. i cant watch movies with these earbuds. there's my game console monitor (which has speakers built in), so i can watch whatever's on netflix with that, but i dunno, im so used to using my desktop monitor. and my studio monitor headphones.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I really like Amazon's "Prime Wardrobe." You can order select clothing for a one-week trial period, with a return label packed with the shipment. No fuss over filing for a return, you only pay after you choose what you're gonna keep.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I once ordered a shirt, and it had stains and loose threads all over it. Bullshit, right. So I file for a return, send it in, and they only give me a partial refund, charging me a *restocking fee.* Their support's no use, so I head to Amazon support, who tells me they can't actually refund that fee--stores are just allowed to charge it. But they understand, hold on, this is kinda bullshit. They can just keep selling a heavily used shirt, collecting the restocking fee over and over? So they issue me some Amazon credit to make up for the incomplete refund. A couple months later they might've actually resolved this restocking fee issue, because I received an email (from Amazon, not the seller) saying "hey, that old refund was bullshit! We're issuing your full refund now!" Also I left the seller a one star review because they're sCUM
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Once I ordered these jeans with ABSURD proportions. Utterly inhuman. The legs were too long for me, and the crotch/rise was several inches short of providing an adequate level of privacy. I file for a return, to which they offer a pARTIAL REFUND. Excuse me? I tell them they can't charge me for an item so defective, so unwearable, and they tell me they agree--so long as the item doesn't match their specified measurements, which they send my way, I'm entitled to a full refund. So I measure. And it turns out, the pants aren't out of order at all, it's the measurements they manufacture the pants with. They're unwearable. I tell you, there ain't a human alive that could comfortably wear them. And these cretinous sons of bitches are telling me I gotta pay a fee, even if I don't want to keep these long-legged micro-crotched abortions? I inform them that I'll go to any means to ensure I don't lose even one penny on their cock and ball enclosure, and that if they don't issue me what I'm owed, I'll file a claim with Amazon support. I didn't have to, as when they received the item, they issued me my complete refund. Victory achieved.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Is my memorization abnormal when it comes to numbers? My current timestamp in The Disaster Artist's audiobook is 2:41:19, which I've remembered after at least two weeks without listening. (edit: gonna listen now. Greg Sestero reads it himself, and does a wonderful Tommy impression). Maybe everyone remembers numbers easily cuz, ya know, there are only so many digits that can be used in them.
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Saved!Free economy shipping... or 10-cent standard shipping? Or $4.19 expedited shipping? These costs are odd. I'll go for the free.
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