Pertinent wrote:
Look Elsewhere wrote:
If you live in Asia, AliExpress and Alibaba are way bigger than Amazon.
or flipkart too wrote:
Thanks for that irrelevant info.
Actually, I live in California and have purchased from them.
I live in Texas and have also purchased from them.
Sears and JCPennies
Seriously, Asia? Nope.
dunes runner wrote:
P.S. Prime sucks.
I've never used it and Amazon is obnoxious the way they keep pushing it.
@dunesy wrote:
You've never used it and yet you feel qualified to say it sucks. This is you and all your other phony personas in a nutshell.
Right, because I know how it works, and I'm not stupid. Can't say the same for you though.
Ride The Pony wrote:
You could always support your local economy and go shopping in person, like a stupid caveman.
+1
I buy stuff online when I can’t find it in person but I never go straight to Amazon with my shopping list. I missed that change in retailing somehow.
I had prime for years but they kept jacking up the prices and I realized that i wasn't interested in 95% of their streaming options. I think it hit $129 a year when i decided to cancel it and see how much i spent on shipping.
I was surprised that even without Prime, amazon often offers free shipping just a few days slower.
Figure I might spend $30 this year on shipping from amazon and get things almost as fast. I mainly order books so I don't really care when they show up.
I'd rather spend that $129 for prime at local used bookstores and help keep them in business.
I also found that without prime i order less useless impulse buys......so that alone has probably saved be a few hundred dollars already. "Hey look...a deep sea diving helmet.....FREE SHIPPING!"
dunes runner wrote:
dunes runner wrote:
P.S. Prime sucks.
I've never used it and Amazon is obnoxious the way they keep pushing it.
@dunesy wrote:
You've never used it and yet you feel qualified to say it sucks. This is you and all your other phony personas in a nutshell.
Right, because I know how it works, and I'm not stupid. Can't say the same for you though.
Yeah, we all know how it works. If it didnt work great my wife and daughter wouldn't use it. Since you obviously have no family or friends who could tell you it sucks, are you basing your opinion on what you read on some message board?
The shipping and handling rates on Ebay of often absurd. Walmart.com is probably the closest competitor to Amazon right now. I generally think the deals offered by Walmart are much better than Amazon. You can also have items delivered to a local store for pickup, or take advantage of free shipping on many things. Even though Prime membership prices are ever increasing, as well as Prime prices in general, I think it's worth it for the free streaming and free expedited shipping.
Sigh, I really miss the Radio Shack days when I could actually go to a smallish brick and mortar store and experience the items prior to purchase.
spotter of lies wrote:
asdfasdfa wrote:
Amazon isn't a store, it's a platform. They make most of their money from third party sellers. So you really aren't buying anything from Amazon; you're buying it from retail arbitrage "entrepreneurs" who buy stuff in bulk at brick and mortar stores and resell it on Amazon. Or you're buying it from drop shippers who just funnel garbage from some factory in China through Amazon. Platforms like Amazon and Shopify actually encourage this practice. There are no guarantees that what you are buying isn't fake or complete crap. Most of the time it is. The problem is when you search for a product on Amazon, it groups every seller together. Sellers with the best reviews get surfaced first. In order to get in the top 5 for search, these sellers pay click farms to order products and have them shipped to random addresses. Then they can leave verified reviews.
Either buy from a local shop or buy directly from a retailer and deal with a little inconvenience in your life.
You just lost your whole arguement right there with that one lie (Boldface above). I've used the site for many years and so has my whole family and there has never been the slightest indication as to the authenticity of what we were getting.
Sorry, buddy, you're wrong. Amazon does indeed have a counterfeit problem these days. The problem is they intermix the inventory from 3rd party sellers with their own inventory. So even if you do purchase directly from Amazon, it's still possible to get a fake that was put in amazon inventory from some shady 3rd party. There's lots of information/stories out there about this - electronics, even books!
spotter of lies wrote:
You just lost your whole arguement right there with that one lie (Boldface above). I've used the site for many years and so has my whole family and there has never been the slightest indication as to the authenticity of what we were getting.
You lost your whole argument when you misspelled "arguement" (
My main problem with Prime is that it's not free. I'm not willing to pay a f*kkin subscription to get stuff delivered.
It has happened multiple times that I either bought some other place (free or one-time fee*) or the Prime dilemma made me realize I don't really need the product and I just didn't buy it at all.
If you want my subscription money you better deliver a service I use every day and not something that just makes it easier for me to spend more money.
Just buy from the actual brand website. Its not that hard. When I am eying a new pair of running shoes then I just head over to Saucony and order there directly. Especially for larger purchases this is super useful and often the manufacturers have some sort of discounts going on when going through their site. I have been doing this more and more and it has severely reduced the amount I use amazon. Yeah your amazon knows all your details and payment info. But entering them in a new page is a matter of 2 min. And you can have your browser store them for your (google chrome does that at least) so its actually as fast as amazon.
These people saying buy from Walmart...lol. Walmart ain’t any better than amazon.
For you MA GA people, there's always Walmart.
Amazon sketchy shipping, what do you mean.
Isnt getting your shite delivered what they do best.
Meat Tornado wrote:
The shipping and handling rates on Ebay of often absurd.
Yes, free is absurd, which is why I use Ebay.
Depends on what you're buying.
Books - I like thriftbooks.com, usually much cheaper unless you need to have a new book for a gift or something
That being said, therein lies a lot of their competitive advantage; I can get a few books and some batteries and an obscure part for my obscure car all on the same order.
Troll-y-mon wrote:
That being said, therein lies a lot of their competitive advantage; I can get a few books and some batteries and an obscure part for my obscure car all on the same order.
That's the thing. I'm ordering an obscure book, midi cables and wireless headphones. Where else can i get that for a good price in less than 2 minutes?
I agree that Amazon often sucks if you aren't a Prime member (I refuse to pay to shop).
Two good alternatives that don't benefit Jeff Bozo:
walmart.com
target.com