Is it convenience that keeps customers coming back to Amazon? I certainly wouldn’t go to a store that sells cheap junk (and counterfeit goods) and posts fake reviews to get me to buy it.
I typically go for just the reviews with media attached plus the ones with 1 or 2 stars to see what people complain about. 4.5 stars just means there is a slight possibility that the product is not crap.
Sadly yes.
Convenience is far less valuable to me than getting the right, high quality product. That might explain why I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in many years.
There are always negative reviews and I try to balance that out with a grain of salt, people seem more likely to complain than leave a good review. However, many of these products are scamming the system and it really blurs the lines.
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This is true, returning is super easy, we just put the money back on account because we're just going to spend it again within a week.
And if you return to Kohls, they give you a 25% coupon to use on something they sell that you were probably going to buy anyway.This is true, returning is super easy, we just put the money back on account because we're just going to spend it again within a week.
Yes it is. Except my local shipping store is now charging $2 to print the label. No thanks, I'll just drive around with it in the truck until I get to a UPS Store.
So now, there has to be some auditing between the assumed cost of shipping vs. the actual cost for UPS (if the shipper packs it, it's more likely to be a more appropriately sized box/bag)Just talked about this a few days ago with my wife. The rating system became rigged. Most recently I wanted to buy a bug/rodent repelling ultrasound machine, I dove into the reviews and they were all about makeup mirrors. Some of these vendors shuffle SKUs to keep reviews good for the products they want to sell at the moment. We just unpacked in our new house and we had to face how much unnecessary shit we have, and about 90% of that shit was purchased via Amazon. Let's call Amazon what it became: a peddler of plastic waste.
Right, for us it's always the unknown that ends up being crap or fake so we've just been sticking with names brands we know and trust. I know even Amazon has admitted that they're having a hard time fighting off the fake reviews as well, it's almost as if they're not spending some of that insane profit on adding credibility to their site.
I just print it before I leave home. Since you’re supposed to include the small tag inside the package, it’s just easier to do it that way.
If they are willing to give up what made them the most convenient shopping site, well, they'll realize over time that people will slowly take their business elsewhere. I'm sick of Amazon boxes anyway, so overall I could just spend the amount of effort to get what I really want once a month as folding and recycling those fucking Amazon boxes.
