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I did. Then I googled amazon.com and "order canceled" and saw the same thing.

by notjustanymike 11y ago

ChuckMcM 11y ago
The tricky bit is who cancelled the order I think, Jet uses a "speculative" pricing model as far as I can tell, they think they can get you that price but then will bail if they cannot, see https://jet.com/purchase-terms https://jet.com/purchase-terms so if you order something and you think "wow I got a great price on that." and then you get email that the order was cancelled because they couldn't get the purchase to go through, you would be annoyed.
- ck2 11y ago
  If they want to run a website where you "might" get something at a great price, that's fine - but they have to advertise it that way and instead of a "buy" or "checkout" button, they need to say "I feel lucky, maybe they will ship me this, but maybe not" If they were straight up about it with good communication, that's fine then. But they cannot pretend to be as good as amazon when they are not even a shadow of amazon.
ck2 11y ago
I have never, ever, in a decade of ordering from amazon had an order canceled. Never. They even let you order things sometimes that they list as "out of stock" but will be fulfilled when re-stocked and they keep you informed about the progress. Even "lightning deals" are carefully measured with exact quantities remaining. With jet, I've already experienced cancels twice and now pretty much don't plan to use them for anything I actually need. They do not have their own stock, they do not have a realtime inventory system with any of their vendors, and apparently either vendors lie to them about available stock or they allow people to order more than what is on hand. We are basically beta testing jet for them. And I don't quite get what their business model is, we already have ebay which allows vendors to list products as a third party.

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I did. Then I googled amazon.com and "order canceled" and saw the same thing.

by notjustanymike 11y ago

I did. Then I googled amazon.com and "order canceled" and saw the same thing.

ChuckMcM 11y ago
The tricky bit is who cancelled the order I think, Jet uses a "speculative" pricing model as far as I can tell, they think they can get you that price but then will bail if they cannot, see https://jet.com/purchase-terms https://jet.com/purchase-terms so if you order something and you think "wow I got a great price on that." and then you get email that the order was cancelled because they couldn't get the purchase to go through, you would be annoyed.
- ck2 11y ago
  If they want to run a website where you "might" get something at a great price, that's fine - but they have to advertise it that way and instead of a "buy" or "checkout" button, they need to say "I feel lucky, maybe they will ship me this, but maybe not" If they were straight up about it with good communication, that's fine then. But they cannot pretend to be as good as amazon when they are not even a shadow of amazon.
ck2 11y ago
I have never, ever, in a decade of ordering from amazon had an order canceled. Never. They even let you order things sometimes that they list as "out of stock" but will be fulfilled when re-stocked and they keep you informed about the progress. Even "lightning deals" are carefully measured with exact quantities remaining. With jet, I've already experienced cancels twice and now pretty much don't plan to use them for anything I actually need. They do not have their own stock, they do not have a realtime inventory system with any of their vendors, and apparently either vendors lie to them about available stock or they allow people to order more than what is on hand. We are basically beta testing jet for them. And I don't quite get what their business model is, we already have ebay which allows vendors to list products as a third party.