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I'd love to see an "Amazon Only" mode that was a switch on the main page to only show the store for sold by or fulfilled by Amazon. I'm sure this can be done so

I'd love to see an "Amazon Only" mode that was a switch on the main page to only show the store for sold by or fulfilled by Amazon. I'm sure this can be done somehow and would make the experience much better. The crap 1000 review emails would be nice to disappear as well.

johansch 11y ago
The lack of a switch like this is especially annoying for people who live in "other countries". Like Sweden, in my case. Amazon gladly ships here (from UK, France, Germany, Spain, US, etc) - with quite decent product and shipment prices. However, all the search results are polluted by these non-Amazon sellers' results, who 90% of the time don't even have an international shipment process. In the end, this just makes me avoid Amazon and go somewhere else.
- dantheman 11y ago
  There is a "ships to X" menu item that will only show you items that can be shipped to sweden.
  - johansch 11y ago
    I tried just now, on amazon.co.uk. Can't find such a thing. Would you mind sharing a screenshot or a description of how to find it?
wickawic 11y ago
There is one: filter your search by "prime items"
JorgeGT 11y ago
At least in Amazon Spain there is an option to select "Amazon.es" as seller in the search filters: http://i.imgur.com/LzS0LY7.png http://i.imgur.com/LzS0LY7.png This way you only browse things sold and managed by Amazon directly and not third-party vendors. Is this not available in other Amazon subsidiaries?
- johansch 11y ago
  This is a bit off-topic, but here is another stupid thing. My experience with amazon.es: 1. I go there. Everything is in Spanish, despite my IP being IP-geolocated to Sweden by every single IP-geolocation database I know of. My browser's Accept-Language HTTP header is "en-US,en;q=0.8,sv". 2. I manage to sign in with my global Amazon account - they can now see that my shipment and verified payment location is in Sweden. Everything is still in Spanish. It would be fine if it was just the product descriptions which lacked english translations that were not available in e.g. English, but this scheme just seems incompetently managed. They run each national site as a silo, language-wise? This kind of thing was a fun adventure ~17 years ago, ordering exotic stuff from Amazon Japan, but in this day and age it just feels stupid.
  - swimfar 11y ago
    Just to provide a counter-point, I'm the exact opposite. I get annoyed when websites try to change the language for me based on my location. Just because I may currently be in Spain doesn't mean that Spanish is my preferred language. When I go to amazon.de, I expect everything to be in German. If I need a different language, I prefer to choose it myself. Even having the language connected to my account wouldn't be preferable to me. I would still prefer the site to be in the language of the "hosting" country (but I'm sure this is a much less common preference). I guess my point is that different people have different preferences which may be one reason why the site isn't designed like you would like it to be. I understand what you're saying about how you expect amazon to be one unified shopping location. But I imagine that amazon.es is designed primarily for the Spanish market and people in Sweden using the site is a much smaller, unintended market.
    - johansch 11y ago
      First: I specified that I was providing them no less than three separate data points: location, language, shipping address. I wouldn't expect some tiny spanish company to do this. However, with a global giant like Amazon I do. Especially when they have already solved the hard part - the logistics around international shipment and payments. The sensible thing for amazon.es to do when they detect a customer who is probably not from Spain (based in e.g. IP-based geolocation) would be top show some dismissable banner at the top of the page saying "We see you are visiting from Sweden. Would you like to read the core part of the site in English? <YES> <NO>")
mabbo 11y ago
There are two. You can choose to filter by items only sold by Amazon. You can also choose to filter by "Prime" items only- with a few small exceptions, these are only items sold by Amazon, or Fulfilled by Amazon (ie: the item is physically in Amazon's hands, but sent to Amazon by a seller). Bias note: I've worked in Amazon Operations Tech for the last 4 years.
- gazby 11y ago
  Filtering by seller requires you to have selected a category, which I find you often have to do several times over to cover all the categories in which the item you're looking for might be located. Filtering for Prime also includes anything fulfilled by Amazon, which I think most people will agree only marginally reduces the risk of getting sub-par quality from random seller number 5. I am yet to find a reliable or convenient method of limiting search results to Amazon-only products.
  - corobo 11y ago
    The biggest difference between Random Company #461 on the marketplace and fulfilled by Amazon though is this > Amazon also handles customer service and product returns for Fulfilled by Amazon items [0] [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200106510 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI...
Stratoscope 11y ago
Keep in mind that Sold by Amazon and Fulfilled by Amazon are two very different things. The latter just means Amazon is providing the distribution service; you're still buying from a third-party Marketplace seller. (I believe sellers are required to follow Amazon's return policies when it's Fulfilled by Amazon, so there is that at least.) Regarding a display switch, you can do that in the search results listings as mabbo described. It would be nice if there were a global setting like you're talking about that applied to all pages and not just search results.
- ikeboy 11y ago
  Any seller is required to follow Amazon's return policies, not just FBA ones. And Amazon will support the buyer in most cases. If the seller refuses to honor a return, file an A to Z claim.
  - paulddraper 11y ago
    As a seller, I can confirm that Amazon's policies tend to be very buyer friendly, more so than say, eBay, IMO.

johansch 11y ago

The lack of a switch like this is especially annoying for people who live in "other countries". Like Sweden, in my case. Amazon gladly ships here (from UK, France, Germany, Spain, US, etc) - with quite decent product and shipment prices. However, all the search results are polluted by these non-Amazon sellers' results, who 90% of the time don't even have an international shipment process. In the end, this just makes me avoid Amazon and go somewhere else.

dantheman 11y ago
There is a "ships to X" menu item that will only show you items that can be shipped to sweden.
- johansch 11y ago
  I tried just now, on amazon.co.uk. Can't find such a thing. Would you mind sharing a screenshot or a description of how to find it?

wickawic 11y ago

There is one: filter your search by "prime items"

JorgeGT 11y ago

At least in Amazon Spain there is an option to select "Amazon.es" as seller in the search filters: http://i.imgur.com/LzS0LY7.png http://i.imgur.com/LzS0LY7.png This way you only browse things sold and managed by Amazon directly and not third-party vendors. Is this not available in other Amazon subsidiaries?

johansch 11y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but here is another stupid thing. My experience with amazon.es: 1. I go there. Everything is in Spanish, despite my IP being IP-geolocated to Sweden by every single IP-geolocation database I know of. My browser's Accept-Language HTTP header is "en-US,en;q=0.8,sv". 2. I manage to sign in with my global Amazon account - they can now see that my shipment and verified payment location is in Sweden. Everything is still in Spanish. It would be fine if it was just the product descriptions which lacked english translations that were not available in e.g. English, but this scheme just seems incompetently managed. They run each national site as a silo, language-wise? This kind of thing was a fun adventure ~17 years ago, ordering exotic stuff from Amazon Japan, but in this day and age it just feels stupid.
- swimfar 11y ago
  Just to provide a counter-point, I'm the exact opposite. I get annoyed when websites try to change the language for me based on my location. Just because I may currently be in Spain doesn't mean that Spanish is my preferred language. When I go to amazon.de, I expect everything to be in German. If I need a different language, I prefer to choose it myself. Even having the language connected to my account wouldn't be preferable to me. I would still prefer the site to be in the language of the "hosting" country (but I'm sure this is a much less common preference). I guess my point is that different people have different preferences which may be one reason why the site isn't designed like you would like it to be. I understand what you're saying about how you expect amazon to be one unified shopping location. But I imagine that amazon.es is designed primarily for the Spanish market and people in Sweden using the site is a much smaller, unintended market.
  - johansch 11y ago
    First: I specified that I was providing them no less than three separate data points: location, language, shipping address. I wouldn't expect some tiny spanish company to do this. However, with a global giant like Amazon I do. Especially when they have already solved the hard part - the logistics around international shipment and payments. The sensible thing for amazon.es to do when they detect a customer who is probably not from Spain (based in e.g. IP-based geolocation) would be top show some dismissable banner at the top of the page saying "We see you are visiting from Sweden. Would you like to read the core part of the site in English? <YES> <NO>")

mabbo 11y ago

There are two. You can choose to filter by items only sold by Amazon. You can also choose to filter by "Prime" items only- with a few small exceptions, these are only items sold by Amazon, or Fulfilled by Amazon (ie: the item is physically in Amazon's hands, but sent to Amazon by a seller). Bias note: I've worked in Amazon Operations Tech for the last 4 years.

gazby 11y ago
Filtering by seller requires you to have selected a category, which I find you often have to do several times over to cover all the categories in which the item you're looking for might be located. Filtering for Prime also includes anything fulfilled by Amazon, which I think most people will agree only marginally reduces the risk of getting sub-par quality from random seller number 5. I am yet to find a reliable or convenient method of limiting search results to Amazon-only products.
- corobo 11y ago
  The biggest difference between Random Company #461 on the marketplace and fulfilled by Amazon though is this > Amazon also handles customer service and product returns for Fulfilled by Amazon items [0] [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200106510 https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI...

Stratoscope 11y ago

Keep in mind that Sold by Amazon and Fulfilled by Amazon are two very different things. The latter just means Amazon is providing the distribution service; you're still buying from a third-party Marketplace seller. (I believe sellers are required to follow Amazon's return policies when it's Fulfilled by Amazon, so there is that at least.) Regarding a display switch, you can do that in the search results listings as mabbo described. It would be nice if there were a global setting like you're talking about that applied to all pages and not just search results.

ikeboy 11y ago
Any seller is required to follow Amazon's return policies, not just FBA ones. And Amazon will support the buyer in most cases. If the seller refuses to honor a return, file an A to Z claim.
- paulddraper 11y ago
  As a seller, I can confirm that Amazon's policies tend to be very buyer friendly, more so than say, eBay, IMO.