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It’s a shame in some ways. Setting aside the rest of it, the core Amazon experience is kinda annoying. Trying to find anything in its morass of Bad metadata is
by matthewmacleod 9y ago
It’s a shame in some ways.
Setting aside the rest of it, the core Amazon experience is kinda annoying. Trying to find anything in its morass of Bad metadata is increasingly challenging. The marketplace aspect is comprehensively shitty, to the point that I will entirely avoid anything that isn’t actually shipped by Amazon.
Haven’t you ever hit a product page for say, a pair of shoes, and the “colour” options are things like “Blue”, “Green”, “EXTRA LARGE”, “pair”, “SHOE”, “red” - each of which actually turn out to be different products from different sellers with different delivery terms. Or a listing for an SD card that combines different manufacturers for different sizes, except some of them are actually SSDs and other ones are 3.5” hard disks? I’m full of rage just thinking about it.
And it’s a shame because ordering from Amazon is great. Fast and reliable delivery, easy returns, that kinda stuff. If it was easier to find things on it, I’d use it even more. As it is, I barely tolerate it, and there are other options that are actually pretty appealing.
- Paperweight 9y agoThis absolutely enrages me, too. Especially when other big retailers are copying the same model. It's made shopping for computer parts an absolute nightmare. I swear the plan is to maximize the time it takes to find anything and thus have more time to try to sell you more junk.
- kaybe 9y agoThere is a shop in my city that will just sell you computer parts. You walk in there, tell them 'I want a basic mouse' or whatever, they will hand you one they approve of, you give them money and walk out. By now this is faster than trying to find one online, including the ride there. It will not even be significantly more expensive.
- Slansitartop 9y ago> It's made shopping for computer parts an absolute nightmare. Give Newegg a try, they get it right.
- astrange 9y agoThough each order seems to result in six emails, without a way to turn it off.
- Slansitartop 9y agoI have filters for all "order" emails, so I haven't even really noticed anything like that.
- Paperweight 9y agoThey used to. Now they copied Amazon and it's a nightmare. Just a random example, you want a bluetooth headset but you get like a 25% SNR in that category: https://www.newegg.ca/Bluetooth-Headsets-Accessories/SubCategory/ID-565?Tid=165890 https://www.newegg.ca/Bluetooth-Headsets-Accessories/SubCate...
- zaarn 9y agoAmazon has pretty abysmal filtering, yeah. Funnily enough, I used to search on ebay for computer parts first, the metadata system there is way more thorough so I can filter out the parts and then check them directly on amazon via partnumber or model name.
- astrange 9y agoLately I've been confused by the number of generic brands on Amazon. If you look for USB CD drives, there are LG and Dell branded ones (ok), but also: Chuanganzhuo, Gipow, Versiontech, Blingco, Wsky, Lacdo, Dansrue, Cocopa, Rodzon, Miluotech, iClever… Does Amazon let the same people list the same items under different sellers? Is China actually a capitalist paradise where anyone can start a lifestyle brand of CD drives?
- CamelCaseName 9y ago>Does Amazon let the same people list the same items under different sellers? Yes. >Is China actually a capitalist paradise where anyone can start a lifestyle brand of CD drives? Yes, but you will be surprised at how difficult it is to succeed. For each of the brands you mentioned, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of failed ones selling the same product.
- CamelCaseName 9y ago>Haven’t you ever hit a product page for say, a pair of shoes, and the “colour” options are things like “Blue”, “Green”, “EXTRA LARGE”, “pair”, “SHOE”, “red” - each of which actually turn out to be different products from different sellers with different delivery terms. Or a listing for an SD card that combines different manufacturers for different sizes, except some of them are actually SSDs and other ones are 3.5” hard disks? I’m full of rage just thinking about it. This is called ASIN merging and happens when a malicious seller wants to quickly boost their review count. Please report it as a violation.