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I don't really buy much from Amazon these days. I think it has a perception of good value more than it actually is. (I'm in the UK). 1) I can usually find near
by martinald 9y ago
I don't really buy much from Amazon these days. I think it has a perception of good value more than it actually is. (I'm in the UK).
1) I can usually find nearly all of 'big ticket' items (TVs, laptops etc) on a competitors site for the same price or less, with fast shipping and extended warranty.
2) For random low value stuff eBay is often cheaper usually and doesn't have any shipping limits.
3) Amazon is absolutely horrible to browse with the amount of junk and fakes now, the signal to noise is way too low to try and compare products in a category.
The only thing I find them consistently good for and buy from ironically is books, what they started with.
Prime Now in London would be good but the UI is atrocious. It is basically unusable, there are so many glaring errors and features missing I don't know where to start. Different stores have different 'baskets', but it shows you products from all stores. So you end up with £12 in your amazon basket and £28 in your morrisons basket which means you can't order either as there is a £40 minimum order per 'store'. If they cancel your order for whatever reason (maybe one item was out of stock) you have to add everything by hand one by one, there's no readd to cart button. It's totally crazy for an ecommerce company to be SO BAD at UI.
- paulddraper 9y agoMy last eight items, over two months: Cloth napkins (more convenient than trying to find them at crowded Walmart). Replacement aquarium lights (cheaper than Petco). Good no-spill sippy cups (could only find this kind on Amazon). Art paper (nothing special). Instant pot (used; only available in that condition on Amazon/Ebay). Cloth diaper covers (hard to find these nowadays). New ballast matching my aquarium lights (hard to find), when I found out that's why the earlier lights went out. 1" yoga mat because of my post-ACL-repair knee (hard to find).
- stirlo 9y agoI'm very sure I could find all of these on eBay with minimal effort. eBays experience maybe slightly worse than Amazon but I'm not paying $120 a year for it...
- paulddraper 9y agoYou wind up paying a lot more than $120 if you're getting 2-day shipping with all that.