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Most of their UI changes have been user hostile or added dark patterns. For instance where once you got local items and sellers by default, now it defaults to i

Most of their UI changes have been user hostile or added dark patterns. For instance where once you got local items and sellers by default, now it defaults to international and you have to change a setting to exclude overseas sellers. Almost everyone will want to shop nationally first. It's the same arrogant "knowing better" seen in Facebook's show recent posts constantly resetting. Picking out one feature that they haven't ruined is poor consolation. As the other commenter notes Amazon has let you break down into price tiers for years. Most sites I shop at can do this. eBay search results are better than Amazon however - but that is because Amazon's has become so awful.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
> Almost everyone will want to shop nationally first. It's the same arrogant "knowing better" seen in Facebook's show recent posts constantly resetting. A lot of people want to shop price first then see how much cost would increase by buying from someone already on the same continent. Including shipping when sorting by price is the opposite of user-hostile and they've done this since forever, most online retailers don't do this.
- oldcynic 8y ago
  Including shipping is indeed useful, but I was calling out changes, and as you say they've done that forever. Just about every change they've made in the last half decade that I can think of makes it less friendly. I would be surprised if it's a lot that prefer default inclusion of international. They made the change right about the same time they made customs fees for international automatic and unavoidable. Makes me suspect that fee is including a hidden profit element in this dark pattern.
- DrScump 8y ago
  Including shipping when sorting by price Actually, they give search results preference to items with "free shipping" (their so-called "Fast and Free" cobrand) regardless of final price to the consumer.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

> Almost everyone will want to shop nationally first. It's the same arrogant "knowing better" seen in Facebook's show recent posts constantly resetting. A lot of people want to shop price first then see how much cost would increase by buying from someone already on the same continent. Including shipping when sorting by price is the opposite of user-hostile and they've done this since forever, most online retailers don't do this.

oldcynic 8y ago
Including shipping is indeed useful, but I was calling out changes, and as you say they've done that forever. Just about every change they've made in the last half decade that I can think of makes it less friendly. I would be surprised if it's a lot that prefer default inclusion of international. They made the change right about the same time they made customs fees for international automatic and unavoidable. Makes me suspect that fee is including a hidden profit element in this dark pattern.
DrScump 8y ago
Including shipping when sorting by price Actually, they give search results preference to items with "free shipping" (their so-called "Fast and Free" cobrand) regardless of final price to the consumer.