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Buy directly from manufacturers or use smaller, more specialized retailers. You'll probably pay around the same price, possibly even less. Worst part is that y

by tjr225 8y ago

Buy directly from manufacturers or use smaller, more specialized retailers. You'll probably pay around the same price, possibly even less. Worst part is that you might not get your package in two days, but you also won't have to pay for Amazon prime. In many, many cases retailers offer free shipping. For knick-knacks(chinese garbo such as LED lights or whatever), car parts, etc. eBay is pretty good. I don't shop at Amazon for the same reasons I don't shop at Wal-Mart. They have a history of using shady techniques to put competition out of business. I also don't buy that their treatment of the customer is as good as they claim it to be. Shopping on amazon had become a pain in the ass when I gave it up.

Zelphyr 8y ago
Walmart's treatment of the customer is terrible - a direct reflection of their treatment of their employees in my opinion. The same will soon be said of Amazon. Which is a shame because I can remember a time when both offered amazing customer service.
tracker1 8y ago
If amazon raises their Prime prices again, I'm out... I don't really use the Prime video services, which kind of suck and have limited use outside their Fire devices, which don't support Youtube thanks to their war with Google who created the Android base their fire devices use. I'm generally clicking Seller: amazon.com in searches because I don't want to deal with other vendors for delivery issues, which is often a problem. It's gotten just plain more difficult to use. And I'm finding myself more likely to go to local stores as a result. Not to mention, the 2-day shipping now often means that it'll be delivered 2-days from when it ships, which could be a few days out. Where it used to always ship out the same day for 2 days later for delivery. The increased number of people that are stealing packages left on doorsteps make me more leery. It's getting close to a point where it just isn't worth it to me.
- giobox 8y ago
  > I don’t really use the prime video services which kind of suck and have limited use outside their Fire devices While I’m no fan of paying more for Prime either, Prime Video is supported on practically everything - Apple TV, Roku, PS4, Xbox One, iOS, Android, desktop browsers, various smart TV vendors, all in addition to their own range of really pretty cheap streaming devices and tablets. Amazon apparently really don’t care what device you use.
  - tracker1 8y ago
    Unless it's Android TV (does work on the Shield TV, but UX is poor), other times I've used it the different seasons of a show were broken apart by season and hard to find/align last I did try. For the most part, their included content just doesn't interest me. It may be a bit better. My other niggle is Hulu's Live TV doesn't work on NVidia Shield TV (their offline kind of works), but that's just an aside from a different company. I got a new 4k fire stick because of Hulu in particular. My GF watches a lot of the stuff in Hulu.

by tjr225 8y ago

Zelphyr 8y ago

Walmart's treatment of the customer is terrible - a direct reflection of their treatment of their employees in my opinion. The same will soon be said of Amazon. Which is a shame because I can remember a time when both offered amazing customer service.

tracker1 8y ago

If amazon raises their Prime prices again, I'm out... I don't really use the Prime video services, which kind of suck and have limited use outside their Fire devices, which don't support Youtube thanks to their war with Google who created the Android base their fire devices use. I'm generally clicking Seller: amazon.com in searches because I don't want to deal with other vendors for delivery issues, which is often a problem. It's gotten just plain more difficult to use. And I'm finding myself more likely to go to local stores as a result. Not to mention, the 2-day shipping now often means that it'll be delivered 2-days from when it ships, which could be a few days out. Where it used to always ship out the same day for 2 days later for delivery. The increased number of people that are stealing packages left on doorsteps make me more leery. It's getting close to a point where it just isn't worth it to me.

giobox 8y ago
> I don’t really use the prime video services which kind of suck and have limited use outside their Fire devices While I’m no fan of paying more for Prime either, Prime Video is supported on practically everything - Apple TV, Roku, PS4, Xbox One, iOS, Android, desktop browsers, various smart TV vendors, all in addition to their own range of really pretty cheap streaming devices and tablets. Amazon apparently really don’t care what device you use.
- tracker1 8y ago
  Unless it's Android TV (does work on the Shield TV, but UX is poor), other times I've used it the different seasons of a show were broken apart by season and hard to find/align last I did try. For the most part, their included content just doesn't interest me. It may be a bit better. My other niggle is Hulu's Live TV doesn't work on NVidia Shield TV (their offline kind of works), but that's just an aside from a different company. I got a new 4k fire stick because of Hulu in particular. My GF watches a lot of the stuff in Hulu.