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Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem wit

Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem with counterfeits on Zappos.

lm28469 7y ago
People buy all kind of weird things on amazon, toilet paper, shoes, fresh vegetables &c. Convenience is king
CharlesColeman 7y ago
> Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem with counterfeits on Zappos. I think a lot of people kinda lazily settled into using Amazon.com for all/most of their online shopping years ago when it was clearly better its problems weren't as pronounced. Those people aren't even bothering to find or look at other sites, and just buy whatever's on Amazon.com. It takes some extremely bad experience or serendipitous exposure to change that habit. I was in that boat until I had serious problems with the quality of Amazon Logistics delivery and went to a Best Buy and discovered that (for many products I was buying) Amazon doesn't have any price advantage over physical retail anymore (and often its prices are far, far worse).
- jschwartzi 7y ago
  Me too. I actually have been ordering online from Best Buy and either getting it same-day or getting it in 1-2 days when it ships from a warehouse. There's no reason to buy from Amazon anymore.
chrisseaton 7y ago
> Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? Why wouldn't I? I already have the account, app, and shipping set up. Why are shoes different to anything else?
- selectodude 7y ago
  Zappos is owned by amazon, and your credentials will work there too.
hombre_fatal 7y ago
> They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear Well, apparently not. They sell all sorts of clothes, eyewear, jewelry, etc. It's just a smaller Amazon that has less, offers no obvious upside, and is yet another place you need to register an account for and give your payment details to. Though if counterfeiting is as big of a problem as it appears to be, that would be one reason to consider Zappos. I just clicked the "Men's" section and got everything from pants to cute jock straps[1] before I saw my first shoe. So clearly they gave up their "shoes only" shtick. [1]: https://www.zappos.com/p/2-x-ist-3-pack-stretch-jock-strap-buffalo-check-print-scooter-black-black-varied-stripe-scooter/product/8563208/color/835699 https://www.zappos.com/p/2-x-ist-3-pack-stretch-jock-strap-b...
PopeDotNinja 7y ago
You just remindede that I need a new pair of shoes. I'm looking at the Amazon order page and it says "sold by Zappos". Does Zappos use Amazon's warehouses? If yes, is Zappos stuff co-mingled with Amazon stuff? Screenshot of the order page: https://imgur.com/UMkUoau https://imgur.com/UMkUoau
deckar01 7y ago
I have done it and will never do it again. The search options were terrible. When I finally settled on a product and ordered it, I received a product that was clearly a much cheaper knockoff of the shoe that was pictured. I contacted the seller and got the run around until I finally just requested a refund directly from Amazon. This same basic issue has happened multiple times. Product and images are originally high quality, then at some point the manufacturing process is optimized to produce an inferior product without updating the listing. Edit: This even happens with stores like Kohl's. The same exact product sold in stores will be sold online for the same price, but the quality is significantly lower.
cactus2093 7y ago
I've bought from both, IIRC when I bought from Amazon it was cheaper because Zappos was only selling the current year's model but someone on Amazon was selling the previous year's for less. I don't think I got counterfits, if I did I never noticed. I've also noticed Zappos is also frequently out of stock in a lot of sizes, it seems very plausible they could be out of stock on a color or size that's in stock on amazon.com.

Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem with counterfeits on Zappos.

lm28469 7y ago

People buy all kind of weird things on amazon, toilet paper, shoes, fresh vegetables &c. Convenience is king

CharlesColeman 7y ago

> Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear, and have a pretty good shopping experience. Never had a problem with counterfeits on Zappos. I think a lot of people kinda lazily settled into using Amazon.com for all/most of their online shopping years ago when it was clearly better its problems weren't as pronounced. Those people aren't even bothering to find or look at other sites, and just buy whatever's on Amazon.com. It takes some extremely bad experience or serendipitous exposure to change that habit. I was in that boat until I had serious problems with the quality of Amazon Logistics delivery and went to a Best Buy and discovered that (for many products I was buying) Amazon doesn't have any price advantage over physical retail anymore (and often its prices are far, far worse).

jschwartzi 7y ago
Me too. I actually have been ordering online from Best Buy and either getting it same-day or getting it in 1-2 days when it ships from a warehouse. There's no reason to buy from Amazon anymore.

chrisseaton 7y ago

> Why would anyone buy shoes on Amazon? Why wouldn't I? I already have the account, app, and shipping set up. Why are shoes different to anything else?

selectodude 7y ago
Zappos is owned by amazon, and your credentials will work there too.

hombre_fatal 7y ago

> They own Zappos, whose focus is specifically footwear Well, apparently not. They sell all sorts of clothes, eyewear, jewelry, etc. It's just a smaller Amazon that has less, offers no obvious upside, and is yet another place you need to register an account for and give your payment details to. Though if counterfeiting is as big of a problem as it appears to be, that would be one reason to consider Zappos. I just clicked the "Men's" section and got everything from pants to cute jock straps[1] before I saw my first shoe. So clearly they gave up their "shoes only" shtick. [1]: https://www.zappos.com/p/2-x-ist-3-pack-stretch-jock-strap-buffalo-check-print-scooter-black-black-varied-stripe-scooter/product/8563208/color/835699 https://www.zappos.com/p/2-x-ist-3-pack-stretch-jock-strap-b...

PopeDotNinja 7y ago

You just remindede that I need a new pair of shoes. I'm looking at the Amazon order page and it says "sold by Zappos". Does Zappos use Amazon's warehouses? If yes, is Zappos stuff co-mingled with Amazon stuff? Screenshot of the order page: https://imgur.com/UMkUoau https://imgur.com/UMkUoau

deckar01 7y ago

I have done it and will never do it again. The search options were terrible. When I finally settled on a product and ordered it, I received a product that was clearly a much cheaper knockoff of the shoe that was pictured. I contacted the seller and got the run around until I finally just requested a refund directly from Amazon. This same basic issue has happened multiple times. Product and images are originally high quality, then at some point the manufacturing process is optimized to produce an inferior product without updating the listing. Edit: This even happens with stores like Kohl's. The same exact product sold in stores will be sold online for the same price, but the quality is significantly lower.

cactus2093 7y ago

I've bought from both, IIRC when I bought from Amazon it was cheaper because Zappos was only selling the current year's model but someone on Amazon was selling the previous year's for less. I don't think I got counterfits, if I did I never noticed. I've also noticed Zappos is also frequently out of stock in a lot of sizes, it seems very plausible they could be out of stock on a color or size that's in stock on amazon.com.