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Shopping with Amazon has become increasingly difficult. I can no longer rely on the reviews, and the volume of results that come up for even a simple search mak
by FerretFred 6y ago
Shopping with Amazon has become increasingly difficult. I can no longer rely on the reviews, and the volume of results that come up for even a simple search make for a lot of searching. Amazon really, really need to stop being the dumpster for cheap and nasty China-manufactured goods. And yes, of course I'm welcome to shop elsewhere if I don't like what's on offer, and that's what I'm increasingly doing. Bezos' loss, but he'll never notice.
- bradgessler 6y agoI miss the Amazon from yesteryear when Prime was first launched. You could confidently read and trust the reviews, 1-click buy the item when satisfied, and have it show up 1-2 days later. Today that magic is lost; it’s mostly a huge junk store with untrustworthy reviews. Something I can’t really get my head around is that it seems like such an obvious problem to identify within Amazon’s ranks, and correcting it feels like something within their means, but they just ... don’t. Are there any e-commerce sites that exist today with the same magic Amazon use to have?
- Tarsul 6y agoIt appears to be a similar problem akin to facebook, twitter etc. which promote "every" content no matter how bad (e.g. trolling etc.) it is for as long as the underlying metrics (e.g. click rates, revenue) appear to go up. However, they don't see the second order effect, namely that customers lose interest in engaging with the sites over the long run and start looking for alternatives.