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Maybe this is working for the masses but I HATE searching for things to buy on Amazon. Last time I tried, the results pages are overwhelmed with sometimes liter
by creato 6y ago
Maybe this is working for the masses but I HATE searching for things to buy on Amazon. Last time I tried, the results pages are overwhelmed with sometimes literally hundreds of the exact same product sold by gibberish seller names. Ratings were obviously useless (the same product will have thousands of 5 star reviews by one seller, 10s of more mixed reviews on others).
Maybe it's better now but I can't remember the last time I tried to find something on Amazon because of this.
- joosters 6y agoAmazon’s search is terrible. If you sort by price, then the top pages of results are almost always complete garbage items that are completely unrelated to what you are looking for, no matter how specific you are. Almost like Amazon don’t want you to find the cheapest items...
- cycomanic 6y agoSo much this. Its actually amazing how it can be this bad. It also is a good example how you don't have to make a good product to rise to the top.
- kevincox 6y agoThe thing that I hate the most about Amazon search is that they return partial matches. So if I search "evaporative humidifier" half of the results don't have the word "evaporative" in them and I am just wasting my time scrolling though and having to carefully read the descriptions. It seems that they try their hardest never to return an empty page, but this is extremely frustrating to a consumer because I would much rather you just tell me that you don't have something, or only have 10, rather than spreading those 10 matches over 20 pages of junk results. I guess their thought is that the results may be "close enough" but they aren't! If I am ok with compromising I'll remove some conditions from my search upon seeing an empty result list. (here is an idea: recommend which terms I can remove to find the most results) But they just ignore random terms, even if some terms are negotiable for me they will get me to waste so much time scrolling though the items that don't match the critical terms that I no check other sites first.
- specialist 6y agoAmazon = eBay + house brands + ad network It's a marvel that any third parties remain on Amazon.
- tbihl 6y ago+ shipping and returns expectations + chance of refunding your small purchase 3X to lie for a seller in your review.
- specialist 6y agoYa, Amazon Prime was pretty smart. Ok, Bezos did two new things.