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I don't understand the hate with Amazon.com. I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. A

I don't understand the hate with Amazon.com. I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. Anytime I would see I have to buy more stuff to get it sooner for free I would just buy things I needed for the house that I would otherwise spend two hours to get. Seemed like a win win to me.

bacchusracine 4y ago
>I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. The problem is this only ever really worked for the people in the bigger cities. Half the time people who live in rural areas can't even get their prime items to come in less than a week. It's why I only ever take the free trials for the free shipping and cancel it immediately on arrival. And in the entire time I've been doing that the only time my items ever arrived within two days was when I specifically got a hold of Customer support and complained about it. It sounds nice. It is definitely just a dream for many of us. Hours? LOL, I've never seen it happen in real life. Must be nice for those who can actually get it.
acuozzo 4y ago
> I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. Sure, but most people wanted that without the societal ramifications. The same is true of AGI. And outsourcing. And dependence on oil. We wax poetic about the good and leave it to people like Murray Bookchin to decry the bad.
kotaKat 4y ago
My utter frustration is that there's regions that Amazon Prime literally won't ship anything sooner than a week out. I never am given next-day let alone 2-day shipping options anymore -- everything is 4 to 5 out at the fastest with no way to pay for even faster. To add to the insult, they don't ship it for 3 of those 5 days, then it suddenly goes overnight on day 4 after the order. This is even on Amazon's own products -- right now, I can't get a Kindle Oasis without it being delivered next Wednesday at the soonest. That seems a bit unfair to pay for Prime and get second-class service.
Avshalom 4y ago
>I thought in the 90's Ah, see that's your problem. It's 2023.
metalcrow 4y ago
People also want an end to world hunger, but not if that requires killing people and feeding their ground corpses up as nutrient bars! That is: Amazon is useful, but also does a toooon of bad stuff, so people don't like it for that bad stuff.
qgin 4y ago
It's Hacker News. You're not allowed to like things. Hey, I don't make the rules.

bacchusracine 4y ago

>I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. The problem is this only ever really worked for the people in the bigger cities. Half the time people who live in rural areas can't even get their prime items to come in less than a week. It's why I only ever take the free trials for the free shipping and cancel it immediately on arrival. And in the entire time I've been doing that the only time my items ever arrived within two days was when I specifically got a hold of Customer support and complained about it. It sounds nice. It is definitely just a dream for many of us. Hours? LOL, I've never seen it happen in real life. Must be nice for those who can actually get it.

acuozzo 4y ago

> I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. Sure, but most people wanted that without the societal ramifications. The same is true of AGI. And outsourcing. And dependence on oil. We wax poetic about the good and leave it to people like Murray Bookchin to decry the bad.

kotaKat 4y ago

My utter frustration is that there's regions that Amazon Prime literally won't ship anything sooner than a week out. I never am given next-day let alone 2-day shipping options anymore -- everything is 4 to 5 out at the fastest with no way to pay for even faster. To add to the insult, they don't ship it for 3 of those 5 days, then it suddenly goes overnight on day 4 after the order. This is even on Amazon's own products -- right now, I can't get a Kindle Oasis without it being delivered next Wednesday at the soonest. That seems a bit unfair to pay for Prime and get second-class service.

Avshalom 4y ago

>I thought in the 90's Ah, see that's your problem. It's 2023.

metalcrow 4y ago

People also want an end to world hunger, but not if that requires killing people and feeding their ground corpses up as nutrient bars! That is: Amazon is useful, but also does a toooon of bad stuff, so people don't like it for that bad stuff.

qgin 4y ago

It's Hacker News. You're not allowed to like things. Hey, I don't make the rules.