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What's the point of this? How is Amazon going to make Amazon level impact/money here? It's just another online portal to buy a car. Feels like some VP had a pet

What's the point of this? How is Amazon going to make Amazon level impact/money here? It's just another online portal to buy a car. Feels like some VP had a pet project and ran with it. I bet the dealers still get to upsell you on body undercoating or whatever before the sale is finalized. Is amazon going to handle loan approval? Or do they think that people will just up their Amazon Prime chase card limits to 40K and pay for it the same as box of paper clips?

anonymousab 3y ago
Can it actually be used to buy a car, unlike dealer sites, which lie about inventory and are a heavy handed laborious way of just getting put on a waitlist and getting a salesman to call you? That'd be a pretty direct improvement in the modern car market.
- buildbot 3y ago
  I don’t know what would change if the dealer is still involved - why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon? “Oops sorry we sold it before you got here, what about this model?”
  - JumpCrisscross 3y ago
    > why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon? Because now they're playing a repeated game [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
  - gwbas1c 3y ago
    Amazon is generally very pro-customer and low seller nonsense. (Say what you want about Amazon's reputation towards sellers,) but they generally swiftly handle stereotypical seller BS when it comes from sellers for other kinds of items.
    - zeusk 3y ago
      And yet their storefront is full of counterfeits and gibberish brands with fake reviews.
      - geodel 3y ago
        But as per Amazon fans it is very pro-customer. Everyone knows Amazon is data driven organization which does not make decisions based on intuition. So they do know customers like at least 75 pages of search results for a trivial kitchen gadget.
    - buildbot 3y ago
      Not in my experience - reposting a comment here I made in the past: "Be extremely careful and document everything - this happened to me with Amazon when I ordered a high end graphics card, and got an empty box. They said to send it back, but when they got it, forgot all about the part where I said the item was missing and claimed I didn’t complete the return. Then they claimed to my credit card company I never requested a return. Then they told the state AG that they had accepted my return when I filed a complaint (perjury!) In the end, I lost 2500$ USD."
busterarm 3y ago
They have direct info on what model car you have and can recommend to you all sorts of products for your vehicle. Currently you have to manually opt-in to do this and enter the information in yourself. I already frequently buy all of my vehicle maintenance items via AMZN.
pengaru 3y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't read TFA I presume Amazon wants in on the Carvana-style predatory lending action. But if Amazon isn't giving loans on these cars, yeah, it seems like an odd move.

anonymousab 3y ago

Can it actually be used to buy a car, unlike dealer sites, which lie about inventory and are a heavy handed laborious way of just getting put on a waitlist and getting a salesman to call you? That'd be a pretty direct improvement in the modern car market.

buildbot 3y ago
I don’t know what would change if the dealer is still involved - why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon? “Oops sorry we sold it before you got here, what about this model?”
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > why wouldn’t they lie to Amazon? Because now they're playing a repeated game [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
- gwbas1c 3y ago
  Amazon is generally very pro-customer and low seller nonsense. (Say what you want about Amazon's reputation towards sellers,) but they generally swiftly handle stereotypical seller BS when it comes from sellers for other kinds of items.
  - zeusk 3y ago
    And yet their storefront is full of counterfeits and gibberish brands with fake reviews.
    - geodel 3y ago
      But as per Amazon fans it is very pro-customer. Everyone knows Amazon is data driven organization which does not make decisions based on intuition. So they do know customers like at least 75 pages of search results for a trivial kitchen gadget.
  - buildbot 3y ago
    Not in my experience - reposting a comment here I made in the past: "Be extremely careful and document everything - this happened to me with Amazon when I ordered a high end graphics card, and got an empty box. They said to send it back, but when they got it, forgot all about the part where I said the item was missing and claimed I didn’t complete the return. Then they claimed to my credit card company I never requested a return. Then they told the state AG that they had accepted my return when I filed a complaint (perjury!) In the end, I lost 2500$ USD."

busterarm 3y ago

They have direct info on what model car you have and can recommend to you all sorts of products for your vehicle. Currently you have to manually opt-in to do this and enter the information in yourself. I already frequently buy all of my vehicle maintenance items via AMZN.

pengaru 3y ago

Disclaimer: I haven't read TFA I presume Amazon wants in on the Carvana-style predatory lending action. But if Amazon isn't giving loans on these cars, yeah, it seems like an odd move.