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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

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."

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."