5 ms·
"You know that boundary that we agreed upon a while back? We're gonna violate that boundary now. This is not an opportunity to negotiate a new agreement, we're
by reverendsteveii 2y ago
"You know that boundary that we agreed upon a while back? We're gonna violate that boundary now. This is not an opportunity to negotiate a new agreement, we're gonna do whatever we want to you because we're big and you're little."
Stuff like this is why I've cut amazon out of my life entirely. No more new devices, no more new purchases, cancelled prime, all of it gone.
- bitmasher9 2y agoAmazon is rarely the cheapest way to have a package delivered to your home in less than two days. You can often find people much cheaper if you don’t mind waiting a week or two. I reduced Amazon by 90% when I realized how much money I was wasting over 70-120 packages a year.
- azinman2 2y agoWhat’s the alternative? Everyone else has you pay for shipping, and it’s slower.
- reverendsteveii 2y agoTo my mind that's just what my privacy costs and I'm willing to pay it. Others might not feel the same way, and they're welcome to pawn their data for free fast shipping.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoEveryone has you pay for shipping. Amazon just lies about it, and has contracts that prevent people from selling their wares anywhere else cheaper.
- azinman2 2y agoAmazon spreads the cost across everyone (who is prime). The biggest users pay the least for shipping.
- gundmc 2y ago> Amazon is rarely the cheapest way to have a package delivered to your home in less than two days. You can often find people much cheaper if you don’t mind waiting a week or two. But "waiting a week or two" seems directly at odds with delivered in less than 2 days. End users don't really care about shipping speed per service (unless it's a perishable or temperature-sensitive item). They care about how long it will take to arrive from the time the order is placed.
- bitmasher9 2y agoSorry if my message was confusing. There are options that offer fast shipping at slightly reduced prices, and options that offer slow shipping at significantly reduced prices. Walmart.com, eBay, temu, and aliexpress are the most common sources I use, but I also do a lot of business with smaller retailers and brand websites.
- DecentShoes 2y agoOne week is longer than two days.
- smrtinsert 2y agoWe've stopped buying everything from Amazon as well. It's been a huge switch, but feels entirely justified watching current events.
- sapphicsnail 2y agoWhat alternatives have you found? Do you mostly go to smaller vendors?
- reverendsteveii 2y agonot the person you're replying to but one trick I've found to be very effective is to find a product on amazon and then look for the vendor to buy from directly.
- dangisautism 2y ago[dead]
- hn_acc1 2y agoI can often do that, but the biggest lament with the spouse is the easy returns on Amazon. You often have to pay for shipping to return an item and even then, only with an RMA and / or 15% restocking fee, while (if you have Prime), free on Amazon. I realize some of the "free shipping" is baked into the price at times - but I've yet to see it arriving faster or cheaper all costs considered from a 3rd party compared to that same item on Amazon. There's a lot less friction via Amazon.
- quitit 2y agoAlso just a tip for an easy discount code or coupon: 1. Visit the manufacturer's social media account, if they are promoting an influencer, then visit the influencer's social media account. 2. That influencer usually has a discount code as part of a profit sharing deal with the brand. For many it's right in their bio. 3. Also searching youtube/instagram for "reviews" often finds advertorial style content that includes a discount code This works particularly well if you're buying things like health supplements, but I've seen it for everything from tech to holidays.
- SpaceNoodled 2y agoNo, it's just disablement of a hardware-based feature that won't be able to run the new software.
- bsimpson 2y agoI honestly wonder how legal that is. If you bought something under the pretense that you could disable cloud stuff and then it silently starts uploading to the cloud, that's a violation of your agreement. If they start dropping all requests until you assent to their shrinkwrap agreement, that still feels like a violation of the promises they made when you bought it, but unfortunately has precedent. See also: all the video games that no longer work because the publishers stopped supporting the servers they relied on.
- quitit 2y agoIt's just "bait and switch" (which is illegal in most countries) with a few more steps. They should be forced to offer a refund.
- shostack 2y ago"Legal" requires judges that will view the case in a certain way and often needs the force of a government agency to back it. This administration has gutted both those things. Expect it to get worse, not better.
- reverendsteveii 2y agoThe agreement contains provisions by which they can unilaterally change the agreement. They almost all do now, it's pretty standard boilerplate. Not long ago there was a TV, I wanna say it was LG but doublecheck that before you quote me, that shipped an OTA update with a change to the licensing agreement. Either you agreed, or they intentionally disabled all functionality. As we steadily move toward that sort of freedom that means less things you can actually do and more ways you can get screwed over this kind of stuff becomes increasingly common.