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'WhyQ' • why respect the customer's actual search query when we could auction keywords instead? • why allow the user to sort by price when they might find a p
by thomassmith65 2y ago
'WhyQ'
• why respect the customer's actual search query when we could auction keywords instead?
• why allow the user to sort by price when they might find a product we get lower commission on?
• why not spam 'Prime' on every page, and use dark patterns to trick users into a subscription?
• why bother with expensive safety and quality audits of third party seller products?
• why ignore our private metrics on popular third party products when we could use them to create a knockoff and drive them out of business?
- docdeek 2y agoI take your point, however, "why allow the user to sort by price when they might find a product we get lower commission on?” Are you not able to sort by price in the US? On Amazon France it is easy to sort by price (either increasing or decreasing).
- thomassmith65 2y agoAmazon's 'sort by price' intersperses products at different price-points randomly throughout the list. This makes the list hard for a human to parse, since it's never quite obvious how far down one is.
- bttrpll 2y agoahhh... 5 whys... having horrible flashbacks of that place.