This is the main reason I cancelled Prime. They started advertising “More than just free shipping”, and I realized that I only used it for free shipping, and as Prime got more and more expensive I wasn’t getting any value from it.
Now I just put stuff in my cart until I have $35 worth of stuff, and get free shipping anyway. It’s not that much slower. An extra day or two usually, and it doesn’t bother me one bit. I can wait a little while for my $10 guitar strap and it’s not the end of the world.
I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.
I also cancelled prime. It rapidly became clear that they were, and are, deliberately delaying my shipments by like 5 days or more. They don’t even ship my orders until at least 3 days after I place them.
I notice the same thing. I think it’s because they are busy moving it from a distant warehouse to one closer to you, because you can’t possibly keep all of the same crap in all of the warehouses. So it’s being transported, but not “shipped”, allowing them to take longer.
I started the same thing earlier this year when my subscription to Prime was expiring. So far it really hasn’t been a big problem and has the nice perk that it encourages me to shop less at Amazon.
It used to be $25. Now it’s $35, waiting for them to raise the threshold further.
Except an employer, they don’t want to be that.
Well, they want to be everyone’s former employer at least.
https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage
There are things that you can’t find anywhere but Amazon and it blows
you’re saying that like their search works
You mean you didn’t want the “ZVIANX USB Charging APPLE ANDROID TRUE WIRELESS Charging PAD”?
They behave exactly like black mold. They start coalescing in some adjacent space and suddenly BOOM. Online storefront, starts hosting its own servers, that becomes part of the business. Starts building out warehouses, that becomes part of the business. IoT things that run on their servers, then cameras, gobbles up Blink. They even had a pilot project for restaurant delivery, we’ll probably see that again once they can tie it into their parcel delivery fleet
Where’s my waifu Bezos body pillow?
maybe they can start by fixing their search. yesterday i was looking up the cheapest rechargable lithium battery of a certain type across several sites. amazon was the worst experience. after i sorted by price, i noticed the top 3 results before sorting were missing from the results, one of them should have been near the top. i tried a few things, but they (and a few others) just show up without sorting. horrible.
They won’t because it works exactly as they want it to
The purpose of a system is what it does, after all.
Wow really? So nice of it to go ahead and start protecting its namesake from total annihilation.
