Deceptive tactics like this, coupled with Amazon's massive scale of wealth accumulation, disenfranchisement, and monopolistic practices have resulted in me avoiding AWS & Amazon as much as humanly...
Deceptive tactics like this, coupled with Amazon's massive scale of wealth accumulation, disenfranchisement, and monopolistic practices have resulted in me avoiding AWS & Amazon as much as humanly possible. I can't morally support a company which engages in such practices. It's not like fuel where I only have a few choices to buy from. I can easily avoid Amazon in my day to day life, and I encourage others to try it out too.
I've started avoiding Amazon more and more too, but not particularly because of ethical reasons. Their shift towards third-party sellers and issues with intermingling counterfeit products with the...
I've started avoiding Amazon more and more too, but not particularly because of ethical reasons. Their shift towards third-party sellers and issues with intermingling counterfeit products with the legitimate ones has made it so that I'm no longer confident in the quality or legitimacy of anything I order from there. I'd rather buy from other companies that I trust are actually vetting the products they sell.
Amazon feels more to me like eBay now, and I was never much of a fan of buying things from eBay. I'll do it if it's the only place I can find a product, but it's never my first choice.
Amazon always felt like eBay to me - but a much more confusing version of eBay. On eBay, each item being sold has its own page, showing the item and identifying the seller. You can even click...
Amazon feels more to me like eBay now
Amazon always felt like eBay to me - but a much more confusing version of eBay. On eBay, each item being sold has its own page, showing the item and identifying the seller. You can even click through to see the seller's own page, including their feedback score. On Amazon, all items are grouped and the seller is obfuscated. There's no single page for a single item, and it's never really clear who you're buying from, or what their selling reputation is. I found it so confusing I avoided it.
I've done a lot of buying via eBay (in the context that I prefer to shop in the real world, rather than online), but not Amazon. I think I used it only once, to buy a particular old book I couldn't find anywhere else. If Amazon comes up in my search listing for something I want to buy, I just scroll past it.
Considering Amazon is one of the wealthiest and biggest companies on the entire planet, it's surprising how terrible their site is. Like from a UX POV, performance, information, etc. I still don't...
Considering Amazon is one of the wealthiest and biggest companies on the entire planet, it's surprising how terrible their site is. Like from a UX POV, performance, information, etc.
I still don't understand why they don't have tags. This leads to so complicated and long titles for products that it occasionally gets comical.
This was a good and funny article from last year about some of the bizarre and broken aspects of their site: Amazon's website has tons of errors. Somehow it doesn't matter.
All I can think is "Potemkin villages", where some old-time Russian bureaucrats built false villages to show a Tsar or some other dignitary how well the Russian peasants were doing. I doubt that...
"Have questions take a tour yourself and see what Amazon is about."
All I can think is "Potemkin villages", where some old-time Russian bureaucrats built false villages to show a Tsar or some other dignitary how well the Russian peasants were doing. I doubt that anyone taking this tour would see how fulfilment centres really work. I've read the news stories from local Amazon escapees; the fulfilment centres are just sweatshops.
This is the kind of thing that sounds like a great idea to people who are completely out of touch with reality. It’s such a blatant fiction - even if they are real people, they are being...
This is the kind of thing that sounds like a great idea to people who are completely out of touch with reality. It’s such a blatant fiction - even if they are real people, they are being incentivized to paint a specific picture that may or may not reflect reality. It’s disingenuous at best, and actively harmful at worst. The worse part is that it’s so transparent.
Deceptive tactics like this, coupled with Amazon's massive scale of wealth accumulation, disenfranchisement, and monopolistic practices have resulted in me avoiding AWS & Amazon as much as humanly possible. I can't morally support a company which engages in such practices. It's not like fuel where I only have a few choices to buy from. I can easily avoid Amazon in my day to day life, and I encourage others to try it out too.
I've started avoiding Amazon more and more too, but not particularly because of ethical reasons. Their shift towards third-party sellers and issues with intermingling counterfeit products with the legitimate ones has made it so that I'm no longer confident in the quality or legitimacy of anything I order from there. I'd rather buy from other companies that I trust are actually vetting the products they sell.
Amazon feels more to me like eBay now, and I was never much of a fan of buying things from eBay. I'll do it if it's the only place I can find a product, but it's never my first choice.
Amazon always felt like eBay to me - but a much more confusing version of eBay. On eBay, each item being sold has its own page, showing the item and identifying the seller. You can even click through to see the seller's own page, including their feedback score. On Amazon, all items are grouped and the seller is obfuscated. There's no single page for a single item, and it's never really clear who you're buying from, or what their selling reputation is. I found it so confusing I avoided it.
I've done a lot of buying via eBay (in the context that I prefer to shop in the real world, rather than online), but not Amazon. I think I used it only once, to buy a particular old book I couldn't find anywhere else. If Amazon comes up in my search listing for something I want to buy, I just scroll past it.
Considering Amazon is one of the wealthiest and biggest companies on the entire planet, it's surprising how terrible their site is. Like from a UX POV, performance, information, etc.
I still don't understand why they don't have tags. This leads to so complicated and long titles for products that it occasionally gets comical.
EDIT: typo
This was a good and funny article from last year about some of the bizarre and broken aspects of their site: Amazon's website has tons of errors. Somehow it doesn't matter.
The best part about the Silicon Valley clip is how Howard Schultz basically just did that a couple of years later.
All I can think is "Potemkin villages", where some old-time Russian bureaucrats built false villages to show a Tsar or some other dignitary how well the Russian peasants were doing. I doubt that anyone taking this tour would see how fulfilment centres really work. I've read the news stories from local Amazon escapees; the fulfilment centres are just sweatshops.
This is the kind of thing that sounds like a great idea to people who are completely out of touch with reality. It’s such a blatant fiction - even if they are real people, they are being incentivized to paint a specific picture that may or may not reflect reality. It’s disingenuous at best, and actively harmful at worst. The worse part is that it’s so transparent.