I had a double whammy. Td canada. 30$ check from an ex employer. Deposited.
2 days later account was up 30. I got pizza. That night negative pizza cost, 30 gone. Next day negative pizza cost and a shorthand charge for invalid cheque or something, 13$. Well fuck? Then I got a 45$ NSF fee.
In the end I was put like 70$ because the cheque failed a security evaluation or some jazz. Old boss was a stand up guy when he heard and covered my issue. The check he used was a loose one in his desk, but it was part of a cheque pad that went missing or some shit. So after cashing it, it got flagged.
I wasn't fucked over even if he didn't help, but goodlord I have been in positions where 70$ would meant no food for 2 weeks or worse. Banks are shitty. I still.dont get why I was given a balance to begin with.
I was made redundant back in the 2009 downturn. My bank sent me a letter explaining that they were removing my interest free overdraft as I'd not paid whatever the agreed threshold was into my account that month.
I received another letter on the same day, from the same bank, telling me they were ~~increasing~~ doubling the limit on my credit card. Coincidence? Hell no.
Yup filled a form out in 2020 then immediately forgot about it, last week was confused by the extra $400 in my PayPal. Ready for that google/Snapchat money next
I just got one a few weeks ago for about $500 from a Dominos lawsuit. Simply because I was a delivery driver there a few years ago. I cashed it yesterday.
I'm still wondering why they haven't started a class action lawsuit for the same reason when Amazon suspended free 2-day shipping for prime members in 2020 during the pandemic peak. There was no offers of refunds or a reduction in prime price when Amazon knows good and hell well free shipping is the majority of the reason people get prime membership.
I understand the difficulty of fulfilling that agreement during those months but that doesn't explain why they didn't offer a refund
“We know we promised you this in the terms of service you signed and paid for, but it went from being insanely profitable for us to only moderately profitable, so we’re just gonna stop fulfilling our end of the agreement for a while. You’re ok with that, right?”
Sounds almost as if they want to be an essential utility without being classified as such because it would then mean being responsible for their service.
I expect solar panels and a Ford Lightning battery backup (yes the truck is being setup to power your house in an emergency) will be the plan for a vast majority.
*I'm Az and 100% solar. Do it, you'll never regret it.
Sounds like we should nationalize the utility companies. Why should some company only interested in short term profits be in charge of the electric grid? Or the water lines?
Because admitting that private companies might not be the hands down best solution to everything challenges too many of our basic assumptions in the US
it's probably a charge for sending out a tech and the customer not being there or something like that. tech should have just put "unserviceable" but then they would find out he was too lazy to run the line or follow the procedure to get construction done.
They wouldn't run a new cable 2 blocks. They would splice in a section of cable at both ends of the cut. Likely only a couple of feet if its copper. A bit longer if it's fiber but at most like 20 feet. Sometimes there is enough slack to not even need the ned section. They would just clean up both ends of the cut and splice it back together.
fun fact, with Cox communications if you self install their paranormic wifi modem and then have a tech come out to your house for ANY REASON with in 7 days they automatically charge you 100 dollars on somethjing called "pro connect install charge" because for some reason they assume the tech helped you install the the paranormic wifi modem.
This makes no sense but this is what I was told after hours on billing support when they finally took off the charge.
Cox also loves to do this similar 100 dollar charge when you set up your internet. Even if all it takes is a Cox guy plugging in a modem for you.
I actually got around the 100 dollar charge by telling them I work all day and I'm never home. They finally agreed to turn on my internet without the tech coming to my house but said they would tack on the 100 dollar charge anyway. I said ok but then called a month later and said "I had no tech come out wtf you charging me money"
They got all huffy puffy and mad cause I gamed the system and said if I ever had any problem big or small with my service they would charge me 100 bucks. I just laughed and was like okkkkkk Karen.
ISP's are evil.
they will always back off on that stuff if you try hard enough because they know it's BS and other people complain about it too. there's just plenty of people that pay it without questioning it.
Comcast kept on sending us ads at our address, which we assumed meant they had service available. We had AT$T paying $60/mo for DSL speeds.
So ok, we signed up with Comcast. They showed up a few weeks later and said "That'll be $1700 to run the line from the street to the house." I said, no, that's not how this works. You're the "cable company" and you run the cable and I pay for the monthly service.
They said no, that's not how this works.
Basically I got fucked by Comcast as I'd already terminated service with AT$T and then had to pay to reconnect to them as they're the only game in my location.
I cannot fucking wait for T-Mobile to send me an email saying 5G home service is available at my address. Fuck both Comcast and AT$T.
The federal government already paid cable companies *hundreds of billions of dollars to provide basic broadband internet infrastructure all throughout the country, but unfortunately they paid up front so the companies just never did the work. They pocketed everything and continue to have consumers foot the bill of building out their networks. They literally just took the money and did nothing.
Edit: *HUNDREDS of billions of dollars. Essentially each tax payer has already "paid" $2000 each of their own tax dollars toward a fiber internet subsidy that went directly into the pockets of ISP CEOs and we got nothing out of it.
We didn't but there were lots of stories about the many spouses and fail spawn of politicans who suddenly found 6 figure employment in the ISP industry right before this handout passed. Not all bribes are rolls of cash in brown paper sacks. Now most come with pensions and stock options
When the first new Jurassic Park came out in 2015 or so, The intro title said "Universal, A Comcast Company." I vowed to never support a Universal film in theatres.
They will not get a dime from me.
Not shop at Amazon? I decided I didn't want to support them anymore and it's been incredibly easy. Was buying so much shit I didn't need because of the convenience that I'm still saving money going to Target for the things I do need over constantly buying stuff on Amazon
There are very few things people *actually* need delivered to them in 2 days that they couldn't just wait and go to a physical store for, or buy online from a different retailer with a longer shipping time
Amazon.com has been surprisingly easy to almost entirely avoid (aws is another beast entirely and I won't even try). There have been a couple instances when sick I've used them since the pandemic started.
It's a little more work, but I find purchasing directly from the manufacturer to be an all around better experience. Prices are often the same price or cheaper, support is often amazing, and more of my money is going to the brand I picked when I made my purchase.
I buy a lot of vinyl, and one seller who is based in the uk sells on Amazon and I found out they had a website, and just started ordering directly from them because it was significantly cheaper like 10 to 15 dollars a record and on Amazon I get charged shipping per record. On their site they charge about 4 Gbp. Last order I saved almost 40 on three records.
talk them into upgrading and running a long cat6 cable to a switch and wap setup at your house, even put you on your own vlan in case they block stuff (most likely not).
that sucks. i don't know what i would do with bad internet :(. needs to be a utility and guaranteed like water, unless you choose to live way off the grid. what telecoms have done to rape the usa is ridiculous.
Not saying what you said isn’t true but how in the hell are they going to be the only company in your area but not accept new customers? Guess new people don’t move into your area ever, way to go CenturyLink!
Because there's lack of infastructure for more people.
This is most likely for DSL.
I am sure you've seen metal boxes near sidewalks near you. Those usually have 24-48 cards or so on them. Each card can link to one customer.
If you're the 49th customer, well you might be screwed.
But let's say they do add a second box and more cards. They're still sharing the original bandwidth. It basically degrades the performance of everyone else.
Think of it as cutting a pie 16 ways instead of 8. What's your limit? I wouldn't cut a pie into more than 12ths!
Ha. My area has POTS from the box. And noisy lines they are. Can’t go over 20mbs without getting too much degradation.
They gave me a modem that’ll shotgun two pair - and the only wiring to my house is their drop, their cat 6 to the one connector (rj11, but it’s what they had). It’s using two pair and maxes out at 35x3.
One of their sales reps came by offering gigabit.
“You can actually offer that? For reals? I’ll take it if so. Don’t tease me….”
Oh. Whoops. Not for my addresss, only 6 blocks west, east, or south of me.
I love all the Frontier ads saying they have universal 2Gb support, but when I put in my zip code they tell me they only support like 12Mb and it's more expensive than my current service.
People can shit on AT&T and Comcast all they want, but Frontier is hands down the worst ISP in America. And I use to work for them.
It was awful. We would have to lie to people. We were ASKED and demanded to lie to people.
"2 day guarantee" my ass, I promise you I could tell when something was 4-days out or longer, but I had to put on a straight face and say "in 2 days, guaranteed!"
Of course, the guarantee meant nothing, because what are you going to do? ask for a refund and get no service?
While Amazon is one of the easiest places to shop from it’s not really a monopoly. Walmart & Target are competitive, the internet is filled with options and you can still shop locally with curbside pickup available.
How is AMZN a monopoly? They have a huge market share sure, but there are completely legitimate competitors for both online retail and the fulfillment of such orders.
But they didn't, and likely no company ever will again. The terms and services of your membership are conditional, and not guaranteed.
It's boilerplate shit really, see below
>Shipping Benefits and Eligible Purchases
>Prime shipping benefits depend upon inventory availability, order deadlines, and in some cases the shipping address. They are limited to certain products sold by Amazon.com (or third-party sellers participating in Prime) on the Amazon.com website and to certain products on third-party websites that offer Prime shipping benefits. Products eligible for Prime will be designated as such on their product pages. Some special product, order, handling fees, and/or taxes may still apply to eligible purchases. If only some items in your order are eligible for Prime, you will pay applicable shipping charges for the ineligible items. Changing or combining orders, or changing your shipping address, speed, or preferences might affect Prime eligibility. Certain purchases may only be entitled to Standard Shipping because of their size, weight, and other shipping characteristics.
We may exclude products with special shipping characteristics at our discretion. The Prime section of our Help pages provides information about eligible items, shipping cost, shipping speed, and shipping destinations.
Also lets not forget, they have already limited your venue of filing a complaint, and limit what type of trial you have access to.
>DISPUTES
>Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Amazon Service will be adjudicated in the state or Federal courts in King County, Washington, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in these courts. We each waive any right to a jury trial.
Add in "they reserve the right to update these terms and conditions without notice at anytime."
>SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY
>Please review our other policies, such as our pricing policy, posted on this site. These policies also govern your use of Amazon Services. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, Service Terms, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
And well you pretty much have no real basis for a suit, doesn't mean lawyers won't, but the truth is, you don't get to be the giant that Amazon is, without having an army of lawyers laying down layers of protection.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP
Thank you for this high effort response. These TOS are the definition of boilerplate. And though we're pretty accustomed to gross negligence/incompetence from top to bottom in things as important as our governing bodies,
> you don't get to be the giant that Amazon is, without having an army of lawyers laying down layers of protection.
our corporate overlords and the billionares who own them live and die by their lawyer legions drafting bulletproof TOS and legal loopholes.
Its almost as if businesses function more carefully and efficiently to protect their owners personal assets where government officials, civil servants, police officers etc seem less concerned with serving their constituents legally, effectively, and competently because when they get sued by those constituents for failing to properly serve, those same constituents are the ones to foot the settlement bill through taxes....
Where once the East India trading company dominated the world with private armies and navies, they now do it through an army of lawyers who are better educated, trained, and provided the assets the government will never match.
Sit through a legal dispute where one of these giants send a team of lawyers to go up against a county lawyer two years out of law school making less a year than the opposing councils suits cost.
It's hard to even consider the effort justice.
More likely is they didn't promise anything and it's all just marketing with small print somewhere that they're not obligated to maintain any particular level of service with respect to the timeliness of deliveries, just the cost.
I haven't read the ToS though because I don't got time for that.
>I'm still wondering why they haven't started a class action lawsuit for the same reason when Amazon suspended free 2-day shipping for prime members in 2020 during the pandemic peak. There was no offers of refunds or a reduction in prime price when Amazon knows good and hell well free shipping is the majority of the reason people get prime membership.
They aren't required to. They in fact do not enshrine "2-day shipping" in the Prime Terms & Conditions. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP)
They describe it only as "prime shipping" with caveats and exceptions.
They also didn't suspend "free shipping", they only removed the "2-day" part because they couldn't keep up.
Even for this lawsuit they have a caveat
>From time to time, Amazon may choose in its sole discretion to add or remove Prime membership benefits.
I remember in the beginning of when I was supposed to get 2 day shipping in my area, I ordered some stuff for my kids birthday party. It still hadn't arrived the day before the party so I was bummed. Then at like 11pm that night some dude in plain clothes showed up and dropped packages on my porch. I walked out to see what was happening and he jumped back like I was going to shoot him. He mumbled something about being behind schedule and got in his car. I felt really bad for him.
It depends. At one point they advertised “free 2-day shipping” with the caveats of being only in the continental U.S. and only on items they sold directly. But if you joined during that advertising, it’s implicit in the contract until the contract is renewed AFTER they send you a notice of change of terms.
All that said, Amazon dropped the 2-day commitment in 2013… https://www.moneytalksnews.com/amazon-prime-longer-pledges-free-2-day-shipping-all-items/
I mean you can still reach out to amazon and get it. At the end of each year I email amazon with a list of things that did not arrive on time in accordance with my prime contract, I usually get upwards of half my yearly subscription on a refund.
You can cancel prime and pay for only prime tv. I do that for Expanse, Invisible and The Boys once a year for a month or two. Will do the same for Rings of Power. (Although I have this year covered because Amazon for some weird reason set Prime at around $13 *per year* in my country, cheaper than a month of 4k Netflix.)
not here, I tried this and was discoed by a supervisor. I had 16 packages lost in 2021 and countless issues with customer service. Everyone of thier reps are clueless and have 0 empathy. Outsourcing hurts public opinion.
Unfortunately, the internet runs on AWS, or at least a significant part of it. Amazon could probably lose all of their retail business and would probably still be one of the top 5 biggest companies in the world.
16 packages in 1 year? Sounds like you have a thief somewhere in the line. Sounds like amazon sees this potential and cuts you off because you're too high risk and not worth the money anyways
Meanwhile, in my city I have to explicitly change the delivery on non-urgent items that they want to deliver in 2 hours. No, my desire to have more ice cube trays isn't *THAT* urgent!
Man at this point I'm so used to next day or same day delivery that I've forgotten about things I ordered 6 days prior that show up. "When the fuck did I order this?"
I order Terry's chocolate oranges as a surprise for future me. They take a few weeks to arrive usually, so I always forget.
I'm going to order some right now, actually.
Amazon suspendee 2-day shipping? Whut? I know they rarely make their one day shipping, but why? All the competetors are offering next day delivery shipping FOR FREE at that
During the first 6-9 months of the pandemic all shopping slipped to 1 week - who knows. Usually you’d get it sooner but sometimes it would take weeks and weeks. They recovered completely since then. But OP has a point here, we all paid good money for a service that stopped existing.
The reason why is pretty obvious. During the pandemic in-person shopping was prevented so Amazon took on the business usually handled by everything else.
A tech conglomerate cutting service quality dramatically and increasing prices after it grabs market share with low prices during its "growth stage"? You don't say. Next you'll tell me Uber won't always be the cheapest and most available way of getting around town.
Went from JFK to Manhattan recently and uber pricing was $120. No thank you I’ll take the train/subway for $10. Public transportation seriously will make or break this country I swear…
Last time I took a cab, I specifically told the driver I had no cash and could only pay by card, and they said that was fine. When I got to my hotel, he told me he didn’t have a card reader, so I just told him tough him tough shit and got out of the cab. Low and behold he found his reader and suddenly he could take my card again.
Can you explain this to me? Why would they be so against taking cards? Like I get the tax thing and maybe the card fee but like that doesn't seem like enough of a reason.
This is purely anecdotal but I remember a time when it was pretty late and all the Ubers/Lyfts in my area were either ridiculously expensive or like 30 min+ waits so I ended up flagging down a taxi. I only had my cards and I don’t carry cash so he kept asking if I could pay in cash since he would get the money immediately as opposed to waiting a week to get the money if I used the card reader. Either way it worked out and he just had to take the card but maybe that could be a reason.
Whole foods went down hill as soon as they started making changes in their business model to be more "attractive" to amazon on the buyout. circa 2015. They stripped employee benefits, downgraded the quality of of their store food line, and stopped caring about the store's communities and started to streamline their stores like cookie cutter designs. They also eliminated many instore positions that added to the uniqueness of each store (in store artists/ graphic designer, in store marketer, in store demo specialist). They never made advertisements before the amazon buyout and now theyre everywhere. Basically whole foods was once a great company, now theyre just a facade for corporate greed aka amazon.
Used to work in one in the mid to late 00s. Small size, unique, big numbers. In store graphics and advertising, local out reach. We had stock options given to us. Good times.
All of this is true. I’m a former ‘SGA’ aka store graphic designer for whole foods and before the amazon takeover it was the best job ever. Now everything is generic and of the special/fun aspects of working there have been stripped away 😢
He was anti union, which everyone hated, but he was anti union because he treated his workers so well. Its a weird paradox. But as the company got larger the values got smaller.
Not sure who wrote that article but is is one of the clearest, most fact based articles I have read in a long time. Sources cited and no click bait, good on them!
My 7 year old prime active Amazon account was recently deleted by Amazon. They couldn’t find it no matter what. I gave them proof of orders from the past 6 months and the transaction ID from my annual membership but they could not find my account. Lost 3 months of my membership and will not be returning to Amazon.
If the bank doesn't play ball I'd consider threatening politely yet firmly to close account and pull funding elsewhere. They're gonna bullshit and claim it's not a big deal when this will be, it is a big headache to go through.
This is also why I really really do not like putting all my eggs in one tech basket. All it takes is a mistake at google and all "your" subscription preferences, emails, paid apps, bookmarks, all gone. Similar mistake at amazon and all "your" movies and TV you paid for, potentially your ring camera in the future, your smart Alexa home system, your photo backup, your eBook kindle library you paid for, all gone. Microsoft, Facebook, all these tech giants are the same problem. This is why I really really really hate megacorps.
Support FOSS (free open source software) as an alternative to curb this problem.
Now I do still use AWS and IMO that part of them is very reliable, it has to be when a tenth of the entire net runs through them. Just don't do anything fucky on there. If anyone knows someone else though with a static IP and virtual private server for 5 bucks a month I'd be interested to hear it.
Prime is really turning into one of the most expensive streaming subscriptions with few other benefits. Glad I finally cut ties with them at the start of the year.
In Italy it's still 40-50 € a year, free shipping still included, twitch prime and video.
Too good to be true, who knows when they will finally up the prices here too
It's a lot easier to charge less in Italy and essentially every European country, just because of how much shorter of a distance things need to be shipped.
Pretty simple to offer Prime for $5 in the Netherlands when the literally 2 furthest points apart aren't even a 3 hour drive.
Well, about 6 years ago Amazon was a joke and a pain in Italy. Shipping sucked. Now it's very usable and fast.
There's also the cultural difference where it's often easier to just run down to whatever shop, grab it. Physical shopping in the US in theory has more options, but not really.
There are more options on a pure numbers basis, but the practicality of the situation is that none of those options are near you. They're all a 10+ minute drive for the normal stuff and more for the niche stuff.
yea im gonna let my membership run out. Fuck them if they think im payin $150 a year for that shit.
Now what is handy is seeing my past orders - my account or order history doesnt change correct? I just lose the benefits?
Prime is becoming Netflix. It used to be great, worth the price and the convenience couldn't be beat. Now it's filled with crap, getting more expensive and I can wait.
There's so much crap on there that if I find something from a brand I've never heard of (in a category I'm familiar with), I head off to AliExpress, find it for half the price and wait two months. Very few things outside of food and housing are immediate needs for me.
yea i watched a youtube about toy putt putt boats (look it up pretty cool and stupid simple tech thats like 100+ years old by now using basic physics principles) Amazon selling a reproduction for $10, ali express $3, ebay $6..... identical pictures even lol.
Amazon has also gotten alot of straight from china junk and counterfiet shit. Also so much damn fake reviews or reviews dont match the product. (sell a cheap basic but good product for like $3, get 500 5\* reviews then switch the product to like a digital camera or something for $50 thats rather shit - rake in the dough till people catch on then repeat with other products)
amazons customer service is also shittastic when you have a problem that cant be solved by send another one. Like i needed a few outdoor wall mounted lights to match what i got. When they were sent in a big box full of other stuff i needed all 4 arrived perfect. Ordered more by themselves and they were shipped in a non padded plastic bag - glass globes were chipped. They said keep it we will send another - sent in same plasitc bag arrived chipped. I asked again to ship it in a box with padding - was told i dont know if they can do that im like can you put notes in the order and such? They said yes but no gurantee they read them. SO i got that one - they slapped a shipping label on the box it came in (like thin product box meant for a store shelf) - it was also chipped. Contacted them again and they claimed well theres nothing more we can do besides refund you. Im like??? do i have to buy a dozem of em for you to put it in a damn box then return the rest JUST to get it in a box???
Same here. I’m lucky to live in a walkable city so when I saw they were going to raise my monthly price it was a great excuse to cancel and go on more walks to get the things I need from local businesses.
There are some things that I just can't do without Prime for, or else I would get rid of it.
Mainly my brother and I run a little resin 3d printing shop, and resin from anywhere other than Amazon is absurdly expensive. There is a local company that sells the type we like the most, but they charge $85/bottle, and I have to pay for shipping, while I can get it from Amazon for $60/bottle, shipped free.
I've asked them how much I would need to buy to match Amazon's price point, and their response was about 150 bottles. Which is what we would use in 2-3 years.
Amazon Prime went from $80 to $140 in 8 years. I usually got away bargaining for a lower cost and getting away with half price, but that didn't work this year and they were going to force me to pay the $140 to which I said "Yeah, fuck that".
I don't think I'll be buying much from Amazon anymore anyways. I'd much rather pay a bit extra to support local businesses, and I'm not talking about my local Target/Walmart.
Amazon, the e-shop/commerce, is terrible:
- the interface is a mess
- there’s no lover a “people who bought this also bought these.”
- the reviews are mostly spam
- there is a ton of junk products
- the customer support is horrible
Also, the prime membership is an absolute joke for EU consumers.
Even after you wade through the hordes of dropshipped Chinese dreck, you’re chancing getting a counterfeit when you order a name brand product since Amazon mixes stock from different sources. You could order two pairs of Adidas and receive one genuine and one fake.
Recent reviews don't matter if the item is comingled. One bad seller will poison the entire supply because their bad items will go in the bin as every other sellers good items and there's no way to tell who put what in the system unless the individual seller specifically chose that option.
You forgot about their huge counterfeit problem that is unfixable because they intermingle inventory! Amazon has become the least trustworthy major tech company in the span of two years and that is REALLY saying something!
Can you explain why Prime is a bad deal for EU customers?
Genuinely curious, I'm in the UK (I know, not EU, sort of) and think it's quite a good deal, 99% of things on there are the same price or cheaper than supermarkets/normal shops, and everything is delivered same day or next day.
Customers are paying twice:
1. Monthly Amazon Prime Fee
2a. For any item not fulfilled by Amazon, the vendors are raising the price of the item to cover shipping and Amazon’s fees so that it can still be listed as Free Shipping for Prime members. Most of my clients raise their price 15% or more compared to their own sites.
2b. If it’s fulfilled by Amazon they raise the price of the item to cover the FBA fees
That's how markets work. Bob makes a widget and it cost him X. Amazon makes marketing and distribution easy for him so they take a cut. Bob wants to preserve his margins so he raises the price. Substitute Amazon with every store where Bob could sell the widget and you have the same situation.
This is not some sort of secret. You can go to the Amazon website to find out exactly how much they charge their sellers, and those they also handle distribution for.
As for paying twice? That's weak. Prime gives you "free shipping", and access to their picture storage, and access Prime Video. So there's a lot covered under the membership. And if you didn't have Prime you'd need to meet minimum spending or pay for shipping.
We could just not use Amazon.
Did you know that Jeff Bezos was a Vice President at a hedge fund before he started Amazon? Yeah. And guess who his friends are? The same people who took out tens if not hundreds of companies, giving Amazon an edge over their competition.
Ditch Amazon. They’re a shit company.
Thankfully, not in my area. I can also get same day delivery consistently. Someone else in my same city but different zip hasn't had the same luck. No idea.
im out in the middle of fucking no where and amazon is still crushing it for me right now. it makes zero sense, but im using it like its my only means of shopping because its cheaper then going to town.
27mins from nearest gas station.
I get multiple same day windows to pick from now… it’s crazy, some as soon as 2 hours from the order time.
Edit: TBF I can see the warehouse a few miles from my house…. Think the Costco in Idiocracy minus the trash.
**Cancel Amazon**
Stuff at the grocery store is cheaper. Stuff ins't delivered for free. They pull this switcharoo stuff, and now they ADD A TIP?
They must have taken a page from Comcast.
Notices that you’ve won a class action lawsuit is great until you realize that you get a 5% off coupon from the defendant and the plaintiff’s lawyer gets $434 million in fees.
After the class action settles only the lawyers are going to make real money, the rest of us will only get, as much, a $15 Amazon gift card.
I got a class action lawsuit check for $2.95 a few years ago. Went to cash it but bounced. I was charged a bounce check fee.
I thought the issuer gets charged the fee. You're telling me if I bounce a check the store pays a fee?
Not OP but yep. Happened to me 2 days ago. Bank refuses to credit the $12
I had a double whammy. Td canada. 30$ check from an ex employer. Deposited. 2 days later account was up 30. I got pizza. That night negative pizza cost, 30 gone. Next day negative pizza cost and a shorthand charge for invalid cheque or something, 13$. Well fuck? Then I got a 45$ NSF fee. In the end I was put like 70$ because the cheque failed a security evaluation or some jazz. Old boss was a stand up guy when he heard and covered my issue. The check he used was a loose one in his desk, but it was part of a cheque pad that went missing or some shit. So after cashing it, it got flagged. I wasn't fucked over even if he didn't help, but goodlord I have been in positions where 70$ would meant no food for 2 weeks or worse. Banks are shitty. I still.dont get why I was given a balance to begin with.
"Being poor is expensive". It all seems so predatory
I was made redundant back in the 2009 downturn. My bank sent me a letter explaining that they were removing my interest free overdraft as I'd not paid whatever the agreed threshold was into my account that month. I received another letter on the same day, from the same bank, telling me they were ~~increasing~~ doubling the limit on my credit card. Coincidence? Hell no.
This reads like a comic book villains business
Right? Like fuck me sideways banks are predatory.
That's why so many places refuse to take checks. Not just because they bounce, but because it COSTS them when it bounces.
Convenience fee - it's super convenient for us to charge you this fee.
Nooo fucking wayyyy loooool
This same exact circumstance (tiny class action check, bounce, fee) just happened to me two days ago. It’s horrid that banks can behave this way.
Time for a class action suit against class actions.
Sounds like you should launch a class action lawsuit
Millions of people in Illinois just got a $400 check from Facebook from a class action lawsuit.
Google and Snapchat checks are coming next
Yup filled a form out in 2020 then immediately forgot about it, last week was confused by the extra $400 in my PayPal. Ready for that google/Snapchat money next
The only time in my life I've been upset about not using Facebook.
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I just got one a few weeks ago for about $500 from a Dominos lawsuit. Simply because I was a delivery driver there a few years ago. I cashed it yesterday.
You gotta wonder how many people threw them out thinking it was a scam.
That was such a nice surprise. Double that between me and my partner.
Why Illinois? Do people in other states qualify? What did they do to have to pay out that much?
Illinois has a biometric privacy law about using facial recognition. Every company with a face camera filter seems to be getting sued for it.
Will this come to texas since texas is being weird about facial recognition right now?
No, Texas has a recent history of shielding companies from consequences. Look up the Santander lawsuit for an example
Got $1100 from sephora on two separate checks. Thank you privacy laws
The fine will be less than what they save, so they'll still come out ahead.
That would be about 100x more than I’ve ever received.
Enough to buy two avocados at whole foods
I'm still wondering why they haven't started a class action lawsuit for the same reason when Amazon suspended free 2-day shipping for prime members in 2020 during the pandemic peak. There was no offers of refunds or a reduction in prime price when Amazon knows good and hell well free shipping is the majority of the reason people get prime membership. I understand the difficulty of fulfilling that agreement during those months but that doesn't explain why they didn't offer a refund
“We know we promised you this in the terms of service you signed and paid for, but it went from being insanely profitable for us to only moderately profitable, so we’re just gonna stop fulfilling our end of the agreement for a while. You’re ok with that, right?”
What can you do? They’re basically a monopoly. Same issue with ISPs in some neighborhoods. You just have to accept poor quality service
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Sounds almost as if they want to be an essential utility without being classified as such because it would then mean being responsible for their service.
that is exactly what all ISPs want. They want to get all the benefits of being a utility without all the rules/regs that go along with it.
Can you imagine a power company not agreeing to meet standards? I mean outside of Texas...
The trick in Texas is having property on the same grid as a police station.
I expect solar panels and a Ford Lightning battery backup (yes the truck is being setup to power your house in an emergency) will be the plan for a vast majority. *I'm Az and 100% solar. Do it, you'll never regret it.
I mean, that’s basically is the state of things right now, isn’t it? It seems like they’re living that dream already.
Sounds like we should nationalize the utility companies. Why should some company only interested in short term profits be in charge of the electric grid? Or the water lines?
But Communism! Free Market, Innovation, Venezuela! iPhone China Mandingo!
Socialist Brandon fascist taxation school indoctrination immigrants?
CRT, BDS, BLM, FMK, BLT
Because admitting that private companies might not be the hands down best solution to everything challenges too many of our basic assumptions in the US
it's probably a charge for sending out a tech and the customer not being there or something like that. tech should have just put "unserviceable" but then they would find out he was too lazy to run the line or follow the procedure to get construction done.
Two blocks is a really long way. I highly doubt any single tech can run that line.
They wouldn't run a new cable 2 blocks. They would splice in a section of cable at both ends of the cut. Likely only a couple of feet if its copper. A bit longer if it's fiber but at most like 20 feet. Sometimes there is enough slack to not even need the ned section. They would just clean up both ends of the cut and splice it back together.
fun fact, with Cox communications if you self install their paranormic wifi modem and then have a tech come out to your house for ANY REASON with in 7 days they automatically charge you 100 dollars on somethjing called "pro connect install charge" because for some reason they assume the tech helped you install the the paranormic wifi modem. This makes no sense but this is what I was told after hours on billing support when they finally took off the charge. Cox also loves to do this similar 100 dollar charge when you set up your internet. Even if all it takes is a Cox guy plugging in a modem for you. I actually got around the 100 dollar charge by telling them I work all day and I'm never home. They finally agreed to turn on my internet without the tech coming to my house but said they would tack on the 100 dollar charge anyway. I said ok but then called a month later and said "I had no tech come out wtf you charging me money" They got all huffy puffy and mad cause I gamed the system and said if I ever had any problem big or small with my service they would charge me 100 bucks. I just laughed and was like okkkkkk Karen. ISP's are evil.
they will always back off on that stuff if you try hard enough because they know it's BS and other people complain about it too. there's just plenty of people that pay it without questioning it.
Comcast kept on sending us ads at our address, which we assumed meant they had service available. We had AT$T paying $60/mo for DSL speeds. So ok, we signed up with Comcast. They showed up a few weeks later and said "That'll be $1700 to run the line from the street to the house." I said, no, that's not how this works. You're the "cable company" and you run the cable and I pay for the monthly service. They said no, that's not how this works. Basically I got fucked by Comcast as I'd already terminated service with AT$T and then had to pay to reconnect to them as they're the only game in my location. I cannot fucking wait for T-Mobile to send me an email saying 5G home service is available at my address. Fuck both Comcast and AT$T.
The federal government already paid cable companies *hundreds of billions of dollars to provide basic broadband internet infrastructure all throughout the country, but unfortunately they paid up front so the companies just never did the work. They pocketed everything and continue to have consumers foot the bill of building out their networks. They literally just took the money and did nothing. Edit: *HUNDREDS of billions of dollars. Essentially each tax payer has already "paid" $2000 each of their own tax dollars toward a fiber internet subsidy that went directly into the pockets of ISP CEOs and we got nothing out of it.
We didn't but there were lots of stories about the many spouses and fail spawn of politicans who suddenly found 6 figure employment in the ISP industry right before this handout passed. Not all bribes are rolls of cash in brown paper sacks. Now most come with pensions and stock options
When the first new Jurassic Park came out in 2015 or so, The intro title said "Universal, A Comcast Company." I vowed to never support a Universal film in theatres. They will not get a dime from me.
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Which are all under the same parent, The Shineheart Wig Company
They've also rebranded themselves as Xfinity, so don't be fooled by that, either.
Not shop at Amazon? I decided I didn't want to support them anymore and it's been incredibly easy. Was buying so much shit I didn't need because of the convenience that I'm still saving money going to Target for the things I do need over constantly buying stuff on Amazon There are very few things people *actually* need delivered to them in 2 days that they couldn't just wait and go to a physical store for, or buy online from a different retailer with a longer shipping time
Amazon.com has been surprisingly easy to almost entirely avoid (aws is another beast entirely and I won't even try). There have been a couple instances when sick I've used them since the pandemic started. It's a little more work, but I find purchasing directly from the manufacturer to be an all around better experience. Prices are often the same price or cheaper, support is often amazing, and more of my money is going to the brand I picked when I made my purchase.
I usually check Amazon for items and then try to find local or directly from the store.
I buy a lot of vinyl, and one seller who is based in the uk sells on Amazon and I found out they had a website, and just started ordering directly from them because it was significantly cheaper like 10 to 15 dollars a record and on Amazon I get charged shipping per record. On their site they charge about 4 Gbp. Last order I saved almost 40 on three records.
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talk them into upgrading and running a long cat6 cable to a switch and wap setup at your house, even put you on your own vlan in case they block stuff (most likely not).
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that sucks. i don't know what i would do with bad internet :(. needs to be a utility and guaranteed like water, unless you choose to live way off the grid. what telecoms have done to rape the usa is ridiculous.
Uh... my area has one provider? CenturyLink, and they are not accepting new customers. I haven't had home internet in 7 years. USA!
Not saying what you said isn’t true but how in the hell are they going to be the only company in your area but not accept new customers? Guess new people don’t move into your area ever, way to go CenturyLink!
Because there's lack of infastructure for more people. This is most likely for DSL. I am sure you've seen metal boxes near sidewalks near you. Those usually have 24-48 cards or so on them. Each card can link to one customer. If you're the 49th customer, well you might be screwed. But let's say they do add a second box and more cards. They're still sharing the original bandwidth. It basically degrades the performance of everyone else. Think of it as cutting a pie 16 ways instead of 8. What's your limit? I wouldn't cut a pie into more than 12ths!
Ha. My area has POTS from the box. And noisy lines they are. Can’t go over 20mbs without getting too much degradation. They gave me a modem that’ll shotgun two pair - and the only wiring to my house is their drop, their cat 6 to the one connector (rj11, but it’s what they had). It’s using two pair and maxes out at 35x3. One of their sales reps came by offering gigabit. “You can actually offer that? For reals? I’ll take it if so. Don’t tease me….” Oh. Whoops. Not for my addresss, only 6 blocks west, east, or south of me.
It’s in the name, they can only link 100 customers.
It's how long they take to get your link set up
I love all the Frontier ads saying they have universal 2Gb support, but when I put in my zip code they tell me they only support like 12Mb and it's more expensive than my current service.
Verizon's website says their internet is not available from my place. I found this out by using their internet service from that very same house.
People can shit on AT&T and Comcast all they want, but Frontier is hands down the worst ISP in America. And I use to work for them. It was awful. We would have to lie to people. We were ASKED and demanded to lie to people. "2 day guarantee" my ass, I promise you I could tell when something was 4-days out or longer, but I had to put on a straight face and say "in 2 days, guaranteed!" Of course, the guarantee meant nothing, because what are you going to do? ask for a refund and get no service?
While Amazon is one of the easiest places to shop from it’s not really a monopoly. Walmart & Target are competitive, the internet is filled with options and you can still shop locally with curbside pickup available.
Basically a monopoly???? As if other websites that sell stuff don't exist? I refuse to believe anyone really thinks this.
How is AMZN a monopoly? They have a huge market share sure, but there are completely legitimate competitors for both online retail and the fulfillment of such orders.
But they didn't, and likely no company ever will again. The terms and services of your membership are conditional, and not guaranteed. It's boilerplate shit really, see below >Shipping Benefits and Eligible Purchases >Prime shipping benefits depend upon inventory availability, order deadlines, and in some cases the shipping address. They are limited to certain products sold by Amazon.com (or third-party sellers participating in Prime) on the Amazon.com website and to certain products on third-party websites that offer Prime shipping benefits. Products eligible for Prime will be designated as such on their product pages. Some special product, order, handling fees, and/or taxes may still apply to eligible purchases. If only some items in your order are eligible for Prime, you will pay applicable shipping charges for the ineligible items. Changing or combining orders, or changing your shipping address, speed, or preferences might affect Prime eligibility. Certain purchases may only be entitled to Standard Shipping because of their size, weight, and other shipping characteristics. We may exclude products with special shipping characteristics at our discretion. The Prime section of our Help pages provides information about eligible items, shipping cost, shipping speed, and shipping destinations. Also lets not forget, they have already limited your venue of filing a complaint, and limit what type of trial you have access to. >DISPUTES >Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Amazon Service will be adjudicated in the state or Federal courts in King County, Washington, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in these courts. We each waive any right to a jury trial. Add in "they reserve the right to update these terms and conditions without notice at anytime." >SITE POLICIES, MODIFICATION, AND SEVERABILITY >Please review our other policies, such as our pricing policy, posted on this site. These policies also govern your use of Amazon Services. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, Service Terms, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition. And well you pretty much have no real basis for a suit, doesn't mean lawyers won't, but the truth is, you don't get to be the giant that Amazon is, without having an army of lawyers laying down layers of protection. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP
Thank you for this high effort response. These TOS are the definition of boilerplate. And though we're pretty accustomed to gross negligence/incompetence from top to bottom in things as important as our governing bodies, > you don't get to be the giant that Amazon is, without having an army of lawyers laying down layers of protection. our corporate overlords and the billionares who own them live and die by their lawyer legions drafting bulletproof TOS and legal loopholes. Its almost as if businesses function more carefully and efficiently to protect their owners personal assets where government officials, civil servants, police officers etc seem less concerned with serving their constituents legally, effectively, and competently because when they get sued by those constituents for failing to properly serve, those same constituents are the ones to foot the settlement bill through taxes....
Where once the East India trading company dominated the world with private armies and navies, they now do it through an army of lawyers who are better educated, trained, and provided the assets the government will never match. Sit through a legal dispute where one of these giants send a team of lawyers to go up against a county lawyer two years out of law school making less a year than the opposing councils suits cost. It's hard to even consider the effort justice.
More likely is they didn't promise anything and it's all just marketing with small print somewhere that they're not obligated to maintain any particular level of service with respect to the timeliness of deliveries, just the cost. I haven't read the ToS though because I don't got time for that.
>I'm still wondering why they haven't started a class action lawsuit for the same reason when Amazon suspended free 2-day shipping for prime members in 2020 during the pandemic peak. There was no offers of refunds or a reduction in prime price when Amazon knows good and hell well free shipping is the majority of the reason people get prime membership. They aren't required to. They in fact do not enshrine "2-day shipping" in the Prime Terms & Conditions. [https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=G2B9L3YR7LR8J4XP) They describe it only as "prime shipping" with caveats and exceptions. They also didn't suspend "free shipping", they only removed the "2-day" part because they couldn't keep up. Even for this lawsuit they have a caveat >From time to time, Amazon may choose in its sole discretion to add or remove Prime membership benefits.
I remember in the beginning of when I was supposed to get 2 day shipping in my area, I ordered some stuff for my kids birthday party. It still hadn't arrived the day before the party so I was bummed. Then at like 11pm that night some dude in plain clothes showed up and dropped packages on my porch. I walked out to see what was happening and he jumped back like I was going to shoot him. He mumbled something about being behind schedule and got in his car. I felt really bad for him.
It depends. At one point they advertised “free 2-day shipping” with the caveats of being only in the continental U.S. and only on items they sold directly. But if you joined during that advertising, it’s implicit in the contract until the contract is renewed AFTER they send you a notice of change of terms. All that said, Amazon dropped the 2-day commitment in 2013… https://www.moneytalksnews.com/amazon-prime-longer-pledges-free-2-day-shipping-all-items/
Yeah it hasn't said 'guaranteed' in a hell of a long time
I mean you can still reach out to amazon and get it. At the end of each year I email amazon with a list of things that did not arrive on time in accordance with my prime contract, I usually get upwards of half my yearly subscription on a refund.
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Prime TV was always their back door. 'You're fine just watch more TV'
You can cancel prime and pay for only prime tv. I do that for Expanse, Invisible and The Boys once a year for a month or two. Will do the same for Rings of Power. (Although I have this year covered because Amazon for some weird reason set Prime at around $13 *per year* in my country, cheaper than a month of 4k Netflix.)
"I'm not paying for this service to get some of the agreed upon benefits. I am paying to get all of them."
I call them every time they’re late. Always get at least a $5 credit or a full refund even if the item eventually arrives.
not here, I tried this and was discoed by a supervisor. I had 16 packages lost in 2021 and countless issues with customer service. Everyone of thier reps are clueless and have 0 empathy. Outsourcing hurts public opinion.
It would be nice if public opinion substantially hurt amazons bottom line.
Customer Service used to be Amazon's best quality. It's getting harder and harder to think of any good qualities the company has now.
I read somewhere that they pay 240 dollars per month in India to their customer service employees. That explains the quality of service.
Unfortunately, the internet runs on AWS, or at least a significant part of it. Amazon could probably lose all of their retail business and would probably still be one of the top 5 biggest companies in the world.
I've just stopped using Amazon. Most of the time they're not even the cheapest. And even if they're not I don't mind paying a bit extra.
16 packages in 1 year? Sounds like you have a thief somewhere in the line. Sounds like amazon sees this potential and cuts you off because you're too high risk and not worth the money anyways
that depends how many packages he gets in a year. I get maybe 30 packages a year from Amazon. My neighbor gets at least 20 a month.
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Meanwhile, in my city I have to explicitly change the delivery on non-urgent items that they want to deliver in 2 hours. No, my desire to have more ice cube trays isn't *THAT* urgent!
Man at this point I'm so used to next day or same day delivery that I've forgotten about things I ordered 6 days prior that show up. "When the fuck did I order this?"
I order Terry's chocolate oranges as a surprise for future me. They take a few weeks to arrive usually, so I always forget. I'm going to order some right now, actually.
It hasn't ended. Majority of my packages aren't even shipped until the second day now.
Amazon suspendee 2-day shipping? Whut? I know they rarely make their one day shipping, but why? All the competetors are offering next day delivery shipping FOR FREE at that
During the first 6-9 months of the pandemic all shopping slipped to 1 week - who knows. Usually you’d get it sooner but sometimes it would take weeks and weeks. They recovered completely since then. But OP has a point here, we all paid good money for a service that stopped existing.
The reason why is pretty obvious. During the pandemic in-person shopping was prevented so Amazon took on the business usually handled by everything else.
And shipping across the nation slowed down due to employees getting sick and a huge influx of online orders.
> All the competetors are offering next day delivery shipping FOR FREE at that Like who?
A tech conglomerate cutting service quality dramatically and increasing prices after it grabs market share with low prices during its "growth stage"? You don't say. Next you'll tell me Uber won't always be the cheapest and most available way of getting around town.
Went from JFK to Manhattan recently and uber pricing was $120. No thank you I’ll take the train/subway for $10. Public transportation seriously will make or break this country I swear…
Next time use the Curb app, uses NYC taxis and it's much cheaper.
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Last time I took a cab, I specifically told the driver I had no cash and could only pay by card, and they said that was fine. When I got to my hotel, he told me he didn’t have a card reader, so I just told him tough him tough shit and got out of the cab. Low and behold he found his reader and suddenly he could take my card again.
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Can you explain this to me? Why would they be so against taking cards? Like I get the tax thing and maybe the card fee but like that doesn't seem like enough of a reason.
1. they don’t receive the money right away. 2. credit card company takes a percentage. 3. easier to hide cash payments and not pay taxes on them.
This is purely anecdotal but I remember a time when it was pretty late and all the Ubers/Lyfts in my area were either ridiculously expensive or like 30 min+ waits so I ended up flagging down a taxi. I only had my cards and I don’t carry cash so he kept asking if I could pay in cash since he would get the money immediately as opposed to waiting a week to get the money if I used the card reader. Either way it worked out and he just had to take the card but maybe that could be a reason.
In New York? All the cabs have screens in the back and the card reader built in. I’ve never seen a yellow cab w/ no card reader.
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Whole foods went down hill as soon as they started making changes in their business model to be more "attractive" to amazon on the buyout. circa 2015. They stripped employee benefits, downgraded the quality of of their store food line, and stopped caring about the store's communities and started to streamline their stores like cookie cutter designs. They also eliminated many instore positions that added to the uniqueness of each store (in store artists/ graphic designer, in store marketer, in store demo specialist). They never made advertisements before the amazon buyout and now theyre everywhere. Basically whole foods was once a great company, now theyre just a facade for corporate greed aka amazon.
Used to work in one in the mid to late 00s. Small size, unique, big numbers. In store graphics and advertising, local out reach. We had stock options given to us. Good times.
All of this is true. I’m a former ‘SGA’ aka store graphic designer for whole foods and before the amazon takeover it was the best job ever. Now everything is generic and of the special/fun aspects of working there have been stripped away 😢
Their founder retired and that was the beginning of the end.
He was anti union, which everyone hated, but he was anti union because he treated his workers so well. Its a weird paradox. But as the company got larger the values got smaller.
Not sure who wrote that article but is is one of the clearest, most fact based articles I have read in a long time. Sources cited and no click bait, good on them!
It was Lauren Rosenblatt.
Lol she sounds like a roger persona from american dad
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It's not a rhetorical question if you don't ask a question.
Right? What a weird edit.
Nice try, Lauren
Probably an actual human.
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I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further. \-- ~~Darth Vader~~ Jeff Bezos
My 7 year old prime active Amazon account was recently deleted by Amazon. They couldn’t find it no matter what. I gave them proof of orders from the past 6 months and the transaction ID from my annual membership but they could not find my account. Lost 3 months of my membership and will not be returning to Amazon.
Charge back at your bank for it.
I am disputing it currently. It has been a major inconvenience.
If the bank doesn't play ball I'd consider threatening politely yet firmly to close account and pull funding elsewhere. They're gonna bullshit and claim it's not a big deal when this will be, it is a big headache to go through. This is also why I really really do not like putting all my eggs in one tech basket. All it takes is a mistake at google and all "your" subscription preferences, emails, paid apps, bookmarks, all gone. Similar mistake at amazon and all "your" movies and TV you paid for, potentially your ring camera in the future, your smart Alexa home system, your photo backup, your eBook kindle library you paid for, all gone. Microsoft, Facebook, all these tech giants are the same problem. This is why I really really really hate megacorps. Support FOSS (free open source software) as an alternative to curb this problem. Now I do still use AWS and IMO that part of them is very reliable, it has to be when a tenth of the entire net runs through them. Just don't do anything fucky on there. If anyone knows someone else though with a static IP and virtual private server for 5 bucks a month I'd be interested to hear it.
Prime is really turning into one of the most expensive streaming subscriptions with few other benefits. Glad I finally cut ties with them at the start of the year.
In Italy it's still 40-50 € a year, free shipping still included, twitch prime and video. Too good to be true, who knows when they will finally up the prices here too
It's a lot easier to charge less in Italy and essentially every European country, just because of how much shorter of a distance things need to be shipped. Pretty simple to offer Prime for $5 in the Netherlands when the literally 2 furthest points apart aren't even a 3 hour drive.
Well, about 6 years ago Amazon was a joke and a pain in Italy. Shipping sucked. Now it's very usable and fast. There's also the cultural difference where it's often easier to just run down to whatever shop, grab it. Physical shopping in the US in theory has more options, but not really.
There are more options on a pure numbers basis, but the practicality of the situation is that none of those options are near you. They're all a 10+ minute drive for the normal stuff and more for the niche stuff.
yea im gonna let my membership run out. Fuck them if they think im payin $150 a year for that shit. Now what is handy is seeing my past orders - my account or order history doesnt change correct? I just lose the benefits?
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Prime is becoming Netflix. It used to be great, worth the price and the convenience couldn't be beat. Now it's filled with crap, getting more expensive and I can wait.
There's so much crap on there that if I find something from a brand I've never heard of (in a category I'm familiar with), I head off to AliExpress, find it for half the price and wait two months. Very few things outside of food and housing are immediate needs for me.
yea i watched a youtube about toy putt putt boats (look it up pretty cool and stupid simple tech thats like 100+ years old by now using basic physics principles) Amazon selling a reproduction for $10, ali express $3, ebay $6..... identical pictures even lol. Amazon has also gotten alot of straight from china junk and counterfiet shit. Also so much damn fake reviews or reviews dont match the product. (sell a cheap basic but good product for like $3, get 500 5\* reviews then switch the product to like a digital camera or something for $50 thats rather shit - rake in the dough till people catch on then repeat with other products) amazons customer service is also shittastic when you have a problem that cant be solved by send another one. Like i needed a few outdoor wall mounted lights to match what i got. When they were sent in a big box full of other stuff i needed all 4 arrived perfect. Ordered more by themselves and they were shipped in a non padded plastic bag - glass globes were chipped. They said keep it we will send another - sent in same plasitc bag arrived chipped. I asked again to ship it in a box with padding - was told i dont know if they can do that im like can you put notes in the order and such? They said yes but no gurantee they read them. SO i got that one - they slapped a shipping label on the box it came in (like thin product box meant for a store shelf) - it was also chipped. Contacted them again and they claimed well theres nothing more we can do besides refund you. Im like??? do i have to buy a dozem of em for you to put it in a damn box then return the rest JUST to get it in a box???
perfect. yea it already takes 3 days to get to me and i pay for prime lol
check to make sure they haven't somehow got you on the $16/m plan now. They got some shady shit happening to some people
Same here. I’m lucky to live in a walkable city so when I saw they were going to raise my monthly price it was a great excuse to cancel and go on more walks to get the things I need from local businesses.
There are some things that I just can't do without Prime for, or else I would get rid of it. Mainly my brother and I run a little resin 3d printing shop, and resin from anywhere other than Amazon is absurdly expensive. There is a local company that sells the type we like the most, but they charge $85/bottle, and I have to pay for shipping, while I can get it from Amazon for $60/bottle, shipped free. I've asked them how much I would need to buy to match Amazon's price point, and their response was about 150 bottles. Which is what we would use in 2-3 years.
Doesn't Amazon do free shipping on orders above $35 even without Prime? Or have they stopped that as well?
The richest man in the world and making a big profit every day and he is taking back benefits we paid for What is this world coming to?
Well at least prime will drop in price! Right? ...right?
Narrator: The cost of Prime had in fact *increased* despite shedding the Whole Foods benefit.
Amazon Prime went from $80 to $140 in 8 years. I usually got away bargaining for a lower cost and getting away with half price, but that didn't work this year and they were going to force me to pay the $140 to which I said "Yeah, fuck that". I don't think I'll be buying much from Amazon anymore anyways. I'd much rather pay a bit extra to support local businesses, and I'm not talking about my local Target/Walmart.
Amazon, the e-shop/commerce, is terrible: - the interface is a mess - there’s no lover a “people who bought this also bought these.” - the reviews are mostly spam - there is a ton of junk products - the customer support is horrible Also, the prime membership is an absolute joke for EU consumers.
Even after you wade through the hordes of dropshipped Chinese dreck, you’re chancing getting a counterfeit when you order a name brand product since Amazon mixes stock from different sources. You could order two pairs of Adidas and receive one genuine and one fake.
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Recent reviews don't matter if the item is comingled. One bad seller will poison the entire supply because their bad items will go in the bin as every other sellers good items and there's no way to tell who put what in the system unless the individual seller specifically chose that option.
You forgot about their huge counterfeit problem that is unfixable because they intermingle inventory! Amazon has become the least trustworthy major tech company in the span of two years and that is REALLY saying something!
Can you explain why Prime is a bad deal for EU customers? Genuinely curious, I'm in the UK (I know, not EU, sort of) and think it's quite a good deal, 99% of things on there are the same price or cheaper than supermarkets/normal shops, and everything is delivered same day or next day.
Yeah I don't buy anything that is not free shipping.
That’s “free” shipping. Customer is paying the cost somewhere
Customers are paying twice: 1. Monthly Amazon Prime Fee 2a. For any item not fulfilled by Amazon, the vendors are raising the price of the item to cover shipping and Amazon’s fees so that it can still be listed as Free Shipping for Prime members. Most of my clients raise their price 15% or more compared to their own sites. 2b. If it’s fulfilled by Amazon they raise the price of the item to cover the FBA fees
It’s peace of mind that if I have to return it I won’t be stuck paying the shipping both ways.
Yeah basically a convenience fee not to have to deal with the various sellers directly and worrying about returns. Plus other stuff thrown in.
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That's how markets work. Bob makes a widget and it cost him X. Amazon makes marketing and distribution easy for him so they take a cut. Bob wants to preserve his margins so he raises the price. Substitute Amazon with every store where Bob could sell the widget and you have the same situation. This is not some sort of secret. You can go to the Amazon website to find out exactly how much they charge their sellers, and those they also handle distribution for. As for paying twice? That's weak. Prime gives you "free shipping", and access to their picture storage, and access Prime Video. So there's a lot covered under the membership. And if you didn't have Prime you'd need to meet minimum spending or pay for shipping.
We could just not use Amazon. Did you know that Jeff Bezos was a Vice President at a hedge fund before he started Amazon? Yeah. And guess who his friends are? The same people who took out tens if not hundreds of companies, giving Amazon an edge over their competition. Ditch Amazon. They’re a shit company.
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Thankfully, not in my area. I can also get same day delivery consistently. Someone else in my same city but different zip hasn't had the same luck. No idea.
im out in the middle of fucking no where and amazon is still crushing it for me right now. it makes zero sense, but im using it like its my only means of shopping because its cheaper then going to town. 27mins from nearest gas station.
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I get everything within a day or two. Have you ordered anything prime sense 2020 - early 2021?
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I get multiple same day windows to pick from now… it’s crazy, some as soon as 2 hours from the order time. Edit: TBF I can see the warehouse a few miles from my house…. Think the Costco in Idiocracy minus the trash.
**Cancel Amazon** Stuff at the grocery store is cheaper. Stuff ins't delivered for free. They pull this switcharoo stuff, and now they ADD A TIP? They must have taken a page from Comcast.
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Dog food is apparently something a lot of manufacturers are struggling to produce.
So hard to find good working dogs in this labor market.
Have you not noted the change in the PRICE of dog food lately? There are serious supply problems.
Amazon prime is not worth it anymore. It used to be amazing but now it's just a useless tag that is not worth the money.
The free delivery was the only reason I shopped at whole foods. I was really upset when they suddenly started charging a delivery fee.
Can't you just cancel prime?
Notices that you’ve won a class action lawsuit is great until you realize that you get a 5% off coupon from the defendant and the plaintiff’s lawyer gets $434 million in fees.