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1. big-gr+Li[view] [source] 2024-08-20 02:49:47
>>ijidak+(OP)
Misleading title?

Amazon is the only big tech firm I like. They're the only one that I feel I get my money's worth, and that says a lot considering most of the other ones offer free services. They make my life better. I can find things for half the price than at a brick and mortar, it comes fast, and it's almost always about what I expect. I have never gotten the wrong item.

And that's just their product marketplace and logistics services. I don't use any of their other services, I don't use AWS or prime video or any of that stuff. I just use their store.

I have some gripes with them. The big one is their return policy requires me to pay for shipping back or drive an hour to a specific location. I don't like how they're becoming more like eBay by the day. I think the antitrust lawsuit by the FTC has merit. They should not be charging a cut from merchants and then disallowing them from discounting their products on their own websites, it's predatory. But out of all the big online service companies out there, they're the only one I'm happy to allow a little spot in my life. My life is better because I use amazon.

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2. bankcu+QH[view] [source] 2024-08-20 08:01:38
>>big-gr+Li
What planet are you living on?

The reviews are fake, the no-name brands are hallucinations, and no one should ever buy supplements, food, or safety equipment like climbing rope or fuses from a disreputable platform that sells electrocution hazard USB chargers and does nothing about them. Watch a video or 3 from Louis Rossmann and BigClive.

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3. IshKeb+Xt1[view] [source] 2024-08-20 15:19:02
>>bankcu+QH
I have a similar experience to big-green-man. I suspect it massively varies by country. I live in the UK, and as far as I know most people complaining about fake products etc. are in the US.

The biggest issue with reviews in the UK are the Vine reviews, and occasionally sellers aggregating reviews for unrelated products. Fake products seem to be almost nonexistent (maybe because of stronger market regulation?).

Same/next day delivery is hard to compete with anyway.

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