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Amazon: the shittiest, most ghastly company on earth
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Bud:

--- Quote from: PozziBros on July 13, 2021, 12:49:25 pm ---wait, why don't they just sell it at a discount? why just destroy/throw them away?  :--

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And then the people who bought it at a discount would also want product support and want to return the items and want a refund, how Amazon is supposed to handle that. No consumer laws regulating this type of sale i guess.
nigelwright7557:
I sell a bit on ebay so decided to try Amazon.
My listings despite being cheapest came way down in the listings.
Even if you found my listings there is no buy it now button next to them !
So emailed Amazon to find out what is going on.
1/ You have to earn a buy it now button by selling lots of items.
2/ You have to earn listing position by selling lots of items.
So how do I sell lots if it doesnt show up and when it does no buy button ?

I guess its their business to run the way they want but I certainly wont be buying from them.
 


Ed.Kloonk:
Ridiculous, isn't it?

The whole point was to connect buyers and sellers but instead be both wander the maze aimlessly in search of hidden cheese.

As a buyer, sometimes I wonder if the algo does indeed detect what I want and obfuscates the search result deliberately.

Think I'm nuts? Do a search. Now, nuke your cookies and turn on a VPN.
 :scared:
T3sl4co1l:
I suspect similar.  Likely a frustrating or ill-defined interface drives metrics like "engagement".

There are few things I've shopped for on Amazon that were at all easy to find.  (I shop very little there, maybe a few times a year.)

Tim
nigelwright7557:
I recently used Amazon Web Services for a website.
After 3 days fighting a error 403 I gave up and signed up for AWS support.
The next 14 days were completely useless with just suggestions that were available for free in help pages !

It really needed someone to take my project and run it through AWS and see why it wasnt running.
AWS basicially said that my website had uploaded ok with green status so they had done their bit.
I even tried using Visual Studio with AWS tool kit and that failed too.
I found a suggestion that my runserver.py file should be application.py The Visual Studio template generates runserver.py

So I tried zipping up my project and eventually managed to get something running.
The next problem was my website couldnt send emails.
The exception was access was denied.
So  I looked up that problem and AWS block emails.

AWS is very slow, bloated, complicated and not easy to use.
I used elastic beanstalk which has 3 levels, elastic beanstalk, S3 and EC2.
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