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tooki:
Well that’s the thing… I no longer consider Amazon to be convenient. Low prices be damned, if it takes me hours of clicking around to actually select and purchase the item I want, I’m going to go elsewhere. I’m too lazy, err, “my time is too valuable” to waste on their stupid website. :/
james_s:

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--- Quote from: bd139 on August 18, 2022, 05:40:20 pm ---I’ve got three kids, work from home, run my own company so plenty of last minute purchases. I do buy in bulk where possible.  $113 equivalent a year here is the pricing and it isn’t a big deal for me. Also Prime video is ok. I got The Expanse and The Boys  :-//

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You’re clearly just the hapless victim of psychological sorcery. :P

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Some of you are taking this WAY too personally. I've said several times there are exceptions, you may be one of those exceptions. I still think for most people that have Prime it is not really a good value, they fall for the marketing trickery. That doesn't mean YOU don't get good value from it. Does anyone really think the average consumer is all that savvy? They still fall for tricks like shrinking the package to hide price increases. Just a few weeks ago I taught an otherwise intelligent person about the price per unit that is legally required on supermarket price signs but printed in tiny font, she was 41 and was not even aware it was there. Most people fall for this stuff, I don't, I suspect a much larger percentage of the engineering community doesn't vs the general population. Deception and psychological trickery are some of the core principals in marketing, making people think they're getting a better deal than they are, and it works.
bd139:

--- Quote from: tooki on August 19, 2022, 05:11:37 pm ---Well that’s the thing… I no longer consider Amazon to be convenient. Low prices be damned, if it takes me hours of clicking around to actually select and purchase the item I want, I’m going to go elsewhere. I’m too lazy, err, “my time is too valuable” to waste on their stupid website. :/

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As with all shops they’re fine if you know what you want and how much it costs.
tooki:

--- Quote from: bd139 on August 19, 2022, 06:05:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on August 19, 2022, 05:11:37 pm ---Well that’s the thing… I no longer consider Amazon to be convenient. Low prices be damned, if it takes me hours of clicking around to actually select and purchase the item I want, I’m going to go elsewhere. I’m too lazy, err, “my time is too valuable” to waste on their stupid website. :/

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As with all shops they’re fine if you know what you want and how much it costs.

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I could not disagree more. I can know exactly what I want, what it’s called, who makes it, and even the part/model number and Amazon will still fail to find it even if they carry it.

For example, try “Clairefontaine 60g A4”. It’s currently sold out on Amazon UK (as I can verify by copying its ASIN to a URL), but even expressly selecting “include out of stock” won’t find it. Adding the product number (1929C) doesn’t help.

And as I’ve explained above, since their search makes it essentially impossible to successfully filter only to the items that can actually be shipped to Switzerland, even “successful” searches frequently aren’t, in that they are incapable of resulting in a sale.

While I recognize that the different Amazon country sites have differing success rates — the English language ones seem to do  better — it’s still appalling how bad their search has become.

Another example: a Rotring 600 0.5mm mechanical pencil. On Amazon UK, entering “Rotring 600 0.5mm” gets two results, right at the top. On Amazon Germany (the preferred Amazon for Switzerland), and the country where the damned thing is made, the same search finds all manner of Rotring 600 products, but with useless item titles that don’t include the lead thickness, so I have to click every damned one and scroll into the weeds to find what thickness it is. The search is doubly sucky because when set to German, it struggles with German compound nouns, so fails to find things and instead proposes all manner of crap. And when set to English, it doesn’t use the native English product databases from the US and UK, but instead machine translates the English into German, and then feeds that into the lousy German search. It’s a joke.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: tooki on August 19, 2022, 07:18:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on August 19, 2022, 06:05:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on August 19, 2022, 05:11:37 pm ---Well that’s the thing… I no longer consider Amazon to be convenient. Low prices be damned, if it takes me hours of clicking around to actually select and purchase the item I want, I’m going to go elsewhere. I’m too lazy, err, “my time is too valuable” to waste on their stupid website. :/

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As with all shops they’re fine if you know what you want and how much it costs.

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I could not disagree more. I can know exactly what I want, what it’s called, who makes it, and even the part/model number and Amazon will still fail to find it even if they carry it.

While I recognize that the different Amazon country sites have differing success rates — the English language ones seem to do  better — it’s still appalling how bad their search has become.

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Same here. It has always amazed me how Amazon became so popular with such a poor search feature (if you can even call it that). I don't even bother; I use Google to find product and if that happens to be Amazon, so be it but in most cases a different webshop pops up earlier in the search results. For me Amazon is the last resort after Aliexpress (which has a much better search function).
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