Amazon

japs love it to
I guess it's the radiation

too

Underrated post.

No, I was just testing it for the report, faggot.
If there was a need for a non-monothematic Amazon, people would have already complained a long while, so the only conclusion left is to say that most people are mono-thematic and leave it at that.

Dunno. I think it was just one of the first companies to drive the online shopping bandwagon, and no new competitor has shown up yet, besides eBay, but eBay more known for auctions rather than straight up being like a store, even though I just use buy it now 97% of the time

Speaking of Amazon, remember this abomination? Fuck those people, I've never bought from them and I hope I will never have to.

i use ebay to buy all my electronic components direct from the chinks instead of going to some fag central maker site like sparkfun or adafruit. sparkfun charges like $1 for a u18 hall effect sensor, i can buy a bag of 100 on ebay from the chinks shipped for

Jews. They printed the money

About done using Amazon because (and this will probably just piss off more hardcore people but anyways)

1: Reviews are shit, they allow people to get free things and in exchange for reviews. Mostly a problem with suppliments or foods

2: You spend $50 or whatever and can get free shipping, but it's purposefully slow shipping, they add almost a whole week before actually putting it out the door. Give them your childrens age for a amazon prime trial if you want regular speed processing (even if you have no children it asks you this)

3: In my state they have an "Amazon tax". Even though Amazon does not have a presence in my state, I get sales tax at 5% while almost all other retailers do not (yet) have this. Amazon playing along with this bullshit will only mean that all other online retailers will have to include sales tax soon. Amazon should have manned up and said fuck you (state of X), I will abandon your market

No it doesn't. I have amazon prime and was never asked this.

I DONT have Amazon Prime. Want a screenshot?

I don't give a flying fuck if you post a screenshot or not, but it's obviously not true for everyone.

Okay, Bezos chill out

Took this screen months ago because I thought it was funny it thought I had kids, also creepy. But saw it again last weekend.

Last weekend I ordered clothing and shoes and whatnot, some tshirts I ordered that were sold THROUGH Amazon but not BY amazon (marketplace?) were delivered last week by DHL, amazingly fast. Less than $5 a shirt shipping included. The rest of the stuff, pants, shoes, etc was all regular Amazon stuff. It asked me if I wanted Amazon Prime Trial, give me your childrens age (about the fourth time I've seen this), I decline, it gives some outragous time for free shipping which actually isn't even the default, it defaults to paid shipping, you have to click to the free.

They fucking add about a week before shipping out the order you kike.

And I know that seems like I'm just missing out on "Two-day" shipping but that's not the case, if I screened other parts of the process and explained everything it would show clearly, if you are not a prime customer and hit the limit (for regular amazon purchases, not marketplace or whatever) for "free shipping" as a non-prime customer, it not only still tries to by default make you pay for shipping, but just arbitrarily adds days before putting it out the door. I work in a warehouse and I know what shit they are up to.

And paying 100$ a year for "free photo storage" isn't compensation for having regular shipment processing

give a bunch of fake details and take that free shipping

anyway thought this interview was good
youtube.com/watch?v=guVxubbQQKE

i usually buy from ebay as you often find the same things for less on ebay. some people do sell some absolute junk on ebay though

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You know how most people will buy groceries and stuff from the local supermarket not because of the service or the offerings, but simply because it's the closest one when you need some tomatoes? Amazon is like that, you can buy pretty much anything off there and they were among the first. Since there is no distance on the internet Amazon is simply everyone's local supermarket.

The website is bloated shit, it's like every time they had a problem or wanted to add something new they didn't want to touch the codebase so they just bolted the changes on top of the pile. Not that it really matters when you're the goto place for everyone.

It's good for americans because in many states you can avoid paying sales tax by using it. That's about it.

Just make sure you never leave an amazon tab open in the background, it'll slow the browser to a crawl. God only knows what the fucking thing is doing with all that CPU time.

Amazon's like a drug. It's cheaper and more convenient than any other storefront, but by using it you feed a mega-corporation which doesn't respect your privacy and will someday merge with the government and other mega-corporations to usher in a new age of corporatocracy.

It's your choice, anons.

The site works well without Javascript enabled. That's more than I can say about most websites, especially websites that sell things. Amazon also owns a lot of other websites, so it's hard to get away from them. AbeBooks, for instance. Amazon Prime means I can get shit fast, or pay a small fee to get it faster. I mean, it's a non-zero fee, but it'd be a lot more if it was expedited shipping via the USPS or something (re: ebay), so it's hard to complain. Also, I can buy embarrassing things without having to spill spaghetti in person.
You'd think that Holla Forums would be happy that they don't have to load evil non-free Javascript to use an online service.

Why is her skirt so short?

I worked for a company that considered Amazon to be their biggest competitor. We hired employees from Amazon, Amazon hired employees from us, and it was clear that Amazon was our main opponent.

Despite this, employees still bought stuff off of Amazon because it was so damn convenient. Hell, we used AWS to host key parts of our infrastructure. They're so big and so convenient that you really have to go out of your way to avoid them.

because she's a smug slut
it's science

I don't even have children IRL and my amazon profile has 12 of them.

I can get on one website and buy all my shit from flight controllers to raspberry pi's to power tools to special adhesives plus read thousands of reviews and look up what I'm gonna get on youtube. So amazon + youtube = a happy customer. I get what i want 99% of the time

You can't search by price unless you're looking in very specific categories.
Even then there's only predefined ranges.

Haha I don't use that site anymore. Haven't for at least 10 years. Anyway I don't buy stuff anymore, just download books instead.
Also let my ebay account auto-expire. It stopped being worth it a long time ago, when they started jacking up fees and sellers tried to make up the difference with inflated shipping cost. Also, fuck paypal and auctions that only accept it.
I do remember buying stuff from ebay using Lynx browser though. Im sure everything has changed for the worse now, like all the other Webshit 2.0 sites.

Err, I mean amazon. Well it's also possible I used Lynx on ebay too, but probably not since pictures were kinda important there. One thing's for sure though: it was once possible to use that site without javascript turned on, because that's how I always ran Netscape.

I find Amazon very fast, you must have shit internet connection.

My current Internet Speed: 24MB/s

Yea no shit, that's roughly 90% of the shallow web.

I got $25 in Amazon credit for my birthday, what buy?

Lube for sticking technology into your ass.

I can't stand how the majority of products on the site now have almost all of the most recent reviews as "received this product at a discount for my unbiased review"

Also they started merging reviews for different (but same brand and similar) products. So quite often your reading reviews for a product that isn't even the same as the one you're researching.

Amazon is jumping the shark

I've actually only had that problem when using security addons like noscript and request policy and ublock and whatnot. I have no idea why. I now use amazon on a special browser profile where their tracking and bullshit can roam free, and there is zero slowdown if I forget and leave a tab open all day.

switchblades

Basically, their internet presence allowed them to avoid paying any state taxes. After they survived the .com implosion they essentially had no competitors for a long time. Now they're big enough that they can simply undercut others.

Get an api key (they are free but you have to bs about having a blog or something)

You get a lot of nifty new query tools.

affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html

Post went downhill at this point.

Jesus fuck user, you realize most of us are bugers right? We get constantly jew'd by our oligarchy of ISP's, most of us see anything above 10mb/s insanely super fast.

Oh shit, the burgers are becoming self-aware.
Burgers that know they're burgers

There was a tweet:
"Amazon is a $250 billion dollar company that reacts to you buying a vacuum by going THIS GUY LOVES BUYING VACUUMS HERE ARE SOME MORE VACUUMS"

That's machine learning.
If you just bought a vaccum, you're probably going to want to buy the same vaccum every week from now on, especially if you get a discount.

l-lewd

what the fuck is that shit??

fucking kikes obvs