Amazon

“Even Amazon's effectively no questions asked return policy is a band-aid over the forgeries and trash that fill their hyperscale market.”

“having my address and payment info in one centralized superstore is way better than having it spread around dozens of niche businesses”

“The only appeal Amazon has for me is the subscribe and save option and that you can find almost anything.”

“Amazon, no problem, browse from anywhere. Amazon has similar functionality, but they just do it a lot more intelligently.”

“it's the only place where we can find a gazillion things our kids' school demands they bring to school”

“Unfortunately that's still much more likely with Amazon than with some random internet shop - and that's even with Amazon's own enshittification of their service.”

“Having a predictable delivery date for that on top of it most of the time being way faster than anywhere else is really nice.”

“Every Amazon purchase is a vote for monopolistic behaviour, the destruction of local services/industry, and for yet another America tax.”

“Because of their predatory practices it seems online prices are roughly identical for Western branded products at all online retailers.”

“one cool feature amazon implements is that if you change the .com for .es (and nothing else) for a product link it will do exactly that”

“you must carefully inspect every item in your cart, because you will find lots of brand-items advertised from fly-by-night sellers”

“a few features are missing (like being able to see all items for some reason by a specific seller) but otherwise it works well”

“It's definitely more janky from an experience perspective, but still easier than driving to the store.”

“I would see my Amazon searches appearing in my social media feed in near real time, and this irked me.”

“here in the EU it takes exactly two clicks, in a lot of other jurisdictions you have to jump through half a dozen pages”

“I regularly get 3 _hour_ shipping for common things. Often cheaper than I could get those items at walmart.”

“Amazon has at least two customers here: you, the user trying to find an item to buy, and advertisers, likely trying to convince you to buy a lower quality product.”

“it perfectly possible for people to like the ability to like 2 day shipping while also liking that the site is flooded in cheap crap”

“many product categories where I know that shopping on Amazon will be a miserable experience riddled with crap goods and useless search”

“no online vendor gets remotely close to Amazon for speed of shipping, ease of returns, and product selection”

“its advantages (insane shipping speed/cost, strong return policy) are nearly impossible for competitors to compete with”

“The value prop of Amazon is (was?) getting your item fast (not cheapest anymore and certainly not highest quality).”

“Amazon has the best checkout and delivery system in the world, and that alone is worth a few extra dollars.”

“Just like complaining about Amazon (be it as an employer or as a service provider), without providing an alternative, is siphoning people into a soapbox?”

“it also always re-invests everything right back into Amazon including buying up competitors or ripping off the most popular items in their website.”

“the sellers on eBay are almost always cheaper (sometimes significantly) than their Alibris/Abe/Amazon storefront counterparts.”

“Amazon could easily implement a few measures to really lock down reviews, but they purposely leave it gameable because it drives sales.”

“places like Amazon have degraded considerably in terms of things like fake third party products and fake reviews”

“they're not prepared to handle anything unusual, but their model is to refund you almost no matter what”

“Because either only Amazon sells the books I want to buy or the alternatives are other non-local shops that are usually far more expensive.”

“they buy media, they buy government / laws, and having less and less competition they also have way too much power over the employees”

“Do you realize how generous their return policy is? How convenient it is to order from them, and set up a subscribe-and-save for monthly household items?”

“Amazon has shipped what I genuinely believe to be the single most complicated unified user experience in human history”

“I largely attribute this to poor quality products, horrible search interface, trying to sort through the dropship spam, and prices no longer being as competitive.”

“Amazon is pretty good at optimizing buying things but outside of that everything else sucks really bad especially on mobile”

“Amazon and companies like them must be broken up because they harm the producers and consumers with dictating buying and selling pricinf.”

“Just being able to use Amazon for almost everything starting from bottled water and toilet paper saves me immense amounts of time.”

“I've never considered myself very paranoid about Amazon, but recently I needed a cheap router, but couldn't shake the feeling that I shouldn't get it there”

“many of them are actually doing better than they used to due to the ability to list their inventory on Amazon, AbeBooks, etc.”

“Amazon's experience is pretty bad in many ways, but I still get value out of the fast ("free") Prime shipping”