- Amazon Bait And Switch, or Buyer's Remorse. - 5 Updates
| wilma6116@gmail.com: Aug 17 07:49PM -0700 Well, the items were sold and fulfilled by Amazon. I have been a Prime member for more than ten years. I have returned much less than $100 in all that time. It seems like years since I've gotten something delivered in two days. Low cost items cost less on Wal-Mart.com, but one needs a minimum to get free delivery. I've been reluctant to buy higher priced merchandise at WalMart, but with the punitive return policy at Amazon, I'm going to take few more chances. I'm disappointed my local Fred Meyer doesn't have online shopping. Same with Trader Joe's. Whatever, Amazon needs competition. |
| Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Aug 17 08:50PM -0700 > The next day they sent an email telling me my chair has shipped. I clicked on the chair to briefly admire it. But a big surprise! > I was charged $260. All the other comparable ones we selling for $230!. Even the one I bought showed $230. Same manufacturer, same Prime delivery. Everything the same. > I wrote Amazon. Should I refuse delivery and reorder later. Should I return it? Should I refuse delivery and order from the many contractors listed? Amazon has not replied and delivery is in about 16 hours? Or do I just suck it up and think about having my pocket picked every time I use that chair? Is it really worth beating yourself up for $30? You OKed the order even though you felt the price was too high. The vendor shipped it to you. Just accept that you should have been more careful, and let it be a learning experience. Then enjoy your new chair. |
| wilma6116@gmail.com: Aug 17 09:11PM -0700 If this was alt.allTheProblemsOfTheWorld.StarvingChildren then I would say, you're right! But since this is frugal living, as in a matter of life, then I am right and you are less so. Amazon used to be the frugal choice. No brick and mortar, no holiday decorations, no shop lifters, everything computer controlled, what could go wrong? But now Amazon has less competition. As it sniffs out each of its competitors, it's not as concerned as it used to be. Where are you going to go? Barnes and Nobel? Tower Records? Sears? So I let off a little steam. Cry wolf in the wildness. Tilt my lance towards windmills. I got nothing better to do. I'm not going to go amok with my foot on the gas pedal. Promise to live more frugal and realize I have no need for another chair. Written on a six-year old Kindle Fire. |
| wilma6116@gmail.com: Aug 17 09:16PM -0700 Oh, I forgot. The first rule about the beat yourself up on frugal living club is, don't talk about beating yourself up on frugal living club. |
| RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>: Aug 18 06:39AM +0100 On 17/08/2017 22:49, BigDog811 wrote: > If you're returning a defective or incorrectly described item for an exchange or refund you'll get a replacement or all your money back. If you get a refund then choose to buy it again, obviously you'll pay the increased price if it's gone up. > I've been shopping at Amazon since '98, and been a prime member for over a decade. I don't recall that they ever had a price matching policy. But a lot of businesses will price match Amazon. I've done that twice in the past year with purchases from Best Buy. Once for a smart TV, and once for computer hard drive. The good part of those deals was I got to take them home with me - didn't have even a short two day Prime customer wait. > Amazon isn't getting their hands around anyone's neck. They sell nothing you can't get elsewhere. If you don't like their business practices or prices just don't do business with them. No one's forcing you to. I always research my purchases and frequently find better prices than Amazon, including shipping. That's where I buy if the extra wait is worth the difference to me. Amazon's prices seem to be driven by market-scouring algorithms, and IME work out lowest on a casual internet search - in the UK at least. I'd guess this is because of a combination of google favour, tax avoidance, low pay and economies of scale. I do try to avoid Amazon (moral choice), but have foudn a couple of apparently unconnected ebay purchases have arrived in Amazon branded packaging. -- Cheers, Rob |
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