Been a hard core Amazon fan and user for as long as it has existed....from the WebVan days! critics abound.... I always thought that a Princeton Grad with 300k spend money from his parents might go places and also believed that the Retail Industry reaches a turning point once every 30-40 years..dating back to Woolworth and Sears and then Walmart.
Good things dont obviously last forever...sometime it is circumstantial and then there are situations which are intentional.
Early days of Amazon attraction was innovation and low cost. Then after awhile..they got smart and priced it marginally attractive and hence the only savings became the local state tax...which could be substantial if you live in one of those high tax states.
So far so good....beginning last year or so...the service and cost have started getting to be deceptive and manipulative....
- from UPS shipment it became local regional carriers...no name companies with no predictable traction or delivery times....well i guess they have to save somewhere...
- then came the most annoying and manipulative aspect of ecommerce which is often found in ebay type of transactions.....
I for one have always believed in the pricing listed on Amazon To be legit and never bothered to check it untli recently when I ended up paying twice the amount for a Hard copy book....something bothered me and when investigated i found that Amazon has started posting third party products and inventory as Amazon's own and shows their pricing on the product making it appear that it is infact owned and sold by AMAZON....Well these third party retailers I am sure not all of them....have gotten smarter and sell products at a higher price if it is not carried by Amazon...obviously more money for Amazon..but innocent loyal customers do get cheated by Amazon without realizing that Amazon is knowingly becoming one of those EBay type of price gouging merchants..beware!
Monday, July 11, 2011
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