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Comment by SPICLK2

6 hours ago

Or a signal that Amazon has reached the required level of incumbency that it doesn't need to worry about speed any more.

Or also signal that they've learnt about exactly how many of us stopped using Amazon because we got tired of receiving counterfeit products because of the commingling...

  • Or the mountain of returns they have to deal with on a daily basis. I signed up for Xmas, bought some things. ALL of them returned. This isn't a counterfeit issue on my end, but the simple fact that everything they sell is garbage.

    • >but the simple fact that everything they sell is garbage

      No, the simple fact is everything you bought was garbage. They sell plenty of standard, known brand items that are just as good as bought from anyone else.

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    • Not sure what Amazon could do about the products being trash though? If you feel unsure about it, why don't you go inspect the item in some store in person, instead of guessing and buying it by delivery?

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    • Honestly sounds like a you problem. I haven't had to return anything to Amazon in years but I'm a deliberate shopper and don't just buy stuff to buy it.

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I see hundreds of tweets by @amazon that reply to people complaining how deliveries miss the dates that amazon dot com promised but then amazon dot com probably delivers so many packages every day that I think it is a bit of column A and a bit of column B here.

  • This makes the same classic mistake about social media about social media that my boomer dad makes.

    100s people a day or even an hour is not a lot of people. It might feel like it is because in person it is but for the over 20 million packages they deliver daily it is rounding error.

To the contrary. At least in my area, there are more items with 1-day shipping than ever before.

A few years ago, most stuff was 2-day. Now most stuff is 1-day. And it's constantly popping up options for same-day too.