amazon.com sucks
It’s amazing that such a badly designed site as amazon.com is so successful. Maybe it works better for users “local” to the site, but for me it’s a disaster. The site completely ignores my location, even when signed in, and peppers me with offers for which I’m not eligible.
Save with this Amazon credit card!*
*but only if you’re in the US, which we know you’re not
Free Super Shipping availabe!*
*but only if you’re in the US, which we know you’re not
Shipping $3.99!*
*but only if you’re in the US, which we know you’re not. Hahahahahahha!!!
It’s not exactly hard to program a site to adjust these things. If I sign into EBay it quite happily lists the shipping costs to Sweden for eligible items.
What’s even more irritating with Amazon is the process to find out how much something will cost me. Because I’m in Sweden and usually ordering from the UK or US, the shipping fees are normally significantly greater than the cost of the books, especially when ordering second hand books. The problem is Amazon refuses to tell me the shipping costs until after I have gone through the entire ordering process – including confirming my shipping address and credit card details. Most of the time I’m not going to confirm because shipping becomes exorbitant – an order I’m looking at this morning for about $12.00 worth of books is going to cost me over $70.00 in shipping.
So now I want to keep looking – but does Amazon give me the option? Not easily – only hidden down at the bottom of the page away from the screen is the link -
Go to the Amazon.com home page (without completing your order)
The really don’t want me to do anything but “Confirm Order” do they?
Now, the way to save money on shipping is to order multiple books from the same seller, so I like to look and see which seller I’m ordering the most books from, and then search their store to see if they have other books I want.
Well …. that’s what I’d like to do. 9 times out of 10, no matter what the store, I get something like this -
This is my usual experience with Amazon, and frankly it sucks! These things are not technically difficult issues to fix, why don’t they fix them? If there is a better alternative, particularly for second hand books, please, please, someone let me know.
So that’s a few minutes … time to check back … sigh ……
February 8th, 2009 at 04:51
I did read somewhere that Amazon was interested in irritating a particular Aussie who resides in Sweden…
June 3rd, 2009 at 06:03
Amazon not only sucks, but those SOB’s stole close to $5000.00 from me. They suspend my account with perfect feedback and with out reason, then they say they will hold my funds for 90 days or more.
They said that 1 1/2 months ago. And get this; they can extend that period every 90 days after another review. What a crude bunch of thieves.
They really know how to make you feel like a worthless prostitute. At least prostitutes, receive pay for their work.
Bird Tech Stores
Mary
Formerly an Amazon Seller. Now a Amazon Victim.
Do not buy or sell from Amazon.. Horrendous is an understatement.
→ comment by mary on amazon on June 3, 2009
I experienced exactly what the other authors above went through. Now I know why they got rid of the Mafia ! So they could usher in the Amazon Mob.
They make you a offer you cant refuse. Then they take your money. If you want to steal.
Set up a business like Amazon, then Steal until your heart is content and your pockets are full. After all , there is not a lot you can do directly.
But indirectly, spreading the word has a very powerful effect. So keep spreading it………………….
June 9th, 2009 at 17:55
Try addall.com and used.addall.com. I have had great success ordering from them. The booksellers are independent, so I’m sure the shipping is better. Use Amazon to obtain the ISBN for the books you want, then go to Addall to order them.
July 5th, 2009 at 20:54
You are just stupid…you just want things to be easy. If you have alot of complaints about using Amazon.com…1 thing to do mister…. DON’T ORDER and you won’t be as stupid as you are right now.
July 9th, 2010 at 21:09
How do they stay in bussiness? way over priced, and last I checked no paypal.
August 18th, 2010 at 04:39
A $400 item costs $600 at this rip off place, and no PayPal it must be some fee PayPal charges or something like that (pure greed), Screw these people and screw this jag off asswipe whose comment is dated 7/5/2009 IT must work for this company who are obviously are from a particular religion which is so greedy IT (them) are not even worth saying their name.
Boycott amazodick.poop
September 9th, 2010 at 02:26
Mary from Bird Tech Stores.
I’ll bet my bottom dollar you ripped off someone and Amazon cut you off at the knees. I’m hoping the same SCUMBAG who ripped me off will get the same treatment. I have no sympathy for crooks.
November 9th, 2010 at 11:13
Our experience is very different from those above. We still have 19 accounts with Amazon, but we may be closing them soon. Incident: Review Gagging
We own many small computer firms in Europe and South America, Mexico and Canada. We order from Amazon (in The U.S) and ship to either continent.
We recently saw a Motherboard (Intel socket 775) and we reviewed with 1 star due to the fact that these motherboards have no CPU bracket installed. Amazon gagged the review
stating: “you have chose to review a seller and not the item,
hence your review was not posted” . Problem is:
We tried to review 9 other INTEL SOCKET 775 MOTHERBOARDS and got the same response:
Conclusion: Amazon “protects” certain companies. We
could not find NO NEGATIVE reviews on any socket 775
intel motherboard — which is further proof they are in
bed with Intel.
We are seriously considering closing our accounts with them
and they do not seem to care.
Daniel James Tyler
November 20th, 2010 at 02:18
fuck amazon, i orderd a used xbox controller a year ago, I STILL DONT HAVE IT. they say it will come day aferter tommarow but it never does!
March 8th, 2011 at 01:59
Amazon sucks. I have tried to order an item 3 times and all I get is an email that says my card that expires in 2004 won’t go through. I don’t have a credit card on file with them that expires in 2004. Are these slobs just lazy or do they get off by sending customers to other sites? What a bunch of loosers. I say boycott the slobs. They act like fat cats, so we should stop feeding them.
June 17th, 2011 at 04:56
They took my money didn’t send the books it took so long that the debit card expired I told them to send me a check do not try to credit the card it is void, they credited the dead card I could not get the money from the card compay because it was expired,
AMAZON WASHED WASHED THIER HANDS OF IT AND TOLD ME THERE WAS NOTHING THEY COULD DO ABOUT IT, THANK YOU FOR CALLING AND HAVE A NICE DAY!
I had called them the same day I made the order and told them of my concerns with shopping with them they assured me all would go well.
Good for them (free money) bad for me.
BEWARE DON”T SHOP AT AMAZON.COM
July 12th, 2011 at 10:27
Amazon sucks. I don’t stay in the US. When I make orders, amazon tells me the books take 7 to 21 days to ship. One month later, the books still have not been shipped. When I email them, they tell me to wait for another 2 weeks. Two weeks later, when I email them, the reply is often, ‘sorry the book is no longer available’. I’ve emailed Jeff (his email can be found in 21 Dogs Years in Amazon). He has his people email me. They tell me they’ve looked at the problem. But there is nothing they can do.
Why should I support an organization, that for all the wonderful reviews is just incompetent and arrogant.