Ricofoley Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Amazon shares fall on bleak forecast and slowest growth since dot-com bust WWW.CNBC.COM Amazon gave a revenue forecast that trailed analysts' estimates and recorded a big loss on its Rivian investment. Personally, I've found myself using Amazon less and less, not really as a stance against their workplace conditions or anything, but just because I feels like there's less and less you can search for on there without getting entries that either seem like they're one company reverse engineering another's product, or just outright fraudulent. I was trying to look for a file cabinet a few weeks ago, and got like half a dozen entries that all looked suspiciously like the same thing, all with brand names I'd never heard of, and I ended up buying none of them because I had no confidence that I wasn't going to end up with something made out of like Grade Z particle board. Basically every other site will give you free shipping over a modest dollar amount now, and has way less chaos going on when you try and search for something. 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I still have my Prime account, I still have like $25 in gift cards I got my Xmas. I just haven’t really found anything in need of needing. I’ve bought a few 4K discs for like half their normal price. Still waiting on my 8 month delayed receiver (fuck I got a backlog of movies I gotta watch for the first time with proper loud sound) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Yeah, Amazon kind of turned itself into this weird hell hole to buy most things. You search for something basic and get a shitload of brands that are just Scrabble letters pulled from a bag each with 4000 5 star reviews and 50 1 star reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I can't fucking stand the mentality of "slowest growth" meaning "THE SKY IS FALLING! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Infinite growth is not a thing. The stock market will end up being the bane of our existence. The corporate executives don't give a rat's ass about the long term health of the company, they only care about next quarter's earnings vs. projections. The stockholders don't give two shits about the long term health of the company, the stock is just a short term investment. The people in charge of making big decisions in corporations are not going to be the ones holding the bag when everything falls apart, so they have no incentive to give a fuck. Like, think about all the shit Netflix has been doing lately, and how basically everyone with a brain is saying "you know that's going to kill the business, right?" No one making any of those decisions fucking cares. They care about milking the cow until it's dry, and the dryer it gets, the harder they squeeze. How long can we still function with this total "slash and burn" economic system? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Amazon is advertising like crazy about how great it is to work for them outside of the piss bottles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, Dodger said: Amazon is advertising like crazy about how great it is to work for them outside of the piss bottles You could get maternity leave if you work there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I'll 2nd @Ricofoleysentiment about Amazon being an absolute hell hole of bullshit and knock off products with 20,000+ 5 star reviews. Its gotten to the point I'll get turned off on Amazon and find the same product on Walmart or Targets website. I'd rather pay a little extra just to avoid the headache. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I really only use Amazon for two reasons: 1. When I have reward points or gift cards; or 2. When I need something obscure that isn’t easily found elsewhere (for example a few years ago I needed a new exhaust pipe for a portable AC unit; you’d think Home Depot or Lowes would have something like that, but I could only find it on Amazon). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Outside of a couple of things I can't get elsewhere (such as Sensodyne, in other markets they have a superior formulation with a special ingredient, so I'll either buy from foreign sellers on American Amazon or log onto Canadian/UK/German Amazon and order with the international shipping) I've basically stopped buying anything that goes in or on my body from Amazon (stuff like bedsheets I'll buy, I mean stuff like face soaps). With the amount of knockoffs on there and the fact that "sold by Amazon" doesn't mean anything since they intermingle inventory on the shelves, I don't want to have to worry about getting something with weird dangerous chemicals in it. One of my last purchases was a shoe rack with a bench. It was some Chinese Scrabble grab bag brand and I'm sure the quality on the wood is utter shit but it was like $50 and the ones I'd been looking at in person earlier that day were like $200 and not exactly what I wanted. This one wasn't exactly what I wanted either, it's a little small, but hey this is a situation where for sufficiently cheap enough it's fine. One thing that remains amazing is how absolutely atrocious their search functionality is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I pretty rarely buy things on Amazon myself these days, but my wife gets pretty much all of our household goods there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 There are a whole host of things in New Orleans that you pretty much have to buy from Walmart or Amazon. I'll take the one with free delivery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I just bought a soap refill on amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I still buy from them but I can see how it's an annoying site. I know what I want exactly generally so I go for it. I actually got a package from them today. A 1/7 Natsuno from 13 Sentinels. Now just gotta save up for the 1/4 Iori and Natsuno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I mostly buy books on Amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 The only good thing about Amazon was being able to find almost anything and get it the next day (or maybe two days later). Recently I was looking for something and saw it was Prime and had 1-day shipping. Perfect! I added it to the cart, and it then said "expected delivery date is [5 days later]." Listen, I get that supply chains are messed up. But if you lie about it in advance and hope I don't notice in the shopping cart, then I can't trust anything you are showing me to begin with, so why would I shop there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said: I mostly buy books on Amazon. Gotta shop through Bookshop, homie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CastlevaniaNut18 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 7 minutes ago, Chris- said: Gotta shop through Bookshop, homie. I mean, I use Amazon specifically because they're cheaper. I do shop at my local bookstores, though. I like the experience of an actual store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 16 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: You could get maternity leave if you work there! At the bottom it says 14 weeks of it is while you're still pregnant, and only 6 weeks is post pregnancy, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaku3 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 5 minutes ago, PaladinSolo said: At the bottom it says 14 weeks of it is while you're still pregnant, and only 6 weeks is post pregnancy, lol. Question. Would that be better if it was flipped or is the 14 weeks good but the 6 weeks bad? I haven't had a child so I know our materinty leave sucks but I am not sure if 14 weeks before birth is good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Outside of Christmas (ease of shipping anywhere) , I rarely shop at Amazon. I needed to buy some new tooth brush heads and the first 5 reviews all say the item is a fake. I don’t trust buying anything on Amazon anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaladinSolo Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 9 minutes ago, Zaku3 said: Question. Would that be better if it was flipped or is the 14 weeks good but the 6 weeks bad? I haven't had a child so I know our materinty leave sucks but I am not sure if 14 weeks before birth is good enough. It'd be way better if it was flipped, unless theres some reason to be on bed rest you probably don't need to stop working a month and a half before. Basically after the kid is born is hell on earth for months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 I’ve never bought a single item online in my entire life. Ffs, I used to get 60 day WoW cards with cash at Best Buy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Who even are you people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pickle Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, PaladinSolo said: At the bottom it says 14 weeks of it is while you're still pregnant, and only 6 weeks is post pregnancy, lol. That seems like something lawyers drew up perfectly so most importantly, you don’t go into labour at the job (probably would look bad) and 6 weeks is juuuust enough time that you’re likely fully recovered in that the likelihood of something going wrong at work would not happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Uaarkson said: I’ve never bought a single item online in my entire life. Ffs, I used to get 60 day WoW cards with cash at Best Buy. Cash grosses me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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