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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by rpgmaker on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:47PM (#12250750)
I hope it works out for them. Amazon's age it's showing, their site it's clunky and unresponsive at times. Sellers misrepresent their wares all the time. They're outright banning some products which, for a store, it's a very opinionated move if you ask me. And don't give me the "the Apple Store doesn't carry the Fire" crap, Amazon bills itself as the "everything store". It works sure and customer service it's still miles ahead the competition (this is expensive and something that it's always overlooked by the competition) but they're neglecting the storefront by trying to be "everything".
Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by gggggg11111 on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:03PM (#12251410)
Amazon closes customer accounts left right and center too, good luck getting thru to anyone human then despite being a decade long customer with thousands of digital purchases going poof.
Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by ak4g on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:15PM (#12251456)
Can you give me any pointers on where I can find out more about this?

(Also curious about the banned product lines if anyone can summarize/link to what's going on there.)

Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by AceyMan on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:51PM (#12252505)
Sample product: you can no longer get neodymium magnets from Amazon Shopping. (They were in my Wish List, and then, poof, "This product is no longer available." More searching within the site returned nothing.)
Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by ak4g on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:11AM (#12253396)
Okay, granted, but that's not exactly what I'd call egregious. They're, um, capable of causing injury, and the kind of thing I would probably want to ensure was only sent to recipients who had a i-know-what-i'm-doing form on file with my legal dept. Not the kind of thing I expect to be available for free 2-day shipping or whatnot.
Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by TimJRobinson on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:59PM (#12252530)
You can Google "Amazon phone number" to speak to someone human...
Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by gggggg11111 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:02AM (#12253374)
I did, they want me to fax credit card details to their fax number (who the hell uses fax in this day and age?) which I done and no reply

I doubt anyone monitors it, everytime I ring them they bounce me from idiot to idiot

I now need access to some invoices for purchases I made last year for accountant but cant login, and of course all my digital purchases are gone, the 2 kindles are useless.

Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by notyourwork on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @10:46AM (#12262137)
Sounds like parts of this saga are missing. Amazon doesn't just dump customers, they are happy to take everyone's money.