Re:Amazon makes good on its promise to delete “incentivized”...
by cwilkes on Friday November 25, 2016 @03:12PM
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I was just on Amazon and checked out the "fine art" section which had some interesting items. I selected "framed" and was surprised to see stuff in the $20 range. So I clicked on one and while it said "frame" in the title it didn't say it in the description. I suspect that it meant that it could be framed and that they aren't selling a frame with it.
I suppose that's an issue when you sell tens of thousands of art items and try to do categorize automatically. It just makes me trust them less.
All my recent purchases have been disappointing, from futons of 'odd' sizes or misleading descriptions, "no assembly required", or products which just aren't good quality with 4-5 star reviews.
I've got to the point where I'm going back to only buying direct from amazon (if I can even still tell, it's not as easy as it used to be). Even sticking to "known" brands is difficult since brand licenses are often re-sold cheaply to different qualities of third party manufacturers in an era of globalization and cost-cutting driving down margins.
What can be a completely "buy it for life" quality item one year can in as short a time of 5 years have "sold out" their name and the products a shell of their former quality.