Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by brudgers on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:17AM
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I'm an eBay member and it doesn't require a subscription and it seems competitive with Amazon for knockoff ink...I'm also a fan of Brother, but mostly for their cheap laser printers. I'm kinda' meh on their inkjets (I've owned three Brother lasers and three Brother inkjets over the years). Then again, I am pretty much meh on inkjets in general due to the high maintenance and modern habit of refusing to print black when the cyan cartridges is empty.
Anyway, I think (perhaps naively) that eBay's economic incentives are less misaligned with mine than Amazon's. I certainly feel that its platform is designed to provide a sense of greater transactional transparency.
Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by swiley on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:48AM
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I feel like it only exists because of how awful online payments are, at the end of the day they're just the new paypal.
Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by eridius on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:17PM
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Just so you know, using the wrong ink in your printer can lead to clogging up the nozzles. I wouldn't trust knock-off printer ink to be correct. Maybe you'll be lucky and everything will work fine, or maybe you're knocking years off of the lifetime of your printer.
Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by ikeboy on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:17AM
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You find the product first, then go to the list of all sellers which will be sorted by price.
Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by DigitalBison on Thursday July 27, 2017 @09:57AM
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Can you go into more detail on what you mean by "they don't have inventory"?
Re:Birkenstock CEO accuses Amazon of ‘modern-day piracy’
by euroclydon on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:36AM
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I mean they don't have "inventory" in the dictionary definition of the word. I search for items, and they will sell or fulfill an order that I click on, but the results are a confusing list of pseudo-similar things.
It's just like searching the internet for a product, not like buying from a store.
It would be like if I went into Target, and rather than an organized collection of products, it was a flea market with real and knock-off items lumped together in big piles all around the floor. And then a bunch of helpful employees to get me checked out real fast when I made a decision.
I was trying to buy school supplies, of which they had prominently linked categories, since it's that time of year. But when I searched for some package of paper, binders, or pencils, if I sorted by price, it included so many wrong products, then I never knew how to just find the best price for a given SKU. Combine that with downright scary results, I'm only left with scanning for reassuring logo's like Prime X and Prime Y.
It's a bazar full of hucksters.
[Edit] Also, I'm a Prime member, and buy everything I can there. Just the other day, I needed ink for by Brother printer. The brother ink was three times as much as the knock off. I really like Brother the company, and I wanted to buy their ink, but the budget that month was tight. So I went with the knock off. It's working fine.