Re:Money Laundering via Author Impersonation on Amazon
by sincerely on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:58PM
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Interestingly enough, I find Amazon often has worse prices for the relatively-niche books I used to swear by Amazon for - art and critical theory, mainly. They used to have the convenience aspect as well, but now I generally feel like I can get better service by buying from the publisher and I feel better about it for the anti-monopoly reason you touched on
1. Amazon Logistics delivery sucks and I hate them so much.
2. When you actually look, Amazon is no longer price competitive with big box retailers on a lot of products in a lot of areas.
3. I can get my stuff today rather than in ??? + 2 days.
4. I can actually see the stuff in person, and assess quality and size.
5. Much smaller counterfeit problem.
6. I'm afraid of Amazon getting too dominant in the retail space, so I feel good about sending business to its competitors.
I try to only go to Amazon when I'm buying something weird that I don't know how to buy elsewhere.