Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by _dark_matter_ on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:05PM
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What is "The Amazon experience"? Ads being served as the first few rows of results? A review system that cannot be trusted? The same item listed multiple times by different sellers? Extreme price variance when choosing different colors and sizes?
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by simias on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:19PM
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That's a relatively decent development AFAIK. 10 years ago I mostly trusted results and reviews. I suppose it's getting a lot worse lately because 1/ Amazon being hugely successful means that it's a prime target for advertisers and scammers and 2/ Amazon being hugely successful means that they have less of an incentive to solve the issue now than they did back then.
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by bluGill on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:17PM
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The experience today is not what made them great in the past. 10 years ago the negatives you list didn't exist.
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by Apocryphon on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @03:41PM
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Perhaps all of these too big to be good utility services- Amazon, Google, Facebook, even Apple should just offer “classic” slimmed down versions of their previous offerings, for a paid subscription in the case of the online services.
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by glenneroo on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:33AM
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How would this help eliminate any of the current issues? Why would giving them money and/or building a slimmed-down version reduce fake reviews, fake articles, ads as search results, et al?
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by Apocryphon on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:52AM
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Use the subscription fees to cover up the lack of search result ads, to pay for better policing of fake reviews, moderating, etc.
Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down
by hrktb on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:15PM
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These are all valid point. I’d add to that bad knock off items mixed with the real ones.
But most of these issues are plaguing every other major site. Ads that stick with you for days and days whatever site you look at are becoming the norm.
No ec site review system can be trusted in my opinion, they are usually way to easy to game. For anything that actually matters reputable and dedicated review sites end up to be the most useful.
Different sellers and different price are fine to me, it actually helps to mitigate the knock off issues in my experience.
All in all amazon has degraded a lot in these aspects, but I feel the whole industry took the dive and don’t see competing retailers coming up with fresh ideas.
I think it requires something very special for an organization to accept to canibalize itself. Apple is the only exemple that I would see at a behemoth scale.