Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing

Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by tyingq on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:40PM (#19641465)

I think the poor management of 3rd party sellers is at least part of it. I've had several bad experiences with slow shipping, "out of stock" after the sale, items very much not as described, counterfeits, etc. And crazy bad support from those sellers...English bad enough that I couldn't understand the response.

I now only buy a very specific subset of what I used to buy there.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by mrfusion on Friday April 12, 2019 @10:11AM (#19644933)

I don’t understand how returns work anymore. I bought something thinking I could return it if it didn’t fit but it turned out the cost to return it was more than the item itself.

It doesn’t seem like they tell you that in advance.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by Wheaties466 on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:21AM (#19645571)

that and some items are nonreturnable. Which it does not say on the product page.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by paulcarroty on Friday April 12, 2019 @06:03AM (#19643501)

I had small, but good experience with 3rd party sellers: next day shipping, free ship from coast to coast. It highly depends from seller, guess.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by crazypills on Friday April 12, 2019 @09:08AM (#19644433)

Amazon has raised the bar to the point that poor experiences that happen under the aegis of the Amazon brand are unacceptable.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by atomical on Thursday April 11, 2019 @10:56PM (#19641550)

The letter seems to suggest the opposite.

> We helped independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build. There are many such tools, including tools that help sellers manage inventory, process payments, track shipments, create reports, and sell across borders - and we're inventing more every year. But of great importance are Fulfillment by Amazon and the Prime membership program.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by tyingq on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:02PM (#19641577)

That doesn't say anything definitive either way, does it?

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by atomical on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:11PM (#19641614)

The letter says that 3rd party sellers have been doing just as good as Amazon.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by tyingq on Thursday April 11, 2019 @11:49PM (#19641810)

It says Amazon gives them nice tools.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has confirmed Amazon’s growth is slowing by atomical on Friday April 12, 2019 @05:20AM (#19643312)

> Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly.

It says a lot more than that.

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