A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shops instead

Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by belval on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:40PM (#28284224)

I don't know about you but I am also not bound to Amazon, a few years ago some stores actually started putting some work into their website, offered free shipping on order over 50$, etc... and I went back almost naturally.

These threads of Amazon-bashing always read like something out of parallel universe, I should go have a worse shopping experience because of some "greater" objective of opposing Amazon?

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Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by Spivak on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @02:52PM (#28293225)

For me the sticking point is returns. Amazon makes it so easy to return stuff when other companies make you pay for your own shipping back that I'm way more willing to take a risk on something when it's on Amazon.

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Re:A bike parts company ditched Amazon to support indie shop... by belval on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:44AM (#28314839)

That too! I once received the wrong item from Hudson's Bay (Canadian everything store, think Sears) and not only had to physically go back to the store to get a refund because they wanted 8$ in shipping to let me send it back, they would not reimburse the shipping cost even after admitting that it was 100% their fault that they sent me the wrong item.

I don't want a future dominated by mega-corp with 99% market share but traditional retail need to get their shit together at some point.

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