Re:Amazon has radically transformed small businesses in both...
by bsder on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:14PM
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> The return rates that some people I know find acceptable are mind numbing to me. Some people I know return about 20% of the non-food things they buy, even after knowing that a significant fraction of the returned merchandise ends up in landfills.
Clothing manufacturers, however, make this really annoying when they don't have to.
Clothing sizes don't mean anything. Consequently, you can order your "size" and still find things are completely out to lunch.
If you could get a real "specification" on clothing, then I would have far less of an issue with companies cracking down on returns.
Amazon, however, comes in for special approbation as I simply can't trust that whatever I'm receiving has any resemblance to what I expected from what I ordered.
Clothing manufacturers, however, make this really annoying when they don't have to.
Clothing sizes don't mean anything. Consequently, you can order your "size" and still find things are completely out to lunch.
If you could get a real "specification" on clothing, then I would have far less of an issue with companies cracking down on returns.
Amazon, however, comes in for special approbation as I simply can't trust that whatever I'm receiving has any resemblance to what I expected from what I ordered.