Your opinion on Amazon.com

Is it just me or has it gotten really bad? The price of everything seems to have gone up. Shipping has turned into: "Yeah, it'll be there anytime that day by midnight" I mean I find it difficult to shop there these days. Did a new company take it over or what? Please give us back the old amazon.

You OT?

I think I've shopped online 3 times in my lifetime but one of those times was about a month ago on Amazon and not only did I save a bunch of money but there were no complications for me, so no complaints here. For obvious reason I can't say if the service has gotten better or worse.

Nah, its still decent lol.

I like it. Never once had a problem.

It's just you.

Seems to be the same as always.....must be your issue.

I have no complaints, I love Amazon..

Everything is good but warranty and all things like that kind of suck... it least thats what I find anyway. Prices are good and delivery is always excellent

Amazon has nothing to do with warranties, that's a manufacturer thing, outside of their own products and in that case they are fantastic when there's an issue. At least in my experience.

I've had generally great experiences with amazon. Generally good prices, fast shipping, and good customer support. Only complaint is that the packaging sometimes sucks, eg I'll get a couple books that were just thrown into a box too big for them without any padding. Doesn't make that much difference since it's usually just for something like a book, but come on.

Amazon is as Amazon always was. No problems here.

I find that Amazon has never been better. I would say that I only buy items that a fulfilled by Amazon. Their prices are almost always competitive and I get free 2 day shipping.

prefer ebay, easier to ensure you dealing with a reputable seller and you have paypal protection, I'm guessing there is something similar on amazon but its seems easier on ebay.

Also I've had a few bad experiences with amazon, I'm still waiting for a gamecube game I ordered in 2005, any day now

I haven't had any issues with buying stuff from Amazon. It's the companies that sell through Amazon that you need to be cautious of. I've only had 1 person/company that gave me grief of a purchase I made. They listed the boxed computer game as brand-new in the box (box and all, mint condition).

The game showed up via USPS and it was wrapped in brown Kraft paper and nothing more. The actual game box was crushed and mangled once I removed the paper wrapping. It took almost 2 weeks to get a refund and to get them to pay for the return of the item. The box was small enough to fit in a small USPS shipping box that would have cost them maybe $.50 more to ship and it would have protected the product. The main reason I bought the game was because it was in a box - I enjoy collecting physical copy of games and I didn't want a crushed/mangled game box; plus the item did not arrive as advertised by the seller.

Other then that, no problems buying something off of amazon.com.

Still great for me!

Amazon is the greatest thing since sliced bread in the retail world.

it's ok.

I enjoy the service I get from Amazon.

On the other hand, some of the third party sellers are another story.

It's a drug.

It's alright but sometimes I go to eBay instead since they don't usually charge for shipping when I want certain items and maybe no tax if I'm lucky.

I like Amazon.com. It has many products priced less than local competitors and two day shipping with Amazon Prime, some Amazon Prime music and some free ebooks, Amazon Prime pantry and Kindle. It is a decent business.

Yeah Amazon prime is a great deal.. As for the prices, I know what your talking about.. And this isn't directly Amazon's fault but their third party merchants who are scalping products that are in short supply.. I saw this ALOT with the Nvidia 970 gtx's in which one day when it was back on stock it was the regular price.. The next it shot up $50 to $80, by jackass merchants who are trying to take advantage of the short supply and demand of them.

Amazon is great. i buy from them quite often and everything arrives on time or even a day early.
hell i plan on ordering some Rennet and Citric Acid later today when i get paid.

of course i only buy things that are fulfilled by Amazon.

I always use Amazon. Never have any problems with it.

they are very annoying, anytime i look up anything on the site i have to delete the cookies. The reason is because i get adds everywhere i go online non stop.

That's not only because of Amazon. You better stop using the internet if you don't want targeted ads.

yes others do also use target marketing, however amazon is extreamly pushy with it. I am sure the dear leader would not approve so your right.

I love Amazon. It must be a problem on your end.

Returns are painless. I like them.

My number 1 go to site for online shopping, and I will use it for the rest of my life as it is that good!

I used them starting probably around 1999/2000, qualifying super saver shipping packages would ship right away, and given I had a warehouse / shipping center locally it'd be there like next day all the time. Then they made the local shipping areas one day shipping / same day delivery only locations, instead shipping snail mail somewhere from the other side of the country. Also, they purposefully wait until the end of the 5 - 8 business days to ship. Likely, they're twisting peoples arms to get Prime.

I didn't mind Prime when it first came out because I was buying things left and right on it, if you do a lot of online shopping then it's fine. Though, Prime was cheaper at first, then they did the streaming video service bullshit and price when up. Prime is awful anyways, Netflix and Hulu just show you what they have available, Prime mixes in paid content into the catalog so you go flipping through it and finally find something worth watching and it's like "**** I gotta pay". I twice tried Prime out, once for a year when it first came out, or maybe two years. Anyhow, I did Prime free trial to get fast shipping on Christmas gifts and quit before it rolled into paying. I decided to give the video service a crack seeing if it evolved... nope, still shit.

With Prime though, a trick I learned with shipping is just ship things one at a time. Combining orders can lead to complications so just avoid it, buy things one at a time. Besides, it's not like Super Saver Shipping where you have to hit a limit on things.

I hate they ship with UPS, USPS is more reliable and they deliver on Saturdays.

Amazon third parties used to be a great source for anime though, **eh-hem** so I've heard, while most retail anime is like 3-4 episodes a DVD for $20-25 and looks like pirated prints, they have/had those 3 disc special editions for like $30 that was the entire season of a show with much better production value in case, covers, disc art, menus, options **eh-hem** again, so I've only heard. Nobody needs that stuff now though with Crunchyroll.com around.

I've had great buys from all the Amazon third party sellers except for one, who I bought a game from and they sent me a friggin European or Australian version of the game, and I had to ship it back, get a refund, buy another. Other than that, they're great, they often ship faster than Amazon does and they're cheaper.

I order and they ship on time (Mostly, but that's usually on the shipping company). I got no problems with that. Amazon Prime is pretty solid. Even with the recently raised membership price it pays for itself if you order a few things in the year and take advantage of all of the free movies, TV shows and music that they offer.

I've been dealing with them for about 3 years now, they have been solid as far as I'm concerned.

UK site I shop there every month. Deliveries can take no time at all but others can wait over a week for free delivery. how ever I have notice you don't get a receipt like you use to or have I missed something?.

I still like it.

I still like it.

I love Amazon. Nothing like getting anything I want delivered to my house within 2 days.

Wouldn't know, never used it.

i like it. the prices are still good. i rely heavily on amazon.com for my teaching resources and video game habit.

Sounds to me that he isn't aware that there's such a thing called Adblock Plus.

Since I have Amazon Prime, I guess you can say I enjoy it enough. 2 day shipping free for many of its products is definitely great. My only complaint is that I wish it were possible to finance some their products. I've been wanting to buy a laptop from them but there doesn't appear to be any option to finance it like its possible to do on ebay...

It is a godsend.

love amazon except when i buy new games with release day shipping and i have to wait until late at night to get it

Amazon is now cheaper roughly than B&M 50% of the time, and more expensive 50% of the time. In short, it's roughly on parity (with B&M as a whole, not necessarily individual members within).

Which was bound to happen. Despite their efforts to convince investors they're a tech company, they're little more than a traditional low margin retailer - and low margin retailers tend to meet at a price level over time.

As for whether I use it, I do on occasion. I largely treat it as any other retailer - if they have the best price available, then I'll go with them. Otherwise, I'm going elsewhere.

I love Amazon. Shop there all the time.

I've been a hardcore amazon shopper for the last 4 or 5 years becoming a Prime member 2 years ago. Amazon is great and so is eBay.

Think I prefer Amazon over Ebay, Amazon seems pretty legit and I've ordered good stuff.

Though i don't know how/why, but it actually seems quite often I get defective video games though. From my personal experience, regular products appear to usually come out fine, but in the electronics department, that seems to be definitely more of a crap shoot.

When you mentioned, "their third party merchants," were you referring to Amazon's competitors or Amazon itself?

Aside from a recent screw up by Amazon that made my one day shipping turn into 3, I've had nothing but good experiences with Amazon. Plus, I got my shipping cost back for that screw-up. Their customer service is top notch. I got a reply not even 10 minutes after I emailed them.