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Comment by haunter | Hacker News Reader

Amazon is the worst

After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery I canceled my Prime. (I get deliveries from Japan faster than I get them from a warehouse in the next state.) I am in the middle of cancelling all my recurring bills from AMZN (Pillpack, AWS) and I recommend that you do the same. I can't wait to hear them say on CNBC that Prime cancellations exceeded additions.

Same here. After 15 years I cancelled it.

Also their market is now full of counterfeit and Chinese crap that you can buy cheaper on AliExpress.

BHPhotovideo is the place I do most of my electronics shopping these days.

Them and Adorama. AMZN is the last place I look for things, not least for the awful experience of wading through all the fake product listings. (So many posters make excuses for this, such as AMZN couldn't afford to police product listings, but I don't see Ebay or craiglist flooded with nonsense listings)

What I'm seeing is that the early adopters who got Prime early on are the first ones to quit.

Honestly they need to just get ahead of the fakes and hook their site directly to aliexpress. There are honestly some great xiaomi products that are very cheap, but to get them cheaply I need to order on aliexpress which could be fast, or it could be 4 months with a 100 unit minimum order. On amazon you can also find xiaomi products, but they aren't labelled xiaomi and they end up costing 4x as much as what the same product costs on aliexpress, so I pass on them.

If amazon tore down the wall, I could actually be sure I am ordering a true xiaomi product from them and I could probably get it closer to what it costs on aliexpress. Walmart has this same issue actually, somewhat worse because its easier returning things with amazon since they evidently don't care how or why you are returning things.

Walmart stands out as one of the few retailers that are as bad as AMZN.

>After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery

Where do you live? I hear this repeated on HN a lot, but every person I know IRL doesn't have this problem (ie family spread across multiple states). Hell, in the last ~2 years, other than high-demand stuff in the pandemic like Clorox wipes, most of my orders have been _next_ day delivery, nevermind 5 days.

Agreed. If I'm buying anything of value online, I want to buy from someone who actually understands and cares about what they're selling.

I'll happily pay a bit more for the ability to shop and learn and get product support.

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