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Amazon question/answers

whippoorwill Nov 14 2019 01:05 PM

Gotta laugh when you ask a question about a product on Amazon and all your answers are variations on: "I can't help ya; I've never bought this" Oh, thanks...

Double Switch Nov 14 2019 02:08 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

Equally as useful as the people giving an item one star because they received it damaged in transit.

whippoorwill Nov 14 2019 02:59 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

Exactly. Or ‘it's the wrong size for me'

LWFS Nov 14 2019 04:40 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

I learned through a fellow parent at YoungerPooper's school that the Amazon fulfillment centers in our area are giving tours of their facilities. They're booked through year's end, but... I'm intrigued about getting a how-the-sausage-gets-made experience. Maybe we'll make it a winter weekend stop.

whippoorwill Nov 14 2019 06:30 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

That would be a great experience!

Edgy MD Nov 15 2019 06:37 AM Re: Amazon question/answers

"Here's the crying room!"

nymr83 Nov 15 2019 02:16 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

Double Switch wrote: Equally as useful as the people giving an item one star because they received it damaged in transit. I'd say that is useful if the seller is the manufacturer AND the packaging is at fault.

Frayed Knot Nov 15 2019 02:27 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

Gotta laugh when you ask a question about a product on Amazon and all your answers are variations on: "I can't help ya; I've never bought this" Oh, thanks... Too many people are under the impression that regular input from them is an asset. They're usually wrong. We've had people on this (and other) boards who were like that.

whippoorwill Nov 15 2019 02:53 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

That's true!

whippoorwill Nov 15 2019 02:56 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

My nephew has a large third-party amazon fulfillment warehouse that is totally owned by him. He gave me a tour this summer and it is awesome; I can imagine their own centers are unbelievable My nephew is not a slave driver though :)

Johnny Lunchbucket Nov 17 2019 09:29 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

A guy in my cowork space has an Amazon Flex franchise, where he runs a team of contracted delivery drivers & a fleet of trucks out to supplant FedEx and the postal service. He speaks well of the opportunity at AMZN and is a Class A go-getter but my god the guy is on the phone all day long with drivers working out hazard after hazard, some guys going too quickly many others making too little progress, tickets, lunch breaks, wrong addresses, package theft etc. Seems insanely stressful. Not the biz for me.

Double Switch Nov 18 2019 06:10 PM Re: Amazon question/answers

Double Switch wrote: Equally as useful as the people giving an item one star because they received it damaged in transit. I'd say that is useful if the seller is the manufacturer AND the packaging is at fault. I am too weak to leap to that conclusion.