"Amazon shifted gears so that it now litters its storefront with pay-to-play advertisements. In addition to overcharging its customers, Amazon is degrading the services it provides them."
  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    My favorite enshittification of Amazon is how you can filter products by manufacturer, but only if the manufacturer is a reputable company like JOOGEE or XZzy or GoodTime and not those weird no-name companies like Anker or Samsung.

    • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Won’t even bring up the brands I like unless I search for them specifically, even then they’re not the first result. Amazon gives the ad space to brands that are around for 3 months then poof.

      • mPony@kbin.social
        1·
        9 months ago

        but you should buy stuff from Smorkyaplorb Megasystems because they give the best kickbacks

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      My favorite enshittification of Amazon is that, plus, the bonus fact the filtering acts different if you pay for prime. The filtering works better with prime. It should work the same regardless if one pays for prime or not.

      They basically deliver a shopping experience that is worse unless you pay them money monthly. It’s enshittification two layers of abstraction deep.

  • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    For a while I used amazon as a “product browser”, I would shop for what I want on there, and then go buy it straight from the manufacturer or whatever online marketplace the seller prefers.

    Now, it has gotten so bad, it isn’t even useful for that. Amazon will show you 50 overpriced knockoffs of the thing you’d actually want to buy without ever showing you the real thing unless you already know the brand name of what you want ahead of time. The reviews are useless too now, everything has 4 1/2 stars and the same substanceless reviews.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Hard to shop for vitamins when you have sham accounts claiming it cured their cancer, when you’re just trying to take better care of yourself but don’t wanna fall for homeopathic scams.

  • ivanafterall@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    I ordered a standard deck of cards. Should be simple enough, right? They never arrived. I waited a full month. I finally reached out to Amazon customer support and demanded to know what happened to my deck of cards. Their response was unbelievable: “We’re dealing with it.”

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    I can’t even get the sorting method to work. It shows me a few items that match the sorting at first, then it goes all over the place. Utterly useless.