77ss wrote:I find Amazon dreadful these days. Lousy interface, adverts, irrelevant 'hits'......
eBay is now my first port of call - and has been for over a year now.
Maybe I've been lucky, but I'm not sure where all the negativity is coming from? Yes, there are issues around Amazon tracking your purchasing patterns, which could conceivably be a route to their abusing your confidence, but I am constantly gobsmacked at how good Amazon's logistics are. Never seen anything that good before.
Whereas I've had stuff failing to turn up on three occasions with Ebay. All right, it was mostly trivially cheap packets of screws and suchlike, which presumably got lost on the flight from China? But never ever from Amazon, who have been good on the two occasions when I've had to return goods because I bought the wrong ones.
I like it that I can order stuff from Amazon and get it delivered to my daughters. I like it that I can get even very small items delivered the next day. (Last week it was a couple of USB leads @ £4.99 for two.) Okay, I grieve a little bit for the van driver, who had to hunt me out in the middle of nowhere to hand me this not-so-very-urgent parcel, but I suppose
them's the breaks those are the rules of the game?
I'm not even
very bothered about the "subscription trap", whereby you can find yourself accidentally signing up for Prime and needing to reverse your way out of the registration. My wife did that accidentally last Christmas, and it took us all of 90 seconds to cancel the arrangement. And even then, they told her that although her Prime membership had been terminated, she could still use it until her month's trial was up. Fair play, I thought.
So Prime is going up by £1 to £8.99? They say it's their first increase since 2014, which is fair enough if it's true. I don't think 20p a week is likely to change my mind.
BJ