This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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What's the price when you add it to your cart? Websites do this when they are selling something for "less than what ASUS allows us to advertise". If it's less than $43.25 when you add it to your cart, that's why.
Still dumb, but at least there's a reason.
I'm so glad amazon is useless in my country due to high delivery times and fees. Local stores never vanished and their online stores are so much better.
The Lowe’s website has this too. It’s fucking asinine.
Amazon's customer experience has been on a very steep decline in the last 5 years or so. I find myself shopping more and more on Temu and AliExpress.
I find myself shopping more and more on Temu and AliExpress.
Both are super sleezy, ad-shoving, privacy disrespecting sites with aweful return policies.
Not sure that's a better alternative to Amazon.
is Amazon different? At least Temu is cheap.
Vastly different.
Superb return policy. Brand name products (on most things), and these brands will honour warranties when purchased from Amazon directly. No sales-pressure emails, fake promotions/coupons, or notifications on your phone (my wife uses Temu, and she gets these spam messages constantly throughout the day!).
I buy from Aliexpress, but it depends on the item. Some brands do have Aliexpress official stores, but shipping is often days or weeks or months (or never). Approx. 1 out of 10 orders I place on Aliexpress don't even arrive, and I won't be able to claim a refund for months after I've paid.
Aliexpress also likes to promote way too many sex toys and sleazy trash thumbnails when my order history has only been RC car and bike parts, and a flashlight. Disgusting how they “market” products.
I hate defending Amazon, because there's a lot wrong with them, too. But compared to Temu or Ali, they are just so much better in every way.
What is the most useful and coolest thing you've recently purchased on AliExpress that you're enjoying?
Not Alibaba, but I got a bunch of smart lights from Temu for my house: https://www.temu.com/nl-en/rechargeable-wireless-motion-sensor-wall-light-automatic-night-switch-decorative-lighting-for-kitchen-bedroom-g-601099525673733.html
Why on Temu?? That is basically enabling scammers.
Just shop on Ali where you actually have some buyer protection...
I had really good purchases on Temu. Scammers are a problem, but no more than Amazon.
same, especially since many products are the exact same thing with 100% stupid tax added on top
I had it worse. I needed to book a hotel for a business trip, and they offered me two prices: Either take them cheaper, but you cannot cancel or get a refund, or you can spend a bit more, and cancel it up to one day before arrival for a "cancellation fee", which amount was not disclosed at that moment.
I booked the latter one, and in the booking confirmation it said that the cancellation fee is exactly the same as the cost for the room!
That’s dumb. I used to work in hotels. We hated online bookings because of how terrible those sites handle expectations. A tip for the future is: If you find yourself wanting to take that latter option, odds are it’s the same as booking directly, price-wise. If you book directly, you’re more guaranteed and only have to deal with their own policy. Usually it’s no fee if cancelled the day before arrival. If cancelled same day, a one-night fee applies for holding the room. If you cancelled the day before, could’ve saved.
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america is winning and winning and winning. so much like damn stop it. u devalue gold by being so great!america is winning and winning and winning. so much like damn stop it. u devalue gold by being so great! turbocapitalism has proven to be soooo resiliant against humanity....cant beat that. make stupid great again!
On the right it has a rough shipping location (LA with zipcode), are you sure that's not the change?
You know maybe it's because I'm on a VPN. Testing out anti-botting methods?
Or trying to filter out price scrapers
Anti-botting or rough shipping calculations being factored in, both fairly plausible. I notice on the left it even prompts to "select delivery location" near where the price would be.
I tested putting it in my cart and it showed me the price. No location needed.