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mtbcI have grumbled about Amazon here already, especially being overly heavy-handed in pushing Prime membership and the like instead of making it easy to browse the products available to me. Lately I have found Amazon a little more annoying, both for collecting reviews of related products all as if they were for the one they are listed under and, not really their fault, some kinds of product attracting many glowing reviews of dubious veracity.
I have bought from eBay in a small way for years, more recently in a positive attempt to avoid Amazon, but I am have been starting to find eBay equally exasperating. Many sellers are great but I now have yet another return accepted, this time for a product described as being in
I was already annoyed at how eBay favors sellers: people seem to expect five stars for adequacy (so how to reward the excellent?) and one is strongly dissuaded from leaving any negative feedback. If the seller failed to get the advertised thing to me because of some easily avoided failing then that deserves some kind of negativity: simply getting my money back is hardly recompense if I needed the item in a timely manner. Do many buyers typically accept misdescribed sub-par items instead of returning them? Are sellers trying to get away with lies or are they simply inattentive idiots who do not check their own item and listing?
I wish there were a trustworthy online marketplace that offered a wide selection of goods. Perhaps there are some worth considering? I even find myself using AliExpress sometimes. I would prefer not to have to form a segregated colony of those of us who are reliable and careful, a colony that trades with outsiders only through those who are feeling particularly patient at that moment.
In other news, autoplaying trailers now seem to have come to Netflix's website. The autoplaying made the Switch app unusable so I would browse their website from my laptop instead then quickly go find selected shows in the app for actual viewing. Now I don't have any usable way to browse Netflix so I shan't be finding things on it except for what I learn of by other means. Their Wii app was perfectly usable until they retired it, what a shame. Thus does another online service go so far downhill as to drive me away.
I have bought from eBay in a small way for years, more recently in a positive attempt to avoid Amazon, but I am have been starting to find eBay equally exasperating. Many sellers are great but I now have yet another return accepted, this time for a product described as being in
perfect conditionthat clearly was not. I don't understand how this makes sense: much as I appreciate the excuse for a lunchtime walk to the post office surely all these returns are a waste of everybody's time.
I was already annoyed at how eBay favors sellers: people seem to expect five stars for adequacy (so how to reward the excellent?) and one is strongly dissuaded from leaving any negative feedback. If the seller failed to get the advertised thing to me because of some easily avoided failing then that deserves some kind of negativity: simply getting my money back is hardly recompense if I needed the item in a timely manner. Do many buyers typically accept misdescribed sub-par items instead of returning them? Are sellers trying to get away with lies or are they simply inattentive idiots who do not check their own item and listing?
I wish there were a trustworthy online marketplace that offered a wide selection of goods. Perhaps there are some worth considering? I even find myself using AliExpress sometimes. I would prefer not to have to form a segregated colony of those of us who are reliable and careful, a colony that trades with outsiders only through those who are feeling particularly patient at that moment.
In other news, autoplaying trailers now seem to have come to Netflix's website. The autoplaying made the Switch app unusable so I would browse their website from my laptop instead then quickly go find selected shows in the app for actual viewing. Now I don't have any usable way to browse Netflix so I shan't be finding things on it except for what I learn of by other means. Their Wii app was perfectly usable until they retired it, what a shame. Thus does another online service go so far downhill as to drive me away.
