As someone who occasionally buys small scale equipment from Alibaba, it's important to remember that when a company says something is $0.10, they're typically actually selling it for $1.00 or more. I don't know why they choose to advertise like this, but it's really common. Shipping is also typically insane too, with most smaller products requiring direct-flight shipping.
Came here to say this 👏. The lowest price shown on Alibaba is pretty much never what you'll get unless you maybe order a million units or more. Also usually the higher end of what's advertised is what they'll actually charge for the minimum order. (Like that one shown in the video would likely cost $6.56ea for a MOQ of 200.)
@@ThePeteFrampton so what happens when somebody sees the 20 cents price and orders a million pieces? Is $200k enough to abscond, close up the shop, and start another with a new name? Or do they say _sorry, our order queue is full up right now. Sorry we can't fill the order this year_
It’s got a great video streaming platform. If you want to take advantage of it, maybe sub to it once every year to only use it for catching up on their exclusives.
Not really, if you but 2 items a month the shipping pays for itself. And it's 2 days. For some people it's not worth it, but my mom has packages coming free every week lol she's saving over a hundred
I really wish that Amazon would note country of origin for all of their goods. If you go through reviews (especially for food items) everybody is asking about the country of origin. I prefer not to buy things from specific countries for specific items. For example, I would prefer to buy a mouse or keyboard produced in Taiwan rather than China. I have found that especially keyboards from China are not durable. I would like to know if something is made there rather than the mainland.
Should try cultivate as an addon. Thi k its there for chrome, Firefox and Safari. Got the idea of its existence from a RUclips channel specializing in China (now China Fact Chasers), 2 Americans who lived there for about a decade. Cultivate should also give you an alternative, say American made, to the Chinese offering.
Not the one's I've watched. Many go through a lesson of how to inspect you your product before sellibg it. Also you're supposed listen to Customer reviews to learn what to change or improve in the product.
I do over $100k/sales per month on Amazon FBA. Two brands, 160 products. This video is largely true, but in selling products its ALL about product selection. Many of my products I did extensive research before launch, and realized it doesn't already exist there. I use proper grammar in my listings to show I'm an AMerican, and not a Chinese seller. Also use only black and white models for that reason as well. The key is getting a strong moat (better listing, more reviews, a great brand image etc) and the marketing expenses fall drastically. Also- as you can sell on less competitive markets like UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, these fees are MUCH MUCH less, hence more profit.
I have noticed that in 99% of the product, Walmart or even Target is much much cheaper than Amazon. Amazon basically exploits the consumer behavior of fast few click purchases and quicker delivery where consumers dont care to compare it with other stores which are way more economical with better tested products.
Amazon used to be good, but lately I've been sending most of it back due to poor quality or damage in transit. The best way to get quality products is to travel to the nearest city and shop in a bricks and mortar store.
I absolutely hate amazon paid product placement ads. They get in the way of what I am searching for. I want the best product for the best price. Then of course there are so many fake paid reviews. Sometimes it just easier to shop Walmart or elsewhere because Amazon makes it so hard to find the best quality at the lowest price.
I hate the new type of scam happening on Amazon. You will see a 5 star product with hundreds of reviews. When you check the reviews ITS FROM OTHER PRODUCTS. They’re literally just changing the images and description on a previous listing. They rebrand the listing with a more crappy and expensive version of an item you might potentially buy. Now thinking it’s a 5 star product, you buy it and by then it’s too late.
I agree. Ebay has been my go-to online shopping for things I look. Specially very specialized items like russian tunnel diodes, but maybe is just me. I don’t use amazon or any online shop for basic items like house cleaning products or food.
In India, Amazon is NOT my choice for any personal care items. Be it a shampoo or anything skin, the branded items are the worst. They are selling knockoffs, I believe. And it's been the case with over 10-12 products. Their apparels section delivers the same.
As someone who actually sells on third-party platforms, I would have to say that those sellers are the most destructive on the platform. Having been to the Guangzhou canton fair, Shenzhen technology fair, Hong Kong Technology fair, Vietnams / Thailand trade show, India's New Delhi manufacturing / trade show, and Japan's manufacturing world, the cost to quality ratio is not that much better anywhere else. Choose to sell products in the higher profit and lower sales category as an unruly number of bad reviews could get you delisted. Choose to sell products that are not electronic, glass or chemical / liquid, or in a gated category. Make sure to read the 1 or 2 star reviews as well. It is the game of economy of scale.
amazon seller here... you pretty much nailed all the main costs of being an amazon seller. I have about 12 product on amazon, each one doing about 100-200 units of sales per month at around 15% gross margin. The biggest cost is Amazon ads. If we were to take that out of the equation, profitability would jump to 45% percent. To solve this problem Amazon needs to (ironically) change their FBA fee structure, and find different ways to boost products to top of page (not via ads, but maybe based on company, quality etc). Fortunately Amazon is working on autonomous systems that will hopefully drop the cost of fulfillment, which hopefully can get passed down to sellers and customers. Private labeling is not the problem here. Most of those goods are quite decent and work alright. It the REVIEW system that misleads customers into believing that the product is better than it is. For many of my products, I went through Amazon Vine and instantly got 20-30 5 star reviews. Any seller can tap into this. More over, sellers can BUY fake reviews. I've never done this personally, but just looking at some of the reviews on some products just shows how obviously scammy some sellers can be.
@@AmazingStoryDewd 25%-35% EBITDA? If so you are doing extremely well! For many of my products, I haven't reached economies of scale so I do have to pay a higher cost per unit in terms of production and shipping. But 2021 was my highest grossing year, around 22% gross. I'm okay with that, but I'm on board with you to aim for a little higher (maybe 35%). I think the problem is my ad spend LOL. We spend a LOT on ads. Like I said if we cut back profit would jump to 45%. But then sales aren't guaranteed.
Solid video. I've either been lucky or most people are stupid and don't read any reviews before ordering; I've never had a problem with any product and have ordered hundreds in various catagories over the years.
Amazon is expanding it's Warehousing, trucking and delivery vans at a crazy pace. And I learned from watching the video that they loose money doing this. They decided to do their own delivery and warehouse about 5 or more years ago when they tried 2 day delivery. If they cut back to 4 days delivery they probably could make a profit. Crazy business plan. At least the CEO is rich.
It’s fascinating how this channel post content about subjects I’ve been telling people time and time again. It’s a serious gripe I’ve had with Amazon the past several years and only getting worse. Years ago you could go on Amazon and find quality products for a quality price. New brands that have now grown enough and moved from Amazon to their own websites now. Now it’s 95% crappy Chinese products listed for marked up prices. You have to scroll pages and pages and look at reviews just to make sure a purchase is good enough. Often the same product will be listed multiple times. It’s getting to a point where calling Amazon the Walmart of the internet is insulting to Walmart
I am an amazon seller and the biggest issue for me is seller return. People order carelessly and then cancel while parcel is on the way. I have to pay shipping from my own pocket.
I agree that this becomes really hit or miss when buying these kinds of products. I've bought quite a few "Chinese knockoffs" that have not only been a fraction of the typical retail price but was actually pretty decent quality (and amazing for the price). For example, I was shopping for a TV mount and Best Buy was asking for up to $300 with even the cheapest being like $100 (maybe a bit less, it was a while ago). I looked on Amazon and bought one that had the motion I needed for like $20 and it was solid metal and good construction for like 5-20% of the price best buy wanted. Now I know best buy is known to be expensive, but that difference is still enormous.
I got a very different story but with ebay for a foldable ladder. Amazon was 3 times more expensive than ebay for the exact same ladder. I’m not fond of Amazon specially since how much exploitation, union busting goes on. I rarely buy there and of course I don’t pay for prime.
A TV mount is just a few pieces of metal. Pretty low tech. If the factory is careful in manufacturing, it need not be expensive to produce a high quality product. This is where low salaries matters. There is very little cost savings you can achieve by lowering quality. The reason high quality products are expensive, is because the market can bear it. And if you do your manufacturing in a high salary country, telling your staff to not rush but to take their time and aim for quality can drive costs up pretty fast. Depending on the size of the ladder, they might be too heavy to ship efficiently/cheaply by courier. Shipping a ton of them to the same Walmart packed onto palettes in standard shipping containers would be cheaper, per unit. Somebody has to pay for postage, and it is always the buyer. Some sellers advertise a low price and hit you on the shipping. Others advertise low/free shipping, and take it in higher prices. No seller is there to lose money on every sale, so end of the day, the buyer always pays. Unless the site is running some promo and you can get some discount codes or rebates on shipping, which comes from the marketing budget, which comes from profits, which comes from what other buyers pays.
Let me tell you, as a buyer Amazon is good, as a seller Amazon is crap, legally stealing from the sellers, no support, customers falsy says the item was not delivered, returns i get back shoes i don't sell shows Amazon refunds the customer....really this sucks for us sellers.
I tried ordering those pots at 4:18. The seller hired a sketchy local delivery company I’d never heard of with 1-star reviews on Google, who didn’t show up to deliver the item, and then shipped the product back to the seller. Now I only order things delivered by Amazon’s own delivery, since they actually bring items to my door and don’t leave them outside the apartment to get stolen.
I think the solution to these garbage products is click the sponsored products links, then buy something else. That way you cost the people with the garbage products money to the point they go out of business.
Amazing! Amazon charges so much money! BTW, it's four to five days to ship with prime in the US, though pre-pamdemic you are right that we could get our orders within 48 hours if ordering early enough in the day.
Between low quality products, fake reviews, and declining customer service, Amazon's future is in question. I now go out of my way to avoid this company.
Yes brother, Amazon has to deal with fake reviews, damaged products or missing products, and the constant stories from working in unbearable conditions. And this is coming from someone who used to work there in two separate stints. But they are here to stay for a few decades!!
Great video! I don't know why the eco-warrior are not going after Amazon. Just like you, I am constantly struggling with low quality FBA products and things get discarded way too soon due to a variety of quality issues. The problem is that Amazon drove many B&M stores out of business, so nowadays, our store options are very limited so this creates a vicious cycle.
Amazons low quality is usually best seller stuff or “Amazons choice”. Usually if you’re willing to be patient and read reviews, take maybe an hour on something like a backpack, then eventually you’ll find a great item/deal. But yea if you just need to get something quick your chances of getting something good is pretty low.
For my job I deal with buying from manufacturers overseas, importing by container, shipping to warehouses, boxing/labeling product, storing products, selling online, payment processing, delivering to customers, dealing with customer service, processing claims, doing reverse logistics (product returns), etc. Even for small products it's crazy that this can all be done for
Share what costs what? Let's say its small use hub Bulk shipping should be 1$ per kg Nope if its container shipping its 40000usd per container So let's say 30 cents kg So divide by weight it should be 3 cents Then semi bulk shipping by truck to warehouse Should be similar Let's round to 10 cents total even 20 cents so what Next Put label put on shelve Should be about 20 cents even this too much Next customer order ? Let's say 15usd per hour someone works Let's round up to 25 usd to Inc misc expenses How many products warehouse worker can pick in 1h? Now it depends a lot if customer order one product or 10 each time This bring me to big question Why amazon not offer any discount if customer place order for 10 products? It's definitely much cheaper per product if order is 10 pieces or 1 piece This is simple most companies charge 1usd per pickup and 0.3 per additional product I would be happy to go in store and pickup products and receive for each 50 cents even all day. Assuming there is tin of orders I know where everything located But robots do it for them So far cost should be max 1 to 1.5usd Now shipping 2 big problems They ship across all country I watched one video they ship from california to florida some cheap item Of course that is expensive But let see it this way Air cargo cost 5usd per kg at most Divide item weight 100gram It's 5 cents OK it cost getting item to airport Let's say 50 cents 50 cents off the airport 50 cents airport to local warehouse at destination Destination to final delivery 2usd ok its expensive 2 big problems They ship too long distances Product should be in local warehouse max 300km away from customer I believe at every major city Reply its expensive warehouse bla bla Combine it with other business Ask lazy gas station worker in remote place can he store some items and customers can pickup 300km radius should be enough customers so it would make sense for warehouse Heck even 100km and 50km in major city In every major city should be amazon warehouse They know how much and what people order so why not keep most popular items locally Finally final destination Customer can choose pickup at locker should be much cheaper Or delivery to door Last option should be more expensive If warehouse is locally delivery is to locker if customer order 5 products and 3 pieces of each It should be much much cheaper I don't complain if cheap item like 10usd cost 5usd for fulfilment But I do complain if customer order 10 products 2 copies of each one piece cost say 20usd customer will pat Around 60usd in fees Iherb shipped internationally usa to Europe by DHL for 10usd 1.5kg Amazon do it locally for 50usd basically Jeff is complete clown I will never understand why customer not get serious discount for multiple products If there is no discount for 10 products its ripoff Every other online shop its clear if you order 10 products you get much better per product handling and shipping fee So I do understand fee for 500gram one item which cost 10usd But I never understand why I pay same fees if order 10 products
In short, we are paying amazon insane fees to ship LITERAL GARBAGE to our houses in 1 day. At least I have the patience to wait 2 weeks for the garbage to arrive and at a much better price too.
I know that when I buy something unbranded on Amazon, I'm really mostly paying for the convince of it all. I need something today evening? It'll be here tomorrow morning with just 3 clicks. Even though they have been harsh on small businesses and don't treat their employees right, I just can't give up using Amazon 🤷♂️
Okay so best way I can describe Amazon is by using video game ideology. In a classic ARPG you'll have bunch of items drop and maybe 1%(I'm being very generous here) of them will actually be of any use. Same principle applies to Amazon. I'm not saying that all off-brand items are inherently bad, not worth trying out or not worth the price, what I'm saying is that Amazon as a platform is not going to give you a meaningful comparison because that would only hurt profits(hence the electronics example in the video). For all it's convenience(for certain parts of the world, anyway), you simply MUST do your homework before purchasing. If it is an unknown brand with no reviews or even a manufacturer website you shouldn't expect the product to work. Verifying products is not only time consuming it is also very expensive because you need people with credibility and knowledge(a trade platform will require at least a dozen of independent reviewers) so you can bet everything you have that Amazon isn't going to do it. P.S. This isn't as much of a problem in Europe because regulations exist and Amazon doesn't really function throughout the union, only few select countries. Also, TL;DW: Amazon scams both the sellers and the customers at the same time.
I've definitely become weiry of buying electronics on Amazon. Usually spend time checking reviews but then just give up and end up buying anker brand if they have what I need since they are usually a decent price and have a great warranty
Amazon's quality has always been hit or miss, and deliveries often get lost in transit. But they make it so easy to do returns and get refunds that most people deal with it because ordering anything under the sun from one web site is just so super convenient. And unless you actually want to run an eBay business, buying in bulk from Alibaba is a pain in the poo-poo hole!
The Amazon system is broken without remedy. There is an handful of websites here in the UK that sells branded, high quality computer items (including dongles) at slightly higher prices than Amazon, but it is high quality high performance items, and are shipped overnight. People buy from Amazon because they don't have to enter all the details like address and card number, but it is an expensive form of laziness. You're also right on the self-gratification issue, so they seek the item without doing any due diligence. I realise I represent a minority, though; and this is the fortune of Amazon...
I just boycotted Amazon after they restricted my account, removing my ability to leave reviews, ask or answer questions because they didn't like a question I ask. They claim I was selling my reviews, which I don't.
Used to order on Amazon more a few years ago, but now barely use it. They used to have products from reputable brands at lower prices, but now you can often get better deals at places like Best Buy or target. Without any price advantage, there's no reason to order online and wait for delivery. And now Amazon is full of overpriced Alibaba products from some brand that's just some random string of letters.
You mention it being good for buying name brand products, but the problem is they sell fake products too. Not long ago I bought some allegedly Hanes pajama pants directly from Amazon, but comparing to my existing ones despite having the same product identifier the difference was clear and when attempting to wash them they basically disintegrated. And since they co-mingle the inventory its nearly impossible to track down that stuff.
I purchase from Amazon at least weekly. Often more. I have never had a bad purchase from Amazon in my many years as a customer. One of the things we as users can do to help the situation is to avoid clicking on sponsored items. I never do. This will help keep our costs down as consumers. It will also demotivate sellers from buying amazon ads.
Half the time Amazon reviews are for a totally different product or at least a different model of product. This really helps sellers of trash tier products.
This is why I buy directly from China, You can choose priority shipping option for about 1-1.5$ shipping cost, and you will get in about 10-14 days. It is not 1-2days of amazon, but quality is much better for $$ spend
Even products like faucets I used to buy there have gotten worse every year. Went from fully brass with thick metal fittings for around $60 to mostly plastic garbage.
I don't shop on Amazon anymore. I haven't for years. And I don't ever plan on ever ordering anything from Amazon ever again. I got tired of ordering things, and they not being what they were supposed to be when I got them.. A pair of Bluetooth earbuds that had a battery so small it only lasted long enough to turn them on and pair them, then they'd say low battery and turn off.. a 256gig SD card that was really only 4gigs (twice).. a USB thumb drive that was just a plastic case with a little rack glued inside of it.. a USB hub that didn't have any of the wires soldered... I don't care how good the customer service is, I don't want my money back or a replacement (especially when the replacement is just more trash)... I want what I ordered in the first place. Never happens when I order things from walmart.
Thanks for covering this. Coming from someone who did 500+ orders a year (individual orders mind you) from 2017-mid 2022 that yes, indeed quality control is dropping at Amazon. I have no shifted to just doing Target pick-up now or Walmart+ delivery.
I stopped buying from Amazon in 2020 because things often broke, shipped broken or were overpriced. I'm happy to pay 5x more for quality and support small businesses. Every hour Amazon wasted was also an expense.
I don't buy from Amazon anymore, but when I search for something their links still appear. I wanted new tail light bulbs, local hardware store wanted 5 bucks, junk store wanted 50 cents, what did Amazon want? $19.50. Unbelievable.
Problem is amazon. They lose money in report. That's how they avoid taxes. They have money to aquire other companies, buy yachts, mansions but don't have money to pay employees a liveable wage
I'm sorry but this entire episode the same thought was going through my mind "if you have a problem with quality, consider spending slightly more on a higher quality product from a company with a track record" My man said he's bought four dongles all of which broke and I feel like the odd one out when my thinking is obviously buying cheap off label dongles is not the correct move. And instead of crossing my fingers and buying a fifth cheap one maybe invest in additional $15 or $20 for a high quality one. Next, unless the narrator is some sort of alien, who in their right mind ever order something from Amazon without reading reviews first? I don't think I've ever met someone including my grandparents that would click on an Amazon ad, read no reviews coming with no prior knowledge of the company and say yeah that looks good and place an order. If you were normal mode of operation is to check reviews after your product has already become defective you have already lost me logically. Lastly, if it's so easy to order 200 dongles for $40 then why not save yourself having to reorder something four times and pay what I would assume as well over $40 in shipping/base cost for four defective products, and at least have the luxury of having 200 individual items. If it was that easy everyone would do it, it's not, it's not convenient, it's not practical, it's not logical so do yourself a favor people don't be like this guy and find yourself placing a fifth order for any sort of product regardless of what it is hoping this one will be different. We're at the very minimum normal rational person and at least read the reviews. Like bruh
My purchases over the last years on Amazon went from 90% down to 5% because of the bad product quality. I rather go to the local store directly or purchase directly from a business website.
I work at an Amazon warehouse and we have 3 times way too much ppl then we need. They could easily cut 30% of warehouse staff. At least 20% of ppl that I work with hide in the bathroom cuz there is nothing to do half the time.
Your videos' uploading time is so perfect - I'm from IST so your videos are uploaded on night and I watch them before going on school 😁 Great videos, thank you so much❤️✨
It's funny how you showed a picture of an Anker dongle, which is actually one of the only reputable brands selling dongles out there. Anker is the brand that I actually recommend to people.
I use it purely for FBA because of logistics for which I pay a price but it works out ok, and even that Amazon are continuously enticing me to list them on their store and market them etc. i realized that it is not good business.
It's not ironic that the main cost-saving measure is always paying less or not hiring enough employees, or better yet, firing them at the first sign of trouble, but no one cares that by doing so often you're hurting the very buyer base you want to sell your products and services, not my problem is your answer? I guess it's a problem for the same government that you don't want to pay taxes to so that it can do it, in the best Walmart style let the stupid pay the bills; don't you realize that the debts continue to be charged to the country's “credit card” for which you and your family will have to pay interest every month, maybe forever? As I said: Ironic!!
I’ve recently brought some very cheap clothes and electronics on Amazon! Don’t buy their knockoffs products unless you seriously read the reviews comments!
Amazon ships orders quickly. Funny. My usual experience these days is that my order typically doesn't even ship until months later. No, I don't have Prime, and, no, not having Prime shouldn't make that much of a difference.
I had hit or miss with certain Amazon products. Brand name things I double check them register them to ensure they are real deal as heard even Amazon sells counterfeit items.
I just want add, as an Amazon zealot since 2014, the recent move to using USPS for rural deliveries (so it doesn't have to pay UPS) is a DISASTER. Rural POs in the US are totally undersized and understaffed to handle the package volumes. And don't get me started on the lack of shipping software update required to differentiate between a package that will fit in a standard US mailbox versus one that UPS can just leave on the porch!
I was working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week at my post office so I quit. USPS cannot handle the package delivery, especially when they are so focused on mail. Also the devices we were given are garbage and slowed us down so bad. There wasn't even a GPS on it, and most packages couldn't even scan in for whatever reason.
there’s an Amazon bin store with tables upon tables of returns. Cheap and/or broken garbage. Always cheap clothing with awful synthetic textile, flimsy electronic gadgets with half baked circuitry, defective lights, etc etc
It's happened to me before where when I know the item I want and search by description it doesn't exist. If I search by product and model number, there it is. It also pays to comparison shop. Many times I can find the same product from the same manufacturer at half the price locally., I suppose the extra cost with Amazon covers the cost of logistics.
I do an enormous amount of shopping on Amazon, and have noticed them slipping. Reviews are not as trustworthy. I can't choose my shipping service and not all of them ship to my home, leaving my packages stranded. They over package and create a mess to recycle. So, who does it better? I want to switch and am researching that now.
Amazon customers do not mind paying all the fees that exist, what interests them is buying the item and having it at home in 1 hour or less. Amazon customers are also not interested in the fact that Amazon has bankrupted thousands of small businesses with predatory practices, nor are they interested in how they treat their employees in the warehouses or those who deliver the packages, or what benefits they have, or what disgusting salaries they have. Amazon customers are only interested in seeing Jeff be a billionaire and spend millions of dollars while those who shop at Amazon spend thousands of dollars on things they don't even need and blow up their credit cards then we see them in the collection company looking to see how do they pay
*in Malaysia we wait about a week or two or maximum for two month to receive our product that is because most of us using sea ship container rather than flight...so it was longer but cheaper...also we pruchase most of it in bulk ...if you want fast....pruchase from locally... and yes i do Agree that most of American had such insiatiable instant grafitication...perhaps you guys need to learn some patient will yeah*
I stopped using Amazon just for that. Putting everyone on the platform is just a clutter. I use a subsidiary of Walmart (Flipkart) only. They don't put everyone there, only reputed sellers. Obviously some things are not available in it. But I would rather pay more money than to buy from Amazon.
Amazon logistics sucks. I live in South America and have been buying things from then since when they sold books shipped by Jeff Bezos himself. The way to get things from them is having packages shipped to a Miami.FL based courier service which in turn ships them to me on a weekly basis. This part works 100%. Some months ago (May 2022) I bought a PC graphics card. Acdcording to Amazon logistics they have delivered a package to the courier front desk by the next day (Prime membership) and I have a letter from the courier asserting it was not, among other complains from other customers who did not receive their packages either. Customer Support has been useless and so I filed a dispute refusing to aknowledge the credit card payment obligation. Dispute is still on, so will see how it ends. This was not the first time a package was marked as delivered but actually it was not. Those times I got a refund or the goods were sent again and it all ended OK. This time it was not. Beware of their delivery service.
Companies nowadays wont makes quality product anymore, imagine an item with good value and can withstand more than 5 years of use. They want us keep buying to makes year statement in profit.
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They don't have a quality control issue, since they're not attempting to control quality.
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As someone who occasionally buys small scale equipment from Alibaba, it's important to remember that when a company says something is $0.10, they're typically actually selling it for $1.00 or more. I don't know why they choose to advertise like this, but it's really common. Shipping is also typically insane too, with most smaller products requiring direct-flight shipping.
Ah fair point, still an insane margin though
@@LogicallyAnswered yeah it's pretty massive regardless.
Came here to say this 👏. The lowest price shown on Alibaba is pretty much never what you'll get unless you maybe order a million units or more. Also usually the higher end of what's advertised is what they'll actually charge for the minimum order. (Like that one shown in the video would likely cost $6.56ea for a MOQ of 200.)
@@LogicallyAnswered You should do more homework, you cant use $0.2 to buy a usb hub even in China.
@@ThePeteFrampton so what happens when somebody sees the 20 cents price and orders a million pieces? Is $200k enough to abscond, close up the shop, and start another with a new name? Or do they say _sorry, our order queue is full up right now. Sorry we can't fill the order this year_
Finally somebody is talking about this. Its been like this for a while but its gotten so crazy lately.
Amazon honesty is overpriced for what it is these days especially Prime.
It’s got a great video streaming platform. If you want to take advantage of it, maybe sub to it once every year to only use it for catching up on their exclusives.
Not really, if you but 2 items a month the shipping pays for itself. And it's 2 days. For some people it's not worth it, but my mom has packages coming free every week lol she's saving over a hundred
Depends on usage really
I really wish that Amazon would note country of origin for all of their goods. If you go through reviews (especially for food items) everybody is asking about the country of origin. I prefer not to buy things from specific countries for specific items. For example, I would prefer to buy a mouse or keyboard produced in Taiwan rather than China. I have found that especially keyboards from China are not durable. I would like to know if something is made there rather than the mainland.
I agree, but that would cause a political nightmare...
Interesting
Ive seen fake sour patch kids getting sold on the site, be neat to see where those are coming from
Should try cultivate as an addon.
Thi k its there for chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Got the idea of its existence from a RUclips channel specializing in China (now China Fact Chasers), 2 Americans who lived there for about a decade.
Cultivate should also give you an alternative, say American made, to the Chinese offering.
The actual "ad" of cultivate
m.ruclips.net/video/k1DRblcRnDo/видео.html
I am sure all the FBA seller courses out there somehow miss this part of the business 😂
Hahaha lmao
They don't care, they sell Asian products that cost 0.99 cents lol
Not the one's I've watched. Many go through a lesson of how to inspect you your product before sellibg it. Also you're supposed listen to Customer reviews to learn what to change or improve in the product.
I do over $100k/sales per month on Amazon FBA. Two brands, 160 products. This video is largely true, but in selling products its ALL about product selection. Many of my products I did extensive research before launch, and realized it doesn't already exist there. I use proper grammar in my listings to show I'm an AMerican, and not a Chinese seller. Also use only black and white models for that reason as well. The key is getting a strong moat (better listing, more reviews, a great brand image etc) and the marketing expenses fall drastically. Also- as you can sell on less competitive markets like UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, these fees are MUCH MUCH less, hence more profit.
Also- returns are AWFUL.
Ah looks like you’re killing it!
Bro won the lottery
when does the course drop?
@@simonchristian160 lol, about 5 years too late for that
"corner the market, then raise the price"
-Walter White
in this cases they're externalizing costs.
I have noticed that in 99% of the product, Walmart or even Target is much much cheaper than Amazon. Amazon basically exploits the consumer behavior of fast few click purchases and quicker delivery where consumers dont care to compare it with other stores which are way more economical with better tested products.
Amazon used to be good, but lately I've been sending most of it back due to poor quality or damage in transit. The best way to get quality products is to travel to the nearest city and shop in a bricks and mortar store.
the walmart website is just like amazon, anyone can sell on walmart's website.
At this rate we might very well see the resurgence of ye olde brick and mortar shoppes like in the days of yore (at least somewhat)
@@spaceghostmiid You avoid that problem by going to a Wal-Mart store.
@@gideonmele1556 Shipping wise, its' much cheaper
I absolutely hate amazon paid product placement ads. They get in the way of what I am searching for. I want the best product for the best price. Then of course there are so many fake paid reviews. Sometimes it just easier to shop Walmart or elsewhere because Amazon makes it so hard to find the best quality at the lowest price.
The problem is the consumer wanting something cheap, and completely forgetting about if it will last.
I hate the new type of scam happening on Amazon. You will see a 5 star product with hundreds of reviews. When you check the reviews ITS FROM OTHER PRODUCTS. They’re literally just changing the images and description on a previous listing.
They rebrand the listing with a more crappy and expensive version of an item you might potentially buy.
Now thinking it’s a 5 star product, you buy it and by then it’s too late.
Most of the AliExpress sourced stuff can already be had on ebay, often cheaper and nearly as quickly.
Yep, always check the price on Ebay before buying a knockoff on Amazon.
I agree. Ebay has been my go-to online shopping for things I look. Specially very specialized items like russian tunnel diodes, but maybe is just me. I don’t use amazon or any online shop for basic items like house cleaning products or food.
In India, Amazon is NOT my choice for any personal care items. Be it a shampoo or anything skin, the branded items are the worst. They are selling knockoffs, I believe. And it's been the case with over 10-12 products. Their apparels section delivers the same.
As someone who actually sells on third-party platforms, I would have to say that those sellers are the most destructive on the platform. Having been to the Guangzhou canton fair, Shenzhen technology fair, Hong Kong Technology fair, Vietnams / Thailand trade show, India's New Delhi manufacturing / trade show, and Japan's manufacturing world, the cost to quality ratio is not that much better anywhere else. Choose to sell products in the higher profit and lower sales category as an unruly number of bad reviews could get you delisted. Choose to sell products that are not electronic, glass or chemical / liquid, or in a gated category. Make sure to read the 1 or 2 star reviews as well. It is the game of economy of scale.
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Alibaba advertised prices are just BS, you have to talk to the seller and get the actual price. 25 cents for a USB hub won't even pay for the plastic.
amazon seller here... you pretty much nailed all the main costs of being an amazon seller. I have about 12 product on amazon, each one doing about 100-200 units of sales per month at around 15% gross margin. The biggest cost is Amazon ads. If we were to take that out of the equation, profitability would jump to 45% percent. To solve this problem Amazon needs to (ironically) change their FBA fee structure, and find different ways to boost products to top of page (not via ads, but maybe based on company, quality etc).
Fortunately Amazon is working on autonomous systems that will hopefully drop the cost of fulfillment, which hopefully can get passed down to sellers and customers.
Private labeling is not the problem here. Most of those goods are quite decent and work alright. It the REVIEW system that misleads customers into believing that the product is better than it is. For many of my products, I went through Amazon Vine and instantly got 20-30 5 star reviews. Any seller can tap into this. More over, sellers can BUY fake reviews. I've never done this personally, but just looking at some of the reviews on some products just shows how obviously scammy some sellers can be.
Sometimes when I recieve my amazon purchase, i get those little business cards promizing an amazon gift card for a 5 star review
I wonder what you're selling though. The norm for me is a 25%-35% profit range.
@@AmazingStoryDewd 25%-35% EBITDA? If so you are doing extremely well! For many of my products, I haven't reached economies of scale so I do have to pay a higher cost per unit in terms of production and shipping. But 2021 was my highest grossing year, around 22% gross. I'm okay with that, but I'm on board with you to aim for a little higher (maybe 35%). I think the problem is my ad spend LOL. We spend a LOT on ads. Like I said if we cut back profit would jump to 45%. But then sales aren't guaranteed.
Solid video. I've either been lucky or most people are stupid and don't read any reviews before ordering; I've never had a problem with any product and have ordered hundreds in various catagories over the years.
Amazon is expanding it's Warehousing, trucking and delivery vans at a crazy pace. And I learned from watching the video that they loose money doing this. They decided to do their own delivery and warehouse about 5 or more years ago when they tried 2 day delivery. If they cut back to 4 days delivery they probably could make a profit. Crazy business plan. At least the CEO is rich.
It’s fascinating how this channel post content about subjects I’ve been telling people time and time again. It’s a serious gripe I’ve had with Amazon the past several years and only getting worse.
Years ago you could go on Amazon and find quality products for a quality price. New brands that have now grown enough and moved from Amazon to their own websites now.
Now it’s 95% crappy Chinese products listed for marked up prices. You have to scroll pages and pages and look at reviews just to make sure a purchase is good enough. Often the same product will be listed multiple times.
It’s getting to a point where calling Amazon the Walmart of the internet is insulting to Walmart
and wallmart marketplace is turning into the same amazon sludge. Too much alibaba resellers
You forgot to mention the income taxes and item returns
+sales tax
I am an amazon seller and the biggest issue for me is seller return. People order carelessly and then cancel while parcel is on the way. I have to pay shipping from my own pocket.
I agree that this becomes really hit or miss when buying these kinds of products. I've bought quite a few "Chinese knockoffs" that have not only been a fraction of the typical retail price but was actually pretty decent quality (and amazing for the price). For example, I was shopping for a TV mount and Best Buy was asking for up to $300 with even the cheapest being like $100 (maybe a bit less, it was a while ago). I looked on Amazon and bought one that had the motion I needed for like $20 and it was solid metal and good construction for like 5-20% of the price best buy wanted. Now I know best buy is known to be expensive, but that difference is still enormous.
I got a very different story but with ebay for a foldable ladder. Amazon was 3 times more expensive than ebay for the exact same ladder. I’m not fond of Amazon specially since how much exploitation, union busting goes on. I rarely buy there and of course I don’t pay for prime.
A TV mount is just a few pieces of metal. Pretty low tech. If the factory is careful in manufacturing, it need not be expensive to produce a high quality product. This is where low salaries matters. There is very little cost savings you can achieve by lowering quality. The reason high quality products are expensive, is because the market can bear it. And if you do your manufacturing in a high salary country, telling your staff to not rush but to take their time and aim for quality can drive costs up pretty fast.
Depending on the size of the ladder, they might be too heavy to ship efficiently/cheaply by courier. Shipping a ton of them to the same Walmart packed onto palettes in standard shipping containers would be cheaper, per unit. Somebody has to pay for postage, and it is always the buyer. Some sellers advertise a low price and hit you on the shipping. Others advertise low/free shipping, and take it in higher prices. No seller is there to lose money on every sale, so end of the day, the buyer always pays. Unless the site is running some promo and you can get some discount codes or rebates on shipping, which comes from the marketing budget, which comes from profits, which comes from what other buyers pays.
this might be my favorite video you have made. incredible stuff. How do you do so much reasearch so fast
Let me tell you, as a buyer Amazon is good, as a seller Amazon is crap, legally stealing from the sellers, no support, customers falsy says the item was not delivered, returns i get back shoes i don't sell shows Amazon refunds the customer....really this sucks for us sellers.
I tried ordering those pots at 4:18. The seller hired a sketchy local delivery company I’d never heard of with 1-star reviews on Google, who didn’t show up to deliver the item, and then shipped the product back to the seller.
Now I only order things delivered by Amazon’s own delivery, since they actually bring items to my door and don’t leave them outside the apartment to get stolen.
Ah sorry to hear that you had to go through that man
Oh it was fine. Lesson learned, and I got a full refund.
If the item is shipped and sold by some seller, you no longer are paying for amazon's good delivery network. :(
I think the solution to these garbage products is click the sponsored products links, then buy something else. That way you cost the people with the garbage products money to the point they go out of business.
Amazing! Amazon charges so much money! BTW, it's four to five days to ship with prime in the US, though pre-pamdemic you are right that we could get our orders within 48 hours if ordering early enough in the day.
Between low quality products, fake reviews, and declining customer service, Amazon's future is in question. I now go out of my way to avoid this company.
Yes brother, Amazon has to deal with fake reviews, damaged products or missing products, and the constant stories from working in unbearable conditions. And this is coming from someone who used to work there in two separate stints. But they are here to stay for a few decades!!
Ah yeah, they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon
@@LogicallyAnswered don't forget that the same was said for Sears 15 years ago.
The amount of quality content this channel is pumping out is accually impressive
Great video! I don't know why the eco-warrior are not going after Amazon. Just like you, I am constantly struggling with low quality FBA products and things get discarded way too soon due to a variety of quality issues. The problem is that Amazon drove many B&M stores out of business, so nowadays, our store options are very limited so this creates a vicious cycle.
Amazons low quality is usually best seller stuff or “Amazons choice”. Usually if you’re willing to be patient and read reviews, take maybe an hour on something like a backpack, then eventually you’ll find a great item/deal.
But yea if you just need to get something quick your chances of getting something good is pretty low.
Personally my success rate when I spend an hour searching is 7 good items and 3 bad or every 10 orders.
5 star rating are so fake on top sellers add their products are the worst quality .
But they always manage to keep buying fake reviews it’s insane .
Name brand merchandise is worth the cost
For my job I deal with buying from manufacturers overseas, importing by container, shipping to warehouses, boxing/labeling product, storing products, selling online, payment processing, delivering to customers, dealing with customer service, processing claims, doing reverse logistics (product returns), etc. Even for small products it's crazy that this can all be done for
Share what costs what?
Let's say its small use hub
Bulk shipping should be 1$ per kg
Nope if its container shipping its 40000usd per container
So let's say 30 cents kg
So divide by weight it should be 3 cents
Then semi bulk shipping by truck to warehouse
Should be similar
Let's round to 10 cents total even 20 cents so what
Next
Put label put on shelve
Should be about 20 cents even this too much
Next customer order
? Let's say 15usd per hour someone works
Let's round up to 25 usd to Inc misc expenses
How many products warehouse worker can pick in 1h?
Now it depends a lot if customer order one product or 10 each time
This bring me to big question
Why amazon not offer any discount if customer place order for 10 products?
It's definitely much cheaper per product if order is 10 pieces or 1 piece
This is simple most companies charge 1usd per pickup and 0.3 per additional product
I would be happy to go in store and pickup products and receive for each 50 cents even all day.
Assuming there is tin of orders I know where everything located
But robots do it for them
So far cost should be max 1 to 1.5usd
Now shipping
2 big problems
They ship across all country
I watched one video they ship from california to florida some cheap item
Of course that is expensive
But let see it this way
Air cargo cost 5usd per kg at most
Divide item weight 100gram
It's 5 cents
OK it cost getting item to airport Let's say 50 cents
50 cents off the airport
50 cents airport to local warehouse at destination
Destination to final delivery 2usd ok its expensive
2 big problems
They ship too long distances
Product should be in local warehouse max 300km away from customer
I believe at every major city
Reply its expensive warehouse bla bla
Combine it with other business
Ask lazy gas station worker in remote place can he store some items and customers can pickup
300km radius should be enough customers so it would make sense for warehouse
Heck even 100km and 50km in major city
In every major city should be amazon warehouse
They know how much and what people order so why not keep most popular items locally
Finally final destination
Customer can choose pickup at locker should be much cheaper
Or delivery to door
Last option should be more expensive
If warehouse is locally delivery is to locker if customer order 5 products and 3 pieces of each
It should be much much cheaper
I don't complain if cheap item like 10usd cost 5usd for fulfilment
But I do complain if customer order 10 products 2 copies of each one piece cost say 20usd customer will pat
Around 60usd in fees
Iherb shipped internationally usa to Europe by DHL for 10usd 1.5kg
Amazon do it locally for 50usd basically
Jeff is complete clown
I will never understand why customer not get serious discount for multiple products
If there is no discount for 10 products its ripoff
Every other online shop its clear if you order 10 products you get much better per product handling and shipping fee
So I do understand fee for 500gram one item which cost 10usd
But I never understand why I pay same fees if order 10 products
In short, we are paying amazon insane fees to ship LITERAL GARBAGE to our houses in 1 day. At least I have the patience to wait 2 weeks for the garbage to arrive and at a much better price too.
They need a way of showing something is vetted for quality somehow.
$89 cents lmfao!!! oops someone stuffed up lol!! logically failed haha
I know that when I buy something unbranded on Amazon, I'm really mostly paying for the convince of it all. I need something today evening? It'll be here tomorrow morning with just 3 clicks. Even though they have been harsh on small businesses and don't treat their employees right, I just can't give up using Amazon 🤷♂️
The convenience handcuffs haha
Okay so best way I can describe Amazon is by using video game ideology. In a classic ARPG you'll have bunch of items drop and maybe 1%(I'm being very generous here) of them will actually be of any use. Same principle applies to Amazon. I'm not saying that all off-brand items are inherently bad, not worth trying out or not worth the price, what I'm saying is that Amazon as a platform is not going to give you a meaningful comparison because that would only hurt profits(hence the electronics example in the video).
For all it's convenience(for certain parts of the world, anyway), you simply MUST do your homework before purchasing. If it is an unknown brand with no reviews or even a manufacturer website you shouldn't expect the product to work. Verifying products is not only time consuming it is also very expensive because you need people with credibility and knowledge(a trade platform will require at least a dozen of independent reviewers) so you can bet everything you have that Amazon isn't going to do it.
P.S. This isn't as much of a problem in Europe because regulations exist and Amazon doesn't really function throughout the union, only few select countries.
Also, TL;DW: Amazon scams both the sellers and the customers at the same time.
Time to change that Aquaman from Wish meme into Amazon 🐡🤣
I've definitely become weiry of buying electronics on Amazon. Usually spend time checking reviews but then just give up and end up buying anker brand if they have what I need since they are usually a decent price and have a great warranty
Amazon's quality has always been hit or miss, and deliveries often get lost in transit.
But they make it so easy to do returns and get refunds that most people deal with it because ordering anything under the sun from one web site is just so super convenient.
And unless you actually want to run an eBay business, buying in bulk from Alibaba is a pain in the poo-poo hole!
The Amazon system is broken without remedy.
There is an handful of websites here in the UK that sells branded, high quality computer items (including dongles) at slightly higher prices than Amazon, but it is high quality high performance items, and are shipped overnight.
People buy from Amazon because they don't have to enter all the details like address and card number, but it is an expensive form of laziness.
You're also right on the self-gratification issue, so they seek the item without doing any due diligence.
I realise I represent a minority, though; and this is the fortune of Amazon...
I just boycotted Amazon after they restricted my account, removing my ability to leave reviews, ask or answer questions because they didn't like a question I ask. They claim I was selling my reviews, which I don't.
Used to order on Amazon more a few years ago, but now barely use it. They used to have products from reputable brands at lower prices, but now you can often get better deals at places like Best Buy or target. Without any price advantage, there's no reason to order online and wait for delivery. And now Amazon is full of overpriced Alibaba products from some brand that's just some random string of letters.
You mention it being good for buying name brand products, but the problem is they sell fake products too. Not long ago I bought some allegedly Hanes pajama pants directly from Amazon, but comparing to my existing ones despite having the same product identifier the difference was clear and when attempting to wash them they basically disintegrated. And since they co-mingle the inventory its nearly impossible to track down that stuff.
Fake reviews could be the biggest problem. Products broke, but maybe the reviews don't always get updated with this new info.
Yeah
That's the real issue
Luckily Amazon customer support is there to resolve that if you get ripped off
Everytime a bell rings...
Amazon gets $10.
love the content, top class. Always good videos, keep it up dude 👍🏼
I purchase from Amazon at least weekly. Often more. I have never had a bad purchase from Amazon in my many years as a customer. One of the things we as users can do to help the situation is to avoid clicking on sponsored items. I never do. This will help keep our costs down as consumers. It will also demotivate sellers from buying amazon ads.
Glad you’ve had a positive experience Tim!
Half the time Amazon reviews are for a totally different product or at least a different model of product. This really helps sellers of trash tier products.
This is why I buy directly from China, You can choose priority shipping option for about 1-1.5$ shipping cost, and you will get in about 10-14 days. It is not 1-2days of amazon, but quality is much better for $$ spend
Even products like faucets I used to buy there have gotten worse every year.
Went from fully brass with thick metal fittings for around $60 to mostly plastic garbage.
I don't shop on Amazon anymore. I haven't for years. And I don't ever plan on ever ordering anything from Amazon ever again.
I got tired of ordering things, and they not being what they were supposed to be when I got them.. A pair of Bluetooth earbuds that had a battery so small it only lasted long enough to turn them on and pair them, then they'd say low battery and turn off.. a 256gig SD card that was really only 4gigs (twice).. a USB thumb drive that was just a plastic case with a little rack glued inside of it.. a USB hub that didn't have any of the wires soldered...
I don't care how good the customer service is, I don't want my money back or a replacement (especially when the replacement is just more trash)... I want what I ordered in the first place.
Never happens when I order things from walmart.
Thanks for covering this. Coming from someone who did 500+ orders a year (individual orders mind you) from 2017-mid 2022 that yes, indeed quality control is dropping at Amazon. I have no shifted to just doing Target pick-up now or Walmart+ delivery.
I stopped buying from Amazon in 2020 because things often broke, shipped broken or were overpriced. I'm happy to pay 5x more for quality and support small businesses. Every hour Amazon wasted was also an expense.
I don't buy from Amazon anymore, but when I search for something their links still appear. I wanted new tail light bulbs, local hardware store wanted 5 bucks, junk store wanted 50 cents, what did Amazon want? $19.50. Unbelievable.
Problem is amazon. They lose money in report. That's how they avoid taxes. They have money to aquire other companies, buy yachts, mansions but don't have money to pay employees a liveable wage
I'm sorry but this entire episode the same thought was going through my mind "if you have a problem with quality, consider spending slightly more on a higher quality product from a company with a track record"
My man said he's bought four dongles all of which broke and I feel like the odd one out when my thinking is obviously buying cheap off label dongles is not the correct move. And instead of crossing my fingers and buying a fifth cheap one maybe invest in additional $15 or $20 for a high quality one.
Next, unless the narrator is some sort of alien, who in their right mind ever order something from Amazon without reading reviews first? I don't think I've ever met someone including my grandparents that would click on an Amazon ad, read no reviews coming with no prior knowledge of the company and say yeah that looks good and place an order. If you were normal mode of operation is to check reviews after your product has already become defective you have already lost me logically.
Lastly, if it's so easy to order 200 dongles for $40 then why not save yourself having to reorder something four times and pay what I would assume as well over $40 in shipping/base cost for four defective products, and at least have the luxury of having 200 individual items. If it was that easy everyone would do it, it's not, it's not convenient, it's not practical, it's not logical so do yourself a favor people don't be like this guy and find yourself placing a fifth order for any sort of product regardless of what it is hoping this one will be different. We're at the very minimum normal rational person and at least read the reviews. Like bruh
My purchases over the last years on Amazon went from 90% down to 5% because of the bad product quality. I rather go to the local store directly or purchase directly from a business website.
I work at an Amazon warehouse and we have 3 times way too much ppl then we need. They could easily cut 30% of warehouse staff. At least 20% of ppl that I work with hide in the bathroom cuz there is nothing to do half the time.
Business Idea:
Fly to China, buy 1 million dongle and sell it here!
Hahaha, you could just visit alibaba
This is the reason why still retail shops are still competing and has huge market share than gaint sellers like Amazon.
Your videos' uploading time is so perfect - I'm from IST so your videos are uploaded on night and I watch them before going on school 😁 Great videos, thank you so much❤️✨
I use Amazon for everything except for car parts. Cheap low quality parts, rock auto or qualified eBay sellers are what I go thru for true OEM parts
It's funny how you showed a picture of an Anker dongle, which is actually one of the only reputable brands selling dongles out there. Anker is the brand that I actually recommend to people.
I use it purely for FBA because of logistics for which I pay a price but it works out ok, and even that Amazon are continuously enticing me to list them on their store and market them etc. i realized that it is not good business.
Wow how do they sell 8 pounds of laundry detergent for $8
as an FBA seller, yk the rest
Amazon fee is cheaper then shipping via fedex or ups
It's not ironic that the main cost-saving measure is always paying less or not hiring enough employees, or better yet, firing them at the first sign of trouble, but no one cares that by doing so often you're hurting the very buyer base you want to sell your products and services, not my problem is your answer? I guess it's a problem for the same government that you don't want to pay taxes to so that it can do it, in the best Walmart style let the stupid pay the bills; don't you realize that the debts continue to be charged to the country's “credit card” for which you and your family will have to pay interest every month, maybe forever? As I said: Ironic!!
Ultimately, this was due to a bait and switch by Amazon. We didn't start off addicted.
I’ve recently brought some very cheap clothes and electronics on Amazon! Don’t buy their knockoffs products unless you seriously read the reviews comments!
What would you expect from a company who put a contemptuous smirk as their logo?
In Europe we have a 3 years minimum warranty for electronics... So they are going to be sending you a new one every 3 months lol
Amazon ships orders quickly. Funny. My usual experience these days is that my order typically doesn't even ship until months later. No, I don't have Prime, and, no, not having Prime shouldn't make that much of a difference.
I had hit or miss with certain Amazon products. Brand name things I double check them register them to ensure they are real deal as heard even Amazon sells counterfeit items.
I canceled prime for this reason
I just want add, as an Amazon zealot since 2014, the recent move to using USPS for rural deliveries (so it doesn't have to pay UPS) is a DISASTER. Rural POs in the US are totally undersized and understaffed to handle the package volumes. And don't get me started on the lack of shipping software update required to differentiate between a package that will fit in a standard US mailbox versus one that UPS can just leave on the porch!
I was working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week at my post office so I quit. USPS cannot handle the package delivery, especially when they are so focused on mail. Also the devices we were given are garbage and slowed us down so bad. There wasn't even a GPS on it, and most packages couldn't even scan in for whatever reason.
Amazon workers are sadly pretty much slaves at this point
Reversion to the mean is statistically inevitable.
You should cover what Amazon does with returns
there’s an Amazon bin store with tables upon tables of returns. Cheap and/or broken garbage.
Always cheap clothing with awful synthetic textile, flimsy electronic gadgets with half baked circuitry, defective lights, etc etc
What is being talked about here is one of the reasons why Yanis Varoufakis talkes about this concept as "neo feudalism".
It's happened to me before where when I know the item I want and search by description it doesn't exist. If I search by product and model number, there it is. It also pays to comparison shop. Many times I can find the same product from the same manufacturer at half the price locally., I suppose the extra cost with Amazon covers the cost of logistics.
Amazon doesn't take responsibility for anything it sells.
Online shopping has always been a scam. You blindly buy and have to trust a system... Etsy is just as trashy for this same reasons.
I do an enormous amount of shopping on Amazon, and have noticed them slipping. Reviews are not as trustworthy. I can't choose my shipping service and not all of them ship to my home, leaving my packages stranded. They over package and create a mess to recycle.
So, who does it better? I want to switch and am researching that now.
Yeah, I buy from eBay since it's cheaper to get the same product.
For real…Can you imagine buying a 512 MicroSD Card and it only let’s you use 60 GBs.
As said at the very beginning, I only buy name brands that are SOLD BY Amazon.
Amazon service is top of the line you tell them your shipment didn’t get there and boom another one coming your way lol
Amazon customers do not mind paying all the fees that exist, what interests them is buying the item and having it at home in 1 hour or less. Amazon customers are also not interested in the fact that Amazon has bankrupted thousands of small businesses with predatory practices, nor are they interested in how they treat their employees in the warehouses or those who deliver the packages, or what benefits they have, or what disgusting salaries they have. Amazon customers are only interested in seeing Jeff be a billionaire and spend millions of dollars while those who shop at Amazon spend thousands of dollars on things they don't even need and blow up their credit cards then we see them in the collection company looking to see how do they pay
*in Malaysia we wait about a week or two or maximum for two month to receive our product that is because most of us using sea ship container rather than flight...so it was longer but cheaper...also we pruchase most of it in bulk ...if you want fast....pruchase from locally... and yes i do Agree that most of American had such insiatiable instant grafitication...perhaps you guys need to learn some patient will yeah*
I did a lifetime rev of around 110k through FBM (not bragging) just saying, FBA fees are much more insane than FBM.
I stopped using Amazon just for that. Putting everyone on the platform is just a clutter. I use a subsidiary of Walmart (Flipkart) only. They don't put everyone there, only reputed sellers. Obviously some things are not available in it. But I would rather pay more money than to buy from Amazon.
Amazon logistics sucks. I live in South America and have been buying things from then since when they sold books shipped by Jeff Bezos himself. The way to get things from them is having packages shipped to a Miami.FL based courier service which in turn ships them to me on a weekly basis. This part works 100%. Some months ago (May 2022) I bought a PC graphics card. Acdcording to Amazon logistics they have delivered a package to the courier front desk by the next day (Prime membership) and I have a letter from the courier asserting it was not, among other complains from other customers who did not receive their packages either. Customer Support has been useless and so I filed a dispute refusing to aknowledge the credit card payment obligation. Dispute is still on, so will see how it ends. This was not the first time a package was marked as delivered but actually it was not. Those times I got a refund or the goods were sent again and it all ended OK. This time it was not. Beware of their delivery service.
Would it be an overstatement to call Amazon services “unbearable”? Alibaba is Chinese owned. That’s reason enough not to use them.
I have been doing FBA for a year, and unless you can sell high amount. amazon just making money on both side no matter what happen
Companies nowadays wont makes quality product anymore, imagine an item with good value and can withstand more than 5 years of use.
They want us keep buying to makes year statement in profit.
Yeah that’s true, things don’t last like they used to