I came here after watching your video re someone comparing you to OSP. I must say you are very insightful. You have a well written script and a good voice. Your model is adorable as heck too. I've also shared one of your vids to a friend. TLDR: you aren't a copy/paste of OSP. You have your own style and you are great. Keep it up 😊
T.T ohmygoodness thank you so much. That's so very kind and sweet of you. TYTYTYTY :) I hope you find more videos of mine you like and that are helpful!
I have given up buying books on Amazon. They all arrive damaged - just thrown in a box with absolutely no protection. I returned them all and bought elsewhere - eBay is good but look at the packaging feedback from the seller to make sure they use bubble wrap and people get their books in perfect condition. Amazon doesn't know what bubble wrap, protection in a box is. Years back they used to ship books in shrink wrap glued to the bottom of the box so they didn't shift all around but no more. Now Amazon is trying to make customers pay to return damaged goods - no way. Get customer service to contact you to get a PP label and return their crap and get a refund. And I tried to give many packaging reviews on Amazon books that arrived destroyed and got the same email - they wouldn't post it if it is shipped and sold by Amazon.
It's awful that when an industry gets monopolized, that large suffocating company can just cut costs and lack standards all they want because there's no longer anyone to compete with them. From what you described, the practice they used to have was an easy, bare-minimum shipping method that ensured *some* buyer protection, and now they just can't be arsed! Just sad. Thanks for watching and commenting your experience with Amazon too, I'm glad I'm not some outlier making a deal out of nothing.
This is a really good take. I used to gripe about reviews criticizing the condition it arrived in or a delayed delivery as "not the point." But after a while, I wondered why Amazon wouldn't let you review... Amazon? Alright, let me sharpen my knives and put on my tinfoil hat before I start carving into unfounded theories. I suspect Amazon doesn't want to be responsible for damaged items since they do the majority of item delivery. It's CYA for their bottom dollar. (CYBD?) Hell, they barely want to take responsibility for hosting dangerous third-party products on their site. (source: super interesting PBS Frontline doc about Sux Luthor. ...I mean Jeff Bezos.) Unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me if filtering "irrelevant" reviews is wholly intentional too. I feel like if they were transparent, each item would have a clear product rating separate from a S&H condition or QA rating which would be equally visible. 🤷
Right? They were like, you can report/email us about that separately and it's like, why should I have to be the one to make that effort? The more inconvenient it is, the less likely anyone is to do it. Even if every branch of Amazon in different company/warehouses has different layout and order fulfillment systems, there needs to be more standardization for shipping. Throwing books into an empty box is not acceptable and yet, it seems like they do it more to books than anyone else *because* they're Amazon and they print them too? -.- very concerning considering they're becoming THE most dominant/accessible titan in the field.
I came here after watching your video re someone comparing you to OSP. I must say you are very insightful. You have a well written script and a good voice. Your model is adorable as heck too.
I've also shared one of your vids to a friend.
TLDR: you aren't a copy/paste of OSP. You have your own style and you are great.
Keep it up 😊
T.T ohmygoodness thank you so much. That's so very kind and sweet of you. TYTYTYTY :) I hope you find more videos of mine you like and that are helpful!
I have given up buying books on Amazon. They all arrive damaged - just thrown in a box with absolutely no protection. I returned them all and bought elsewhere - eBay is good but look at the packaging feedback from the seller to make sure they use bubble wrap and people get their books in perfect condition. Amazon doesn't know what bubble wrap, protection in a box is. Years back they used to ship books in shrink wrap glued to the bottom of the box so they didn't shift all around but no more. Now Amazon is trying to make customers pay to return damaged goods - no way. Get customer service to contact you to get a PP label and return their crap and get a refund. And I tried to give many packaging reviews on Amazon books that arrived destroyed and got the same email - they wouldn't post it if it is shipped and sold by Amazon.
It's awful that when an industry gets monopolized, that large suffocating company can just cut costs and lack standards all they want because there's no longer anyone to compete with them. From what you described, the practice they used to have was an easy, bare-minimum shipping method that ensured *some* buyer protection, and now they just can't be arsed! Just sad. Thanks for watching and commenting your experience with Amazon too, I'm glad I'm not some outlier making a deal out of nothing.
This is a really good take. I used to gripe about reviews criticizing the condition it arrived in or a delayed delivery as "not the point." But after a while, I wondered why Amazon wouldn't let you review... Amazon?
Alright, let me sharpen my knives and put on my tinfoil hat before I start carving into unfounded theories. I suspect Amazon doesn't want to be responsible for damaged items since they do the majority of item delivery. It's CYA for their bottom dollar. (CYBD?) Hell, they barely want to take responsibility for hosting dangerous third-party products on their site. (source: super interesting PBS Frontline doc about Sux Luthor. ...I mean Jeff Bezos.) Unfortunately it wouldn't surprise me if filtering "irrelevant" reviews is wholly intentional too.
I feel like if they were transparent, each item would have a clear product rating separate from a S&H condition or QA rating which would be equally visible. 🤷
Right? They were like, you can report/email us about that separately and it's like, why should I have to be the one to make that effort? The more inconvenient it is, the less likely anyone is to do it.
Even if every branch of Amazon in different company/warehouses has different layout and order fulfillment systems, there needs to be more standardization for shipping. Throwing books into an empty box is not acceptable and yet, it seems like they do it more to books than anyone else *because* they're Amazon and they print them too? -.- very concerning considering they're becoming THE most dominant/accessible titan in the field.