{"id":683,"date":"2019-09-11T23:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/?p=683"},"modified":"2019-09-11T23:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T04:01:46","slug":"things-that-annoy-me-about-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/things-that-annoy-me-about-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Things that Annoy Me about Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-686\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-686 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/kurmudgeon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/p-ants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No idea how this is relevant, but it made me laugh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Grump has a love\/hate relationship with Amazon&#8230; or, Amazon.com.\u00a0 The &#8216;long&#8217; name, ya know.\u00a0 Anyway, on the plus side everything&#8217;s so convenient.\u00a0 And almost always the most economical option.\u00a0 Get online, put some things in your cart, call up your conveniently stored payment information, and if you&#8217;ve been successfully induced to pay for Prime, it shows up on your doorstep within a couple days.\u00a0 What could be better, right?<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the flip-side&#8230; everything&#8217;s so convenient.\u00a0 And almost always the most economical option.\u00a0 Get online, put some things in your cart, call up your conveniently stored payment information, and if you&#8217;ve been successfully induced to pay for Prime, it shows up on your doorstep within a couple days.\u00a0 What could be worse?<\/p>\n<p>Be that all as it may, there are some things about Amazon that defy rational explanation, to wit&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking for reviews the day after I receive it.\u00a0 Sometimes even before I receive it.\u00a0 Nothing like jumping the gun, eh?\u00a0 Ya know, maybe&#8230; just maybe&#8230; I want to have a chance to, oh I don&#8217;t know, actually USE the product before I go on record with a recommendation.<\/li>\n<li>Asking if I want to &#8220;buy it again&#8221; when it&#8217;s clearly something no average person would want two of, i.e. the sump pump I purchased a few years ago.\u00a0 I kept getting asked for several months if I wanted to buy another one.\u00a0 Pretty sure I need only one sump pump at a time.<\/li>\n<li>Finding that one CD you&#8217;ve been wanting for years only to know it&#8217;s uber obscure or even out-of-print.\u00a0 See, irrational things can also be positive things.\u00a0 In this way, Amazon is even better than eBay, if for no other reason than shopping and buying is more straight forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 Amazon is a double-edged sword.\u00a0 Take the good with the bad.\u00a0 Shop local first, of course, but make local compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grump has a love\/hate relationship with Amazon&#8230; 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