This isn’t exactly where this belongs so feel free to delete this. I’m mildly infuriated there is no usable alternative to Amazon.com. I’m more than willing to buy products elsewhere, but it’s so easy to default to Amazon. Please help.
This isn’t exactly where this belongs so feel free to delete this. I’m mildly infuriated there is no usable alternative to Amazon.com. I’m more than willing to buy products elsewhere, but it’s so easy to default to Amazon. Please help.
I’m generally fine with Amazon. The main things I’d like to see changed:
Their determined nagging to subscribe to Amazon Prime. I don’t have a good fix there.
Perishable food. Walmart.com does a better job here IME, uses their existing infrastructure and delivery network to provide perishables in a tight time window.
Limited product classification for searches. For electronics, Newegg does a better job of having a database with many aspects of products being searchable. In general, specialty rather than general-purpose stores seem to do a better job on this.
Limited selection. Amazon is pretty darn good on this, but for some really esoteric stuff, Google Shopping can win, since it’ll index the inventory of many retailers. If I can’t find something on Amazon, that’s my next stop. It can also search for numeric ranges (“3…25”) as I recall, which can be useful for some items.
If you want an alternative for some reason, OP, you probably want to list what it is that you’d like done differently, as that kinda determines what alternatives make sense.