Rip off rainforest sellers

nath247

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What is with certain sellers on the rainforest selling easy to get items at higher prices?

£200 for 90 toilet rolls!!!??

Take this review for example

"Very dissatisfied with product - thought I'd get a fantastic balloon making kit but received a small kit in a debenhams bag with debenhams price tag of £10 still on it - when I contacted compura I was told that the product was the right price at £35 so I sent it back on Decmber 17 th . Still waiting for my refund . Really angry about the whole thing."
Alyson F., 29 December 2014
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The seller does a similar thing with plates from Ikea, selling them at higher prices.

"I probably overlooked that what was going to be delivered were Ikea boxes. I don't know where the RRP of £49.95 came from but I bought identical sets of 4 for ££7.50 at Ikea. I feel ripped off."
A C., 23 January 2015
Message from Amazon: "This item was fulfilled by Amazon, and we take responsibility for this fulfilment experience."
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The seller name is in the quote, I haven't linked directly to their storefront in case they were a competitor.
 
People need to shop around if they are concerned, can't really complain if they get the item they chose at the price advertised.

If I buy crockery, I'll check amazon and a few department stores, and probably Ikea/Tesco as well.

If I'm buying bike parts I'll check amazon and a few of the big online bike retailers.

It's just pure laziness, it takes all of five mins to do a few price comparisons.
 
mattyfez said:
People need to shop around if they are concerned, can't really complain if they get the item they chose at the price advertised.
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Exactly. If you were dissatisfied with the price, then why buy it?

I ponder the same thing when it comes to the supermarkets and sofa sheds getting in trouble for their "special offer" pricing strategies. If customers have thought they were getting a good deal and were happy to pay it: what's the problem?
 
I saw a lot of strangely over priced items on amazon. Like they will list one item for £5 but if you buy two all of a sudden its a £65. Don't know what's going on there.

Seems like a good idea though *heads to pound shop* creates £2 shop on amazon.
 
Caveat Emptor. It's a huge market place with quite often a large variance in price for a given item. Shoppers only have themselves to blame if they haven't checked to see the cost of similar items from other suppliers.
 
They should make it so that for every percentage point above breakeven that you get shot in the leg once for any purchase of any item.

Should teach people.
 
What's wrong with it (ignoring the obvious capitilaist flaw of "monopoly of the means of production by individuals.corporations" for a moment)?

Every shop buys something at x cost and sells at x + y = z where y is the margin and z is the cost to the end buyer.
 
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If Amazon continues their current wild west strategy they will post massive losses next quarter:

- nobody needs another eBay, so the moment Amazon allowed foreign/dropshippers/brass plaque sellers to become Prime full fillers, the idea of Prime (fast delivery from local source and 100% customer satisfaction guarantee/returnable) was as good as dead. Prime is no longer guarantee of next day product or local product at all. And you cannot send pair of shoes purchased @ £20 back if sending it back to Italy or China costs £15. No Prime customer is going to be happy with that

- nobody needs another eBay, so the moment Amazon allowed tiering prices vs quantities, it attracted scrooge opportunism - seller will list a product at below market price, they will then tier the price to rise exponentially with each sold item, by the time the mobile "1 Click" and delivery mergers/basket savers realise the price went up, you end up with few happy shoppers who managed to get it at a discount, and hundreds of unhappy shoppers who feel ripped off after checking their delivery note.

- for the love of god, Amazon, why don't you merge all of the Prime deliveries ordered before certain time at night into one dispatch, it's ridiculous that you can order 10 small items, each few minutes apart and end up with 10 separate envelopes shipped via courier the next day. Even if you don't care about trees - you either going to collapse yourself or the courier company.

Oh, and that search engine, oh-my-god, that terrible, terrible search engine. How is this business still afloat?
 
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I have seen this a lot on ebay and think to myself "do they ever sell any" especially things like games that are £10 more than you can buy them from asda for.
 
amigafan2003 said:
What's wrong with it (ignoring the obvious capitilaist flaw of "monopoly of the means of production by individuals.corporations" for a moment)?

Every shop buys something at x cost and sells at x + y = z where y is the margin and z is the cost to the end buyer.
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Well yes, but shops generally don't tend to buy at retail price then put their cost margin on top of that....
 
Can someone explain why some sellers on Amazon are trying to sell (for example) games that retail for £39 for £96?

I've just had a look, and Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (Xbox One) is being sold by Amazon for £39, yet one trader has it listed for £96 (plus £7 postage!!). Play.com used to be terrible for this too. It's not a rare game, nor limited edition etc, yet they hope someone is going to pay more than twice the price.

Is it a money laundering thing?
 
Freakbro said:
Well yes, but shops generally don't tend to buy at retail price then put their cost margin on top of that....
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I know some corner shops and pubs which do just that with supermarket alcohol. Generally, no they don't. But I'm still not sure why it's necessarily a problem to do it on Amazon.
 
v0n said:
- for the love of god, Amazon, why don't you merge all of the Prime deliveries ordered before certain time at night into one dispatch, it's ridiculous that you can order 10 small items, each few minutes apart and end up with 10 separate envelopes shipped via courier the next day. Even if you don't care about trees - you either going to collapse yourself or the courier company.
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You can change your order settings so that "it doesn't do that" (sometimes still does) but... its a right pain swapping between settings so as to make sure stuff comes quickly when necessary without certain items being held up and getting deliveries packed together - they really need to work on the system.

Amazon generally isn't cheap for a lot of stuff but I blame the buyers as much as anything if they get ripped off on there - a little research will normally give you a good idea what price you should be paying.

I tend to buy a little overpriced on there sometimes as I know that usually stuff will ship quickly, there is a bit more of a come back if things go wrong, etc. and when I'm more worried about getting what I want when I want it than how much I paid precisely I'll often turn to it.
 
For me amazon seems to have gone downhill since Christmas.Several late deliveries, at least 3 no deliveries, resulting in getting a refund.
 
Always look for somewhere cheaper. People are listing on there because people find it convenient so there is profit to be made.
 
nath247 said:
What is with certain sellers on the rainforest selling easy to get items at higher prices?

£200 for 90 toilet rolls!!!??

Take this review for example



The seller does a similar thing with plates from Ikea, selling them at higher prices.



The seller name is in the quote, I haven't linked directly to their storefront in case they were a competitor.
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What's wrong with the above? you know loads of brand names most people hold dear are ripping people off left right and centre.
but no one bats an eyelid

stick a logo on a crappy tshirt 2000% markup!!!
 
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v0n said:
If Amazon continues their current wild west strategy they will post massive losses next quarter:

- nobody needs another eBay, so the moment Amazon allowed foreign/dropshippers/brass plaque sellers to become Prime full fillers, the idea of Prime (fast delivery from local source and 100% customer satisfaction guarantee/returnable) was as good as dead. Prime is no longer guarantee of next day product or local product at all. And you cannot send pair of shoes purchased @ £20 back if sending it back to Italy or China costs £15. No Prime customer is going to be happy with that

- nobody needs another eBay, so the moment Amazon allowed tiering prices vs quantities, it attracted scrooge opportunism - seller will list a product at below market price, they will then tier the price to rise exponentially with each sold item, by the time the mobile "1 Click" and delivery mergers/basket savers realise the price went up, you end up with few happy shoppers who managed to get it at a discount, and hundreds of unhappy shoppers who feel ripped off after checking their delivery note.

- for the love of god, Amazon, why don't you merge all of the Prime deliveries ordered before certain time at night into one dispatch, it's ridiculous that you can order 10 small items, each few minutes apart and end up with 10 separate envelopes shipped via courier the next day. Even if you don't care about trees - you either going to collapse yourself or the courier company.

Oh, and that search engine, oh-my-god, that terrible, terrible search engine. How is this business still afloat?
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All they need to solve so much trouble is a "Direct from Amazon" option at the side. Click it and everything but stuff shipped from Amazon warehouses themselves disappear...

The biggest pain using the search engine is having to wade through **** to find something sold by Amazon.
 
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