Amazon going downhill?

Ace Modder · 10 May 2015 at 13:09

doofer said:
AMAZING! Service if you weren't paying £79 a Year for it......

Well technically I paid £15 for a years service. Because my friend added me as family/friends onto his account for £15

LiGhTfasT · 10 May 2015 at 14:54

I've noticed its no longer as competitive as it used be, hardly order from there anymore. Ebay is usually cheaper for smaller low value items.

BDEE · 10 May 2015 at 20:37

MooMoo444 said:
Amazon have been pretty bad for pricing in my experience. I can find places in stock and cheaper in about 2/3 of cases.

Exactly why I have moved away from Amazon.

I tend to only use it now for things I need urgently (I have prime as legacy from LoveFilm).

The marketplace is annoying and would much prefer to filter out the marketplace sellers who inflate prices on there.

norm · 10 May 2015 at 21:48

Order is still in limbo. They've said they'll have it returned to Amazon without any intervention from me once it's physically sent, seems truly bizarre. I half expect it to show up at my door anyway.

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chaparral · 10 May 2015 at 23:02

The £20 limit is a real pain for me..

I order a lot of stuff that costs more then £20 from them
But I don't order that much cheap stuff that costs under £20

So it makes it really hard to know if I should pay the £79 per year for prime... :confused:

Edit: I just login on there website added up the stuff I ordered from them in the year 2014 and it came to £2270

jimmy321 · 10 May 2015 at 23:23

FoxEye said:
With Marketplace sellers I've found that they often have their own sites/shops, and that if you buy direct you often get the item cheaper and with better T&C's than going through Amazon.

So Marketplace seems to be nothing but a huge con, really.

Amazon's T&C for the marketplace used to state that the price can not be lower on your own site, this was found to be illegal so the T&C's were changed. It costs about 17% to sell on Amazon so if you have your own site and payment processor you would need to charge more on Amazon (and ebay) to make the same profit.

Amazon's T&C's also state you can not include sales material in the packaging if you are shipping the order yourself so it's always worth a web search before buying from Amazon marketplace.

scotty365 · 11 May 2015 at 15:23

I still find that camelcamelcamel useful even after xmas - following the trend can be useful for checking prices.

When I think of Amazon I always think of when then supermarkets were taking over from the local shops and people predicted that the prices would sore and they were right - supermarkets have and still do make insane profits.With amazons massive tax evasion its hard for competition - will prices go up in the future??