Slashdot Mirror
Why So Much Coverage Of Amazon Prime Day? The Incentives, Of Course (theguardian.com)
Olivia Solon, writing for The Guardian: In July 2015, Amazon declared its own annual holiday: Amazon Prime Day. The retail giant promised deals on a wide range of products for customers signed up to its membership program, Amazon Prime. This is the second Amazon Prime Day, and it's pretty hard to miss. At the time of writing, the #PrimeDay hashtag was one of Twitter's top 10 worldwide trends. Media outlets including the Daily Mail, USA Today, the Telegraph, PC World and CNet are publishing numerous stories about the discounts on offer, and urging readers to sign up for an Amazon Prime trial. What many of those readers won't realise is that publishers are financially incentivised by Amazon to write about Prime Day. By signing up to the retail giant's affiliate programme, Amazon Associates, publishers can earn commissions from linking to products on Amazon.com.In some other news, Amazon announced on Wednesday that the self-created holiday was its biggest sales day ever, with worldwide orders rising more than 60% compared with the previous Prime Day.
They have changed their price matching policy since last year. Last year they would refund you the difference between what you paid a few days before and the Prime Day price. This year you have to order it again and then send it back. Stupid, but I guess the more hoops they make you jump through, the less refunds they have to issue.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I'm guessing his point was that verbing weirds language.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
As I sat at the dinner table carving my traditional Amazon Prime day roast goose with my family and friends I was reminded of the real reason for Amazon Prime day. I casually gave thanks to God that there is surplus crap in warehouses that stores cannot sell usually.
As we toasted in the new Prime-Year and started the count down to next prime day I looked around at all my cheap crappy made-in-China goods. Life is good when you have useless garage sale junk-a-plenty.
I stopped buying from Amazon as they have grown to the point where playing games to cow people into joining their little club is more important to than competing on merit.
Try buying star wars from Amazon without a Prime membership. Oh right you can't. Persistent harassment to join "prime" complete with confusing UX tricks. Deliberate plays to artificially delay shipping and enforce minimum orders to artificially manipulate consumer behavior.
As a customer I refuse to accept or support Amazon's behavior and have taken my business elsewhere.