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Amazon's New Refunds Policy Will 'Crush' Small Businesses, Outraged Sellers Say (cnbc.com)
Amazon sellers are up in arms over a new returns policy that will make it easier for consumers to send back items at the merchant's expense. From a report: Marketplace sellers who ship products from their home, garage or warehouse -- rather than using Amazon's facilities -- were told this week by email that starting Oct. 2, items they sell will be "automatically authorized" for return. That means a buyer will no longer need to contact the seller before sending an item back, and the merchant won't have the opportunity to communicate with the customer. If a consumer is returning an electronic device because it's difficult to use, for example, the seller won't be able to offer help before being forced to pay a refund. "Customers will be able to print a prepaid return shipping label via the Online Return Center instantly," the email said. Additionally, Amazon said that it's introducing "returnless refunds," a feature that the company said is "highly requested by sellers." The change enables sellers to offer a refund without taking back an item that may be expensive to ship and hard to resell.
I'm sick of hearing about Microsoft sucks ass. Frankly, it doesn't. Is it perfect? Fuck no. But Microsoft's products are by and large the best at what they do, or, at a minimum, pretty good.. Visual Studio is hands-down the best IDE out there, period. Windows 10 is an excellent desktop OS. There is no better desktop OS. OSX is crap in comparison, and no distro of Linux holds a candle. Windows just works; it works well and everything you need runs on it without problems. Microsoft Office has absolutely the best word processor and spreadsheet money can buy. Microsoft's server products aren't the best, but they aren't, at all, bad either. Same thing with most of Microsoft's other software. So all this bitching about Microsoft is just retarded.
Even people's biggest bitch about Windows 10 is retarded. Who gives a shit if Microsoft knows that your machine crashed while running whatever the fuck? It's not like the telemetry sends them copies of your data or even lists of the websites you visit or the programs you run. It's pretty much just crash data and little bits of kernel data that tells Microsoft how well the OS is working. Personally, I'd like for them to have that data, although, I would also like to be able to shut it off, I can see why that don't want to let you. It doesn't harm you to give it to them, it can't be used to implicate you in any crimes you may commit, and it helps Microsoft improve Windows. So, yeah, they don't want you disabling it. Big deal. I'll take that over not be able to play my games or use MS Office or Visual Studio, any day of the week. Not being able to use the software I want to use is what I'd get if I switched to Linux, or, to a lesser extent, OSX, so fuck that shit. Windows 10 it is. It probably is for you too. So stop your bitching. AND, if you don't like Microsoft products, you don't have to use them. So why whine about them? What good does that do anyone? It annoys us Windows users who like Windows, and makes you look like a whiner to everyone else. Just stop using it if it sucks so much and shut up about it already.