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| ▲ | bluGill 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| You are missing something else: you followed the race to the bottom. You knew exactly what you wanted and nothing else can substitute (correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt anyone else who makes a TPM that will fit your motherboard). Your only consideration is price and fast shipping - there isn't much for anyone to compete on and so only the largest will. In the more typical case these is. I recently needed a compass (my son is in scouts), what do I know about a compass: not much. Amazon will give me hundreds of options, some good, some really bad: I'd have to buy the one expensive name brand I know (and hope they are still as good as they were when I was a kid), or risk buying junk - worse junk in a way I wouldn't recognize in time to return it. However I found a small niche orienteering suppler that knows their product and so was able to direct me to a brand I've never heard of that while not as good as the name bring, was both a lot cheaper and good enough. They beat the race to the bottom because for a slightly higher price than amazon they could deliver me the exact thing I need for a still reasonable price. |
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| ▲ | Gormo 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's almost as though market competition precisely refers to lots of vendors targeting lots of different criteria to win business from differentiated market segments, with many being successful within particular niches, but with the largest overall at any moment being the one that's currently most adept at optimizing its operations to serve the preferences of the widest segment. Who could have guessed? |
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| ▲ | simoncion 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > That was me. Sure. I wasn't going to name you because I had no idea exactly why you'd deleted that comment, so I wasn't gonna be rude and attach the challenge to your name. > $29 for overnight shipping is more than the cost of one month of Prime by approximately double... What I've told you is that there are other retailers who will next-day ship you all sorts of "specialty" items like that one. So, Challenge Completed. Whereas what you've told me is that overnight shipping for this one part is a little less than 1/6h the cost of a year of Amazon Prime. Given that I've only gotten things next-day shipped two or three times in my mumble decades of life, it sounds like not using Amazon saves me a notable chunk of money. Also, I've heard from a ton of people out in the boonies that Prime ships very few -and sometimes no- items to them same day or overnight. The Prime Promise seems to be extremely location-dependent. |
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| ▲ | Grombobulous 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you don’t have Prime you can either buy it for a single month or buy overnight shipping on the individual item. Both those options are far less than $29. You did complete the challenge, but it proved that Amazon has a nearly insurmountable logistics advantage compared to competitors. |
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| ▲ | piltdownman 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Amazon shipping and logistics are heavily subsidised by the social contract in Western Countries - it's not remotely a fair comparison even if these were removed based on Amazon's effective corporate income tax rates coming in as low as 1.4%. In the US alone Amazon has received over $11 billion in cumulative taxpayer subsidies, and governments spend an average of nearly $43,000 per fulfillment center job created. This is ramping up exponentially with regard to their data center rollout. In a single instance in rural Oregon, five AWS data centers will avoid $1 billion in property taxes. This is completely aside from the qualitative damage done to traditional retail, shopping districts as a whole, SME innovation on consumer products, and distorting market competition beyond all recognition. https://goodjobsfirst.org/amazon-tracker/ https://cictar.org/all-research/amazon |
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