AMAZON - I love it - I fell in love with one reviewer (1,609 views)

Wallycat,

I often wonder if some items are the real thing given the price (often when I'm looking at higher end hair products). Also for items, especially those perhaps not super popular -- I wonder how new/fresh it is. I've received a few items that had a shorter than usual expiration or best by date and returned them (or in some cases they just credit me).

Was the Olay shipped from another vendor? How did you know it was fake? I've seen examples when bottles of items, not even close to looking like the real thing.

I hate that people are some dishonest that they sell that crap.


Catbatty,

I order from Amazon -- in fact I just got a box yesterday. And it is sure is convenient and sometimes the price can't be beat or they have an item (say a color of sneaker) that I can't find elsewhere. I don't have prime so I always wait to get to over $25 to get free shipping. But I do try to order from other companies too but sometimes its just so easy since they sell pretty much everything -- it sometimes seems to me that Amazon owns the world and I don't like how so many businesses are being hurt/closing etc. Ideally I would shop locally but sometimes it is just great having a big bulky item shipped to your door. And I don't want to trek all over my city on public trans to get something that I need if super inconvenient to get there. And, I will say their customer service is great. The other thing for me, is just the waste of ordering online --- the boxes, energy to ship/deliver, packaging. All that waste and environmental impact plays a role -- so I'm trying to be more selective on what I order online in general. I'm far from perfect with that. I live in in a large apartment building and the amount of packages each day is mind boggling.

I do read the reviews, but like at so many places online, I wonder if they are all legit (some often seem just a bit sketchy just by the wording). But I have certainly tried products that were new to me based on the reviews, and many times have been quite pleased.

Thx for the info. There is some shampoo that I wanted to get online, at a decent price, but some said it was a fake, Who knows if they are right, but not worth buying it.

I know the price for some items jump around, even many times the same day. All those weird algorithms I guess. I was looking at hand held vacuum and it dropped by a good bit -- it looked like they just price matched what Target was selling it for that week. (total aside, I've seen on Nordstroms site that they mention that they just price matched x item).

I've used the camel camel camel website before (a free Amazon price tracker, monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy). You just paste in the item info and say you want to be notified if the price gets to $100. Then they send you an email alertl. It is also interesting to look at the graph they have for that item showing the price fluctuation. I think almost all of the items I wanted to price watch, they handled.

I've used Amazon for books, toys, and things like that. I've heard that there are problems with the beauty products (hair products are not the same quality as those purchased elsewhere) and recently heard that people had problems with dog food purchased through Amazon (we recently adopted a shelter dog, so I was interested in purchasing).  So far, I've continued to buy food from the pet store.

Catbatty,

Have you ever heard from the writer ?  

Curious ! 

Your post is dated March 2019.