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AMAZON "clearance" sales!!!
codger
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Is it just me or is anyone else fed up to the back teeth with Amazon UK's "clearance" sales?
Back in the early days, before Amazon became a shop window for thousands of other product suppliers, what Amazon advertised was what Amazon sold.
Not now though. I've just followed a link in the latest Amazon UK email to land in my in-box and the "electronics clearance" is anything but: item after item after item is at a wholly uncompetitive price when the cost of the marketplace seller's post and packing is factored in.
As for those which truly are available from Amazon -- i.e., could be made part of a package to qualify for the £15 free P&P deal -- the stock list is minimal and the prices unattractive.
I've just shoved Amazon into my spam black-list because even a cursory glance at what My Memory (and others) are offering with free P&P shows that these "deals" are just promotional hype for sellers, many of whom have a provenance that's questionable to say the least.
(And at least with My Memory and others, I don't find, when opening the package, a leaflet for the execrable VistaPrint con stuffed in with it. . .)
Grrrrrrr! :mad:
Back in the early days, before Amazon became a shop window for thousands of other product suppliers, what Amazon advertised was what Amazon sold.
Not now though. I've just followed a link in the latest Amazon UK email to land in my in-box and the "electronics clearance" is anything but: item after item after item is at a wholly uncompetitive price when the cost of the marketplace seller's post and packing is factored in.
As for those which truly are available from Amazon -- i.e., could be made part of a package to qualify for the £15 free P&P deal -- the stock list is minimal and the prices unattractive.
I've just shoved Amazon into my spam black-list because even a cursory glance at what My Memory (and others) are offering with free P&P shows that these "deals" are just promotional hype for sellers, many of whom have a provenance that's questionable to say the least.
(And at least with My Memory and others, I don't find, when opening the package, a leaflet for the execrable VistaPrint con stuffed in with it. . .)
Grrrrrrr! :mad:
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