eCommerce is Tedious
I have a couple of nieces who are Amazon nuts. They buy bunches of stuff there and I simply don't get the allure. My main girl on the planet is pretty much of the same persuasion and I'm afraid I don't have what it takes to steal her away from this amazon thing.My primary issue with ecommerce in general revolves around this 'membership' thing where they want to not only be a vendor but also a social media outlet where people register commentary regarding the various wares available and how the service was, etc.
I used to have a friend who thought this was the 'best part' of it all and I decided he could go get stuffed and we no longer interact for this attitude and other intrinsic reasons.
Personally, I'd rather starve to death naked than participate in this dismal millenial busy body lifestyle and the thought of all the email order business I do anyway makes me feel repulsive to myself.
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Finally I think they got the message that I wasn't impressed and they must have wanted the money more than they wanted to give me crap for not oogling and gushing over their vendors and services because they changed their tack with me — though I remain totally unrepentant and in avoidance.
They really have gone without quite a few thousand dollars by this point in time as well because there was a time we too did copious business regularly.
You need to watch how you allow your employees to treat your customers. Some of us never get past rude game playing air head foreigners representing some domestic retail concern online. Even when the offense is via somebody's poorly designed and executed insultware scripting.
I'm sure they can make it up with that plethora of idiots who are captivated with their business model like too many in my existential sphere ... although I'm afraid that will never be me.
Suffice it to say that there are too many other vendors and outlets for me to be falling into line like some regimented imbecile with money to blow.
Got better things to do than comment on some product or service. I'd just as soon do without ... or head to a brick and mortar establishment and whip out the plastic. They don't seek membership and commentary.
Mostly, I'm not happy with ecommerce because what you buy isn't always what you get. Quality control remains both controversial and fraught with failure. My last several purchases have been quite a bit less than promised. This coupled with those expensive horrors of freight on top of everything else really repels me.