Amazon becoming like NewEgg? Bad

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BarkingGhostar

BarkingGhostar

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What is with companies pretending they never sold a product before when you bought from them the very same week? I bought a DeLonghi EW7507EB from Amazon and they shipped it Free Two-Day under my Prime membership. This was an item Sold By and Fulfilled by Amazon order.

I got the item and was so impressed I wanted another. Unfortunately, Amazon no longer shows as if they ever sold the product. Seriously, why not just put an Out Of Stock on the product page with an absurd price and date of new inventory instead of just pretending they never sold the item?

I'm going to keep looking around Amazon's website, but this reminds me of the incident with NewEgg and the bad-firmware Seagate 1TB drives from years ago. I bought four of them during a holiday special. One was DOA and I did a NewEgg RMA. Another died a week later and suddenly the NewEgg product page disappeared--instead of changing the product page to Discontinued like they normally would do.

This seems to be a thing for businesses to do in acting like the original sales never occurred. How can I leave any GOOD feedback on the purchase (ahem, seller) and product when Amazon is pretending the item was never in the grubby mits to sell in the first place?
 
LTC8K6

LTC8K6

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He is talking about Amazon itself not being the seller anymore.

I have seen that happen with an item I was looking at. Wanted to buy it from Amazon, it was listed as sold by Amazon, with the free 2 day Prime shipping.

Took a few days to make my decision. When I went back, it was as if Amazon had never heard of the item, and only other sellers listed it. Well, I didn't want to buy from other sellers...
 
jlee

jlee

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BarkingGhostar said:
What is with companies pretending they never sold a product before when you bought from them the very same week? I bought a DeLonghi EW7507EB from Amazon and they shipped it Free Two-Day under my Prime membership. This was an item Sold By and Fulfilled by Amazon order.

I got the item and was so impressed I wanted another. Unfortunately, Amazon no longer shows as if they ever sold the product. Seriously, why not just put an Out Of Stock on the product page with an absurd price and date of new inventory instead of just pretending they never sold the item?

I'm going to keep looking around Amazon's website, but this reminds me of the incident with NewEgg and the bad-firmware Seagate 1TB drives from years ago. I bought four of them during a holiday special. One was DOA and I did a NewEgg RMA. Another died a week later and suddenly the NewEgg product page disappeared--instead of changing the product page to Discontinued like they normally would do.

This seems to be a thing for businesses to do in acting like the original sales never occurred. How can I leave any GOOD feedback on the purchase (ahem, seller) and product when Amazon is pretending the item was never in the grubby mits to sell in the first place?
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You're all whiny about "pretending they never sold the item"...

Check your order history.

Is it there?

Yes?

stfu.
 
purbeast0

purbeast0

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^^ OP
 
FeuerFrei

FeuerFrei

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I know once a product becomes unavailable, i.e. no one has any for sale, the product listing will no longer show up in searches. The only way you'll get a link to the product page is if you had it bookmarked prior. Eventually Amazon will delete the listing page.
 
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drebo

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LTC8K6 said:
He is talking about Amazon itself not being the seller anymore.

I have seen that happen with an item I was looking at. Wanted to buy it from Amazon, it was listed as sold by Amazon, with the free 2 day Prime shipping.

Took a few days to make my decision. When I went back, it was as if Amazon had never heard of the item, and only other sellers listed it. Well, I didn't want to buy from other sellers...
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Why would Amazon list themselves as a seller of the item if they don't have it to sell?

Jesus F'ing Christ some people are never happy.
 
LTC8K6

LTC8K6

Lifer
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drebo said:
Why would Amazon list themselves as a seller of the item if they don't have it to sell?

Jesus F'ing Christ some people are never happy.
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Usually it says that Amazon, as a seller, is "out of stock".

Product info will say that it's available from other sellers.

One of the other sellers listed will be Amazon, but it will say the item is out of stock.
 
Blitzvogel

Blitzvogel

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I'd say NewEgg has become more like Amazon. Though I got my new CPU and Mobo from Microcenter for much cheaper than Newegg thanks to their bundling deal. Beat that deal Frys!
 
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who?

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Maybe Amazon doesn't think it will sell enough this far into the season to stock more. They may not want to spend on items that will just take up space for months.
 
Rakehellion

Rakehellion

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FeuerFrei said:
I know once a product becomes unavailable, i.e. no one has any for sale, the product listing will no longer show up in searches. The only way you'll get a link to the product page is if you had it bookmarked prior. Eventually Amazon will delete the listing page.
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No, OP is right. I think Amazon should keep a listing of millions of items you can't actually buy to clutter up their website.

"Cure for cancer. $3.99 with free shipping. OUT OF STOCK"
 
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mrjminer

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You can probably still access it via your order history if the order was recent. At least, that is how it used to work.
 
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maddogchen

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I had a similiar experience.

i bought a series of kindle books from the same author on Amazon. I grew to like the series and when I went to buy the last book of the series, I couldn't find it anymore. I could find the series in my order history but when I click on it, it went to an amazon page not found. It was very weird. Until I found out that the series had been bought by a publishing house and they took it down so that it could be republished with the new publishing house.....lame.
 
mugs

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Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Why the hell are you complaining about this? This is the dumbest shit I've read today.
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

Lifer
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I would assume that the out of stock product pages are reserved for those products that amazon intends to restock at some future date, while the pages that disappear entirely are for those products that amazon has no future plans for.

With that settled, I would just move on, completely unperturbed by the entire issue. Then again I tend to not sweat the small stuff.
 
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