{"id":10918,"date":"2023-09-18T19:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2023-09-18T19:42:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:42:43","slug":"why-amazon-sucks-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/09\/why-amazon-sucks-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Amazon sucks, cont."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I promised a friend that I’d buy 30 of his poetry books for a reading he’s doing in our congregation this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, he self-published through Amazon. So I had to buy his books through Amazon. Yuck. I expect Amazon to underperform, but they outdid themselves this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, I paid extra for 2 day shipping. The books took four days to arrive. No surprise there. Amazon consistently ships items late, even when you pay extra for their Prime service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, here’s what the books looked like when I unpacked the box:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What the box looked like when we opened it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The books were shipped loose in way too large a box. There was essentially no attempt to keep the books from flinging themselves around during shipping. As a result, corners are damaged, covers are bent. It’s just a mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First lesson to be learned: don’t self-publish your books through Amazon. Your customers are liable to receive poorly packaged and damaged books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second lesson to be learned: Amazon. Doesn’t. Care. About. Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I promised a friend that I’d buy 30 of his poetry books for a reading he’s doing in our congregation this weekend. Unfortunately, he self-published through Amazon. So I had to buy his books through Amazon. Yuck. I expect Amazon to underperform, but they outdid themselves this time. First of all, I paid extra for … Continue reading “Why Amazon sucks, cont.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[950],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-culture","tag-amazon-is-evil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10921,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions\/10921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}