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07-17-2018, 03:44 PM
Prime Day solves a problem of Amazon's own making
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Prime Day kicks off on Monday, and that means it's time to SHOP (https://mashable.com/2018/04/14/google-amazon-facebook-cambridge-analytica/)SHOP (https://mashable.com/2017/08/02/amazon-jobs-day-propaganda/)SHOP (https://mashable.com/2018/05/22/amazon-facial-recognition-law-enforcement/).
For those desperately in need of, say, an Echo Look (https://mashable.com/2017/04/26/amazon-echo-look-alexa-data-privacy/), this is a once-in-a-year opportunity to put a camera in your bedroom at a discounted price. But Prime Day (https://mashable.com/category/prime-day/) is more than that. So much more. Indeed, the holiday finally (if only temporarily) addresses a problem of Amazon's own making: That seemingly more and more goods on the retail site are overpriced knockoff pieces of trash.
SEE ALSO: Amazon Prime is filled with Alex Jones conspiracy theory videos it calls 'documentaries' (https://mashable.com/2018/06/18/conspiracy-theory-alex-jones-amazon/)
The good folks at Reply All summed this phenomenon up in a July 11 episode entitled "The Magic Store (https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124#episode-player)." Essentially, their argument goes, in an effort to truly become the so-called everything store and compete with the likes of Alibaba (https://mashable.com/category/alibaba/), Amazon permitted a host of foreign third-party sellers to list directly on its site. This, we are told, led to a flooding of the retailer with inferior products and a downgrading of the Amazon shopping experience in general.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/16/amazon-prime-day-fraud/)
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Prime Day kicks off on Monday, and that means it's time to SHOP (https://mashable.com/2018/04/14/google-amazon-facebook-cambridge-analytica/)SHOP (https://mashable.com/2017/08/02/amazon-jobs-day-propaganda/)SHOP (https://mashable.com/2018/05/22/amazon-facial-recognition-law-enforcement/).
For those desperately in need of, say, an Echo Look (https://mashable.com/2017/04/26/amazon-echo-look-alexa-data-privacy/), this is a once-in-a-year opportunity to put a camera in your bedroom at a discounted price. But Prime Day (https://mashable.com/category/prime-day/) is more than that. So much more. Indeed, the holiday finally (if only temporarily) addresses a problem of Amazon's own making: That seemingly more and more goods on the retail site are overpriced knockoff pieces of trash.
SEE ALSO: Amazon Prime is filled with Alex Jones conspiracy theory videos it calls 'documentaries' (https://mashable.com/2018/06/18/conspiracy-theory-alex-jones-amazon/)
The good folks at Reply All summed this phenomenon up in a July 11 episode entitled "The Magic Store (https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/124#episode-player)." Essentially, their argument goes, in an effort to truly become the so-called everything store and compete with the likes of Alibaba (https://mashable.com/category/alibaba/), Amazon permitted a host of foreign third-party sellers to list directly on its site. This, we are told, led to a flooding of the retailer with inferior products and a downgrading of the Amazon shopping experience in general.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/16/amazon-prime-day-fraud/)
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