Amazon might as well take that feature away
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
Amazon search drives me crazy. When you try to search for something very specific, you get a pages of crap that is not relevant. For instance, I remodeled the master bat and built a walk in shower and tiled the walls with a decorative tile that was uneven. So I searched for a shelving unit that could be installed with screws. Instead I get pages and pagers of units that use suction cups that will only work on smooth surfaces and then not very well. But if you don't use their search engine you get better results.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Amazon search drives me crazy. When you try to search for something very specific, you get a pages of crap that is not relevant. For instance, I remodeled the master bat and built a walk in shower and tiled the walls with a decorative tile that was uneven. So I searched for a shelving unit that could be installed with screws. Instead I get pages and pagers of units that use suction cups that will only work on smooth surfaces and then not very well. But if you don't use their search engine you get better results.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
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Whenever Amazon's own search fails me, Bing's or Google's rarely does - searching Amazon's own site ("site:amazon.com [same keywords]")
bing's search is so anally insane as to be an embarrassment. Google is not far behind. Amazon is just elephanting stupid. I *think* the problem is that both track your history and cookies. I don't have time to test this, but when I get a chance, I'll google or amazon search things from a clean VM. Hell, they might even be tracking my IP so that might not work.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Sponsored links seem to take prime spots on Amazon. (No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription).
Amarnath S wrote:
No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription
Ditto and at the subscription price I never will!
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Amazon search drives me crazy. When you try to search for something very specific, you get a pages of crap that is not relevant. For instance, I remodeled the master bat and built a walk in shower and tiled the walls with a decorative tile that was uneven. So I searched for a shelving unit that could be installed with screws. Instead I get pages and pagers of units that use suction cups that will only work on smooth surfaces and then not very well. But if you don't use their search engine you get better results.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
But Bezos knows best!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But Bezos knows best!
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
He's rich enough, he doesn't need my Tithe.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Amarnath S wrote:
No, I still don't have Amazon Prime subscription
Ditto and at the subscription price I never will!
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
In the UK it's a very good deal £7.99 a month for free delivery and video/music ( I watch a lot of tennis )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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In the UK it's a very good deal £7.99 a month for free delivery and video/music ( I watch a lot of tennis )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
Here in the colonies it is $14.99/mo., we don't download music and most of the shipping on stuff we buy is free after $35. So there is no point in us getting it at that price.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
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Here in the colonies it is $14.99/mo., we don't download music and most of the shipping on stuff we buy is free after $35. So there is no point in us getting it at that price.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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In this colony, the wife has several things she likes to watch on Prime Video and read lots of Kindle books, including Thursday night football. :laugh: And free next day shipping can take the place of me having to run to the store for some things.
If it works for y'all then it's worth it.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
Just a symptom of doing/selling everything. Very hard to list all the specifications for all the things as filters. If they made some kind of internal UI to do it, they'd still have the problem of needing a bunch of different people to do entry and all of those may not really understand what they are doing (maybe predictable AMZN isn't going to pay top dollar for "data entry"), and others may not even be acting in good faith. Also, I think there is the issue that sellers/vendors get some degree of control over their own listings? Even dealing with the much smaller subset of "this stuff" (newegg) - it's a hard problem to solve.
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
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Here in the colonies it is $14.99/mo., we don't download music and most of the shipping on stuff we buy is free after $35. So there is no point in us getting it at that price.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - Release Version 1.3.1 JaxCoder.com Latest Article: EventAggregator
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Just a symptom of doing/selling everything. Very hard to list all the specifications for all the things as filters. If they made some kind of internal UI to do it, they'd still have the problem of needing a bunch of different people to do entry and all of those may not really understand what they are doing (maybe predictable AMZN isn't going to pay top dollar for "data entry"), and others may not even be acting in good faith. Also, I think there is the issue that sellers/vendors get some degree of control over their own listings? Even dealing with the much smaller subset of "this stuff" (newegg) - it's a hard problem to solve.
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jochance wrote:
Very hard to list all the specifications for all the things as filters.
Yep. Myself I could not care less what color the USB block is. But I have no doubt some people care about that quite a bit.
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Filtering on some properties, I mean. I'm looking at hard drives, and I can set filters for drives of various capacities, but it tops off at "8TB and up". Thing is, they have 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 20TB drives now (and probably larger ones too), so even when selecting the highest capacity option, there's still a lot of stuff I'm not interested in coming back for me to wade through. Same with NVMe drives; it tops off at 1TB, but there also are 2, 4 and 8TB drives. I realize drives of certain sizes might not have existed when they wrote the code behind this...but how long should it take Amazon to update their filters to add those capacities? Think the same problem exists when it comes to pant sizes?
Well, that something exists doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to offer it for sale...
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Well, that something exists doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to offer it for sale...
Ralf Quint wrote:
that something exists doesn't necessarily mean that someone is able to offer it for sale
Maybe if the individual merchants were in charge of the filters I'd agree. But Amazon does have the drives in the capacities I mentioned. They're for sale, they're in stock and they have plenty. They just get lost in the search results because their filters suck.
