So im checking out a seller profile today to make sure my games will be shipped soon and for the most part, everything checks out. 95% of the reviews are positive, 2% neutral... but what about this 3% that I see negative? I look into it, and these are the comments I see. Keep in mind none of this is made up, no matter how ridiculous it seems.


"MY PACKAGE HAVE BEEN SENT BACK TO U AND I HAVEN'T RECEIVED BACK PAYMENT YET!"

"Amazon was great but the product is bad... way to confusing and not worth the money at all." (This one makes me want to eat my shirt)

"Idem like up..." (what?)

This is just a taste of the amount of fail I have seen in my two years of using Amazon.

Share your Amazon fail stories here for I am interested in some luls and facepalms!

So far Amazon has never failed me :shrug: Never used eBay thoug, probably never will <_<

The reviews on http://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Inc-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&qid=1309836666&sr=8-20 product seem helpful...

:blink: ok...

I like the guy who offered 300 caps for radroach removal

eBay is ok (if you're into auctions, that's not my style though)

the biggest snafu I've had with Amazon was just a couple of weeks back, I ordered a game & everything was fine until it supposedly reached the local Post office (according to the tracker on Amazon) so I was expect to get it the mail the next day as is the norm in the situation when I didn't get it, I checked the Amazon tracker again & overnight the package backtracked some 200 miles & the local Post Office never knew about it & package tracking sites couldn't find it.
I did get my game but not after it went the same four towns a 2nd time.

is that :facepalm: worthy?

:lmao:

That made my night.

EDIT: more gems from those reviews:

I love the comments on http://www.amazon.com/Ceylon-Sapphire-Diamond-Pendant-yellow/product-reviews/B004AT28IO/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1.

People actually buy games from Amazon and Ebay? :huh:

Over half the games I own are from it

Yep for better prices than you can get most anywhere (outside of extreme sales, but you get a hard copy from amazon).

Well I have been sent a broken game by Ebay, I then shipped it back and asked for a new one, and then I was shipped back the same broken game....

Amazon I have had no bad experiences with. If something ever does go wrong, the seller is always happy to help.

Damn! It's unavailable... I really need this stuff now!

:whistling:

My dad ordered the RE5 collectors edition guide for me but the seller said he did not have it anymore. We got a refund and 1 year later, it comes in the mail. seems like a fail to me.

what happened? it found a wormhole & moved into the future?

Did you have a sending war after that?

That little interchange made my day. :laugh:

No so much a fail as just a funny. http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z133/sbr32/whichonedoesntbelong.png

All the time. I've been using both pretty heavily for a good 8 years or so. I buy almost everything (except groceries) online, and in my experience Amazon is probably the best large online retailer doing what they do. Keep in mind, though, that there is a big difference between things sold by Amazon.com and Amazon Marketplace affiliates. Amazon Marketplace affiliates are 3rd-party sellers that use Amazon.com's online storefront and ordering system to sell goods. As far as product reviews and such, the internet is going to be the internet. There are a lot of wacky people out there.

I've gotten a ton of crazy good deals on eBay as well. If you use Paypal and only buy stuff from sellers with a good feedback history I think it's pretty safe.

Isn't there a Cracked article on this subject?

Yeah, there is. It was wicked awesome.

The only problem I've ever had with Amazon was back in '07, around September. I had pre-ordered the Legendary Edition of Halo 3, which came out that month. About five weeks later, it still hadn't arrived... so I called them up... and they tried to send me a new 360, for some weird reason.

So, about four weeks later, I finally got the freakin' game... but it was all scratched up. So, a few days after that, they sent me a new Legendary Edition... and made me send back the old, scratched up one.

I finally got to play Halo 3 about two months later.

Which made it all the more awesome when I did.

:rofl:

I've been a customer of amazon for 11 years, before they restructured. Out of hundreds of books I helped ordered from it, only few packages mailed to me with damage, and they were all returned, refunded or replaced. You cannot satisfy everyone, you satisfied at least 95% of your customer, then you win the game.

Avatar: The Burning Earth, which is hailed as the easiest 1000 gamerscore in the world is listed between $40 to $70 on Amazon. People know this is game is a gamerscore horder's dream so they list it at an insane price, and that is a fail.