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Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI's usage policy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I have to go to different sites for my Glyceryl Monostearate, Dehydroacetic Acid, Sodium Lactate, Benzyl Alcohol, a bag of Japanese Candy, a Keyboard cable repair kit, thousands of live ladybugs, some new tiny 1/32 and 1/64 paintbrushes, and 500 pairs of dust free latex gloves then I might as well just not shop online at all.

This comment was joking btw, half that shit isn't even available on Amazon rn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's true though I've had orders where I bought a multimeter, soap, Szechuan pepper, and a bamboo shelf for the bath. That's at least three stores and more likely four.

It's the only advantage they have left, here in Germany Amazon has become worse and worse and worse with shipping. Unless the online store is set up in the boondonks or you live there next-day delivery is the norm, and pretty much all other shops dispatch packages on the same day as long as you order early enough, Amazon often takes days to dispatch, and if I want to use my close-by Hermes pickup they take weeks because apparently they don't like how much Hermes is charging them. And no I won't be paying for fucking prime to get a service level you get everywhere else as standard.

AliExpress, meanwhile, I mean it's hit and miss but if you're ordering something from out of a EU warehouse it arrives reasonably quickly, usually the next day after. If you're ordering directly from China all bets are off right now: The northern rail links via Russia are down, so is pretty much the red sea, what's left is the Horn of Africa or the TRACECA rail link. Also doing import yourself can be a bureaucratic nightmare possibly involving first figuring out where your local customs office is (it usually won't be local at all) if they retained the package.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You COULD go to five or six stores, or just one! ☝️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honey, you’ve got a big storm coming when your options for consumer goods are one or two mega outlets selling shoddy cheap shit with no real competition.

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