Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box
See box that looks like it's 3/4 ripped in half from stacking damage:
"Looks good to me, send it off."
Ended up ordering it from Phillips for cheaper on sale, turns out it's not too hard to avoid Amazon altogether and a bonus for the company's reputation being important to the ones picking/packaging the product. Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don't get paid enough to care.
Probably boxed up by a clanker, as long as the weight matches, it's good to go.
If you are not boycotting that Evilcorp, you had it coming.
I'm getting better at it. Unfortunately still end up getting a lot drop shipped from them.
I feel you.
I'm personally trying to avoid Emag, a romanian online shitstore.
I recently gave in and bought a G203 mouse from them because it was the best price. Little did I know it was the best price because it was being sold by a shady minimum-capital foreign company from France, and was clearly counterfeit... It didn't even connect to the Logitech Software and the quality was terrible. I filed an ECC and Romanian consumer protection complaint and swore to never buy from their shitty site again.
Nowadays I look products up on Emag then search them separately to find better vendors to buy from, lol.
Im assuming you eat raspberries farmed by migrant workers making below minimum wage
Sure, the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” whataboutism. It isn’t any individual person’s fault for being forced to participate in capitalism. But it is their fault for not taking reasonable steps to minimize their harm. The difficult part of the conversation is that every single person will have a different definition of what “reasonable” means. For some, it means avoiding the obviously evil megacorps. On the other end of the spectrum, some may think it essentially means going capitalist-vegan and reverting back to scavenging and subsistence farming in their parents’ back yard.
LatteGo, LatteGo, Can't hold it back anymore~
As an aside, I have that coffee maker and love it! See if there's a local coffee shop, here in my city it was stocked and they even let me try a cup from there
Oh as an aside, the coffee comes out SUPER weak at the beginning, where I thought it was broken. Give it 20-30 shots/cups and it'll start tasting more normal. I've had mine for 3 years now and love it
'Some assembly required'
My guess an employee might not have ever even seen it. Amazon uses a fleet of robots now for all manor of things in their warehouses.
Semi-related story but not Amazon…this was a Circuit City to show how long ago it was. I bought a Blu-ray player(one of the first that wasn’t $1K) there and got home with it. Box was perfect with factory sealed tape applied. Crack it open and while the player was in the box it was utterly crushed. I’m talking outer casing of the player in shattered pieces. The metal frame under the outer casing was bent and mangled. It literally looked like it was ran over with a forklift. Then packaged nice and neatly. The styrofoam wasn’t even cracked and all the accessories were there in plastic wrap. So something clearly went very wrong here. The really odd part was it looked like all the pieces of broken bits made it into the box. Swapped it out with no issues back at the store. Luckily never experienced anything like that again…
Just buy instant.
What do you need all that technology for? It's coffee.
Maybe I'm snobbish, but instant vs drip vs French press vs americano all taste different and Americano is so much better it was this or a bialetti moka express. My wife said she'd never use the stove top one and I've made over 10,000 espresso shots so far, so I'd wager I would have eventually caved in and bought a super automatic anyways. It may have paid for itself in electricity tbh.
I've used a DeLonghi espresso machine ($100) for close to 20 years now. My first one lasted 15 years.
It's not perfect, but just about the best bang-for-buck on the market.
Instant coffee tastes nothing like freshly brewed.
Although I agree that the overcomplicated coffee machines with wasteful pods are ridiculous. Just use one of these, simple to use, portable and great coffee every time:
There are tons of ways to make coffee and each tastes slightly different and some beans are better suited to be prepared in different styles. If people wanna enjoy coffee in a certain style, just let them. It’s fine that you like instant coffee but others might wanna prepare their coffee differently.
Brewed is a bit more healthier than instant and you can support local roasters over the corporate-owned ones.
I'm far from a coffee snob, but instant tastes awful compared to even preground prepackaged coffee
mad take
So you say in a different comment this was a joke. You seem to have no idea how jokes work.
did you consider someone sending you that intentionaly with the hope that the outside box reaches you in not pristine condition and you ust blame the dispatcher?
Was my comment about instant too infuriating, it had to be deleted?
Weirdly I can see your blasphemous comment about instant 'coffee' in your history, linked to this post, but it doesn't show up in the comments here. I suspect it's because it's been voted down to -30.
In answer to the assertion you made about coffee being all the same, I say: you heathen! You Philistine! You non-appreciator of tasty coffee! If you like instant, that's one thing, but many feel (as do I) that instant isn't a patch on properly roasted, ground, and brewed coffee.
I'm not even that particular a out coffee, and I'll be damned if I'm doing instant all the time.
I keep some around for emergencies, but otherwise it's espresso/cappuccinos for me. A decent machine can be had for $100
Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don't get paid enough to care.
That's where you're wrong. If they don't get paid enough to care, they need to find employment somewhere that they'll actually do the job they're being paid to do.
That's not how finding jobs work. You can't just magically get a better one, much less in this economy. Instead, they should unionize collectively and fight Amazon for better pay
You can just get your money back from Amazon. In my experience they just refund you. In my case the product was missing and it was worryless.
!deamazon@piefed.social
Would be nice if that community didn't just post "Bezos bad" and actually gave tips on reducing Amazon use, but it's a newer comm with little traction...
Edit: Some of y'all missed the point lol. I don't use Amazon, but it makes it extremely hard to find shit that isn't being sold in stores near me. How about promoting other websites/ways to get things, rather than preaching about Bezos being evil. I know he's evil, it's why I don't use Amazon, but TEACH people where else they can go.
It's the equivalent of going "Sex is bad kids" but then not actually teaching safe sex, condom use, STIs, etc.
don't shop on amazon
you don't need a community for that
Just use Amazon less, is Jeff using your computer