"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
02/28/2019 at 17:55 • Filed to: Amazon
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"Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo" (akioohtori)
02/28/2019 at 17:55 • Filed to: Amazon | 0
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After a good showing in January, my February Amazon order reduction has... not gone as well. My goal was a 15% reduction in orders (quantity and cost) and I exceeded that in January with a 52% reduction in the number of orders. February, however...
[Standard Disclaimer] This is not to spend less money, though that might be a happy side effect. The goal was to reduce Amazon usage because they are becoming increasingly evil, customer service and on-time fulfillment are worse then they ever have been, and Jeff Bezos is essentially a Bond villain. Plus the whole HQ2 thing? “Sponsored” search results taking over the search page? Fake reviews!? My distrust and dissatisfaction with the company has grown over the last year or so and as a result I am trying to make them less of a presence in my life.
In February 2018 I ordered 34 items from Amazon.
In February 2019 I ordered 18 items from Amazon!
That is a 47% reduction in order quantity and a 38% reduction in spend. Not as bad as I was expecting!
(Feel free to check my math on that though. (34-18)/34 = 0.4706... right?)
So... Why is this on Oppo?
CAR PARTS!
As with January I’ll detail the car parts I bought from Amazon and elsewhere!
Amazon
So many car parts!! This month I ordered new lug nuts, wheel spacers, fuel one way valve, LED backup lamps, and better wheel spacers from Amazon.
In classic Amazon fashion, the four sets of lug nuts arrived in three separate boxes.
Wasteful.
Elsewhere
RockAuto was the primary recipient of my love money this month, with a fair few Wagovan parts getting shipped out from them. I also hit up the local car parts stores for fluids a couple times, but that is hardly remarkable.
So yeah. Super happy with that. Hopefully I can keep my numbers hovering around 50% for the rest of the year. Unlike at the end of January, I don’t really have any pent up orders right now, so that should make a difference. That said, the Wagovan build is in full swing right now, so anything can happen!
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Interested in crunching your own numbers? Amazon has a how-to on generating history reports !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .
Spaceball-Two
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
02/28/2019 at 18:11 |
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With a three year old and a newborn and both working full time, there is no way I could go without Amazon. There is literally multiple packages arriving daily.
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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> Spaceball-Two
02/28/2019 at 18:13 |
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Yeah, I can’t see my order number ever getting to 0, but with 394 things ordered last year... yeah there is some room for improvement.
Future Heap Owner
> Spaceball-Two
02/28/2019 at 18:23 |
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!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Aren’t there, like, laws against that?
TheRevanchist
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
02/28/2019 at 18:31 |
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You want to know the worst part about Amazon? When my wife orders clothes, waits a year with them sitting with the tags on them , and then decides she wants to return them.
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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> Future Heap Owner
02/28/2019 at 18:32 |
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I think you just have to give them more breaks for naps? Like smokers ?
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Spaceball-Two
> Future Heap Owner
02/28/2019 at 18:46 |
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We pay them in fishy crackers
AestheticsInMotion
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
02/28/2019 at 19:09 |
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Oh man. I'm using them more and more. They're consistantly the most reliable around here, and free 2 day shipping gaurenteed, that many times is actually free next day shipping? Or even free same day shipping? Plus two hour shipping available... I've got sepperate accounts for personal and business and honestly can't imagine going back...