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Amazon Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is marred by significant customer dissatisfaction, primarily stemming from frequent delivery delays, inadequate customer support, and challenges with returns. Many customers report frustration with unresponsive service representatives and convoluted processes for refunds and account issues. While some positive feedback highlights the convenience and product availability, the overarching sentiment reveals a decline in service quality and reliability. Customers express concerns about counterfeit products and a perceived lack of accountability, suggesting a pressing need for the company to enhance its customer service approach and improve operational efficiency to restore trust.

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service
1,737
value
1,625
shipping
1,620
returns
1,420
quality
1,537

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New York
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Amazon is great!
October 31, 2023

Amazon is one of if not the best site to shop on! It has everything you could ever want and think of and then has other things you would never think of and most of it is very affordable. I've had an Amazon account for as long as i can remember and dont plan on getting rid of it anytime soon, if that tells you anything! Go there and shop now!

Date of experience: October 31, 2023
California
4 reviews
23 helpful votes
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I order on line for most of my products, instead of doing returns I've decided to rate my transactions backed up by a photo. I was originally just going to sent it back or have it replaced. I'm tired of getting products tossed into a bag with no care of how it's received. This is how a order arrived to me. The bag that it arrived In had no damage. After opening the bag the below photo is how it was received.

Date of experience: October 30, 2023
Tennessee
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I encountered difficulty when trying to obtain assistance with placing an order. The initial response from the answering service suggested help with canceling an order, which was not what I needed. I tried 3-4 times. When I was able to reach a live representative, it became evident that they were focused on addressing existing orders, and my request to place a new order seemed to bewilder them. It appears that the support staff may be trained for specific tasks, and when faced with queries that fall outside these predefined categories, they struggle to provide the necessary assistance." I tried 5 representatives.

Date of experience: October 30, 2023
TW
1 review
0 helpful votes
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When received broken product, it is not so convience to connect real person customer service. You have to click and click a lot of page to connect them. Otherwise, it is easy to buy things.

Date of experience: October 29, 2023
Luxembourg
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I STOP buying on AMAZON
October 28, 2023

I STOP buying on Amazon. Service is so terrible now. Prices are high. I change and start buying form now on form competitors such as Ebay, Aliexpress...

Date of experience: October 28, 2023
Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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False advertising
October 28, 2023

Amazon consistently does not deliver goods when promised. My last three deliveries of products from Amazon were not delivered when promised. I still have yet to receive the third product even though it was promised three days ago. When you call Amazon, you just get excuses. What is the annual fee of $140 for? I thought it was too get packages delivered as promised.

Date of experience: October 28, 2023
TW
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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My account got hacked and was scammed out of nearly 300$ and amazon wouldn't do anything about it. Customer service is nearly non existent feels like to talking to robots.

Date of experience: October 27, 2023
Washington
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Good service
October 26, 2023

Good online store, fast delivery of goods to another country. If I need the goods, I will order more

Date of experience: October 26, 2023
Norway
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I like buying stuff on Amazon.us. The prices and variety of items to choose from is decent. Though some items listed as new were in fact pre-owned.

They have been helpful to me when it comes to refunds and replacement items.

BUT the thing is, they let sellers, users or the company itself censor honest, critical reviews, and that is BAD for customer safety!

PLEASE DO DO BETTER! MANY THANKS!

Date of experience: October 26, 2023
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Worst Amazon delivery for mobiles, I got hundreds of items delivered to my address, and only for mobiles I get a message "Delivery guy couldn't contact you" and my mobile gets retuned, its a big delivery guys scam for mobiles.

Date of experience: October 24, 2023
Germany
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Amazon is amazon
October 24, 2023

I'm probably lucky but I didn't have any problems with Amazon. All purchases were delivered on time and met the declared quality. The most important thing is to buy from trusted sellers with high ratings. And their return policy is killing all small resellers.

Date of experience: October 24, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I used to love Amazon and was a loyal customer for years until recently. In the last several months the majority of my orders have been late and recently I have received and empty envelope with nothing in it and missing items. I'm disappointed in the turn Amazon has taken and I've cancelled my membership. I encourage others to do the same and maybe they will realize there is a significant issue and fix their shipping and customer service issues.

Date of experience: October 23, 2023
North Dakota
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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They scam you!
October 23, 2023

If you buy one of those Amazon Alexa music devices, Amazon will automatically begin charging your credit card for a music subscription without your authorization and they will do this over and over. They will charge any credit card you have saved with Amazon. What a terrible scam this is. They rip off their customers.

Date of experience: October 23, 2023
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Buyer beware
October 22, 2023

These folks are truly an evil empire. Once you subscribe it is almost impossible to unsubscribe. Google " how to unsubscribe from Amazon prime" for more details. This is what happens when a business becomes a monopoly. They do whatever they want.

Date of experience: October 22, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Using my reward
October 21, 2023

I was told in two days I would receive my reward and I did and with no issues at all. I was happy with the process use it right away.

Date of experience: October 21, 2023
Illinois
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Amazon delivers items to the wrong address, delays delivery, damages items during shipping, and loses deliveries.

There are two distinct patterns related to Amazon deliveries:
1. Most are delivered to the right address with random deliveries to the wrong address.
2. Clusters of multiple deliveries to the incorrect address over the course of 2-6 weeks.

When there are repeated errors with deliveries, Amazon blames the consumer, asks them to update their delivery information (even though it's correct), denies refunds, and tells consumers they must file police reports, and provide that information, to be considered for a refund. It is my understanding, they will still deny a refund, which seems wrong.

Amazon has asked me to return items for a refund on items I never received.

Today I was told I had to file a police report about stolen packages, however, I have proof these packages were delivered to the wrong location, which is not the same as having them stolen. Filing a false report of theft is a Class A misdemeanor and I'm not willing to commit a crime because Amazon delivered several packages to the wrong address.

They say based on 'their investigation' and my response, the items were stolen, unless they see my ring camera, which shows no packages, it seems their investigation is incomplete.

Date of experience: October 19, 2023
Massachusetts
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Brought lithium battery, next day burnt me and harley up. Had fire department and police Called 3 times, made me write and send a letter in. Kept saying i was going to be reimbursed. 2 months later told me to call the Chinese company. Takes no returns tell you to video items to waste time. Does not care or respect the customer. Amazon you suck

Date of experience: October 19, 2023
Maine
8 reviews
24 helpful votes
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A simple trick for winter ice
October 19, 2023
Updated review

Because Amazon is so vast you can find pretty much anything you need on their website. To that end I was looking for a way to avoid slipping and sliding on the inevitable ice sheets we get each year in New England. While browsing the Amazon site I found what I was looking for "car tire studs" Normally used in vehicle tires to help cars keep a grip in icy road surfaces and just the thing I needed to help me keep my balance. I had a new pair of boots also from Amazon that have very thick soles which would easily take the 12mm stud length. The result you can see in the picture attached to this review. Now I just have to wait a few weeks to test them out!

Date of experience: October 19, 2023

A great shopping experience! But recently less so
October 31, 2017
Previous review

Update 10-26-2022
Things are changing at Amazon and not in a good way. As I state below I have been a satisfied customer of Amazons since 1999 placing an average of 200 orders per year. Lately I have noticed some very strange and unacceptable changes in Amazons policies, changes that seem to be being keep secret. First the free return of some items faulty or otherwise will now incur a UPS pickup charge of $7.99. This seems to apply to small electrical goods like computer mice or light switches not larger items. They also give an option to drop off your return at a local drop point which in my case is some 34 miles away. The cost of gas in most cases would exceed the cost of these small electrical items. So much for free delivery and return as noted on all these items Amazon listings. As a Prime member I object to this charge especially as items I return are almost exclusively faulty!

Next we have the strange case of missing reviews. It seems like Amazon is aggressively censoring reviews even 5 Star reviews, which are being withheld without reason or notification. I recently sent in a 5 Star review with a video and images, after 5 days I had not heard back from Amazon and decided to resend the review. When I tried to resend I was redirected to a page which basically said we are not accepting reviews on this product from this e-mail address? I re checked my submission and could find absolutely zero reasons for my review to be declined, no watermarks or links to sites no bad words only a glowing report on a great product. I contacted Amazon via the supplied e-mail link and after 3 weeks no reply. A customer service agent gave me another e-mail to try and again no reply as to why this review has been declined. Now while I 100% agree Amazon has the absolute right to decline reviews I believe it would be in their interest to educate customers as to why these things happen. Instead reviews like this tend to proliferate the web.

I have a third issue regarding seller reviews and how Amazon keeps sellers from getting bad reviews by taking responsibility for delivery, but that will necessitate a much longer review at a later date.

Original review
I have been using Amazon since 1999 and rarely had cause for complaint. Prices seem reasonable and product selection is second to none. Most of my YouTube videos which are about 3D printing, woodworking and airbrushing have some or all of the materials purchased from Amazon. Whenever i do a remodel project i search Amazon for furniture or as in my most recent kitchen update, appliances. Sadly living in New England presents delivery issues which makes being a member of Prime pretty much useless (most delivery take more than 4 days with Prime). Other than that i find Amazon to be an excellent company to deal with.

Date of experience: October 31, 2017
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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2 Day Shipping
October 17, 2023

2 day shipping is now a week or more. The last 1/2 dozen times I bought from amazon prime, my order was supposed to arrive in 2 days but took a week or longer. If it wasn't for the free shipping and shopping for the holidays I would close prime. They raised the price and are doing worse.

Date of experience: October 17, 2023
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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So we received an Amazon order today that my daughter ordered yesterday and the package had been open and the product had clearly been used. This is not the first time I have received used merchandise from Amazon. Is anyone else having this issue? This is ridiculous and very unsanitary.

Date of experience: October 17, 2023