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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
1,741
value
1,629
shipping
1,623
returns
1,422
quality
1,539

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Michigan
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I currently work in Guatemala and find most things I need to buy for my company (madmarlinlodge.com) and myself are very hard or impossible to buy in Guatemala. Amazon has mad it very easy for me to shop online, get great prices, and arrange shipment to my international shipping consolidator in Miami.

Rick Nelson
madmarlinlodge.com
Iztapa, Guatemala

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
California
5 reviews
1 helpful vote
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I am shopping from past 13 years, and I never got disappointed with their service. Free shipping for orders more than $25 and free return shipping for products that are defective.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Florida
10 reviews
24 helpful votes
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Best Deals By Far
February 15, 2017

The price is literally at your fingertips. Sure, you might not be able to by the product right then & there --but go for a walk or something & save your damn money. I promise, you'll be able to wait a few days without your material possession. Thanks Amazon for not taxing $100 on the items made in china!

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Canada
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Great company
February 15, 2017

More reputable. You get usually what you order and within reasonable times... do not buy from Wish app...

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Washington
9 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Amazon, not bad
February 15, 2017

I love all of Elons projects, delivery is quick, good market prices. Life is easier. For me it is five per five stars.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Illinois
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Have ordered from Amazon at least ten times always on time delivery and service spoken with their customer service once and problem solved

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Virginia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Prime
February 14, 2017

I don't know why they call it Prime anymore. They don't deliver in 2 days like they used to. So I don't know why I spend my hundred dollars a year for this sorry delivery service they have. I have ordered several items but never get here on time I have ordered one item that I never got. So I will not be renewing my Prime Membership it's not worth the money that's the whole point of the Prime membership is when I order it if I want it in 2 days I should get it in 2 days not 3 days or not when they decide to deliver it. All this happened in the past two years I've been a Prime member for over 5 years everything changed up when they started going to the US Postal Service I even had stuff come in from the US Postal Service as I get is the package somebody to Doug to contents out. Like I said no need to renew my Prime Membership if this is how they going to treat a Prime member. All they want to do is add you another month on when you call with a complaint. They just ain't cutting the mustard no more tired of everything coming in late or not coming in at all or coming in and no contents into package.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Canada
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Good Stuff
February 15, 2017

Relatively good prices, good shipping prices as well. EVERYTHING is guaranteed no matter what happens... so you cant lose. Wide variety of products, and SUPER FAST shipping.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Colorado
7 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Orders received
February 14, 2017

Always excellent service! This is a company that I order from frequently and never have had a problem. I am a prime holder so the merchandise arrives super fast.

Date of experience: February 14, 2017
Maryland
5 reviews
16 helpful votes
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Amazing Company
February 13, 2017

Always get what I order and if it is not right they take it back for full credit. I buy pharmacy, books, household things, and small appliances.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Arizona
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Somewtimes
February 13, 2017

Since there is a hub here in AZ most of the things that I order do be at my door step within 2 days.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Pennsylvania
3 reviews
1 helpful vote
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For more than ten years I did 99% of my shopping on Amazon, with $180-130 a month for Subscribe n Save. I am a disabled senior and the door to door shipping is very important to me. Last year I spent $6400 in all. In December Amazon decided to save shipping money by dumping all boxes (even 40 pound, 3 ft long boxes) at the post office for buyers to drive and pick up. I called and emailed twice, begging for home delivery, to no avail. Ended my buying and found everything on other sites, no shipping, no membership fees, delivered to my door.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Arizona
10 reviews
26 helpful votes
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My last review of Amazon was favorable. However, Amazon's Customer Service, which was once the best in the industry, is now among the worst in the industry.
Representatives are most often in foreign countries, extremely difficult to understand, and argumentative.
Amazon's procedure of telephoning you in response to your Email request is no more. Contacting Amazon Customer Service is a maze of screens that provide neither Email or telephone number direction. (Amazon Customer Service can be reached toll free at: *******072, but do not anticipate cooperation or assistance.)
Allowing that one of their primary competitors now offers two day free shipping on many orders, in addition to free to store shipping, Amazon's dramatic reduction in customer service is not well timed.
Amazon needs to use their drones to examine their customer service.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Texas
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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When taking into consideration the customer service, delivery times and the speed at which things get done at amazon. They will almost always get my custom if they are within a few £ of the competition.

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Amazon (. Ca and. Com) are great! They always handle complaints/ requests well and timely. I buy something on average, once a week. Prices are great and super competitive. I never have trouble finding things to get over the free shipping amount!

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
New Jersey
9 reviews
1 helpful vote
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My shopping destination!
February 13, 2017

I have always been a frequent shopper on Amazon and a reviewer too. I love the products, the prices and the service. I would have definitely given it a 5 star rating but the only reason why I gave a 4 is my recent shopping experience with a book that has been out of stock since the past two weeks. I have been contacting Amazon to know how long will the book take to be back in stock- they replied twice and then said they can't help me further with the issue. My question is since Amazon has that book in its listing then it is Amazon's responsibility to bring t back in stock and secondly who else shall I contact to know about the book?

This is the first and hopefully the last time I came across such a situation otherwise I really like Amazon!
Plus its super safe for your transactions!

Date of experience: February 13, 2017
Pennsylvania
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Overall excellent and really like the amazon series and movies and would like for more of the above and continuation of popular seris, thank you!

Date of experience: February 12, 2017
Michigan
10 reviews
18 helpful votes
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Amazon is one of the BEST online stores for returns, tracking and for seeking out customer reviews and input. Returns and lost items are replaced and money returned timely and without a hassle of any type, unlike my experience with Nordstrom.

Date of experience: February 12, 2017
Canada
6 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Amazon is awesome!
February 13, 2017

I use Amazon a lot for my textbooks for school! We also have Amazon Prime and it definitely pays for itself! Great quality and reliability!

Date of experience: February 12, 2017
California
5 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Great!
February 13, 2017

I ordered new rings(gold) for my wife and I wedding anniversary as a surprise and needed more information the woman I talked too was very very nice and very informative with what I needed to know.

Date of experience: February 12, 2017