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Many reviews on Amazon are traded for reviews. People get discounts on products or even get them for free to write reviews. In other words, the reviews are very hard to trust. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Use it long enough and you will find a ton of holes in the way they do business. Prices are not always the best. Sometimes Amazon Prime prices will be higher then non-Prime prices. They are good, but it is still very much buyer beware.

I want you to thoroughly read my review before down voting it leaving a negative comment. No doubt Amazon is one of the finest online shopping stores. Flipkart and Amazon are two where most of the times I can blindly take their offers and buy their products. But sometimes you will come across the product details that are too good to be true. Especially when you are browsing through their Electronics section. For example Mobile Phones. You might see some cellphones with epic specification and at a very cheap price. Beware on Amazon many sellers tend to update wrong information(Not sure if they do it intentionally or they just copy paste information from some unreliable sources) I have seen it and I know sometimes if you don't do some research at your end you might end up getting a low-spec cellphone which was advertised with too many power components and features. Other than that Amazon is awesome. So be careful while you buy a cellphone and you must double check specification before you place your order to avoid disappointment.

Amazon Prime used to ship via UPS. When the switched to using USPS, they made a big mistake in meeting the needs of their customers. I purchase ALOT from Amazon. Their prices can be good (not always) but for me it saves time and it's convenient. Or at least it used to be. I live in a rural town in a heavily populated county. USPS delivers mail to mailboxes on the street, not door to door. Even with a large mailbox, packages don't fit. The 2 day shipping turns to 5 days because I have to travel to the Post Officeto pick up packages. It's an easy 20 minutes each way to pick up packages between 9-5:00 ( if there is no commute traffic to deal with.). That doesn't work when a person is employed. UPS delivers to my door, but not USPS. My Prime membership comes with other perks; such as free movie streaming. I can't use any of the other perks because of having Satelite Internet and data limits. I'll continue to use Amazon because of the size of their selections and and the ease of ordering. I hate that they use USPS and if there was a better alternative to Amazon, I'd take it.

Ordered a birthday present from them a year and a half ago. Arrived on time, no complaints there. BUT... They apparently now follow me around everywhere I go, whether I want it or not. Have never downloaded an app, I block cookies, but they do it anyway... Earlier this year I wanted to research a small subculture in India, when suddenly a popup appeared from Amazon telling me they could sell me both a book and DVD about the group. I called, complained. They adamantly refused to tell me how to get rid of Amazon's installation, told me to call Apple. Once in a while, I accidentally touch something on the tablet's keyboard and a long, vertical popup appears in lavender print, entirely in alphas aand numerics except for one word at the top: Amazon. So firstly there is this violation of privacy and secondly, why would I pay more plus shipping for the same thing I can get from a brick and mortar mom and pop locally? I would never buy enough to want Prime, and they lost my patronage when I found out they spy on all my online activities. It was creepy. They charged more for that present than the local store, and charged more for shipping than if I did it myself. I can't even go there to see what merchants sell, and then go directly to that merchant, because Amazon tracks me everywhere, apparently. It was their stubborn refusal to tell me how to eject them from my tablet that concerns me. By the way... I just phoned Amazon to tell them that I am starting to warn people online about their invasion of privacy, and the first person that answered is a Filipino... I demanded to speak to an American that I could understand without a Creole accent. I think Amazon should be hiring Americans, there are plenty of jobless Americans who have families to support, but Amazon is on the cheap and doesn't care about their own country.