Exactly

Damn right. If that is a bad deal for the supplier, they will either live with it, or stop selling through amazon. Their P&L statements mean nothing to me. I�m concerned with my own spending.

I love amazon. Prices are fair, rarely an issue with a package arriving late, and they have a very generous return policy.

Likely Amazon Return

This may or may not come in handy for your next trip to Lake Clark.

Geez, returning to them couldn't be easier! Print out the label off their site, drop it off at UPS and as soon as UPS scans the UPC label your credit card is credited! It's too easy! Heck I'll order something that I'm not sure of knowing I can send it back so easy!

Cheers,

George

Update:

Talked with the guy at the UPS store, and he's seeing more issues with returns.

The item was delivered by UPS ground, but he says that items heavier than 150lbs can not be returned by UPS ground (that goes through UPS freight--more costly)

It's all about ME ME ME now days, how can I better MYSELF. Hence why we are in this boat.

Being a firefighter you won't have to deal with the economy....but it's a biatch right now trying to make a living.

ME ME ME......

We don't care about anyone but ourselves. Dog eat dog world.

I deal with the same economy you do. You are not special. I went 7-8 yrs with zero raises. I dont use my health insurance at work cause it's not all that great. I am on my wife's plan. It's not all roses for everyone besides you. My salary like all public safety salaries is public info. Look at some of them before you think we are all rolling in money.

No business is special. Times have changed and you adapt or move on. Some suppliers and smaller businesses thrive in this economy because they adapted.

Contrary to popular belief not all public safety jobs are secure from layoffs and such. Not all of us are making big money. I ain't complaining though cause I did not get into this to get rich. I knew the score before I took the job. I am free to leave at anytime if I feel like it ain't providing the money I need to live on. I got over 15 years on my job and daily I see job postings at other cities where recruits start out making more than I make now. So far it has not caused me to be mad or bitter. If it did I would move on. I damn sure would not sit around and be bitter about it and trash everything and everyone that saw things differently than I do. Only concern I have is dying on the job now or later thanks to the incredibly high cancer rates we have from job exposures.

and boom goes the dynamite

Can you please clarify? Is he seeing more returns, or is he seeing issues (like shipping problems) with the returns themselves?

I'm always interested in this kind of info because I do contract work for a company that consults for Amazon sellers. I can tell you this - Amazon is a moving target for sellers. What they expect from sellers and how they deal with them is extremely frustrating from the seller side. For a while now the best advice on returns/refunds has been to just do it and take the loss, that's the cost of doing business on Amazon.

I've had both Walmart and Wayfair do that. Walmart has done it on 3 or 4 smaller items (however, the last item I returned to Walmart was liquid sooap that opened during shipping - they actually made me ship the almost empty container back to them). Wayfair did it on a wooden bed frame. The frame was damaged when it arrived. I emailed them photos and they refunded my money and asked if I could dispose it. That was almost a thousand dollar item they just wrote off. I repaired the frame and am still using it. I felt a little guilty about it, but it was their choice to handle it the way they did.

I can only remember one item we returned to Amazon. Packed it up and shipped with the label they provided. Money was back in our account pretty quick.

Amazon is very frustrating to work with if you�re a vendor and they treat vendors incredibly poorly. It�s a constant battle just trying to make any margin by selling to Amazon.

I dont think Wayfair takes any returns...or if you want to return something its on your dime...I cant remember but have a friend that works at their Bryan office

That's not fair at all.