<story><title>How to Beat Amazon</title><url>http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/how-to-beat-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrenotgiant</author><text>I think people are starting to also notice cracks emerge in Amazon&amp;#x27;s e-commerce quality as it scales, whether&amp;#x2F;when it becomes enough of a problem to change shopper behavior is another question, but here are some examples I&amp;#x27;ve seen:&lt;p&gt;- Blatant fake thumbdrives - this entire section is thumb drive scammers using the hack that makes a drive appear larger in system info &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_8?fst=as%3Aoff&amp;amp;rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A1292110011%2Cn%3A3151491%2Ck%3Athumb+drive%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A10285020011&amp;amp;keywords=thumb+drive&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1513525301&amp;amp;rnid=1259751011&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_8?f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- $23 knock-off magsafes rife with fake reviews, that break&amp;#x2F;fry in days - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7?url=search-alias%3Dcomputers&amp;amp;field-keywords=magsafe+charger&amp;amp;sprefix=magsafe%2Caps%2C185&amp;amp;crid=J0KJGT8BMTT6&amp;amp;rh=n%3A541966%2Ck%3Amagsafe+charger&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7?url=search-alias...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- The level of chaos in shopping categories effectively prevents you from doing things like sorting by price or reviews.&lt;p&gt;In my experience, Amazon is always happy to refund on these things and chalk it up as cost of scaling, but when does it start to become too much, similar to what happened to ebay?</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Beat Amazon</title><url>http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/how-to-beat-amazon/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>Complicating beating Amazon is the fact that it is lead by the arguably the best CEO in all of tech (and maybe in any company).&lt;p&gt;Whatever else may be said about Bezos, he has the ability to think long-term, create new markets, and execute on his vision. He also has the trust of investors who still buy Amazon stock even though he pretty much reinvests all the profits. The combination of existing market dominance, excellent leadership, and ready access to vast amounts of capital is a very hard combination to beat.</text></comment>