How do you rate UPS.???

I found an item online that i needed an the price was $600… the next day the price was $630.!!!

I double checked an aparently the price had gone up overnight… but i ordered it anyway (to be picked up at the store) an it got ther on time (wit the help of FedEx)... so i picked it up an brought it home an discovered it was the wrong model number.!!!

I double checked online an yes it was not the model i ordered… but the model that i actualy ordered was now $30 cheeper.!?!?

I returned the incorect item… an after my credit card acount shows that its been credited i will order the corect model agan… an its kinda excitin wonderin what the price will be next time

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monitoring page count views and how many have item on watch list
seller can then increase price by assuming demand is going up.
creating a supply and demand leverage on online shopping which is the opposite of what globalist online shopping with no middle sellers was supposed to be about

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when the middlemen are removed, the seller always increases the price

look at iphone direct sales owning the shops
selling their own phones through their own shops & online
surely online purchase should be cheaper by a few hundred dollars ?
how can they afford to sell a new cell phone through a shop at the same price as selling direct from their head office in china

people browse on the friday night, browse on the saturday morning, then buy saturday afternoon or sunday morning.
raising the price on sunday morning is a sneaky way to trick people into paying more for the same item after they have done all the work in comparing products and prices.
raising the price around 4 to 5 pm on saturday just before dinner when people do not have time to then go looking again for a better price is probably ideal.
then raising the price again early sunday morning again just a little bit

this is effectively stock broking via online shopping to create a stock market

 

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Good idea.!!!

From my last three orders... two diferent stores have screwed up 3 times out of 3... UPS screwed up 1 time out of 2... FedEx is 1 for 1 perfect.!!!

A few days ago i went to a Walmart at a near-by town to pick up a package for sombody... i went to the pick-up tower... but coudnt scan the order bar code cause the machine was "blocked" an needed to be cleared manualy.!!!
I waited a couple of minutes an then went lookin for sombody to get the machin workin... i ask an employee an they said they didnt know nuthin about the machine but woud page sombody to come an help... about 5 minutes later a person walked up an said the machine is down an has been down for 2 houres an i woud have to come back later.!!!

I thout it was funy that they advertize the pick-up tower as fast an easy... an it is except for when it ant

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Huge corporations woud do somptin like that

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the cost of automating
usually cheer-led by platitudes of "it doesn't really matter" because they are spending disposable income and are paid well above minimum wage, buying some plastic crap that they wont recycle.
all couched in pretend democratic market liberalism
lol

 

Amazon wouldn't do something like that.

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Ive just had a run of bad shoppin luck lately.!!!

I havent bout anythang from Amazon for about 6 mounths... but ive had good experiences orderin from them... the one time i received the wrong thang (years ago) they told me to keep it an sent me the right thang.!!!

I thank the shoppin online an quick shippin competition is gettin so fierce that ther pushin employees to ther brakin point... an the winers will be the ones beter able to replace people wit machines.!!!

Im glad my needin-to-work days are over... it was easier back then to just compete wit other people... rather than machines like people are more an more havin to compete wit now.!!!

When the UPS driver handed me my package that apeared to be "obvously damaged"... plus i was supposed to get a second package... but i didnt say anythang to him... i knew he was workin his Azz off... an that i woud get a refund for any loss.!!!

 

if no one has a job, who is going to buy all the american plastic shit made in china ?
it doesn't make American jobs
there is no money go round to build capital
just a cut off the product price to pay for sinking lid quality of living

doomed economics

solid robust progressive consumer protections & market protection is simple logic
the idea of having a big well equipped military to protect the starving poor doesn't seem to make sense

all the talk about protecting borders... lol
meanwhile the leaders are throwing usa cash and jobs out of the country as fast as they possibly can.

it appears economics has become a religion

 

I figure that ultimately any job that is replaced with a machine probably wasn't a job that a human would really enjoy doing if given a better choice.

Of course that doesn't help if your job was finding boxes in a warehouse and now a robot can do it better if you are now out of work for a while but it wasn't a great job.

Tractors replaced animals and human laborers but those weren't great jobs in the first place.

Who wants to spend their lives finding boxes in a warehouse?

The typical jobs that are replaced are things like those warehouse jobs or maybe cashiers or retail help (or less of them). There are less tellers now because no one really needs them. I never go into my bank.

Those aren't pleasant jobs in general, standing there all day and dealing with the public. In the case of retail "help" most of the time they are asking people if they need help and the answer is "no thank you".

Just like the guy who "shows you up to your room" in a hotel or the guy who wants to take your luggage from the front door to the desk in a hotel. Does anyone really want those jobs or want to "tip" those "services"?

Sometimes change isn't pleasant but you just need to go though it. Jobs need to be adding value or they can't be justified economically.

Private companies aren't "jobs programs".

 

so you do not prescribe to the free-market-capitalist idea of forced lower wages to create a pyramid style ladder that promotes ambition through poverty ?

 

Do you feel like a victim? There are no "forced" lower wages to "create" anything. Why don't you give some personal examples instead of complaining about reality in every sentence?

Quit thinking like cattle.

 

lol
you could just say you do not understand my question(to be honest with yourself).

 

I understand your question. It's just not a valid one. There is no forced lower wages by free market to create poverty involved in capitalism.

It's not creating poverty to have a competitive market. Historically, its done the opposite. What countries have been lifted out of poverty by socialism?

I guess ? you are arguing for a socialist economy? Why? Is there something about the present system that didn't work out for you and you feel that another system would have worked out better?

You have a rather lazy style of posting (aside from the unique grammar) and that is that all you are really doing is just taking pot shots without offering any dialogue of your own of substance.

 

you are quite clearly incapable of engaging on the topic.
if you were educated adequately on economics and macro economics you would understand what i was saying.
but all you seem to be able to read is your own issues.
you then project those on others.

i think im done with bothering to attempt to engage with you on an intellectual level.

 

You over-estimate your own "intellectual level". You keep implying (not just to my posts) that even though your posting style is sometimes just word salad, you imply that other's are simply not at your level of intelligence and aren't capable of "getting you".

That's delusional. I have an MBA, I know economics. I'm quite sure that you do not. You aren't engaging in any intellectual discussion. Name calling is all that you are doing or simply stating that no one gets you.

Why don't you just simply state what form of an economic system you are for instead of just throwing out negative comments for every post that anyone makes?

What do you like in an economic system?

 

Yes i can emagine that bein replaced by a machine ant pleasant… an thats a change that i luckly never had to deal wit… but thers no stoppin change… thats the reality of it… an the whiners at the bottom who didnt take advantage of the equal opportinities they had… have nuthin to blame but ther selfs… an besides… for at least a long time to come… us at the top will still have a need for the lower class types to do the crap jobs… so over all its a system that works for everbody.!!!

 

Sounds like a negetive attitude.!!!

I read somewhare that vitamins an minerals type stuff can be added to recycled plastic an then processed in such a way so that it can be used as a filler for up to 20% of a food product... cheeper food for the needy... an the final solution for plastic pollution.!!!

Sign me:::

My cup is half full.!!!

 

back to the op

I have received damaged goods from usps, ups, fedex, dhl, and other common carriers.
It was usually a failure of packaging, or a combination of poor packaging, and/or poor placement on the truck..................there have been exceptions-----many caused by sloppy use of a forklift.
I have also received stuff that was so well packaged that they might have just as well thrown it out of the airplane as it passed overhead.

 

or
your cup is twice as big as it needs to be

 

I didn't open the can, don't know its eventual fate.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.