Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners Where do you buy CD's?

I used to get a lot from CDNow, but when the evil Amazon bought them out, I boycotted it and went to www.cduniverse.com. Decent prices, nice wishlist feature. Good stuff.

Why is Amazon evil?

Wow...Peter and I think way too much alike. I was just about to type that same question.

I admit I usually prefer to shop with smaller businesses, but Amazon has made shopping so affordable and easy, I can't help but love them. Am I missing something?

The only reason I can conceive of them being evil is that they are pretty patent-happy. Remember the fiasco over them patenting 1-Click shopping? I never use that feature anyway. It would be too easy to click away happily and pile up a large CC bill...

Perhaps duffin is simply anti-corporate, seemingly the fashion for northern climes.

I'm just pissed they ruined my CDNow shopping experience.
Not to say that CDNow wouldn't have gone out of business anyway, but the shopping experience at Amazon is woeful in comparison. Granted, they have everything, but when I want to look at Pink Floyd's CD catalog, I expect just that, with albums and dates and a place to store my wish list, not a smattering of records by Pink, along with "things you might like" which relate to Pink, not Pink Floyd, which is all I really wanted to begin with.

So I found CDuniverse, which bascially gives me what I wanted.

Why is Amazon evil?

My recent experience with AMAZON,
placed an order on 12-5-03, recieved an e-mail on 12-6 saying package had shipped via Airborne Express, a tracking number was included so I went to Airbornes web site to track package, but there was no tracking info, so today I gave Airborne a call, thier rep said they had recieved no package from Amazon. Next call went to Amazons cust. svc. Got one story stating that package had shipped on the 8th, when I inquired if it was shipped on the 8th or 6th rep had me hold for a supervisor, after a 30 min hold super says he is not sure when it shipped but it had shipped. Called Airborne again to verify previous info and was assured package had not been recieved. At this point I was highly confused (and getting pissed) so I called Amazon's corparate office where I was told by the gent. answering the phone to call customer service. When I tried to explain my dilemma with customer service this IDIOT said he really didn't care and hung up. In my book this speaks highly of this company and there attitude towards their customers. There are just to many other places to get a good deal, and when a problem arises, good customer service... DOWN WITH AMAZON

You placed an order 4 days ago and you're freaking out? Did you need to change the shipping address or something? Granted, you weren't treated very nice, but I'll bet your package arrives safely and timely.

(BTW...Airborne Express could very well be at fault, they're quite possibly the worst delivery company in the country.)

Not freakin', just confused by all the conflicting stories from Amazon. Where I live I like to try and stay on top of deliveries because they just happen to appear at the door.