I was buying Amazon Basics AA and AAA batteries until my husband begged me not to. He claims they last half as long as Duracell or Energizer.
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They also cost about half. You get what you pay for
One way you can tell the quality of a battery is you weigh them. Cheapo batteries almost always weigh significantly less. The amount of battery material inside the battery is directly proportional to how much energy is in it.
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Most sellers on the river are competing with Chinese manufactured products but without the financial benefits others in power have received.
Marilyn
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Aha!
I was wondering why every third word in my reply post was being flagged…
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On a related note, the sole-remaining iteration* of the CHC (“Customer-facing Help Content”) page About Our Returns Policies (link) has just recently - i.e., since I last archived it on 100324 (link, SAS) - been revised to include provisions for the Amazon Haul Program, as seen in this excerpt:
The Editorial Team seems to have exhibited an uncharacteristically-rapid response to needed Help Page Revisions in this instance, which I take as an indication of just how anxious Seattle’s panjandrums are to compete with TEMU, Shein, et al.; I strongly suspect that things are about to get interesting on this front…
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The Editorial Team has long maintained multiple iterations of CHC pages, even after the sweeping changes which came in the wake of the 2018 ‘Help Consolidation Initiative;’ I had long presumed that Amazon’s reasoning for doing so might be tied to a determination that should one or more of its far-flung Enterprise Domain-provisioned databases go off line - say, as a result of a technical error, etc. - that there would still be an alternative/backup copy which could be served up publicly.
As noted in the “ETA” of the 100324 SAS post linked above, the two-earliest iterations of the “About Our Returns Policies” page now redirect to the newest one.
Yesterday, after reading SEAmod’s 112224 NSFE tutorial post “Items not eligible for return” (link, NSFE) that references it, I noticed that the same phenomenon has occurred for the recently retitled (from “Items that Can’t be Returned,” which was a re-titling of the original “About Items That Can’t Be Returned”) CHC page “Items that You Can’t Return” @ https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GMZNGRA9B5PCJB5F
The two earlier-published ‘stand-alone’ iterations, @ https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201077750 & @ https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=201819190, are now being redirected to the newest one above - which leads me to suspect that my long-held presumption may well not hold as much water as I thought it did…
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This might be a good time for Amazon to attack.
Temu has missed its growth targets. But I suspect Haul will cannibalize some FBA revenue.
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Amazon Haul came up first on the home page when I signed in a few days ago. A cursory look told me it is all cheap (and not so cheap) junk. No thanks!
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I got a 65% off offer on haul from Amazon and haul disappeared from my home page.
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Regular Amazon is like Haul. I don’t see this lasting very long. It’s like new Coke.
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Nobody asked for Haul.
Nobody likes Haul.
Nobody wants Haul.
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I think Haul represents Amazon’s failure to understand Amazon’s success.
I’ve mentioned that our condo (11 units) gets up to 3 separate Amazon deliveries per day.
Got 3 the other day. One of my neighbors got Amazon packages in all three deliveries. She is the extreme case of the Amazon buyer.
I noticed another neighbor, had packages in two deliveries.
So many packages have been coming and left in the lobby, that whoever is out of their apartment first, sorts and leaves them by the doors of their destined neighbors. I was out repeatedly putting Ebay shipments in the PO dropbox, and making sure my USPS pickups which were too big for the dropbox were not buried.
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Just for fun I looked up that $1.56 no-pull hairbrush that was in the cart. Funny, for me it’s coming up as $3.95.
Also, zero customer reviews.
But Amz Haul IS competing well with Temu and Shein for me – I use none of them, equally.
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So its not working as intended right? It should be 1.56 with free shipping?
Temu works like that too where an item is being shipped from the US (supposedly) and the shipping is higher than the item price?
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Sorry this was meant as a reply to @Marth but somehow I managed to quote Lake…my bad!
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Fixed it for you …
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I mean, I know I’ve been away in Bra…but it looks like I’m still quoting Lake and not responding to Marth 
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