Hello All.

Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

Best regards,
Marc

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Re: Echo Check
By: Marc Lewis to All on Thu Jun 11 2020 20:39:30


MarcL> Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

no, not really... this was an area that ross cassell started... i think there were maybe a few dozen posts in the beginning... since then, very very little... in fact, your's is the first post since i set this new system up
back in Sep 2018...


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Hello mark.

<On 12Jun2020 05:59 mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote a message to Marc Lewis regarding Echo Check >

MarcL> Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

no, not really... this was an area that ross cassell started... i
think there were maybe a few dozen posts in the beginning... since
then, very very little... in fact, your's is the first post since i
set this new system up back in Sep 2018...

Hmmm. Thought so. ;-(

I'll try posting a "retail horror" of my own and see if it gets any kind of response.

Best regards,
Marc

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Marc,

Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

Got it in Arkansas, and it tells me the FIDONet stuff is flowing.

Daryl

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Hello Daryl.

<On 12Jun2020 11:25 Daryl Stout (1:19/33) wrote a message to Marc Lewis regarding Re: Echo Check >

Marc,

Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

Got it in Arkansas, and it tells me the FIDONet stuff is flowing.

Excellent. (Good to see you back again.)

Best regards,
Marc

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Marc,

I'll try posting a "retail horror" of my own and see if it gets any
kind of response.

I've seen this so much lately, it's pathetic. They have so few human
cashiers at checkout (instead using the self checkout deals). Several
times, I've been at Wal-Mart, having gotten a large supply of groceries,
and was prepared to use the debit card instead of carrying around a ton
of cash.

As luck would have it, their registers crashed, and when the cashier
lamely asked if I had cash, I scolded her, saying "I'm not carrying
around over $200 in cash, and I'm not using the UScan lanes. So you can
take everything in this cart, and put it back". As I was walking out, I
shouted to incoming shoppers "Turn around!! The registers and card readers
have shut down"...and I turned several folks away.

Surely, Sam Walton is not only turning over in his grave, but he's
spinning faster than a category 5 hurricane or an EF-5 tornado.

Daryl

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On 11 Jun 2020, Marc Lewis said the following...

Just checking to see if this Echo is still active.

Active... no, but it looks like there's a bunch of us connected.

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218/700 222/2
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Hmmm. Thought so. ;-(
I'll try posting a "retail horror" of my own and see if it gets any kind of response.

No better time then now, with the 3 month Toilet paper hoarding, meat shortages, spike in Amazon pricing (at least on those items I've purchased regularly), etc...

Have anyone other then me, found yourself finding alternatives to Amazon lately? I bought 2 Philips 27" monitors about 2 months ago for $109 new in box. Same online retailer now charging $169. Their whole foods grocery service has sent my wife and I toward differnt alternatives as their gallons
of milk spiked to $5 a gallon not too long ago. I've also noticed that my Amazon points are not immediatly available as they used to be. They are only available at the end of each month. They keep trying to push their 12 month equal paymnets/no interest like traditional retail stores. I pay my bill off ad the end of each month, just to get the points and free products. However, lately I've tried to apply them as I make purchases, but am finding less
items eligable for points and or points not made available until the end of a billing cycle. In addition, I may just not be looking deeply enough, however
I have seen more items shipping from China that I would normally pass on. I have found that items from China take too long to get through customs, if
they arrive at all, often arrive not as described, and disputing non arrivals for refunds usually takes filing a dispute. I ordered asparagus starts for
my garden, and was suprised to find that they were shipped from China, which explains the 2 months I waited for them. Now normally I would not buy any
seed online, but stores were closed and or COVID19 was spiking during the
time I needed to get my indoor green house started for the spring season.
Has anyone else noticed other changes to be aware of within Amazon? I'm wondering if the prime membership is worth the expense these days; I'm not feeling the savings nor advantages that at one moment in history attracted me to the service.

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Hi mark!

12 Jun 20 05:59, you wrote to Marc Lewis:

Top Quantity Received
All entries - Most to Least

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Echotag : Tot Rcvd : Days : #/Day : First Date : Last Date ==============================================================
[...]
RETAIL_HORROR 1 : 1 : 1 : 2020 Jun 11 : 2020 Jun 11
[...]

I posted semi-regularly at one time, but I didn't think it was *that* long ago before 2011.


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On 13/06/2020 5:43 a.m., Doug Cooper : Marc Lewis wrote:

Hmmm. Thought so. ;-( I'll try posting a "retail horror"
of my own and see if it gets any kind of response.

Marc.. did you post that one?

No better time then now, with the 3 month Toilet paper
hoarding, meat shortages, spike in Amazon pricing (at
least on those items I've purchased regularly), etc...

How are things fairing now 4 months later?

Have anyone other then me, found yourself finding
alternatives to Amazon lately? I bought 2 Philips 27"
monitors about 2 months ago for $109 new in box. Same
online retailer now charging $169.

My shop carries the Book Seat (tm) at $44.95 cdn MSRP.

Amazon has been offering it at $50+ for a very long time.
(or $40USD -> $54 cdn)

Granted, they offer free shipping. But often that only to applies to
the Members.

...I've also noticed that my Amazon
points are not immediatly available as they used to be.
They are only available at the end of each month.

Sweet and subtle.

... Has anyone else noticed other changes to be aware
of within Amazon? I'm wondering if the prime membership is
worth the expense these days; I'm not feeling the savings
nor advantages that at one moment in history attracted me
to the service.

Yes.. Many books used to have discounts. Now, not so many! (Good
for me though as an independent bookshop owner.) LOL

Independent shops of all kinds are putting up signage like this:

“Buy books from people who want to sell books, not colonize the moon.”

“Amazon, please leave the dystopia to Orwell.”

“If you want Amazon to be the world’s only retailer, keep shopping there.”


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