@axiombody wrote:
So your saying that someone who takes a business approach doesn't do all their own "shopping, picture listing and mailing"? Everyone who has business has employees who do all this for them? I don't think you do, but the way you wrote it makes it come across that way. I can assure you, for 20+ years I have done everything myself and I have never, not once, acted like I wasn't responsible! I don't know any business personally that takes that ideology and practices it.
In your individual responses take my response out of context and you left a quote out of your quotes of me. All I said was in opinion and my own and I'll repeat. If someone tells me it's our "policy" not to do local pick-up in an answer to sound more professional to sound more professional instead of saying the same thing more personally like I don't do local pick-up than they are releasing themselves from owning the statement which is required if one works at walmart but personally I feel it takes away from response a sense of responsibility. A seller might feel that a response like that is more business like but I do not. I wasn't trying to infer that anyone is more trusted by using a picture, the statements I used was the experience was more personal.
No, I quoted everything you wrote, I had to go back and check, but I did, your reference to local pickup wasn't in the post you made that I quoted, it was the post you made after the post I quoted. Didn't realize the two were meant to be the same post. But anyways, if what I quoted you from that first first post was meant in context to local pick up I understand what you were trying to say then.
Sounding more professional and being more professional are very different but I was more relaying how it sounds to a buyer is you are reselling a thrifted item with 145 feedback and speaking in third person. I imagine a person doing that is just as professional as me and anyone who lists ships and takes pictures does that as well, I am not trying to infer anything with my opinion. I personally know my feedback makes me sound professional but I believe my picture gives I believe a individual care not received by Amazon robot boxing. That was my focus in response to the OP not trust or professionalism. Where the two coincide, in like many responses on this board, "it is not professional to add a personal picture" which I claim it can be a benefit for a buyer who is not looking for Amazon and nameless sellers.
I see it as someone selling, either as a business with a business image or individual selling as themselves in order to meet any kind of success, have to take a professional approach in what you do...because let's face it, online selling today is everywhere, every year more and more business' are online selling - something. There is no shortage of online retailers, wholesalers/distributors, 3rd party market places etc... People can shop anywhere, find what they need/want most anywhere...at least if they are willing to take the time and search. I don't care who I purchase from is using a personnel photo, a created logo, a image of their fav gaming character... it's the price I pay for a product, the product I receive, the time it takes to receive it, and the condition it is received in = good seller / bad seller. (not so cut and dry all the time of course but in general sense).
I understand your point of amazon sellers, they do show name of seller etc... but for the most part they don't have an "identity" - at least like they do on ebay or other platforms like poshmark, esty, mercari etc... Personally I only order on fulfilled by Amazon myself, rarely do I otherwise, might as well make that prime membership work for something.
But so you know, I worked for Amazon, just to say, Amazon doesn't have robot boxing, it's a real individual who runs around a large warehouse with a digital scanner who gets your order, Pickers (that is what they are called at Amazon who finds peoples orders) run to the items location (literally, they are timed), find the bin/stow area and remove the item/take it out of stock with their hand held devise, place it in a bin with a ticket that co-insides with your order, place that bin on a conveyor which reads the tickets (they are digital tickets btw the bins have barcodes) and transfers the bin to the appropriate packaging dept. From there, another real person, takes the bin, puts in the correct box and runs it through a auto boxing machine (that's what puts that Amazon tape on the box), and they put a shipping label on it, then goes back on conveyor where it's then transferred to shipping dept and routed to the correct bay area for that package. This is why most things when you order from amazon are just loose in the box, they don't bubble wrap items etc... it just goes into a box and the box is sealed. Definitely get IMO better care to what you order from sellers on ebay and those other marketplaces.
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