I buy a lot of small items for my home. For example, I recently bought night lights, a small spatula, and vacuum-cleaner bags. Every time I search for small items, Amazon limits me to seven pages of products. Amazon might have forty pages of spatulas, but they let me look at only seven. In contrast, if I am looking for an electronic item, like a camera or a computer, Amazon will show me twenty pages of items. Apparently, they do this because electronic items are more expensive, and they make more money when they sell big-ticket items.
The problem for me is that I need a lot more small items than I need big items. If I am looking for an unusual item, it may not come up in the seven pages that Amazon will let me look at. What happens is that I often run over to eBay and buy the item there. So Amazon doesn't get my money; but it would seem that Amazon isn't bothered by that. If they miss out on a $10 sale, which might make them a dollar, why should they care? They want the $300 sale, from which they might make $25 to $30.
I think that eBay is going to become my destination of first choice for small items. I will experience less aggravation if I do that; and besides, I'm tired of making Jeff Bezos the richest man in the world.
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Now this is very curious. Only a couple days after complaining to Amazon about how they were limiting my searches, I searched for "utensil organizer" and up came 400 pages of products. I then searched for "metal utensil organizer" and got 222 pages. It seems that if you complain, they will take the restrictions off your account.
However, a search for "computer monitor" still brought up only 20 pages. The next time I need to buy some electronic equipment, I'll complain again to get them to remove the restriction.
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