Uber pays very poorly. Drivers don’t earn enough per customer to profit, even in volume.
They advertise $500 bonus for signing up with them, but then one has to meet a stringent set of goals to collect it several months later.
One of my kids bought me a new phone, then went to Amazon to order a case and screen protector. The case is super nice, but they messed up on the screen protector. Instead of sending the glass that was ordered, they sent film.
But everything came quickly.
Inside the box of screen protectors was a coupon for a free case for my brand of phone. My kid ordered the case a month ago and it never arrived. They said not everyone who orders that case, gets one :(
False or misleading advertising and gimmick offers eventually takes a company down. Amazon does a lot of business with private companies who may or may not have healthy and profitable business models, which will contribute to Amazon’s demise if they don’t screen more carefully, and compensate the customer adequately.
I bought two Seagate hard drives for a Network Attached Storage system I was setting up. The Amazon page had numerous complaints from people receiving counterfeit or used merchandise. I figured “that cannot happen to me” and went ahead and ordered them. Sure enough, I got two very different looking drives packaged in plain cardboard boxes and mylar bag wrapped (not uncommon for bare drives). I sent photos of the drive labels to Seagate and they quickly confirmed one was not their drive. I returned both and then began buying the drives from reputable local retailers (Fry’s Electronics, Best Buy) and to get the drives in consumer packages.
Since then, I’ve found lots of pages where people are complaining about Amazon merchants fraudulently selling fake products.
Amazon seems to be doing very little to police their merchants. When I complained to Amazon, they said “write a review” of the product and merchant. That is not the action a company serious about maintaining quality and trust would take.
My opinion of Amazon went way down after that experience.