I pre-ordered a pair of Jennen shoes (elevator shoes, so I can be a big boy) from their online site (they no longer have the shopfront on Johnstone street) and got asked for a tip at the end. For basically changing a stock allocation assignment. I had a whinge on their contact forms, and they replied "the tip function is optional".
2 years later I emailed again, saying "I haven't bought a replacement pair of shoes, all because of the audacity to ask for a tip. I get that it's optional, but so is a cashier going 'hey give me that twenty from your wallet', and when the customer goes 'wtf??' the cashier replies 'oh lol it's optional'. You may have thought 'you know, a tip screen could give us free money! What's the harm?', and I guess this follow up email is proof of that harm. Don't bring tipping culture here please!"
I get this reply a day later, and can confirm the tip function is now gone. Loverly! Whinging may be one thing, but persistent whinging made the difference.
True but Amazon would have done the math to begin with. So a complaint would not cause them to do extra math and complaints are probably unlikely to change their calculation.
I boycott Amazon already but if I were an Amazon customer I would not be motivated to help their business by giving them useful customer feedback.
Why do you host your list of dislikes for Amazon on a knockoff GitHub?
https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/github.md
I don't really understand why you'd host that on GitHub or any knockoffs at all
Probably because a lot of the free web hosting sites disappeared, and GitHub and knock-offs don’t place any requirements on licensing (unlike SourceForge, which requires you to use an OSI- or FSF-approved license and submit a project description for humans to review), so people abuse them as free hosting.