IceEmpress posted at 3:07PM Wed, 24 February 2016 - #4257095

Well it costs money to run such a site, and if the profits are too small the site suffers. If they had huge profits like things were before, then why change them?

Maybe the big sales and huge discounts before the changes ran them down economically so that they had to make these changes, but a bad economy is something companies rarely want to admit publicly. If that's correct I think it would be better for a company like this that they admitted it, then people would probably be less hostile and more understanding, and maybe even helpful.

Except that someone mentioned in this or another thread that vendors have been losing sales ever since the Prime change (esp. since they no longer get 100% royalties for prime products sold like they did before the last redesign) The problem is that even if the big sales and discounts was unsustainable, what they are doing now is clearly even less sustainable than that.

Maybe, but the question is for what reasons it's less sustainable. Maybe people got used to those huge discounts and then when Rendo have to increase their profits and change Prime conditions to make ends meet, people refuse to pay what may actually be a fair price (or even more than fair, just check the prices at e.g. turbosquid...)? I did a calculation of my old Prime membership, it showed that in total I got over 70% discount on my Prime purchases. And most other stuff I've bought has been 30-60% off.

As for site design they may have made some bad decisions yes, that happens, but the new "must work on all devices" demand can make it extremely complex to design a site that both fulfills that demand and is good looking and well functioning at the same time. And as I understand it the latest design was mainly because of requirements from google, which, if they hadn't made them would make them rank lower in searches. That's just google trying to maximize their profits, at the expense of smaller companies who have to spend a lot of money in constantly keeping their sites up to date with google's SEO requirements. So you can blame google and the stupid invention called competition for a lot of the things people are complaining about here (like no linking to other sites, ads everywhere, etc..).