Fabric dot com and Amazon
06-06-2018, 05:37 AM
#31
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Location: North Carolina
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I love Amazon, especially Prime, since I don't have to pay shipping and I HATE to go shopping! Hard to walk the malls (cement floors), standing in line at JA's and other places because not enough help, etc. I actually went to a store in a mall recently and had a couple of items to buy - but could not find a checkout person, even after 10 or 15 minutes waiting! Amazon has free return locations in our city so we just advise them of a return and drop it off at one of the drop points. I don't always like "progress" but as I get older I do like this one!
06-06-2018, 06:04 AM
#32
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: central NC
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I've always ordered wide flannel for backing from Fabric.com. I got my latest order from them last week ( it came shipped by Amazon) and I could just cry! Their flannel has always been nice- soft and thick, no problems with it at all. What I got last week is a joke. When it came out of the dryer, it had pills all over it. It's disgusting, I can't even use it or return it because I've already washed and dried it. I guess they've changed their supplier. I won't be ordering any more from them.
06-06-2018, 06:07 AM
#33
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 334
What you all are complaining about is called "Progress". I have shopped Fabric.com since the business started back in the 90s. It got too much for him to handle, so he sold to Amazon. We may not like the idea of one huge company having control of everything we know and love, but that is the way the world works these days. Personally, I love Amazon, and still love Fabric.com. It's not their fault that the quality of the fabric has diminished, blame our need to find bargains, therefore getting fabric from foreign manufacturers. If you are unhappy with the fabric return it and let them know why. That is the only way they will know not to purchase from that supplier.
06-06-2018, 11:53 AM
#34
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Location: Pacific NW
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What is sad is when the large stores gobble up all the small stores and then the large stores leave you abandoned. Now the malls are dying...instead of going forward, we are going backward, think Sears & Roebuck catalog, ordering and waiting and hoping it's acceptable or you have the cost to return. now websites are the new catalogs, so as we age we have to keep up with computers and hostage to the always increasing internet fees. I get convenience, but we are losing our stores (small businesses)and soon it will be our money. Now Amazon is putting internet stores out of business or buying them, is it greed or what?... Soon they will deciding what we are allowed to buy, our only choice will be what they want us to have. And I thought Walmart was the worst of it -they are in trouble too! Call me old fashioned
Amazon reportedly treats their workers horribly, and they are ruthless in their business practices, like Wal-Mart, deliberately lowering prices to put smaller places out of business. Amazon and Wal-Mart have been devastating to smaller businesses in this country, just like massive factory farms have been devastating to smaller family farms. Bigger is not necessarily better, and personally, I would not call this trend 'progress.'
First, not all shops are being "gobbled up" by the Big Evil Amazon. Amazon actually allows thousands of shops to post their items for sale via Amazon.com. It's like a huge online mall in one place. Amazon charges these shops a small percentage, which is a bargain if you think about the costs a small business incurs of hosting, marketing, and maintaining their own website.
Second, as far as I'm concerned "malls are dying" is a good thing! The malls (at least in my region of the country) are horrible. They are nothing more than unsupervised gathering places for teenage shenanigans and the parking lots are crime-riddled. They don't offer much in the way of choice either. A lot of vendors are pulling out and the stores are being replaced by medical & dental offices, library branches, job centers, and there's even a tattoo parlor in my local mall.
Third, Amazon is "deciding what we are allowed to buy"??? The exact same thing can be said of the brick-and-mortar stores, especially the small ones. They simply do not have the shelf space for the amazing amount of inventory our wonderful country has to offer. I think more often than not people turn to shopping online simply because they cannot find what they want at their local small businesses.
06-06-2018, 03:46 PM
#35
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 2,633
I have ordered a lot from fabric.com and amazon and a few other companies online also. I don’t believe I’ve ever had any problems with anything I’ve ordered that amazon or whoever wouldn’t take back. Just saying, if you don’t like it don’t shop there. I personally am not able to go to the stores anymore to buy anything so I’m certainly 100% glad we can shop online. Some have great service others maybe not. The regular stores have people who can be nasty and not want to deal with problems but that’s anywhere
06-06-2018, 03:54 PM
#36
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Upstate NY, north of Syracuse Area
Posts: 6,003
I agree. Call or email customer service with the details of your experience and even some photos. I think you might be surprised.
06-07-2018, 04:40 PM
#40
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Location: Horse Country, FL
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Here are four sources of Quilters Dream Green batting for comparison shopping:
https://www.backsidefabrics.com/quil...to-show-price/
http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/SHOP...-Quilt-Batting
https://www.keepsakequilting.com/qui...double-batting
https://www.amazon.com/Quilters-Drea.../dp/B01CPSDX9O
https://www.backsidefabrics.com/quil...to-show-price/
http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/SHOP...-Quilt-Batting
https://www.keepsakequilting.com/qui...double-batting
https://www.amazon.com/Quilters-Drea.../dp/B01CPSDX9O
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