Re:Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, say...
by wccrawford on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:44AM
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I don't mean "lowest price". I mean at all.
For instance, I recently wanted to buy "Goo Gone Automotive" to get something off my car windshield. I'd read up online about it, and determined it was what I wanted.
My wife went to Target and the closest thing she found was "Automotive Glass Cleaner". Target has a dedicated automotive section, and I was pretty sure they'd have it or something like it, but they didn't.
In the end, I ended up buying it on Amazon rather than go from local shop to local shop hoping to find something close. (I could also have called first, but that's also very distasteful.) It was much easier to go on Amazon and just pay what they were asking.
For "locally" I meant "at the shop just around the corner", or however in a "convenient, known, usual, place" not a "drive in search of the lowest price across the city".
I have no experience whatever with NewEgg, from what I have seen around they seem on par with other online shops, and I - maybe I am just lucky - never needed the customer service of either Amazon of other vendors, what I can say is that at least here (Italy) Amazon is usually very fast in delivering (but all in all not that much faster than other online retailers, maybe there is a slight advantage for orders on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday).