Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by michaelmrose on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:55PM
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If you demanded that best buy sell you a PS4 for the price of the game cube you saw on Craigslist that would be silly right?
The point is that its cheaper on average Amazon to ship a 1000 ps4s of which 100 are used and 50 are broken than it is for best buy to maintain a retail presence and sell 1000 actually new ps4s.
You are insisting on the superior product but only willing to pay the cost of the inferior one.
This is only sustainable in terms of throughput at checkout or monetarily because most people unlike you aren't willing to do this with everything they purchase.
It's like a person that finds something to complain about regarding their meal to get free food. If everyone did it then either the restaurant would go out of business or they would stop giving away free food.
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by mrkstu on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:01PM
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Best Buy has been doing great recently and I'm buying from the vendor you seem so think I should be buying from. You're upset I may be shaving a point or two off their margin by cross-shopping? Unless you own stock in BB I really don't see where your angst is coming from...
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by JohnJamesRambo on Friday May 10, 2019 @04:45PM
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Dude I never get used or broken stuff from Amazon, I don't know what items you are ordering.
Whose cake am I eating exactly? Best Buy is being rewarded for value and trustworthiness and Amazon loses out even though I'm a Prime member due to their recent failings. Its the market doing its self-correcting market things.