There Is Too Much Stuff

Re:There Is Too Much Stuff by noahmoss on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:56PM (#20026343)

That's a false equivalency. The USB cables I buy in random shops off the street are usually much worse, and more expensive, than any I've gotten from Amazon. And I'd wager that if you got a can of beans on Amazon it would taste perfectly fine. Maybe there is lower quality on Amazon, but comparing such different products is essentially meaningless.

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Re:There Is Too Much Stuff by llamataboot on Monday May 27, 2019 @08:59PM (#20026358)

A random "junk shop" perhaps, but I'm to the point where I'd much rather go down the street to Target and pick up some slightly higher priced piece of electronics because I know it is quality controlled, than wade through Amazon.

If I'm shopping for a particular brand, okay Amazon, if it's just needing something in particular that's guaranteed to have hundreds of Chinese knockoffs with no way of differentiating between reviews (like a bike headlight, or LEDs, or a USB adapter), I go to a B&M that stocks those things.

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Re:There Is Too Much Stuff by jpindar on Monday May 27, 2019 @11:47PM (#20027071)

Or order it from Target.com?

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Re:There Is Too Much Stuff by esotericn on Monday May 27, 2019 @09:01PM (#20026362)

Right, exactly.

I don't buy, well, basically anything, from random corner shops because it's likely to be crap.

Does Amazon actually want to be like that? They don't have to be Waitrose, they just have to be even like, Lidl.

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Re:There Is Too Much Stuff by CydeWeys on Monday May 27, 2019 @11:41PM (#20027041)

So in this analogy, Amazon is basically a junk shop. Yet they have a much better reputation than that, somehow.

Note that I don't buy things at junk shops in real life.

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