Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by noir_lord on Friday November 15, 2019 @05:27PM (#21549407)

I went back to argos (UK retailer) for small stuff and ebuyer/aria for everything else tech related - they have the same range as amazon (in their domains), the same returns ease (better in the case of ebuyer in practive).

I buy very little from Amazon, enough that I'm going to cancel prime since the only thing of theirs I still use is is Amazon Prime TV and well..its OK but not enough to justify it.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by phatfish on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:59AM (#21551882)

I buy from Argos too, they also have a nice network of physical locations for in-store pickups. The prices are very close to Amazon usually, which really only wins on free delivery options. If you can pickup in store that's not an issue.

Argos actually pay some tax as well.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by noir_lord on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:00AM (#21552226)

On bigger items Argos do (or did at the time) free one day delivery, I ordered a new TV for Christmas a couple of years ago at 1pm and was sat watching crap Christmas movies with my family by 9pm, I mean Amazon can’t compete with that here yet.

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Re:Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in... by LoSboccacc on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:46AM (#21551370)

i left Amazon too, now I either go to the manufacturer itself if I need the quality or cut the middleman and go directly on AliExpress if quality is not a concern.

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