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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by rietta on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:18PM (#21816698)
MicroCenter has a good website. For mass market things, I've switched to the Best Buy that is only 2 miles from my house. Fry's or MicroCenter if I need anything else. My wife bought a iPhone to HDMI adapter from Amazon (against my advice) and got a cheap knockoff that cannot even show Netflix on TV - her actual use case is to show movie clips to patients in a group session. I ended up buying her one in person from the Apple Store.

Edit to Add - She KNEW she was getting the generic adapter but still thought it would do what she needed. So this is not Amazon's fault in this case.

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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by milesvp on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:37PM (#21816969)
Fyi, cheap iphone adapters cannot work. Apple makes their decryption chips (for anything audio, not sure video) very expensive. If the product is priced low enough, it cannot possibly have the chip, since it’s like $3 in bulk, which adds like $10 minimum to final price.
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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by sixothree on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:38PM (#21816978)
I have started using Best Buy as well because of proximity. Their prices are very much on par with Amazon's and I can trust them to sell me real products.
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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by opportune on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:28PM (#21816813)
I went to a Frys in the South Bay recently and everything there was at least 20% more expensive than it would be online.
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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by 0xffff2 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:09PM (#21819978)
Fry's (Palo Alto and Sunnyvale locations) has been a ghost town in terms of products, employees and customers the last few times I've been in. I'm reluctant to go there anymore because it's quite likely that I won't be able to find the thing I'm looking for and there's a decent chance I won't even be able to find an employee to ask.
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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by blackearl on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:29PM (#21816833)
Best Buy matches prices too, they're good for things that are widely available.
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