The Anti-Amazon Alliance

Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by cactus2093 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:15PM (#23012798)

I feel like you just entirely explained the situation. There is still a "high-end overpriced" segment for all kinds of industries. Sometimes luxury goods, but sometimes just mid-tier goods sold by companies that still follow the high-margin traditional retail model. With an MSRP price that leaves enough room for inefficient, high-touch stores to take a hefty margin as a middleman.

But even someone who actively dislikes Amazon such as yourself would still rather get the lowest price and access to the largest selection, even if it means begrudgingly putting up with a worse experience.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by imtringued on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:44AM (#23028796)

I don't know why Amazon has a "lowest price" reputation on HN. Everything on Amazon is overpriced. The only reason why I still use it is that people give me Amazon gift cards instead of cash. I use geizhals.de to find products and Amazon is rarely shown as the cheapest seller. The price difference isn't insignificant. Depending on the product you can expect to pay 15% more on Amazon and that's what I tell people giving me those amazon cards.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by collyw on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:52PM (#23033038)

In Spain and I just ordered a small sofa. I wanted to not use Amazon, but going to the company directly did cost a reasonable amount more.

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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by pas on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:58AM (#23019257)

I try to simply don't buy things. Eg I want a new laptop for some time, but none seem like a good fit. The whole USB3 ecosystem is crazy, there are bad, ugly, expensive or all of the above ones only.

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