A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by taylorfinley on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:12AM (#27686182)

The one exception to car parts sites being shit is rockauto. Just start typing in the search bar and it figures out what year make model and part you're looking for. Their search experience is light-years ahead of any other auto parts website and might actually be the best product search interface I've found anywhere, hiding out on a car parts site. I highly encourage anyone interested in product search ux to go check it out.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by function_seven on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:27AM (#27686277)

Just bought a new radiator from Rock Auto. I think it was like 3 clicks to drill down to the part. I just tried your method and was blown away. After I entered the year and make, and was halfway into typing the model, it autocompleted all the way to my trim level and I resumed typing "radia" where it suggested all the relevant things. Hitting enter, I watched it navigate the tree on the left.

Small delights like that are worth serious money.

I love sites that have such a structured categorization of their items. McMaster-Carr is the gold standard IMO, and RockAuto is pretty close.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by zeusk on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @05:00AM (#27686439)

McMaster-Carr is awesome, but I believe they are very business/professional oriented.

I needed some brass thread-ins with bolts and they got the job done but now I'm sitting on a minimum sized order of ~50 pieces that I won't be using anytime soon. Maybe I can resell them eBay. Hah.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by Unklejoe on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:14AM (#27688078)

McMaster is great if you need some obscure bolt, but man do they stick you for it.

Want this weird thread bolt? Here's a power plant certified 2mm bolt for $75 each.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by driverdan on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:12PM (#27690281)

I just bought some grade 8 hardware from them. It was cheaper than Fastenal, even with shipping, and they delivered overnight. I had to buy in higher quantities than I needed but the extras will get used at some point.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by technothrasher on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:36AM (#27686950)

McMaster is also typically not cheap. Their claim to fame is that they deliver really quickly. We can get stuff from them same or next day about 95% of the time. For slightly slower delivery but better pricing, Zoro Tools has much of the same stuff.

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Re:A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing by jessaustin on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @08:25AM (#27687619)

For some M16-1.5 bolts I ordered last week (and received the next day), McMaster-Carr was considerably cheaper than any other source. [EDIT:] Although Zoro doesn't seem to carry that size bolt in lots smaller than 25, I'll certainly be checking them for other items in future... thanks for the reference! I just wish they sorted their filter parameters by size rather than by SKU quantity.

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