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This may be a really ignorant question but can I ask why you continue to use Amazon to source hard drives then? Is there really no other place to buy hard drive
by nommm-nommm 10y ago
This may be a really ignorant question but can I ask why you continue to use Amazon to source hard drives then? Is there really no other place to buy hard drives? If you are a bulk buyer I would think you'd be able to buy directly from the manufacturer or something.
- rsync 10y agoWe continue to buy drives on amazon because of extremely fast and easy sourcing, checkout, and return policy. Basically the same reason everyone uses amazon, for everything. If we get a really wacko batch, the return is very, very simple. The practice of selling "new pulls" (supposedly new drives that are removed from new servers by end users that wanted different drives installed all along) is rampant everywhere - not just at Amazon. The problem is that a lot of "pulls that are not new at all and are actually just used drives" drift into that channel. And, of course, all of them are sold as "brand new".
- nommm-nommm 10y agoDo you think you are in danger of being banned from Amazon for too many returns? They have been known to do that to other buyers.