Amazon has higher prices on a lot of things now, and most local places will match Amazon. You also risk getting a fake product, and their product selection is p

Amazon has higher prices on a lot of things now, and most local places will match Amazon. You also risk getting a fake product, and their product selection is poor at best now. Shipping has been extremely iffy and unreliable for months now. I cancelled Prime and haven't noticed any loss. I tried ordering angled cutting pliers for cutting excess legs off of my PCB's when soldering, and other than Hakko which was an add-on item so I couldn't buy it unless I wanted 3 of them, most other brands were cheap Chinese trash. I've had 34/35 items arrive from Aliexpress in the last month from Cambodia, China, and Russia. One was mis-delivered by USPS in USA. Amazon can't deliver correctly to the Whole Foods 1/4 mile from their HQ.