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Except to follow this to the logical conclusion, amazon will be the only person I can buy my "sliding mitre saw" from. In the end I didn't buy mine from Amazon
by goldcd 8y ago
Except to follow this to the logical conclusion, amazon will be the only person I can buy my "sliding mitre saw" from.
In the end I didn't buy mine from Amazon - I picked up my maybe #2 option from a local wholesaler that had an offer on and gave me a discount if I picked up the saw and the compatible base. In this case I was just using amazon to confirm that the item was 'fine'
Now I didn't check in this case, but I am aware that other online merchants discount their stores based upon tracking - and who doesn't like a discount?
I like to think 'they' knew that I "goldcd wanted a decent saw for a mid-price" and were all undercutting each other to try to get me to enter by details.
- yyyymmddhhmmss 8y agoYour process sounds like a Tower of Babel to me. The interests of these entities are in great conflict and their power over your limits of time and awareness are increasing all the time. In the end, your purchase is relying on so much effort to curtail price exploitation, and it misses the potentials for manipulation and misrepresentation. You feel like an independent player but a minimal systemic analysis shows you could just as likely be misled. Of course, the systems you depend on are designed to do exactly that, unless it somehow benefits them more to help you out. What are the chances? Well, it benefits them not to tell you that. Your confidence appears foolish, I am afraid. Trust and aligned interests are out the window with these systems. We can do trmendously better to one another.