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We decided to cancel our Prime membership due to Amazon's increasingly shady dealings. But I have to be honest: It's been VERY difficult. VERY inconvenient. (In
by atonse 8y ago
We decided to cancel our Prime membership due to Amazon's increasingly shady dealings. But I have to be honest: It's been VERY difficult. VERY inconvenient. (In a relative, first-world-problem kind of way, of course).
There are certain products only available on Amazon (like some Anker products), and you just can't beat the convenience factor.
Who knows if we'll last, but I have to say, Amazon is hard to beat.
ShopRunner seems promising but you still have to go to multiple websites to find things.
And retail works well when you need something quickly, but it is still a time sink in the US (20 min drive to a store to buy something, etc).
- chillacy 8y agoI tried going back to retail for awhile when I was between places and I forgot how much time it took to drive to a store, search the store, find out that they don't even stock the item half the time, drove me crazy. I ended up going back to online shopping, ordering packages to a mail forwarder, which turned out to be still more convenient.
- atonse 8y agoThis, and the other thing is that we've gotten so used to doing online research before buying something, especially for bigger expenses. Doing research in a retail store is no less work, and in fact, it's more work because you have to look for specific things on multiple boxes, lookup reviews, etc.