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I did the exact same thing as you around the same time-frame and with the amount of comments I see on here extolling Amazon I assumed I was an outlier. What ma

I did the exact same thing as you around the same time-frame and with the amount of comments I see on here extolling Amazon I assumed I was an outlier. What made you tail off? I was in the UK and I started noticing that while they had originally been cheaper for most things, they were not and the convenience (or inconvenience if I was out when a package was delivered) didn't really offset that particular delta. I made the exception for about a year after I caught on to that in order to buy second hand books because typically they would retail for 1p with a ~£2.50 postage fee but I stopped that after a while for various reasons (travel, ebooks, relocation).

dwighttk 7y ago
Books are about the only thing I still buy at amazon. It probably started with a purchase I made that kept delaying shipping, but the price was like 20% better than anywhere else and I didn’t need it anytime soon. After a couple months and like 6delays I canceled the order and decided to start buying from bestbuy and Walmart. (Also Barnes&noble locally but their website is bad and their app is even worse.) Oh the other thing that definitely turned me off is searching for something like a hoodie and getting a page full of results that each give ranges of prices from $10-$50 and the only one for $10 is an xxs in dingy white and everything else is $50. (Just made that example up)
- tinus_hn 7y ago
  That’s the same on AliExpress, if you search for SD cards you get offers for $0.01 cards and when you look at the offer you chose capacities and the 0.01 offer is for a 1 megabyte SD card that is sold out.