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That's a false equivalency. The USB cables I buy in random shops off the street are usually much worse, and more expensive, than any I've gotten from Amazon. An
by noahmoss 7y ago
That's a false equivalency. The USB cables I buy in random shops off the street are usually much worse, and more expensive, than any I've gotten from Amazon. And I'd wager that if you got a can of beans on Amazon it would taste perfectly fine. Maybe there is lower quality on Amazon, but comparing such different products is essentially meaningless.
- llamataboot 7y agoA random "junk shop" perhaps, but I'm to the point where I'd much rather go down the street to Target and pick up some slightly higher priced piece of electronics because I know it is quality controlled, than wade through Amazon. If I'm shopping for a particular brand, okay Amazon, if it's just needing something in particular that's guaranteed to have hundreds of Chinese knockoffs with no way of differentiating between reviews (like a bike headlight, or LEDs, or a USB adapter), I go to a B&M that stocks those things.
- jpindar 7y agoOr order it from Target.com?
- esotericn 7y agoRight, exactly. I don't buy, well, basically anything, from random corner shops because it's likely to be crap. Does Amazon actually want to be like that? They don't have to be Waitrose, they just have to be even like, Lidl.
- CydeWeys 7y agoSo in this analogy, Amazon is basically a junk shop. Yet they have a much better reputation than that, somehow. Note that I don't buy things at junk shops in real life.