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> maybe Just do it. You'll sleep better at night, and you'll have a higher chance of waking up. I no longer buy any products from Amazon anymore that's made
by RandomBacon 7y ago
> maybe
Just do it. You'll sleep better at night, and you'll have a higher chance of waking up.
I no longer buy any products from Amazon anymore that's made to go in, on, or protect my body.
- kadoban 7y agoAdd most electronics, IMO, especially things like memory cards and hard drives.
- buckminster 7y agoI bought a hard drive from Amazon about four years ago. It came in a large cardboard box half full of packing paper. The unprotected drive was rattling round in the empty half of the box. Never again. That's the last thing I bought there.
- buildbot 7y agoThey ship everything like that, including 30k cameras
- astura 7y agoAnd glass products.
- jrockway 7y agoI've had the opposite experience. Hard drives from Amazon have been in factory-original packaging (involving a lot of foam) whereas hard drives from Newegg have been in plastic clamshells rattling around in the box. In fact, 100% of hard drives I've ordered from Newegg have failed. (The replacements received from the manufacturer were packed like the drives I've gotten from Amazon.) I think the TL;DR is that resellers are clueless about how the products they sell work. No doubt in my case Newegg got a big box of them designed for OEMs that were putting them in fully-built computers, but instead shipped them out individually. Maybe it's because they don't care, or maybe it's because someone made a mistake. Either way, it's annoying. I am surprised people aren't selling fake m.2 SSDs yet, like they do with SD cards.
- dragonwriter 7y agoBoth Amazon and Newegg are marketplaces, and at least Amazon has commingling issues which can obscure the actual source from the customer, even when you think you are buying direct from Amazon. It's possible the differing experiences reflect different actual sources on the same marketplaces.
- beerandt 7y agoNewegg has recently had problems with their own stock being listed inaccurately, especially selling white box or oem as retail, or listed with incorrect warranty info. If you call to return it, many of the call center reps seem to get genuinely aggravated at the company for allowing this to repeatedly happen.
- Rapzid 7y agoI just bought a 1TB nvme driver and they sent me a 500GB drive the first go. In isolation that's barely an anecdote you'd mention to people over drinks but this stuff happens ALL. THE. TIME. to me with Amazon.