>there is no lack of ways to find out about new products that I enjoy. // Man, when I'm trying to find products I can never find what I want because the websit

>there is no lack of ways to find out about new products that I enjoy. // Man, when I'm trying to find products I can never find what I want because the websites - Amazon, urgh - don't expose the characteristics I want to search on. Companies (with few exceptions) don't care if you want it, they care if you buy it. Often it seems things are made opaque on purpose. Example, I was buying a house phone (aside: I imagine it's the last time I'll ever do that) and know I need answerphone, but with self-recorded message and with call monitoring. Even BT, a phone maker and phone service provider only expose search at the level of "answerphone". Useless. I had to download the manuals and read the usage instructions. And of course the sellers don't provide the manuals (in general, I mean BT didn't have the manuals for the lower priced BT phones, crazy). Ebay are pretty good, not perfect. Other example, buying graphics cards, you can't search for "8gb graphics card" on a bunch of sites, you gave to choose AMD or Nvidia cards first. Then you get the search results and the most expensive cards are above your top-price and they're ordered by "recommended", argh.