In my experience this has not been the case. I left Amazon years ago because of endless counterfeit stuff, poor search, and prices that aren't actually better

In my experience this has not been the case. I left Amazon years ago because of endless counterfeit stuff, poor search, and prices that aren't actually better than you can get elsewhere. The fast delivery was not reliably fast anyway, and I can wait an extra day for things. I'm not usually in that much of a rush. I have not found buying things from other places to be worse in general. Often cheaper, delivery is fine, and more confidence I'm getting the actual thing I wanted. The only thing Amazon does better is simply that it's a one stop shop for almost everything. But given the other downsides, that is not enough. EDIT: Also, the dark patterns they deploy to try to make people sign up to Prime makes me sick.