No I'm not buying anything, I just had a look. I thought I'd look for a WD Blue 2TB hard drive.
Even with Amazon selected as the seller some things are under "WD" and others are under "Western Digital". There's a typo on the HDD installation page (data transfer by whoever the hell does it is limited to 500 GB BTW). Product descriptions even on Amazon's own product pages are weird and seemingly partly manually typed (this HDD is in the "Unisex-adult" department. It requires "1 A batteries" and the write speed is 1).
Up to a few years ago it would sort prices incorrectly (£23 more expensive than £123). Last time I looked sorting by price seemed to just throw up a random order but it looks like they might have fixed that now?
There are so many other things too. It's such a damn mess, it's horrible, the shittiness is endless. And people enjoy shopping there!?
I guess they treat the people who run their website like they do their other employees.
They removed all the easy to use detailed categories because it allowed consumers to comparison shop too easy.
I use Shoptimate to automatically comparison shop prices off Amazon.
https://www.shoptimate.com/
my favorite thing is how they insist on sourcing the product Q&A section by sending confusingly-worded emails to boomers, so you get a shitload of
Q: Does this item have a USB port?
A: I DON'T KNOW, THIS WAS A GIFT FOR MY NEPHEW.Especially when only one of those items has a certain compatibility or feature you NEED and you just have to find the people that get extremely specific because the reviews lied to them as well.
I had to make an Amazon account a million years ago so I could search it for the weirdest possible shit with a bunch of other dickheads on an internet forum. The two most notable we found was a circumcision practice kit with a socket where you could put replaceable baby dicks with foreskins you could practice snipping. The other one was wolf milk, for raising wolf pups. This was back in like 2005. Years later I went to Amazon so I could mail some Christmas gifts to my little brother who was at college. I recover my account because I still had the same email and lo and behold it was like "hey last time you were here you were browsing this Mohel Practice Kit and Wolf Milk, you need any of those things today, almost a decade later?"
Heads up, don't buy hard drives off of Amazon. People who bought from Western Digital were getting shipped OEM products, basically hard drives that were made for assembly and not retail. Because they were OEM drives, they didn't come with warranties, so if if they failed the customers were screwed.
You're better off buying them from a brick and mortar store, because they can't put OEM products on their shelves. At least not as easily as Amazon can.
Yeah. I buy most of my electronics off of B&H these days. They don't have the dodgy supply chain problems Amazon does. They do sell some gray market stuff, but they are very clear about telling you when they do.
Also, doesn't it still do that thing where it auto refreshes every time you check a new thing in the side bar, while also allowing you to select multiple categories? Like if you're looking for computer parts with a range of specs, and that range covers four of their categorizations, you basically have to wait for the search to refresh four times in order to select all of the categories and browse again. They could just let you select all 4 and then manually hit the search button yourself but NOOOOO.
If I was going to buy something online and a site that looks identical to amazon’s came up, I legit wouldn’t buy anything from it because it looks sketchy as hell
they also store fake items in the same bins as the real ones, so if a seller has an inventory of fakes now all of the sellers do lol
Hundreds of teams want you to click their button so they feel their life has meaning.
The search filtration is deliberately shit IMO, like how the insides of retail stores are designed to be as labyrinthine as possible within reason to "expose you to more products per minute" than an efficient layout while you are inside. There was actually a third party site up for a couple of months that would access the API and let you apply more powerful search filters to the products, but IIRC they were served a cease and desist or something along those lines and forced to close down the site. I can't remember what it was called... must have been around 2-3 years ago
Literally every hard drive I've bought off Amazon was shucked, OEM, or had signs of use (either physical like racking marks or determined after running tests). Just don't bother.
SSDs/M.2 seem to be fine though, oddly.
