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.

  • Woly [any]
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    4 years ago

    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.

    • SaberTail [any]
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      4 years ago

      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.