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SilverSolder:

Amazon's search function has to be the worst ever designed - no matter what you type into the search box, you get pretty much the entire Amazon catalog as the result set.  I've given up using Amazon search, now I search with Google and point it to Amazon.  (Not that Google search isn't broken, but you can get it to work half decently when you set it to "Verbatim" mode, which makes it work like anyone would expect it to work...)  - still I do shop on Amazon and live with the "dumbing down" as the world marches towards perfect idiocracy.

eBay used to have a very good search function which allowed wildcards, and so on.  They dumbed down their search function to follow idiocracy rules and it is much more tedious to search on eBay nowadays.  I still like eBay, though, and use it frequently.

The good news about eBay is that at their last earnings call (in the last week) they seem to be finally realizing that they are not going to become Amazon, and that they shouldn't try to do that, and that they need to get "back to basics".  Time will tell if the new found cluefulness will manifest in actual product, but we can at least hope...

Bud:
It depends on what you want to buy. You cant buy Old Good stuff from Amazon and the like, you can only find it on eBay and similar auction sites or in local lists.

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: NorthGuy on August 02, 2020, 03:12:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on August 02, 2020, 10:46:52 am ---Amazon offers next day or same day delivery.

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I liked Amazon when they were selling books.

I don't like them now. Descriptions are often misleading, if not totally wrong. Reviews are lumped together. Say, you want to buy a 4K monitor, but you get lots of reviews, many of them may be for similar 1080p monitors. For many things, they work just a portal for the seller, and the item gets shipped from China - same drop-shipping as everywhere else. So, you can really buy a small subset of what you see. And even from this subset, something is no longer available, others don't ship to my address etc. Prices constantly change. A while back I wanted to buy a WiFi router, add one for $100 to my shopping cart, then had to go to lunch before checkout. Guess what. I come back and the router is $120 already. Do they really expect me to buy it in such situation?

It is a long way for Amazon to go to match the level of electronic suppliers, such as DigiKey. But guess what, Amazon doesn't get any better, but DigiKey is devolving towards Amozon - they now have products listed which are not shipped by DigiKey ... just as Amazon.

AliExpress is getting better. They descriptions, and feedback/rating systems are much better now than they were 5-10 years ago. Shipping options are much better. The quality of merchants improved. If they add parametric search, they will be very hard to beat. They don't accept PayPal though.

eBay, on the other hand, hasn't improved over last 20 years ago. I rarely use them now, if at all.

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Amazon, annoyingly here has a parallel universe of available products thanks to our GST system. 9 times out of 10 any support links on youtube channels point to items that are not available here.  >:(

Hey Bezos: FIX YO SHIT.

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