David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)@futurebird @servelan @fivetonsflax @nazokiyoubinbou @justafrog @clayote I’ve been actively avoiding Amazon for about ten years. I first realised that they were not the cheap option when I bought some garden furniture 15 years ago. I discovered that the same seller sold the four-seat version for the price I paid them for the two-seat version on Amazon. After that, I started using Amazon just for discovery: find the thing I want to buy there and then find the place I actually buy it from elsewhere. Often, searching for the product name and seller from Amazon will take you to another shop front that charges less because it isn’t giving Amazon a cut.
For book, even Hive, which supports local book sellers, is cheaper.
Niche things that used to be Amazon-only are now often sold through eBay as well (eBay seems to have become more of a generic shop front and less of a second-hand auction site now).
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