Don’t automatically buy stuff on Amazon. They’re often not the cheapest and they’re a scummy company.
Not on Amazon, but I bought myself a nice t-shirt. It got me compliments and made me feel better about myself.
They’re often not the cheapest
No, but they’re consistently reasonably close to that. I’m not likely to pay drastically more on Amazon than elsewhere.
What they do have is a very large selection, which is a major benefit; I don’t want to deal with eight different retailers and eight different orders when I can just hit Amazon.
At a lesser scale, this is what made department stores do so well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_store
A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area (“department”) specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic appearance in the middle of the 19th century, and permanently reshaped shopping habits, and the definition of service and luxury.
Amazon’s basically done the same, writ large. They can offer pretty much anything you want from a consumer standpoint at a single location.
Alternatively, do always look on there because they’re often the cheapest and all companies are scummy.
Amazon regularly beats out the brick and mortar stores in my country who reamed us for decades before we got access to the global market.
just wait for the reaming you’ll get when everybody but amazon goes out of business in your country
It’ll be exactly the same as it was before than, the maximum people could pay before it affected sales.
Maybe thats the problem with people these days!
People only care about price so now everything is built as cheap as possible, corners cut everywhere so now everything is shit… because it needs to be cheap! It’s getting harder to find anything that seems built to last more than a year.
As scummy as Amazon might be, they’re still the only company that offers anything that resembles convenience. eBay could’ve challenged Amazon but profit over service and those in charge walking round with their head up there arse’s and now it’s a poor copy of aliexpress that seems to be 90% chinese crap in the UK! I’m not wasting an hour trawling every online store when I know Amazon has it… so what if its £3 more!
And sadly the cheap money has gone and no-one wants to offer a better Amazon because there’s money in it because… everyone wants everything cheap! 🤦♂️😞
USB switch. I have a desk with work laptop to the left, personal laptop to the right. My keyboard, mouse, and camera feed into the switch, then the switch into each laptop. With a press of a button, I can switch all my peripherals from one laptop to the other without unplugging/plugging USB connections
Buzio water bottles. I specifically love the half gallon size, but that’s too big for most people, id say. But they’re freaking great. Keep ice for like 2 days.
Sleep mask with headphones
Wall mounted tablet holder for bed
Ergonomic crochet hooks
Smart plugs
Neck light for reading/crocheting in bed
Rechargable pepper grinder set of two
Butane torch for the kitchen
Wall Mount manual can opener
About 3ish years ago brought myself a spring assisted knife for around 14$. Its my go to for everything where a knife is needed and holds a decent edge for a month or 2.
Edit: only downside is the spine is a bit too rounded so it’s not the best for striking ferro rods
Edit 2: totally forgot tis the season. There’s this solid ice cream scoop that has a gel that heats up using the heat from your hand. It’s one piece of metal so it should last the giftee a while. I’ll find the link for you. Here it is
A keychain jewellers loupe, inexpensive but invaluable, can be used for inspect something up close, whether it’s writing on computer chips to helping with mushroom identification, to identifying makers marks on old silware.
In a similar vein, cheap usb microscopes, though less versatile are incredibly useful for soldering/inspecting PCBs
In a similar vein, cheap usb microscopes, though less versatile are incredibly useful for soldering/inspecting PCBs
While I did like getting one, I have to say that in retrospect, I would have liked an auto-focus function, which low-end ones didn’t have when I bought one and I assume still don’t have. Unless whatever you’re looking at has a very fixed height, it’s kind of a pain to keep fiddling with the microscope to bring things into focus as you move an object around.
