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by 66fm472tjy7 1748 days ago
One of their most impressive features is how many product attributes they track and allow you to filter for. E.g. for mainboards you can filter for support for all generations of Ryzen CPU + at least M.2 slots + BIOS flashback (allows you to do BIOS updates without a CPU or RAM) + at least one USB-C + built in IO shield + at least 12 VRM phases + WiFi 6 + in stock: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=mbam4&v=k&hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&h...
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This is something that drives me nuts about Amazon, who are a giant that has the resources to do it properly - but don't. Their filters are usually useless, filtering out matching production, and including products that don't even match from their title.
Not sure if that is a problem with Amazons search or the product listings themselves. Last time I was looking for a motherboard on Amazon it seemed as if half couldn't decide whether they had an AMD or Intel CPU socket. The descriptions, technical details and serial numbers where all over the place. Apparently the process of putting up thousands of products on Amazon is fairly automated and there are exactly zero humans checking if the result makes any sense.
My favourite feature is sorting by price per GB
And they're super responsive, should something be wrong and correct it ASAP!
In Russia, there is Yandex Market, they have almost the same, if not better granularity, and they don't use any scraping to generate product data — all human filled