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I’m done with Amazon, but unless something changed in the past year, buying through them is actually inconvenient.

The return experience is great, because it has to be. You buy so much crap because of drop-shippers and their search is atrocious due to paid placement.

If you know what you want (a Thermoscan was one of my last purchases), it can be cheaper to go elsewhere, you don’t deal with their search “engine”, and you don’t help Bezos buy the next election. My context is European, but I really don’t agree that Amazon is that great anymore.

There’s plenty of stuff I find cheaper in other places, plus I’ll know it’s authentic and not a drop-shipped counterfeit. Amazon was tremendous once, but that’s gone.