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Why is this HDD so small?
micky wrote:
In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 14 Mar 2021 11:27:44 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote: As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is completely reputable. I buy many things from them--probably somewhere around 100 a year--and I've never had a problem, except once when a product I expected to receive never arrived. Amazon not only refunded what I had paid, but also gave me a credit ($10, If I remember correctly). You don't buy things *from* them (at least not in cases like this), but *through* them. The only thing you get is *financial* 'security', *if* you spot in time that the advertized item is indeed a lemon. But the point - which you've snipped - is, (very) weird merchant, which peddles a mislabeled/misadvertized, no-name device which you're supposed to trust your data to. FWIW, we (NL) also have Amazon-like companies (they pre-date Amazon in Europe) and Amazon is ramping up here. I only use (the merchants which So you might know... How much do you think Amazon copied, or could have copied, from the European Amazon-like companies? And how much was innovation by Amazon? For example: A picture of the item. Multiple pictures, often from all angles, of the item, Detailed description, far more than what Walmart usually has, just the name of the item and 7 or 8 words that describe it. Ratings by buyers that they post even when they are negative. Ratings by others also. Verified buyers labeled (I think this started later, or maybe I just noticed it later.) Questions by prospective buyers with posted answers by the vendor? And answers by other customers? Ofcourse I can't prove it and neither can anybody disprove it, but none of these are "innovation by Amazon". Umpteen - probably many thousands - webshops have most if not all of these features. Not that any of these are likely to be patentable, but if they were and if they were Amazon's IP, I'm sure Amazon would sue everybody's pants off. Since they don't (sue), they apparently are *not* innovation by Amazon". I rest my case, your honour! sell through) such companies if there's no reasonable alternative and the lemon-risk is not important. (And I think a lot would have to change before I would consider buying through or from Amazon.) |
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