Subj : Re: Intel NUCs
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Wed Aug 16 2023 15:59:03

 Ni> For my main PC at home, I still tend to like to build my own desktop PC,
 Ni> but lately I've been buying the parts from Amazon and Newegg.  For

I deliberately avoid going to Amazon. And generally pay a price to do so, with varying levels of success.

But it's a challenge. There are a variety of things I really dislike with Amazon (on a per-purchase basis, rather than a general, "this is bad" sense, like their forcing people to have higher prices on their own sites.).

E.g., how they'll bin products. So you can have one reputable supplier, and one scummy supplier. Neither pays the extra fee to separately bin their products. Scummy supplier gives product that's of lower quality / less tested / whatever. Reputable supplier does not.

Person orders, choosing the reputable supplier, but is given one of the items from the scummy supplier.

So, when possible, if I can find the reputable suppliers, I'll prefer them directly, even though it'll cost me more.

The challenge, though, is that the scummy suppliers don't exactly advertise that they're awful.

So oftentimes you have no information on who's good and who's not so good, and thus no power to choose / pay for the better supplier.

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