Does anyone have any experience with this? It would save me a lot of money but I also don’t want to flush it down the toilet.

  • @_bcron_English
    12•7 hours ago

    I tend not to buy electronics from Amazon or fulfilled by Amazon. I’ve had more scam swapperoos and straight up DOA than I can count. They package a CPU exactly how they package an action figure, they drop it into a huge box with 2 little air pillows and yeet it in the back of a truck.

    If it’s a third party seller not shipped by Amazon it’ll be as good as any other retailer, I mean, they’ll most likely confirm that they’re sending you the actual thing and they’ll use plenty of packing peanuts

    • @[email protected]
      2•4 hours ago

      Another thing I’ve noticed on Amazon is oftentimes you’ll get the first generation of a product. I bought a smart space heater from there quite some time ago and by the time I’d owned it for a few months it was already unsupported, then six months after that it was impossible to connect to (it lost WiFi and I had no means to reconfigure it).

      Had I purchased elsewhere I probably would’ve received the fifth or sixth generation. If I do buy from Amazon now I’m always super picky about details.