I’ve been trying to avoid shopping on Amazon for several years. For computer parts, I look at Newegg. For pet stuff, Chewy.

But what about all the miscellaneous stuff? What other websites do you trust when it comes to shopping online?

  • @Cheems
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    31 year ago

    Name one site off the top of your head in less than 5 seconds without googling it that you can purchase a bike rack

    • blazera
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      If im not allowed to google youre not allowed to search on amazon.

      • @Cheems
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        41 year ago

        Well dude that’s the point. There’s one site I can go and get something name brand and it’s not necessarily going to be total garbage. If you’ve gotta Google something, then I dunno about you, but I’m checking a sites reputation before I give them my credit card information.

        Point is there are a lot more steps and it’s convenient to go to that one site that I know of hand and more or less can trust to not steal my credit card information.

        Otherwise you might as well just go to a store locally and purchase it, but unfortunately that isn’t always an option with everything.

        • blazera
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          01 year ago

          Theres no extra steps, and Amazon has a notoriously bad reputation both with labour ethics and scam products.

          • @Cheems
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            31 year ago

            There absolutely are extra steps. And you’re right it does on both accounts for the last part.

            • blazera
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              11 year ago

              Ive explained all of the steps, you’ve yet to try and say what the supposed extra steps are.

              • @dmonzel
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                1 year ago

                Here you go:

                If you’re using Amazon, you go to Amazon, search for a bike rack, choose a bike rack, and order it with one click.

                If you’re not using Amazon and you don’t know where to buy a bike rack, you go to Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo/etc, search “buy bike rack online”, scroll through the results, opening website after website until you find what you’re looking for, add the item to your cart, go to checkout, enter your name/address/card info/PayPal/etc, and submit.

                @Cheems , how’d I do?

                • blazera
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                  11 year ago

                  I found bike racks with the very first result. I have my card info saved through google to auto fill.

                  Yall dont understand that searching on google and searching on amazon are the same step.

                  • @dmonzel
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                    11 year ago

                    Hang on. You earlier:

                    “Websites you trust”, hell are yall doing trusting Amazon.

                    You now:

                    I have my card info saved through google to auto fill.

                    The hell you doing here trusting Google if you don’t trust Amazon?