Re: Why is this HDD so small?

On 13/03/2021 23.57, Wolf K wrote:
> On 2021-03-13 16:24, Rene Lamontagne wrote:

...

> Amazon relies on "It's Amazon, so it must be OK" factor. My take is the 
> precise opposite. If it's Amazon, it's probably not OK. For one thing, 
> Amazon takes a hefty slice of that vendor's prices. I prefer to deal 
> with vendors directly, not through Amazon. They are not alone. Even Best 
> Buy is a problem, most of their bargains are from 3rd party vendors. 
> Even Staples now offers goods "shipped directly from the merchant".
> 
> I prefer supporting a local brick'n'mortar shop if possible. They pay 
> taxes locally. Amazon doesn't. It's a free-loader. Example: The town 
> needs cash to pay for snow plowing. Amazon depends on that service so 
> the delivery trucks can get to the customers. But Amazon don't pay a 
> cent towards the cost of that service.

I prefer to buy locally if I find what I need. But Amazon allows me to 
search for things relatively easily in places that maybe be far from me, 
with a common interface, and usually reliably with some exceptions.

It may be that the same product can be found, cheaper, on the web of 
some vendor, BUT! Webs that I do not know if I can trust.

   (My first purchase on the web was a fraud of about 1200€.
   Two laptops for the company I was working for. Year 1999 or so)

Or maybe not cheaper, because mail and packaging has a cost, and with 
Amazon Prime most things are covered.


I have been able to find, for example, spare pieces for my old vacuum 
cleaner sent from several frontiers away from me. No way I would have 
found and bought that on my own. Some shop on Europe has those spares I 
needed.

Sometimes I search for something in Amazon, and when I find it I may 
also then know who has the same thing locally and I can buy it. Some 
times cheaper, sometimes the same price, some times more expensive.


So, it varies.


In the case of the OP, seeing the reports, I would not buy.



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.