Re: Why is this HDD so small?

In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on 14 Mar 2021 11:27:44 GMT, Frank Slootweg
<[email protected]> 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? 




>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.)