@annindallas wrote:
Are you talking about a Google search? Or an ebay search?
I didn't see amazon or etsy at all in the few I searched.
"I go to AM to do my shopping and then when I find what I want I come back here to compare priceing . How many casual shoppers do that ? "
I always do. I get the info on amazon, but buy from ebay.
To be honest, having sold on this site, I really prefer not to buy here if there's the slightest chance I'll need to return something. Not every detail of an item can be worked out over the web, and I'd much rather exercise Amazon's return process than jerk around someone who isn't a huge corporation. They have the overhead for it, we don't.
If I buy something that turns out to be junk, and these days that does happen from time to time, I'll have to play some kind of awkward game with the seller, both of us knowing I hold the trump card. And PayPal holds the money hostage in the meantime. Even if the product is exactly as described, it may not turn out to be fit for purpose, or the quality of manufacture not what I was expecting.
If I buy it from Amazon, I already know they offer a no-questions-asked satisfaction guarantee on anything, even if I just changed my mind; and the money is instantly refunded back to my credit card. So if it costs me a dollar or two more to buy from them, it's well worth the money. I see that eBay is already headed in that direction, but that's part of the problem with this site IMO.
On top of all that, because I was curious, I went over all of my 2017 purchases on Amazon and none of them (including shipping) were available at a better price here, except for one item that was $29 instead of $31.
