Dude, same. It’s been about ten years since my wife and I stopped buying from amazon. Never have I had a problem finding the things I need on eBay or Craigslist or straight from the seller.

Just order some new headphones directly from Lenovo that were the exact price as on amazon and even had free two day shipping and don’t require me to have an account. Great, no issues.

For other things, people for the love of god please buy used and local as much as you can. I live in a smaller town and can find soooooo much shit locally. Not everything but I’d say most everyday things!

One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn't seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won't really see any of that money in the end)

I really liked ebay like 20 years ago. Now at least here, it's just for people dropshipping stuff or sell stuff super overpriced. Like more expensive than new. It's such a weird place.

LOL Totally not a scumbag Omidyar company

as much as possible

Americans are great at mental gymnastics and making excuses to get out of things when it becomes slightly inconvenient or requires effort.
That's why you lose and keep losing.