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[–] 11 points 3 months ago

It's a disservice to pitch this as "easy-peasy, win-win, 10 seconds of work and you save in the end!"

More realistic to say:

  • It will take up to 1h to find a way to buy it (and the answer may be "only on Amazon (tm)"
  • It will cost more
  • Also shipping $$$
  • It will take longer (because you're not getting Prime shipping)

For that cost, you get some benefits:

  • You get the actual product, not something that Amazon decides is "the same"
  • Fuck you Amazon

And most of all

  • The extra effort and money will maybe lead you to realize that you don't need to buy yet another thing.
  • Or if you do still buy it, maybe you'll decide you might as well get the good version that lasts, instead of the cheap version that breaks in a month.
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