What websites do you use as an alternative to Amazon?
I've been trying to avoid shopping on Amazon for several years. For computer parts, I look at Newegg. For pet stuff, Chewy.
But what about all the miscellaneous stuff? What other websites do you trust when it comes to shopping online?
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Fun side story. My first job as a developer, I was working in a small porn company in downtown Chicago. We had just hired a few people, so being the only techy in the company it was on me to order a bunch of hardware from NewEgg.
It was supposed to be delivered days later. But no, they had an employee, just like a regular dude, hop in his car and deliver the order on the same day. This was probably 2006, so same day delivery way NOT a normal thing.
I rarely get to tell this story because I don't want people to know I started off my (somewhat long) software engineering career in porn and because who cares about this in today's world.
However, OP mentioned NewEgg, so it fits here.
Porn starts a surprising number of careers.
Maybe not that surprising.
It's not really.. Just look at how VHS, DVD and blu-ray became popular..
I despise the porn industry because it's so exploitative. But sometimes there are positive outcomes..
Just to note that the blu-ray was mainly thanks to PS3.
Thinking about war as I read your comment and how it has had the same effect on driving technology and medicine forward... Obviously not in the nicest way.
you can just tell this story without mentioning you worked for a porn company?? lol