I’ll start - I don’t shop a lot, but if I had to buy stuff like hardware parts, I do use Amazon sometimes, but if I can, then I try to use Flipkart. Realizing how it has turned into a monopoly, I try to look for alternative websites, and check if they’re trustworthy.

If I remember correctly, the last three items I’ve bought online were hardware parts from some local websites. The chi-fi IEMs were bought through headphonezone.in, and they were super-fast in delivery - I had to wait for only four days.

  • dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    I’m avoiding Amazon for many years now. To be fair I usually just… Don’t buy things?

    But when I have to, I try to go local shop first, second hand websites/markets, other websites and eventually Amazon, I guess? It never came to this.

    I have spent 10/20% more than the price on Amazon though.

    Last but not least, for niece stuff I have used Amazon as a sort of catalogue to find out what exists and then look for things further by other means.