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jesus christ i just want to buy a usb-c PCI-E card for two more ports and it's just dozens of questionable chinese companies that i swear are stealing boilerplate from eachother and probably use the same factory. why does this suck so much also why the gently caress can't i get more than two C ports or a front panel with just a bunch of ports. SRQ fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Mar 20, 2022 |
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imo there’s a fake reviews problem but they’re still pretty spottable because the quality isn’t there yet. (i don’t think they’re using a ton of ml to generate these yet anyway) between this and only buying things sold by amazon, i have a pretty good experience. it’s not 100% because sometimes amazon does shared bins for a product so you can get fakes but for something like the return policy is fine so like whatever just try one
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SRQ posted:jesus christ i just want to buy a usb-c PCI-E card for two more ports and it's just dozens of questionable chinese companies that i swear are stealing boilerplate from eachother and probably use the same factory. here in china there are services for setting up a storefront on amazon.com without having to do warehousing yourself. you'll be selecting what to sell from the exact same lists of crap that everyone else is using and they even have boilerplate descriptions you can copy/paste or slightly edit and suggested pricing hth
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Mar 20, 2022 06:40
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having so many options to choose from is how you know you're living in a free country and if you don't like it then you can move to the soviet union
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Mar 20, 2022 06:43
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very carefully, op
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Mar 20, 2022 07:02
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get good
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Mar 20, 2022 14:45
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buy somewhere else
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Mar 20, 2022 14:58
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look up 'threshing machine' op
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Mar 20, 2022 15:14
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Improbable Lobster posted:buy somewhere else
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Mar 20, 2022 16:00
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there is little reason to buy anything on amazon anymore. everyone else offers free shipping, quick shipping, or brick and mortar pickup without the storefront making flea markets feel orginized
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Mar 20, 2022 16:02
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:there is little reason to buy anything on amazon anymore. everyone else offers free shipping, quick shipping, or brick and mortar pickup without the storefront making flea markets feel orginized it's super convenient, op unfortunately lazy wins out
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Mar 20, 2022 16:41
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:there is little reason to buy anything on amazon anymore. everyone else offers free shipping, quick shipping, or brick and mortar pickup without the storefront making flea markets feel orginized
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Mar 20, 2022 17:12
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you dont, good luck i have an orico usb pcie card and it works fine. hth.
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Mar 20, 2022 17:22
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:there is little reason to buy anything on amazon anymore. everyone else offers free shipping, quick shipping, or brick and mortar pickup without the storefront making flea markets feel orginized
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Mar 20, 2022 18:12
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if you really like living on the edge there’s always wish
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Mar 20, 2022 18:18
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amazon is terrible and there's no getting around it these days. it's fine for some things but if you venture out of that space then RIP
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Mar 20, 2022 18:33
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just buy the CCIRBPS one with 5k 5 star reviews and a two day old seller account like everyone else
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Mar 20, 2022 18:37
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fart simpson posted:here in china there are services for setting up a storefront on amazon.com without having to do warehousing yourself. you'll be selecting what to sell from the exact same lists of crap that everyone else is using and they even have boilerplate descriptions you can copy/paste or slightly edit and suggested pricing https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/27/style/what-is-inside-this-internet-rabbit-hole.html is it basically this kinda thing? i think about this article a lot and i'm pretty sure i've posted it a couple times before
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Mar 20, 2022 19:10
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i dont buy based on what computers tell me to get, i buy based on what people tell me to get. which is to say i bug everyone for recommendations until they get fed up and just tell me what to do
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Mar 20, 2022 19:11
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use Amazon Thresh, op
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Mar 20, 2022 20:30
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i had to google to see if this was an actual aws thing or not
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Mar 20, 2022 20:54
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:use Amazon Elastic Thresher, op
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Mar 20, 2022 20:54
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to recycle a joke from a friend, what idiot decided to call it Amazon Fresh and not Amazon Elastic Waistband
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Mar 20, 2022 20:55
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weird how amazon always sends me stuff with leaky batteries and has to refund me for everything i buy
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Mar 20, 2022 22:15
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You should seriously never use amazon.
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i got some gift cards i gotta burn through but besides that i never buy stuff on amazon anymore
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Mar 21, 2022 16:59
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just buy one directly from an oem, op https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/usb-31-g2-pcie-card-2-type-c-ports-1dp-in-kit/apd/403-bbuh/pc-accessories
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Improbable Lobster posted:buy somewhere else
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Mar 21, 2022 20:16
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Is startech still good? Maybe you could buy from them.
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I've come full circle. I window shop at Amazon and buy it from either the manufacturer, CDW, or even Newegg (as long as Newegg is fulfilling [Yes I know about Gamer's Nexus things]).
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Mar 24, 2022 02:31
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ill buy Anker or Monoprice and pretty much nothing else.
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Mar 24, 2022 02:46
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thebigcow posted:Is startech still good? Maybe you could buy from them. startech is almost always great quality but it's always markedly more expensive, if that matters
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Mar 24, 2022 03:25
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you get what you pay for
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Mar 24, 2022 03:27
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:you get what you pay for sometimes you do sometimes you dont
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Mar 24, 2022 03:36
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:you get what you pay for no. the correct phrasing is "you dont get what you dont pay for"
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Mar 24, 2022 05:35
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monoprice is still very good and useful, anker i've had more stuff break than the premium would suggest
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Mar 24, 2022 16:12
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I worked at a post production house a long time ago that did media transfer (digital to analog, etc), and every cable they used came from monoprice. That was as good enough of an endorsement for me.
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Mar 24, 2022 16:44
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if you work at a computer touching company or know someone who does, ask them who their parts supplier is - usually that supplier also has a webstore where plebs like you can order stuff from or buy oem return policies are cool but you want to get on with your life, not minmax 10 bucks off the price that you then lose forever by having to spend time doing the return jig
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Mar 24, 2022 18:19
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for computer parts i go to my local brick and mortar store or use newegg and sort by sold by new egg and shipped by new egg.
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post hole digger posted:for computer parts i go to my local brick and mortar store or use newegg and sort by sold by new egg and shipped by new egg. are you a time traveler from the mid 2000s cause newegg sucks now and frys/compusa/everything thats not best buy are fuckin dead i bought some weird bug zapper wand from monoprice on a whim and it was chintzy aliexpress crap that died after like 4 uses. was fun frying fruit flies while it lasted though, and the ethernet cables were still good, so vov Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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