Reason you should not buy music stuff from Amazon

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And Amazon is giving WalMart some competition (and with Amazon stores, it sticks it to eBay too). To counter attack, WalMart purchased Jet.com, I've found a few better deals there, but the selection is nowhere near Amazon's.

Amazon has a few competitors globally; China's Alibaba is even bigger than Amazon IIRC, and both are trying to compete for business in India. You know the places where many jobs have moved offshore the last decade? ;)

I don't even think about going to a store, I go to Amazon first and usually buy it, saves me an hour trip to the mall, another hour back, and who knows how long finding what I went to get in the first place. Shopping brick and mortars are a huge time waste IMO.

I even bought most of my guitars and gear online, sight unseen except when they have the pics of the actual gear I'm buying. So far so good.
 
rsm":2jugzuzb said:
And Amazon is giving WalMart some competition (and with Amazon stores, it sticks it to eBay too). To counter attack, WalMart purchased Jet.com, I've found a few better deals there, but the selection is nowhere near Amazon's.

Amazon has a few competitors globally; China's Alibaba is even bigger than Amazon IIRC, and both are trying to compete for business in India. You know the places where many jobs have moved offshore the last decade? ;)

I don't even think about going to a store, I go to Amazon first and usually buy it, saves me an hour trip to the mall, another hour back, and who knows how long finding what I went to get in the first place. Shopping brick and mortars are a huge time waste IMO.

I even bought most of my guitars and gear online, sight unseen except when they have the pics of the actual gear I'm buying. So far so good.
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Part of the pain of going to a store is a big part of my frustration with the U.S. and it's inability to plan and execute decent public transport. Let alone proper planning for roadways and growth of areas. First city I lived in was Boston and loved the subway. Didn't own a car the whole time I was there. Winter weather killed it for me though. I don't even live in Atlanta but just trying to get around certain parts of the small city (town really) I live in, Douglasville, can be amazingly thick traffic. Many times I went out to visit a store and say fuck it and go back home. Why be stuck in that shit, the store probably won't even have what you need in stock ("we can order it for you?") lol.
 
I've only had one return of an Amazon purchase and it was to a third party seller who made it right and begged for forgiveness and then a positive review when they sent me a replacement. I can't really think of anything I've bought from them that I'd have otherwise gotten from a mom and pop store. Oil filters, a/c filters, water filters, toothbrush heads, guitar consumables, gun parts, etc. No one of those is worth a drive to a store 30 min. away. My Prime membership pays for itself.
 
I had a guy send me a single tube as a duet a couple months ago. Amazon refunded the entire amount. I have NEVER had anything but exceptional service from them.
 
I really don't see how you can lose as a buyer through Amazon. Their support will totally side with you and, barring that, you can mostly only pay with a credit card. And so the CC will probably side with you too. Amex sure will. And in some cases, paying with Amex will double the item's warranty period. Can't lose.
 
I love Amazon prime. I honestly think it's the best service for obtaining consumer goods created to date.
 
When I replaced the tubes in my 50-watt amp, I used these guys:
http://www.thetubestore.com/

Got a matched quartet of 6v6's, and three 12ax7's.
It was an upgrade over the old stock tubes. The brand was Electro-Harmonix.
 
Shit! I ordered the exact same item from them yesterday. Gets delivered tomorrow. Fingers crossed!


scottosan":wfohir3l said:
rsm":wfohir3l said:
that's the seller using Amazon's services, they can't police every seller/item. I think it's the seller that "lied", and you should have some recourse through Amazon.

besides, you don't get to be the richest guy in the world by being nice ;)
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No, Amazon is both the seller and fullfiller.


JJ Electronics T-EL34-JJ-MQ Vacuum Tube EL34/6CA7 Pentode Matched Quad
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
$71.06


For me, shipping is often a day late and sometimes delivered to the wrong house by their drivers
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