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?

  • @[email protected]
    80•1 year ago

    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.

        • Ab_intra
          6•1 year ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]English
            3•1 year ago

            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.