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[cellio]

I needed a fairly long ethernet cable to run to the TV room, and we failed at making our own so I decided to just buy one. Amazon has 50' cables for $6-10, but I wanted it today (new TiVo, for which "wireless" on the feature list apparently really meant "wireless-capable, if you get a peripheral", fooey

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[mbarr]

Monoprice is a good option for that stuff. It's direct, and they may price match.

For us, with baby stuff, if the local store is close we use local. When it was 36 vs 24 on amazon, wel... Amazon won..

[cellio]

Haven't heard of Monoprice. Thanks for the tip.

[shewhomust]

I'd prefer to buy from small, local suppliers who treat me like someone they value; I'm prepared to pay extra to support that kind of shopping experience.

But given a choice between faceless monolith on the internet and faceless monolith on the High Street (or more likely, at an out-of-town shopping mall) - well, I don't feel much loyalty to either of those...

[devreux]

Ditto this! Also, I love your icon.

[shewhomust]

Thanks - it's a steamroller that turns up at local steam events.

[cellio]

Yeah, if I could have bought it from Joe's House of Peripherals, family-owned since whenever, I would have.

[dvarin]

Rep 1: This doesn't ship directly from Amazon; that doesn't count.

This makes no sense at all. All not shipping from Amazon does is change who they're pricematching with.

I am also willing to pay extra for "get it right now" as well as "can handle it before I buy it" and sometimes for "is officially supported," all of which Amazon has difficulty providing. Though Bezos is apparently working really hard at that first one. (You've seen the mini-heli-drone delivery project video?)

[cellio]

Yes, "can handle it before I buy it" is important sometimes. I much prefer to shop for clothing that way, and anything where precision in color matters. Doesn't always work, alas.

(Yes, I've seen the video.)