Amazon co-mingles like product, so you never know if you're getting new stuff or some other sellers junk. I quit buying any hardware beyond things like cheap components - like boxes of heatshrink or jumpers or something - from them.
Fortunate enough to have a Micro Center here, they're not always the cheapest but you can walk in and say this shit don't work and get a new one in short order.
I worked in the byopc dpt at a microcenter for 2 years back in like 2013-5 shit wash so cah and made bank for being 20yo
I always wanted a technical job as such, either related to PCs of phones, but there were so few opportunities other than working at some similar crappy PC store for the same minimum wage as working on checkouts.
Everyone buys mobiles and contracts directly from the networks now anyway, its cheaper to get a sim only plan and an unlocked phone and keep it until it dies rather than upgrading every couple of years anyway, there's very little opportunity in technical sales unless you can work directly for any of the manufacturers, and for that you need to live in a city which has one of their HQs or call centres, and then the latter has all been moved offshore to third world countries for cheaper labour.
it was pretty cool. was commission based and we would get resellers to basically run their business with our discount merch... and what we marked down when applicable. made dumb money built $4k computers.
Did you invest in ice cream?
no there was a weed store next door so I invested in getting stoned
I'm going to try get a brand new 1 tb western digital gen 4 drive for the media PC, I cancelled the previously ordered 500 Gb Gigabyte ones as the were slower 5000 mb read and taking too long for stock, and these 1 tb WDs cost the same as the two reduced price 500 Gb drives.
I'll just have to partition it for a boot sector, that is if I don't end up double scammed.
Tbh I have been guilty of such shenanigans in the past, but I never send back empty boxes or swapped out items - if Amazon send it on non signed delivery then it simply never arrived and I get it refunded, not my fault they cheap out on the delivery and can't prove whether or not I got it.
> if Amazon send it on non signed delivery then it simply never arrived and I get it refunded, not my fault they cheap out on the delivery and can't prove whether or not I got it
Think a sophisticated company would track customers who did things like this? Very easy to track and human behavior is fairly easy to predict after a certain point.
Oh they do, you just don't do it all the time, once a year on a high value item out of hundreds of orders isn't going to get noticed.
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