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Re: Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

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Post by Avalaxy »

dylan604 wrote: post #197
UncleMeat wrote: post #142

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I live in a fairly small town. Almost every store is minimally staffed, often by a single person. Phones regularly go to voicemail. Calling up the local shoe store to ask whether they have something in my size will get an interesting response. I’m also thinner than average here, so entire pants racks at the local clothing stores just don’t carry a single piece in my size.

One store I frequented was owner operated with probably their daughter as an employee. They would walk around with a cordless phone on their hip so as to not miss a call. If there's enough interest, people find a way.

A phone without a cord? What is this magic?

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Post by corty »

yabadubakta wrote: post #94
qudat wrote: post #89

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> I can’t help but point out that you could call the store before you left your house. And when in the store, you could ask a sales associate for help. This is still worse than going to amazon and doing a quick search, seeing a ton of different products that satisfy your needs, and reading reviews from people that bought them. Then when you purchase it arrives in a day. Fake reviews aside, this is vastly superior.

And then possibly ending up with a counterfeit.

That is equally possible in a brick-and-mortar store. Even regulated shops such as pharmacies are suspected of selling counterfeits: https://www.deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de/news/artikel/2017/...

I'd even argue that brick-and-mortar is more prone to counterfeits because control buying by the original producers is far harder.

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Post by jcims »

walrus01 wrote: post #224
jcims wrote: post #177

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I've wanted to dive into FPV drone flying for some time. Finally pulled the trigger on the components I needed to get started...controller, transmitter, goggles, charger, battery, BNF drone. I did this online because it seemed impossible to sort out locally and the prices I did see were +30% or more in price. Somehow in the process I goofed and ordered batteries with the wrong connector (xt60 v xt30). I spent this mo…

> Somehow in the process I goofed and ordered batteries with the wrong connector (xt60 v xt30). I spent this morning trying to find other batteries or an adapter in the local metro area. As someone with direct experience in this whole class of hardware (hobbyist grade UAS stuff), you're going to want to have a soldering setup and low cost consumables (heat shrink tubing, etc, extra connectors that cost a few dollars…

This is fantastic advice. I actually have lots of the tools from tinkering with motor controllers but none of the parts lol. I have all that on order (of course, because it's not available locally) so I hopefully will not find myself in this spot again.

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Post by freeone3000 »

bullmeza wrote: post #189
amelius wrote: post #160

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I am confused. How do you find local businesses and check their stock levels?

I do not check stock levels. I am using the google maps Places API to search for keywords. Google has tons of data.

So instead of finding the item I'm looking for, it finds me a local store that sells the same category of items as the category of items I'm looking for.

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Post by rhacker »

dnndev wrote: post #232
cerved wrote: post #215

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who wants to return stuff

Most make it super easy. I think Amazon even includes a return label just in case. Waaay better than driving to a store with perfume masking stink, wait in line for fitting rooms, wait in line to pay. So many cons to going in store… most stores are stink boxes.

YES this. Cheap purfume is everywhere these days. I blame AXE commercials - because now men are wearing perfume more than women ever did.

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Post by jiveturkey »

dataflow wrote: post #268
jiveturkey wrote: post #267

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brand new jeans are washed before you get them. it gives them the texture. i noticed that a certain jean i buy fit consistently only within a given dye and wash. darker pair or different wash fit differently.

Yeah I get that they're washed, but I don't care if they're washed... can't they just measure something after the wash? Is what I'm asking. I'm talking about the exact same dye btw. Like the same color, number, everything. Only difference is sizes. I've gotten smaller sizes an inch larger than the "larger" sizes for the exact same jeans . It's ridiculous.

> can't they just measure something after the wash?

of course they can! those jeans cost double.

it’s not a matter of incompetence or don’t care. it’s a matter of production efficiency.

as for otherwise identical jeans being different sizes, that’s also a matter of consistency of the raw material. if you want high consistency it costs more. consumers aren’t willing to bear that cost.

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Post by cerved »

dnndev wrote: post #232
cerved wrote: post #215

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who wants to return stuff

Most make it super easy. I think Amazon even includes a return label just in case. Waaay better than driving to a store with perfume masking stink, wait in line for fitting rooms, wait in line to pay. So many cons to going in store… most stores are stink boxes.

point was that for clothing you can avoid returns by trying it on first

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Post by dang »

drcongo wrote: post #9
corytheboyd wrote: post #8

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It’s downvoted because the subject of this submission is a chrome extension, not Google.

I thought Chrome was a Google product. My mistake.

Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for a different quality of discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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