Shopping for tech stuff in So Cal
WAS great because we get all the latest
gear the minute it gets off the boat from Asia. But stores have
closed, covid has destroyed things, Staples and Best Buy do
not have the selection they once did as electronics sales shift more onto
the Internet. People on the East Coast pay more for the same stuff
because it must be shipped across America first. Sadly, Fry's
Electronics (shown above) has
gone out of business due to things like Amazon.com stealing their
sales and the Coranovirus pandemic closing their stores. SAD. RIP you
kooky retail electronics wonderland. You might try the
Best Buy at La Brea and Santa Monica instead. Avoid wandering
aimlessly through the pages of Amazon.com and its fake reviews,
strangely priced products, and untrustworthy "refurbished" tech.
For
strictly online shopping I recommend
NewEgg.com.
There are several other sites that are just as good but NewEgg is in Whittier.
That's in LA just 12 miles from downtown. Like Amazon.com they even have
their own delivery trucks. They can send you almost anything
in a day or two even with the cheapest shipping. Plus they get everything
new and nifty the minute it comes off the boat from Asia. Long Beach is
where all the Asian imports enter America. Why buy from an East Coast site
that must ship electronics cross country just to get back to where it was
originally imported? I have never used it but I have heard that their customer support is poor, so you might want to think twice about
spending thousands of dollars there but for smaller purchases I would
definitely reco it. In fact, it is all I use unless forced to go to the
"Amazon."
Did you know Amazon treats its white collar and blue
collar workers like Scientology slaves!?? Yes, drivers have to
pee in bottles to make their deliveries! Because the site does not
really vet the products for sale one journalists was able to set up a
fake account selling worker urine as an energy drink!
Warehouse employee locations are monitored using their cell phones.
Someone is spending too much time in the bathroom! How dare you have
diarheaa from overwork! Plus
many worse things! Unionize! Of course Jeff Bezos, billionaire,
won't stand for that. How do you think he got that rich? If working in
US Amazon warehouses are like being exploited in the third world, check
out the
explotation Amazon does there!
White collar workers in their
offices are exposed to the same horrible pressures. As in the Church of
Scientology, you are expected to fill out a report on what your boss
does and he does the same to you. This cross checks everyone and leads
to a culture of snitching. Office workers also have the same unbearable
long hours and stress of the blue collar ones. And you better NOT work
from home! If Amazon employees worked from home the real estate market
in downtown Seattle (their HQ) would plummet! All so you can get that
roll of scotch tape five minutes sooner. But you know who is really
being "Scotch" (cheap)? Owner Jeff Bezos!
