Personally, when I order something these days, it’s been on eBay. It kind of sucks though, and half of the packages still arrive in Amazon boxes anyway…?
Where do you liked to order stuff from, that’s not Amazon?
Personally, when I order something these days, it’s been on eBay. It kind of sucks though, and half of the packages still arrive in Amazon boxes anyway…?
Where do you liked to order stuff from, that’s not Amazon?
I think one of the bigger problems with amazon is that it replaces so many different sectors all at once. I don’t think any one single replacement is really solving the problem, furthermore I don’t think an internationally relevant replacement for any one sector is that great either.
I guess the most recent amazon temptation was a utility cabinet, I found a nice one on amazon, but then searched and found an equivalent one from Canadian tire.
The hardest thing for me to break is audio books. I use the library but I find it rarely has what I want in stock, I have tried piracy but I can’t find a good tracker for audio books and I like supporting authors when I can. Audible is really cheap compared to every store front, especially when buying credits in bulk.
For audiobooks, I personally use Libro FM, though audiobooks.com is also an alternate source. Unfortunately if you’re looking only at price, you won’t be able to move past Audible because they employ so many shady and bad-for-authors practices that their prices are artificially low. If you’re only interested in getting DRM-free Cory Doctorow books, Craphound.
Audible costs me about 12CAD/book
Libro seems to only cost 20CAD/book which is a significant hike but it’s not as bad as buying the books outright which costs 30-40$ which is simply too much for me to afford. I’ll probably switch when I run out of ausible credits thanks for the rec!
I’m not paying for any subscription media services right now, but I did try both Audible and Everand after having the same bad luck finding audiobook piracy options, one time. I found Audible confusing and frustrating, but Everand was pretty great. When I’m in the market for audiobooks again, I’ll probably subscribe to them again.
I don’t love that they stop working when your sub expires (unlike audible) but that price does have me really tempted.
Blick is the place for art supplies.
*expensive art supplies. It’s always worth looking to see if you have a creative reuse center nearby.