[...IDE <-> SATA converters "for under $3
shipped from China"...]
If I could buy such a converter at the local
brick-and-mortar the
same way, at the same time as, I buy the drive? Then you might have
a point. Otherwise, at the very least it's raised the bar
substantially.
I dunno Mouse. You and I usually agree on this sort of thing, but
this time I have to disagree. It's a whole lot easier to to sit here
in my underwear at 4AM, click on a listing and have it show up at my
door a week later...
Easier, perhaps. (Well, for most people, at least. Not for me.)
But ease is not everything. I'm not about to give my plastic number to
a website, especially not one not bound by Canadian privacy laws.
If they do phone orders? Mayyyybe.
Even if it _is_ available online and even if you _are_ willing to buy
it that way, you still have to find it. Even TeoZ sounded unsure
("don't they make [...]?", not "there are [...].").
I'd also rather go to the store and have it in my hands tomorrow than
have to wait until "a week later" (if it arrives at all, that is - and
what recourse do you have against a Chinese outfit if it doesn't, or
turns out to be the wrong device, or some such?).
TeoZ also remarked
< The local brick-and-mortar store would charge $19.99 for the same
< part.
Would they? I don't recall seeing them at _any_ price. Paying $20
instead of $3 to have it on the spot instead of some indeterminate time
a week or two later? To have the assurance of looking at it to make
sure it's adapting in the direction I want? To not have to deal with
God-damned Web crap? No question that'd be worth it to me. Those are
why I buy disks at brick-and-mortar instead of "online", too.
[...], and not have to deal with the
"duhhhhhhhhhhhhh" of the
mouth-breathers who work retail these days.
My experience differs.
Come to think of it, there's one small brick-and-mortar I know that
might be willing to dig one up for me. I'll have to ask.
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