Amazon has Elderberry which is the only cough medicine that doesn't make me have weird side effects but regular stores it's hit and miss so we have Prime just for that to get next day delivery. We don't live in a big city where there is 20 different stores though even when I was little there were better designed stores.
God I miss Circuit City when it actually worked!
We need to bring back physical stores. Cut this online crap. Yes it requires effort but it's better to talk to someone and feel the physical product and there's something special if the store has a good atmosphere online sellers can't beat.
Ebay is sadly the only alternative which is equal to walking into a market place blindfolded. Ebay is the digital Portabello Road where you get stolen goods and I've gotten ripped off on almost every thing I got and some cases never got my order so I stopped. Amazon I've gotten ripped off a few times but many times gotten my money back almost right away.
When Jeff was around you could actually contact them right off the bat though the right thing to do was go thru the seller first if 3rd party otherwise skip that rule and go directly to Amazon and they will deal with it. If you don't get anything resolved by the 3rd party seller then Amazon would often automatically step in and unless you asked them too or you pulled your credit card out by default the money would go towards the Amazon gift card balance.
Several times I thought I didn't get my money back only to find out it was in the gift card balance which is a bit tricky to find. If possible avoid third party it's slow. Ebay is even slower then Amazon's 3rd party slowest service.
HOWEVER more and more it's becoming clear that if you don't do Prime and just pay for faster shipping it's actually better unless you really need a certain medicine stores don't have because the stores are too Fu$$$$$ stupid to carry the stuff that works.
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