it might help amazonbasics, but it hurts everything else;
I am generally okay paying extra for the convenience of amazon, so I think I'm their target customer? but I have been burned a few times by fake products sold as the real thing. I mean, not so often that it's still less convenient, for me, at least, (and I'm usually able to return the thing) but it does vastly diminish the power of an 'everything store' if sometimes I buy a brand name thing and get a knock-off instead.
The whole point here is that you are paying extra for convenience. If I wanted to deal with sometimes getting the knock off version, I'd use ebay or aliexpress or whatever and save a few bucks.
I am generally okay paying extra for the convenience of amazon, so I think I'm their target customer? but I have been burned a few times by fake products sold as the real thing. I mean, not so often that it's still less convenient, for me, at least, (and I'm usually able to return the thing) but it does vastly diminish the power of an 'everything store' if sometimes I buy a brand name thing and get a knock-off instead.
The whole point here is that you are paying extra for convenience. If I wanted to deal with sometimes getting the knock off version, I'd use ebay or aliexpress or whatever and save a few bucks.