Nothing, amazon is a leech. Don't use amazon.
Agreed. Fuck amazon.
Fuck Amazon. Buy local. Cancel your prime membership.
We don't have Amazon.
Cheap bluetooth obd2 scanner. But yeah, I've been trying to keep my Amazon spending to a minimum. I'll try to buy from anywhere else first
These can be had from AliExpress for less. Amazon is a middleman and the markup can be significant
I had a VeePeak one for a while. It was excellent. Everyone should have one, honestly.
I try to use Amazon less and less these days, but there are still some things worth getting for cheap.
A whole category for me is small kitchen items. Mixing bowls, bench scraper, oil bottles, squeeze bottles, etc. You can get good brands too, you just have to look a little harder these days.
If you’re in the US, check out webstaurantstore for those items. Way better pricing than Amazon, so you can have a whole stack of every size mixing bowl, sheet pans, glassware, etc, for what you’d pay on Amazon for one.
I used to live less than a minute from Aberdeen and have never heard of this. My wife, then girlfriend, would go to the Restaurant Supply store down near Baltimore instead. Thanks for the link!
Basically every usb cable i have bought. If you try it locally, there are like two bigger chains in every city who sell those at ridiculous costs. To get them at a reasonable price you’d have to drive to a specialised vendor available only in the biggest cities (conrad, elv) or at very remote places (e.g. pollin).
Oh, not to forget about filament for the 3d printer. My favourite brands (sunlu, esun) are only available though amazon.
Fully agree, I refuse to get my USBC cables from any local store, Walmart used to be the best area around that you could find them for online, but since then Amazon has definitely taken over
I've bought these a few times and they've never disappointed. They seem really sturdy and they do my fast charging and data transfer with no issue. ~14USD for two 3ft, two 6ft and a 10ft is a good deal imo
A cheap Casio watch. Lasts ages and always helpful.
A really fucking long ethernet cable.
Use monoprice cheaper and better...
Monoprice sells on Amazon also and if you have prime it's usually cheaper than paying for shipping from monoprice.com
Also not available in Europe, stop assuming people are from the same county as you.
A good sleep mask
THIS THIS THIS
In my case my mom made a sleep mask for me in 11th grade and I'm still using it a bunch of times.
t. 24 years old
It's a bit more than 20 bucks but you can buy a ring of keys to pretty much any piece of heavy equipment you could possibly want.
You never know when say.... Let's pick a random one ... A Komatsu D355A could come in handy.
Subtle. Nice.
I'm just glad someone got the reference
Rechargable hand warmers, pack of two, 10000mah
Oh my God yes, I bought one of these about 10 years ago it's still going strong and whenever I get a little cold I just turn it on and it's so nice.
Another thing that I found is amazing is putting them in your shoes are slippers for about 5-10 minutes before you use them, because it means when you put your shoes on they're not super cold so it feels like you're putting them in hot water instead of cold slippers
I love my Glocusent book light.
https://www.amazon.com/Glocusent-Rechargeable-Portable-Brightness-Dimmable/dp/B09PR1BTM7
Apple dongle for 3.5mm headphones
The earbuds that connect to apple's charging port are under $20 too.
I mean you can connect almost any IEMs or headphones to it. It's got a really good DAC all things considering.
FYI, neither of your links are working for me on voyager iOS or on the web
EDIT:
I think you were trying to link to websites and not communities
Thank you for having this comment, since the second link was only a period for me I didn't even realize there was a second link there.
Oh wow, I hadn't realized it was necessary to take the fully qualified approach when linking on Lemmy, Thanks for teaching me something. Fixed.
Not Amazon but MercadoLivre, I bought a water bottle that keeps water cold for a very long time (my old one stopped working somehow and the handle was broken). A bit over R$100 which is just under $20.
You can't tell us about a great water bottle that keeps it's cool without telling us which one you recommend!
There's like a hundred brands that all do basically the same thing. Just look for stainless steel with double wall vacuum insulation. I've got half a dozen cheapo free ones from various jobs and they all perform well.
48 pack of Amazon basic AA batteries for my trail cams. For years I was feeding my kids saw dust thickened stew to afford the 8 lithium batteries per camera for all 7-12 cameras we have between the property my father and I share. (His 150 acres and my 150 are connected) for comparison 48 Amazon basic batteries are $14. 48 energizer lithiums is a cunt hair under $100. It wasn't until I looked into the reason for the cameras calling out lithium only batteries was because alkaline batteries have a lower output of charge when they are running low but lithium batteries don't. The company said the lower power creates issues with the camera if it loses power mid cellular transfer of images. They made it sound like what happens if you lose power updating firmware on something. So I even question they're reasoning cuz I feel like wort case scenario is you lose the image it was transferring but other than that, why would losing power on something ruin it? Either way the change happened when I realized the app showed how much batter is remaining for each camera and just started changing them out between half empty and 3/4 empty. Haven't had a single problem in the 2 and half years since the change.
Why not go with solar powered cameras?
The OEM solar panels are like $120 each. I know rhe cameras don't last long enough to offset the cost of $120 with a price of 3.42 per camera using battery. It'd take 34 years to be a valid ROI. Doing the math and now realizing that I might not make it 34 more years climbing tree stands🤣🤣🤣
Edit: I did rig up a cheap China panel with the DC plug for the camera and I think it worked. It was definitely sketchy af tho because it just always read 100% on the app after that.
I had some Amazon Basics blackout curtains that were well worth the $18 it cost. Compared to similar priced "blackout" curtains from Walmart and other physical retailers, they actually worked for their intended purpose and blocked all light.
This right here, blackout curtains are a must for any person that has a job or sleep schedule that requires them to be up at night and asleep during the day
Also if you're a vampire and just hate sunlight.
Workpro multitool often dips below $20.
The Cool Tools review on it is pretty good.
Ultrasonic cleaner! Really awesome for glasses, jewelry, all kinds of small stuff. I fill it with isopropanol solution and clean my phone case in it.
I'd be interested in getting a link for this product if you don't mind!
Mine doesn't seem to exist anymore sorry.
Titanium keychain toothpick
Would you mind sharing the link ? I love titanium stuff
Looks like it's not on Amazon anymore. But there's lots of similar.
This is the exact one I've been using for almost a decade.
A basic stainless steel mate kit. I wasn't a mate drinker before, now I occasionally do.
I'm Argentinian, so I do enjoy mate almost daily. However I find that it's a lot of yerba used for just me drinking, so I have a Ceba Solo (not my picture, but that's exactly the same model I have). It's easy to serve, afterwards you only have to drink because it essentially makes the water go through the yerba automatically and uses way less yerba. The only downside is that I have never seen these for sale outside of Argentina, I have moved mine through 3 countries already, but if you ever find one it makes drinking mate by yourself a whole easier and cheaper.
My purse. The kind you would believe is bigger on the inside.
USB extension cable
Not USB-C, I hope.
(USB-C cables are smart cables with chips in, and the standard does not allow for extensions of any sort, intelligent or otherwise.)
TIL thank you!
A slicer to slice eggs, strawberries etc into small slices.
Place in hole, close top with metal wires over it, and voila, sliced whatever!
Works great on olives as well.
After experimenting with 400 mg and 100 mg doses, I bought 30 mg CoQ10 pills off Amazon and found just the right dosage.
Some chinesium computer mouse. I had low expectations but it worked perfectly for a good 7 years before the mouse wheel died. It even had RGB, removable weights, and variable DPI/pointer speeds!
I had, technically still have, three mice like that. All work fine, but the mouse wheels have given out. Too much hand cruft, dust and crumbs I guess, as well as all the scrolling. That said, I haven't done anything differently with other, very similar, mice and - touch wood - no others have ever done that. The problem I have with my current mouse is that, paradoxically, it somehow gets more sticky if I clean it.
uh.. nothing? except when they let me order piercing kits and hard alcohol with a giftcard when I was 12. Could I sue them for this? I fucked up my ear.
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