What you say about price is sometimes true, but Amazon has proven trustworthy, so they end up being the vendor backstopping a short list of specialists.
For electronics I try Newegg first. For cables, Monoprice. For espresso machines, WholeLatteLove. If I can't find a specialist site with good prices and a good reputation pretty quickly, Amazon gets the deal.
There are some categories where Amazon is a really bad shopping experience because they do not properly police vendors who "spam" a category so that finding the best price in a search is thwarted by pages of redundant listings. But for "stuff I might buy at Target but Target probably won't have as many choices" Amazon is tough to beat. Or you could say "for stuff that people are not passionate enough about to support an obviously good specialist site that can match or beat Amazon prices..."
For electronics I try Newegg first. For cables, Monoprice. For espresso machines, WholeLatteLove. If I can't find a specialist site with good prices and a good reputation pretty quickly, Amazon gets the deal.
There are some categories where Amazon is a really bad shopping experience because they do not properly police vendors who "spam" a category so that finding the best price in a search is thwarted by pages of redundant listings. But for "stuff I might buy at Target but Target probably won't have as many choices" Amazon is tough to beat. Or you could say "for stuff that people are not passionate enough about to support an obviously good specialist site that can match or beat Amazon prices..."