Amazon casualty.
I'd say poor service and crap products probably had more to do with it.
Two sides of the same coin.
Yup, poor service.
I was in a Fry’s looking for some obscure board, and found it in a locked case. I wandered around looking for help, but none of the salesfloor would help because they work on commission.
So, since no one was coming around to help, I started breaking into the glass case, fully expecting security to swoop down on me. Nope. I pulled the board from the glass case, went to the aisle, paid for it, and never went back to that Fry’s in Santa Clara, CA.
On the upside, when I purchased a refurbished computer at the Fry’s on East Brokaw in San Jose, I bought the 3 year extended warranty. That warranty paid off 3 separate times, best warranty I ever bought.