This page started with Amazon who has been a thorn in my side in more ways than one since the beginning. First off, it's killed off almost all brick and mortar retailers. As a guitarist, this has ruined the music community, as we all used to go to guitar stores on the weekend to window shop, maybe even legit shop, and talk shop with other local guitarists to keep ourselves from going insane. As a computer and videogame guy, this was going to computer and video game shops, and talking shop with other computer and video game people who are into the same things as us - much the same way. Now it seems, everyone is very well siloed from their social lives by the internet, all thanks to Social Media, E-commerce, and so on. And most people are so blind, they don't realize the whole purpose of this stuff, and even a part of the "enshittification" process, is to make sure that you are stuck in some investor-benefitting closed-loop at your own expense, usually to your own detriment.

When I got on the web, e-commerce was e-mailing an individual seller, inquiring about the items in question, buying a money order at the service desk at the local grocery store, mailing it via snail mail to the seller, then waiting anywhere from a few days to a month or more for the item in question to arrive...with no tracking, no confirmation of when it was shipped, actually no IDEA when it was shipped, and no way of knowing if you got ripped off or not unless it's the end of the year and you're still waiting for your doodad to show up.