I am old. I remember when pricewatch.com and tigerdirect.com existed. You wanted to build a PC, you were picking parts manually uphill both ways while wearing an onion on your belt.
That’s the first step to adding a bunch of third party sellers to their store and making it a pain to figure out what they have on hand locally. Looking at you pretty much every other big retailer.
I am old. I remember when pricewatch.com and tigerdirect.com existed. You wanted to build a PC, you were picking parts manually uphill both ways while wearing an onion on your belt.
Darn kids these days with their PC Part Pickers putting their builds in a tidy list.
Back in my day, you went to Babagge’s, CompUSA, Fry’s, or the local small PC builder shop, and hope they had some decent parts in stock.
Microcenter. They were always very well stocked. Well at least most of the time.
I love Micro Center. I wish they’d expand or offer online ordering and shipping.
That’s the first step to adding a bunch of third party sellers to their store and making it a pain to figure out what they have on hand locally. Looking at you pretty much every other big retailer.
Sigh. I’d disagree with you, but you’re absolutely correct.
Yeah, it sucks. It would be a cool idea but I have no confidence it wouldn’t be enshitified almost immediately.
I’ve never had one near me
They used to print PC part catalogs… you know, on paper…
I planned a build 2-3 times but never pulled the trigger. What I had for school was always “good enough” but I enjoyed the planning process.