Edward Hennessey wrote:
In general, Amazon offers some good deals.

But there is a "however" documented by recent
observations that deserves elaboration:

....[Note on Amazon web pricing elided for brevity]...

Amazon has turned into mostly nothing but a front for a zillion
different e-tailers instead of actually being something themselves.

Owing to that, I've pretty much given them the brush-off in preference
to a direct online distributor link that I can tell who it is upfront.

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