[robfine]

In the early days of shopping on the internet, the reason for doing so was to either find things you couldn’t find anywhere else but mostly because there was price competition well beyond what you could find in bricks & mortar stores. If you were willing to put up with a little inconvenience including sending back the occasional damaged or defective product that was part of “the game.” Not anymore. Now, the Amazons and others have gotten the convenience part almost perfected. But savings... buying on the internet, that’s pretty much long gone. IMO, instead of the internet being a marketplace where lots of dealers of various things competing based on price, the way it was years ago, it has become the place where everything is sold at retail. There are really no more bargains by shopping on the internet. So if you (me, we) are going to be paying retail, i.e., the same price we would pay walking into a store, we should accept no less than the quality of what we would walk out of the store with. As “free shipping”, I never once paid shipping on anything I ever walked out of a Best Buy store with or anything I bought from a local B&M audio dealer. And whatever I walked out with was not damaged in shipping— unless I bought in on a scratch & dent sale and then I knew what I was getting up front. You should accept from internet vendors no less than what you would accept buying from a local store. (Again, jmho).