> It only works good if you know exactly what you want
It's worse than that, though. I already know exactly what I want (as did the parent commenter, I'm sure).
For their search to work well, you also have to know exactly how the seller happens to have described it.
Except, it's even worse than that, because, even for slightly different versions of the same thing, the description can differ significantly enough to confuse Amazon's search. This is particularly true if there's more than one seller, but I've seen it happen even with the same seller.
Usually, I find their search works, in that, with enough attempts and brute-force, manual perusal of the results, I can find what I wanted to buy (assuming it's there to be found), but I would not characterize it as working well, not for the use case of parts (or even computer/electronic components).
It's worse than that, though. I already know exactly what I want (as did the parent commenter, I'm sure).
For their search to work well, you also have to know exactly how the seller happens to have described it.
Except, it's even worse than that, because, even for slightly different versions of the same thing, the description can differ significantly enough to confuse Amazon's search. This is particularly true if there's more than one seller, but I've seen it happen even with the same seller.
Usually, I find their search works, in that, with enough attempts and brute-force, manual perusal of the results, I can find what I wanted to buy (assuming it's there to be found), but I would not characterize it as working well, not for the use case of parts (or even computer/electronic components).