I worked for a company that only had one in-house programmer. The outsourced to the Ukraine for most of their programming needs. This was 20 years ago.
I just bought a new gaming chair last night, $172. So it's not that expensive. But I've never had a problem with Amazon. I did buy a 4TB external drive from Wish.com, and when I got it, it was only 2TB. They refunded me the money and I got to keep the drive. But it's never worked right.
I worked for a newspaper group back in the 1990s. I did all their programming in dBase III & IV LAN. I was putting in 80+ hours a week. I wasn't getting paid squat, but then they wanted to put me on salary (at less than I was currently making) and I said no way I'd give my notice first. So that's what I ended up doing.
They didn't believe me. But I left. After a few months of haggling I went back at $50 an hour on contract. I did this for a few weeks (about 25 hours a week), then started to not want to pay me. So I quit for good. Unless they made an upfront deposit.
Which they wouldn't do.
They ended up spending close to $250,000 on equipment and programmers and still couldn't do what I could. They were duplicating and tripling everything. Wasted so much money. Now I'm going to college for my BS in Computer Science with a specialty in Software Engineering. I'm currently running Windows 10 Pro Insiders Edition DEV and VMware with Kali Linux.