I always love the nonsensical order of letters that these companies use.

People need to realize that Amazon has them locked in.

I needed a tall mini fridge for a garage. Cheapest I could find was fucking $700.

I went into a nearby home appliance store and got the same one for fucking ~$200. Granted I had to pay for an $80 delivery, but it still beats the shit out of every option for a 7 cu ft fridge on Amazon.

Honestly, my strategy for buying goods online is to look up the relevant wikipedia article, read the list of manufacturers, look at their own wikipedia pages or read customer reviews, then finally go to the company site and ordering directly.

For used items or niche items not widely produced, ebay or craigslist.

Amazon always had funky shit with how they recommended things - now people just know how to game it more, so winning move is not to play there.

This shit frustrates me to no end. These days I just look on Aliexpress first, just so I’m aware what the usual drop shipping item actually goes for.

It’s very annoying that platforms like Amazon tolerate this. Because it’s actively driving me away from them. I want to see good quality items, not the same Aliexpress shit priced ten times higher. But I can’t FIND the good stuff because the platform is literally full of garbage.

It’s missing the random “Amazon’s Choice” badge on one of the 20 identical choices 🤣

Amazon is just a drop shipping marketplace where everything comes direct from the exact same warehouse in China.

Honestly, I stopped buying on Amazon 3 years ago. Apart from an enshittified experience I don't want to pay for Jeff Bezos next Helicopter. I go to the store or buy on alternative web sites which are 10€ more expensive, but fuck Jeff.

Man it’s fallen off a cliff. Many years ago I bought a knockoff Chinese messenger bag from Amazon. It’s fantastic, great materials, good quality zipper, it’s held up to daily use for years and looks even better than when I got it (leather developed a nice patina).

So, I needed another bag, went looking for the same brand as mine. No longer there, but there are 75 identical looking but weirdly named brands instead. I found one that looked as similar as I could to my old bag, and this one is an utter piece of shit. I mean, I’ll use it, it’s a duffle bag so not as much use as the messenger bag, but the difference is stark. Stiff, cheap cloth, leather sure, but probably harvested entirely from cow buttholes, zippers look brass, but one zip and the color wore off…

Everything, even purchased goods have enshittified. Everything looks cool but just absolutely sucks.

The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.

Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.

I deleted my Amazon account last month. No more Goodreads and IMDb is just another plus.

Extracted my ebooks from my Kindle with Calibre, so I am fine.

Feeling good and less targeted and bombarded.

But you know that capitalism is so good because the free market ensures that there’s so much variety and choice in quality and innovation.

More expensive AliExpress...
It feels like Amazon is flooded with dropshipping beyond repair.

Are you looking for something which can actually take a beating? I have bought like four of these cheaper bags on Amazon and they all fall apart in a year or two. And before then they all have shitty strap adjustments which slowly slip over time.

I'd strongly suggest getting something like a chrome or timbuk2 bag which will be like 5x more expensive up front but will actually last decades instead of years. I have been dailying the OG chrome citizen messenger bag for five years now and it's barely broken in.

Do Amazon companies count in Scrabble?

My co-worker & I have the exact same lunchbag, except the label has a different gibberish name on it. Yup, both from Amazon.

I will not defend Amazon. But the lack of local retail/price gouging which is shipping in Canada keeps pushing me to Amazon.

I need a role of 3D printable filament or an SD Card. The nearest store is 1-2 hours away and costs twice as much for the convenience, buying from the manufacturer may not possible and if it is shipping cost just as much as the product.

I would love it if there was competition, but there isn’t and Amazon knows it. So for the most part I just buy from brands I know are safe.

Just in case anyone actually intends to buy one, buy european: https://blahol.com/

More and more I’m finding things I want either aren’t on amazon or are buried under so many inferior products that they are hard to find. Earlier I was looking for geek themed ugly Christmas sweaters, and the ones on the first few pages of amazon results were absolute garbage. Found several viable suppliers elsewhere in no time.

Once again capitalism has bred all sorts of innovation in the space!

So I just got a steam deck... A little birthday present to myself.

My local microcenter sells nothing for it... Neither does best buy. And if best buy did I wouldn't over pay anyway at that failing store.

So... Amazon it is. 40 bucks and two days later I have a silicone case, anti glare screen protector and a cheapo dock.

I didn't want to get all that shit off amazon... It was just the most convenient place and in my case the only place.

If anything amazon needs to crack down on these bs Chinese sellers.

Amazon's product search is intentionally bad

Maybe people will stop using Amazon?

Nahhhh

Almost everything on Amazon is cheap trash, and they promote the hell out of all that trash instead of products of any quality. I am also so sick of the click funnels where you search for a specific item and they just give you pages full of knockoff trash as search results even if you go to a specific brand store. It's nonsense.

It’s worse than when eBay peaked.