Now that Walmart has become amazon, what is the best online store for curated products?
Walmart Sells Fake 30TB Hard Drive That's Two Small SD Cards
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#152There was a time that I turned to buying from walmart.com as alternative to amazon, precisely because it wasn't taking the 3rd-party seller approach; but then they decided they had to imitate Amazon. Well, no thanks.
Target does this crap as well. When I search on these sites now I always check the box on items only fulfilled by the retailer. If there's no box like that, I won't shop there.
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#153I try to keep abreast of SSD prices, as I've been looking to swap out the spinning rust on my ESXi server with SSDs, but the prices are still a bit too high for my taste, and that hasn't changed much over the past few years. Which is why I was really surprised to see this both on Vice and ArsTechnica[0]. A quick web search for "4TB external SSD" shows prices in the USD$400-600 range. So 30TB for ~USD$40 seems too goo…
No, you see 30TB is just the company name, not the actual size /s
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I find particularly annoying is that these online “marketplaces” are not curated - they literally sell anything, probably drop shipped. It used to be that you would shop at a branded store, and there was a level of expectation that they had curated their collection so that it was of a quality that matched the stores brand. Some of their wares may be under their own branding, but they would sell other bands too t…
Are sold by "Amazon", "Walmart", "NewEgg" not curated? Amazon also has multiple curated store fronts, or collections, to my knowledge. In 2022 if you aren't buying "Sold by " on one of these market places then I think you should know what you are getting into.
Even with their Amazon Basics brand, I have a stick blender with a "TUREO" button rather than a "TURBO" button!
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Sorry I am confused can’t you filter by Walmart sold vs third party?
The trick I do is “pickup today or ship to store” as that gets Walmart only items as far as I can tell.
Me too!
I've been doing this with the Walmart+ delivery service for $100 a year. I even applied for their 5% cash back credit card. It saves me a good amount of time and money, and I am overall very happy with it.
If Walmart ever starts mixing 3rd party reseller crap with their "in-store" inventories, they will ruin a fantastic product and lose me as a customer.
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#156The marketplace-ization (is there a word for that?) of every retailer feels so short sighted. I’ll throw out an example I’ve noticed lately - furniture manufacturers. Search for any item on Crate & Barrel or West Elm’s website and you’ll first see a handful of exclusive pieces that are clearly built for the brand. Keep scrolling and the search results gradually become a bunch of generic third party items that you can…
And in Walmart's case, it's particularly egregious - the value proposition "Here's a website where you can buy anything that's sold at Walmart, for cheap-ass Walmart prices and we'll ship it to you, and you don't have to go into some crappy Walmart to do it" is appealing and seems like it would generate billions in revenue. But the reality is terrible; lots of stuff is 'in-store purchase only', some of it they won't…
I’ve never been a fan of Walmart, but I bought from them after getting frustrated by Amazon’s sea of questionable products. Even though I bought a new, “sold by Walmart” item (i.e. not from a marketplace seller), I received an unopened Amazon return that was shipped from an Amazon fulfillment center (complete with someone’s return slip that included their name and address).
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Yep, I relatively recently learned about Aliexpress and it seems like most American retailers are just a local cache for them. But if I can order sketchy Chinese knick-knacks directly and skip the markup at the cost of a bit more waiting time, I'd just as soon do that. I've also found the Chinese customer service speaks English just fine and have been great whenever I've had to deal with them.
Yeah oddly enough buying from Aliexpress gets you better support (and sometimes newer revisions) of products than the middlemen! A lot of the aliexpress sellers are also willing to do custom orders if you ask nicely. This is a case of the middlemen removing value instead of adding it.
Agreed. I have a good relationship with one seller and he has even looked for things I've requested in the Shenzhen markets for me when he goes there. It's amazing customer service for me and he gets to sell more product too.
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#158You know it seems to me that we are going to eventually end up reinventing the idea of a brand. As these massive online marketplaces continue to allow third party sellers their reputation will continue to suffer, people will be less and less likely to get what they ordered, and eventually look for a way to identify good products. Eventually some sellers and marketplaces will end up being identified as only having goo…
Interestingly Aldi and Dollar Tree almost exclusively sell their own house brands.
Well, a house brand isn't made by the company.
The retail company has people called 'sourcers' who find other companies that sell a product, test those companies can handle the retailer's scale and the product meets quality standards, and then sets up a white label agreement.
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>sure, and people can draw their own conclusions about a "marketplace" allowing morally reprehensible products on it, and whether to purchase from them in the future. How can a piece of dyed cloth be "morally reprehensible"? I don't think books should be banned, nor should flags. If that's how folks want to express themselves, then so be it. That doesn't mean I need to be chummy with people who hold views in accord w…
that's quite a screed you wrote there. you must feel very strongly about it. amazon has made the choice to exclude ISIS flags, and exact copies of nazi flags, so it's curious why one is allowed and not the other. your position seems to be from the free-market/libertarian angle that people can print and publish anything they want, sure, okay, whatever... the logical conclusion of this in the free market is that amazon…
>that's quite a screed you wrote there. you must feel very strongly about it. amazon has made the choice to exclude ISIS flags, and exact copies of nazi flags, so it's curious why one is allowed and not the other.
Which is their prerogative. And fine with me. Not that I have any say in the matter.
As for whether I "feel very strongly" about such things, that's not so relevant, IMHO.
What is relevant is that morality is not a team sport. It's individuals making moral choices. Whether we agree or disagree with those choices is also an individual thing.
>your position seems to be from the free-market/libertarian angle that people can print and publish anything they want, sure, okay, whatever... the logical conclusion of this in the free market is that amazon as a private entity is also able to pick and choose what products they choose to sell and associate with their brand name.
That's not how I would phrase it, but essentially correct.
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The substitution thing has worked well for me - they now alert you in the app before and you can yes/no the substitution. You can also mark “ride or die” on items and if they can’t get it they don’t substitute. I don’t recall if they upcharge for more expensive substitution now - before it was free, which was a bit abuseable.
Yeah it worked for a while for me but the person I’m getting the stuff for has all the alerts on their device so I just turn most of the substitutions off. There were a few times where I had generous substitutions but I think they reigned those in.
I ordered great value sliced bread last month and they upgraded me to Natures Own brand bread which costs twice as much for free.