What is this? I don't understand. Currently it just leads to a "not found" page.
They're listing with AI descriptions. They're getting taken down fast. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38972344
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#302Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.
The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. In many categories, even when explicitly searching for brand and model names, you’ll get dozens of off-brand substitutions and even random unrelated products appearing above it in the search results. Occasionally I’ve even noticed products that are available for sale (if you click on a direct…
>The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for.
They may be suggesting on sellers request unsold or rarely sold products that vaguely relate to searches, but sellers want to get rid of quickly.
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#303What is this? I don't understand. Currently it just leads to a "not found" page.
Here's a link to the archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https://www.amazo...
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#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're curated, you're not everything. If you want everything, well, expect everything.
"everything" but only the "high quality" (or highER quality) instances of everything. seems pretty reasonable.
This is harder than it looks..
Is there a "quality filter" setting you can toggle on and off? Who decides what goes on which side of the filter? At Amazon's scale, it would have to be automated.
Much like search SEO and every other algorithm, people would start to figure out how to game it, and eventually Amazon would give up trying to police it because it would cost them more money than it's worth, and you're back to where you started except now you have an additional - and inaccurate - "quality" attribute on every product.
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#305Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.
As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.
My experience has been similar to yours in that things at least "felt" nice and convenient. That is, until the brand new first aid kit I ordered came with the safety seal broken and hastily taped over. Who knows what was done to the product? What if it was resealed with better effort? How could I possibly trust anything from Amazon?
Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.
Search Amazon for "Whetstone". You'll find tons of quality products from legitimate brands, mixed indiscriminately with the exact same dropshipped trash item repeated over and over for countless pages. Amazon has been entirely enshittified.
What are your standards for quality?
I’m an enthusiastic amateur home chef. I have ordered some of these “trash” whetstones.
My knives get sharp. They aren’t damaged. The whetstone works over time.
If you are like a knife artisan, yeah I guess Amazon won’t work for you. But I’m guessing the results work for 99.9% of people.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.
I have experienced almost the full cycle of enshittification. I remember when it arrived in my country (Spain). It was great. The catalog was very good. Customer service was very responsive. If I had a problem, they would return the money, no questions asked. We were foolish to think that situation would last. Nowadays the search is unusable. Unless you go to an individual brand's "amazon shop", you will only get pro…
> If I want Chinese quality merchandise there's a Chinese store very nearby where I can go and look at the plastic at least.
You mean like the equivalent of sorting by lowest on eBay??
Like a Chinese guy I can walk up to and say, "I need a 120 foot HDMI and I will not be paying a cent over $22.43 for it because that's what's all the lowest cost sellers on eBay charge."
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meh, probably not significantly worse than the actually well-known and distinguished furniture brands like KALLAX, HEMNES, FINNBY, or BAGGEBO https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/cat/bookcases-10382/
I bought junk furniture like this when I was in college. It’s actually much worse than ikea. If you are careful when putting together ikea furniture, certain models are actually really durable and sturdy. Oh and of course sometimes the European models are nicer than the American ones.
I don't mean to rag on ikea here, i have a bunch of ikea furniture and find it to be generally sturdy and good enough to stand up to anything i ask of it. i've also got some similar wal-mart furniture that i have no complaints with. i guess i haven't had the experience you have with whatever the bottom tier of furniture truly is.
my point was more just that "good enough" furniture is often good enough. we don't usually demand too much performance from a chest of drawers: heirloom-quality furniture is nice, but mostly an unnecessary luxury item.
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#309What is this? I don't understand. Currently it just leads to a "not found" page.
It was a product listing where the title was a ChatGPT apology message: https://i.ibb.co/THZbWFP/IMG-4052.jpg
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#310Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.
I'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors. Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.
Wal-Mart and Target are the 'curated' everything stores. My biggest disappointment with them is that they never have what I want.
I think I'm OK with Amazon being Aliexpress for the US market. Sometimes I want to get random crap from the depths of Shenzhen, and Amazon is that. What is unfortunate is that they can't get "real" brands to sell there, because of their counterfeiting issue. The "mistake" Amazon made (that has probably made them hundreds of billions of dollars) was to let someone send in a box of crap and get paid when someone shopping for "Tide Laundry Detergent" gets their box of crap instead of Tide Laundry Detergent.
Other than that, they're where they are today because they're good. I just wouldn't buy anything valuable from them; laptops, cameras, phones, etc. Those you'll have to find a dedicated electronics retailer. But sometimes I'm like building a 3D printer and I want a touchscreen display or something for it... for $20 I can have one the same day. That is super neat. It works because no "brand" makes parts for hobbyists, and some company you've never heard of in China is actually the market leader. Amazon connects you to them... but also to billions of scammers. Caveat emptor.
Edit to add: I'm talking about the in-person stores. I have no idea what Wal-Mart and Target do online.