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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Amazon "... is turning their marketplace into a flea market of total junk."

Man if this isn't the dead-on honest truth. Amazon is so garbage now that Walmart.com is a trusted supplier by comparison.

I can't believe Amazon gets away with the crap they do. They so obviously turn a blind eye to constant, serious anti-consumer crap from Chinese sellers. Why? And why doesn't the FTC or any other department do anything?

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

#6
Everyone who does anything online should be required to hang out on some black hat internet forums and marketplaces.

It really opens up your eyes to the sheer size of the fake account and bot traffic, market. It makes you skeptical of everything you see online.

You can buy verified Twitter accounts, blue check mark accounts, Facebook ad accounts, Google AdSense/AdWords accounts, Amazon accounts, and more bot traffic than you can imagine. All for a few hundred dollars at most.

I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

#7
my wife and I have been increasingly buy on Target, HomeDepot and other sites to buy things because the brands are much more likely to have a legit business backing them up.

Generally too one of the causes of this craziness is that we keep outsourcing our manufacturing to China. China is only making these items because a much larger American company like OXO has them making really awesome kitchen items (for example) So it's not that hard for the same factory to create a series of shell companies that also sell the OXO stuff. I mean how hard is it to copy and paste the ads that the legit companies make and sell directly?

If we didn't outsource everything then it wouldn't be happening.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Amazon "... is turning their marketplace into a flea market of total junk." Man if this isn't the dead-on honest truth. Amazon is so garbage now that Walmart.com is a trusted supplier by comparison. I can't believe Amazon gets away with the crap they do. They so obviously turn a blind eye to constant, serious anti-consumer crap from Chinese sellers. Why? And why doesn't the FTC or any other department do anything?

yeah... I kinda use walmart more since it has a better signal/noise ratio.
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