I stopped shopping at Amazon when they kicked Parler off of AWS. I don't understand how any self respecting liberal could celebrate a mega corp censoring the internet along idealogical lines, even those who drank the insurrection kool-aid.
Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
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https://www.blackhatworld.com/
I used to hang out on that forum many years ago during my school lunch breaks, before I found the light. Never thought I’d see the day it’s linked to from HN.
It reminded me of https://www.antionline.com/ which I used to hang out on like 20 years ago. To my surprise it appears to still be up and running.
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Yeah I wish he had elaborated on that point. What are they doing to court those sellers and most importantly, why? Surely they know that their reputation is going down the tubes. Are they just so dominant now that they don't care?
Probably Amazon is afraid of being replaced by AliExpress, which has lots of these sellers and their low prices.
As long as Amazon has their fulfillment and delivery network, I don't think they'll ever be replaced by AliExpress (in the US, at least). I've never seen anyone delivering packages in an AliExpress van :)
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I'm not sure what the family's religion has to do with anything, but I was curious about the spelling and put it in my search bar and it's spelled, 'Hasidic'.
Well, I distrust Amazon for anything electrical or buy my electronics and optics from the fine folks at B&H Photo, which is owned by a (Satmar) Hasidic family. Sure, that means I can’t shop on Saturdays and have a much deeper knowledge of the Jewish high holidays calendar than I’d normally care to develop, but I don’t worry about a counterfeit battery blowing up in my face or a SSD upgrade for my computer being a 16G…
Even B&H was susceptible to knock-off batteries. Somewhere in the supply chain, fake batteries were introduced, but not found until sold to customers. B&H actually handled this in the only sane way vs the Amazon shrug of the shoulders.
Supply chain attacks are real and even reputable vendors are susceptible. The difference is how the vendors react with their customers that separates the good vendor from the bad vendor.
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#235The New York Times did some decent reporting into the pseudo-brands which comes closer to answering the question in the title: having a registered trademark unlocks a lot of on-platform seller tools (predictive analytics, early review program, etc.), and the easiest path to a trademark is to have an utterly unique, nonsense name. Some Chinese municipalities were also offering cash incentives for citizens who obtained…
But why are so many of these pseudo-brands exactly 1. six characters long, 2. all caps, and have 3. point-form descriptions that 4. use some particular emoji as bullet-point symbols, and 5. give each point a separate, usually-capitalized "title" part, 6. enclosed in either square brackets or the even-more-niche punctuation【 】? To me, that reads either like these all being marques of one company; or there being some C…
I wonder if the telltale signs are much the same as in spam emails: a tool to filter out customers who are more discerning and thus liable to cause problems with Amazon if they get ripped off (demanding refunds, reporting seller misconduct, etc).
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#236Amazon is the last place I go if I need to purchase something. Sometimes I'll use it like a search engine and then go off-site and make the purchase elsewhere.
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#237I stopped shopping at Amazon when they kicked Parler off of AWS. I don't understand how any self respecting liberal could celebrate a mega corp censoring the internet along idealogical lines, even those who drank the insurrection kool-aid.
This is why you have an issue with Amazon retail? Really? Sure, you can dislike a parent company, but the issues being discussed in TFA and this HN thread is about the shopping experience. Your desire to have a chat about your right wing beliefs have no place here.
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#238It's like we're repeating an old era of the early United States when every guy on a street corner would be copying reputable wares and selling them without regulation, patent protections, brand / trademark protections, and people were hawking quack snake oil under any name.
I'm all for reducing useless regulation, but sometimes you understand where it originally came from as a legitimate need.
Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW
#239Happy to see this discussed on HN because I've constantly been stressing about this whenever I shop on Amazon. "All these brands are Chinese with random combinations of characters for a name" I've looked at laptop cases. Here is a sampling of brand names: Lacdo, Voova, KINGSLONG, NIDOO, tomtoc, MOSISO, INVZI, XMBFZ, Arvok, Kinmac, Londo... I've bought cases for my ipad and work laptop from Lacdo and one for my upcomi…
> Here is a sampling of brand names... Voova
This amused me because, as a native English speaker, I once considered buying Voova.com as a [then] freely available brandable five digit dotcom!
tbh names like Lacdo or MOSISO actually seem better than rubbish names like Google or Nvidia
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You've answered a question I've been asking myself for the past couple of years: Why is Amazon trying to become AliExpress? AliExpress already does a good job of being AliExpress. The answer is that Amazon has quietly pivoted: Their new business model is 1. Buy stuff from AliExpress. 2. Mark it up 5x-10x. 3. Profit! Amazon probably hopes their customers don't notice they can get the same stuff from AliExpress much ch…
It’s AliExpress with 2 day shipping for people with poor impulse control. The “free shipping” that costs 900%…
I've got good impulse control and planning. Still, I needed some TNC connectors for a surveying project and didn't want to wait the month for Aliexpress/eBayDirect to show up, so I ordered them off Amazon which had the best compromise of price vs shipping time. Of course I did a visual quality check when they showed up, as required for all direct Chineseum.
It's not surprising this niche has developed. What's surprising is that Amazon seems dead set on undermining their business to support it. It's also surprising that people write these amazed posts like they've just discovered this problem, when it has been going on for a decade.
I read a HN comment a while back that framed the topic of declining quality plus free returns as companies outsourcing their QC to the customers and that really stuck with me. This is really the natural progression of wanton consumerism - so much stuff is sold and never actually used that it's profitable to only worry about the case where the buyer actually uses it and finds it lacking.