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Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by bendbro »

metalliqaz wrote: post #5

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?

Walmart does dropshitting too. Hell, even Home Depot is getting into it. You can often find the same piece of garbage furniture on all 4

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by zucked »

metalliqaz wrote: post #67
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 would have agreed with this sentiment six months ago, but now Walmart allows third-party sellers. I could consolidate to "At least BRICK-AND-MORTAR Walmart stores should have reliable products", but physical Walmart seems to have gotten in bed with this Chinese brand "onn." Their products are…

I should add that I always select "available for pickup" when searching for something. In other words, stuff that B&M stores sell. But even still, the third-party sellers aren't as bad on walmart as they are on amazon

They're literally the same - I see the same product sold by shady third parties being sold on both sites. At least with Walmart you can select "Available for pickup" and get products that Walmart themselves sell and stand behind.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by Nextgrid »

lovich wrote: post #37
Nextgrid wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wonder what the internet would really look like if there was no bot traffic, fake clicks, and fake accounts. In an economy where the only thing that matters is actual money there wouldn't be any bots - after all I don't see bots queuing up to buy stuff. This is a problem the bullshit advertising and "growth & engagement" industry brought on themselves. If you pay people to click on stuff, they're gonna click it,…

There are definitely bots to buy things. Finance alone does a fuck ton of automation to buy things at far faster reaction speeds than possible and then there’s the eBay/Amazon/whatever online retail bots that exist to scoop up in demand items to then flip

Bots that buy things only do so to address a temporary inefficiency in the market - they won't work perpetually and you can argue their actions do provide value.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by duxup »

tryptophan wrote: post #8

Shopping on amazon is really an awful experience nowdays. I really do not want to search through 40 pages of water kettles of really dubious brands. It is so anxiety inducing and unpleasant.

I play a lot of card games with my kids.

I wanted a new card shuffler.

All I got was pages of the same 3 models of shuffler from every nonsense name brand you could think of.

But really just 3 choices…

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by vannevar »

m463 wrote: post #14
tryptophan wrote: post #8

Shopping on amazon is really an awful experience nowdays. I really do not want to search through 40 pages of water kettles of really dubious brands. It is so anxiety inducing and unpleasant.

I think amazon has jumped the shark[1] There is no practical way to buy a reputable/brand name on amazon. Some brand names are "available", but it seems not officially and people are buying them at a store and shipping them to customers. Other brand names are available, but the search results are paid (and manipulated) so they get crowded off the page by sponsored and "5 star (2)" results. and so amazon as a brand is…

Yes, because Amazon has created perverse incentives for anonymous manufacturers to fabricate as many "brands" as possible, there are now so many of them that they crowd out actual brands. The original purpose of a brand name was to give a reputable seller a recognizable way to differentiate a quality product or service from anonymous competitors. But search and recommendation on Amazon favors the anonymous sellers.

Amazon today is less about selling things to consumers and more about selling consumers to anonymous Chinese suppliers.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by breakingcups »

lph wrote: post #10

Pro tip: If you absolutely must buy the junk being sold by MOFFBUZW and other randomly generated drop-shipper brands, the exact same product is usually available on AliExpress for 10% the price.

I don't like having to give AliExpress my phone number.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by karaterobot »

barbOzon wrote: post #33

The author writes: > how can you protect yourself as a consumer? Followed by a tedious list of hoops to jump through around verifying authenticity to a point where you might not get stung. At this point, is it not better to just give up on Amazon and use a retailer that takes its product sourcing more seriously? Continuing to use Amazon when you know how full to the brim of scams it is, just seems to me like rewardin…

Looking at the name of the company, reading recent reviews, and ensuring there is a non-obviously-fake address associated with the business doesn't sound like a tedious list of hoops to jump through to me. You should do all this stuff on any marketplace, Amazon or elsewhere.

Honestly, if we're talking about convenience, Amazon is pretty much the best game in town. They have many documented failings and faults, but being inconvenient isn't one of them.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by bee_rider »

tryptophan wrote: post #8

Shopping on amazon is really an awful experience nowdays. I really do not want to search through 40 pages of water kettles of really dubious brands. It is so anxiety inducing and unpleasant.

It is fine for, like, getting an HDMI cable.

I would never buy something from Amazon that touched my food.

Electronics more complicated than a cable require some review, figuring out if there's a reputable brand underneath, etc.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

AlexandrB wrote: post #82
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 would have agreed with this sentiment six months ago, but now Walmart allows third-party sellers. I could consolidate to "At least BRICK-AND-MORTAR Walmart stores should have reliable products", but physical Walmart seems to have gotten in bed with this Chinese brand "onn." Their products are…

I think "onn" is just Walmart's "store brand" for generic electronics[1]. Kind of like "Insignia" and BestBuy. The design and manufacturing is all outsourced and these are usually quite crappy as one would expect. > Walmart is Onn’s parent company. Onn is Walmart’s generic brand electronics label, and Onn products, including Onn TVs, are only available in Walmart stores. [1] https://sycamorenet.com/blog/who-makes-onn…

Regardless, the last time I went into a Wal-Mart where my parents live, it wasn't just that they were prioritizing the onn brand stuff: it was literally all they had. Reliable third-party brands like Anker weren't even on the shelves anymore.

Re: Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

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Post by WildGreenLeave »

tryptophan wrote: post #8

Shopping on amazon is really an awful experience nowdays. I really do not want to search through 40 pages of water kettles of really dubious brands. It is so anxiety inducing and unpleasant.

In The Netherlands we have 2 big mainstream shops for electronics, this is Bol.com and Coolblue.nl. Bol.com started out as a webshop and moved into a marketplace idea (like Amazon does). I know a lot of people that prefer Coolblue over Bol because of this exact reason. Every product that Coolblue is selling has at least some kind of guarantee of quality, because if it is bad, they will have to replace it.

Sadly enough, at this point Amazon.nl is overshadowing this by giving insane discounts and refunds to customers, so I hope they do not win over Bol.com, but I am anxious about it.

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