Re:Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazo...
by bootlooped on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:08PM
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Yes, and on the flip side of that you have other sellers wholesale copying a popular listing. I look at every purchase as a gamble. In the marketplace's defense, Ali Express dispute arbitration has always led to a satisfactory result for me, so the gamble is just on what I'm going to get, not on whether I'm going to lose the entire cost of the item or not.
I see comments complaining about this and similar all the time on Amazon, and on products with very high ratings. The strategy seems to be, sell good quality cheap stuff for a while to get a good rating, the change the listing completely to a low-quality expensive product. The high ratings stick around, resulting in more sales than it otherwise would have, and more resilience to new low ratings.