Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by TeMPOraL on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:49AM
(#19878898)
Yup. Something I learned too: e-commerce platforms do not work as product discovery tools, not anymore. They're all full of bottom-feeders selling various combinations of generic garbage-quality brands, fakes, and used items presented as new. If you want to buy something of quality, you need to explore the space elsewhere - e.g. via /r/$niche recommendations, Wirecutter, Consumer Reviews, etc., and then preferably buy directly from the vendor/official distributor.
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by int_19h on Friday May 10, 2019 @05:56PM
(#19882632)
This also affects crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo - a lot of "new products" there is just rebranded junk from Alibaba, that's often already sold on Amazon for half of what they ask for it.
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by TeMPOraL on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:34AM
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Ironically, there's also a reverse phenomenon happening on Kickstarter. Between start and end of a crowdfunding campaign you may discover the crowdfunded product has already been cloned by the Chinese and is sold cheaper on Aliexpress.
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by duxup on Friday May 10, 2019 @11:50AM
(#19878913)
Yeah I've found a few brands that I now just would rather deal with directly. Shipping and cost whatever ... Amazon is more of a hassle filtering sometimes.
Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by beenBoutIT on Saturday May 11, 2019 @09:52PM
(#19889603)
Direct is the future of e-commerce. At the end of the day ordering directly is the only way to be 100% certain you're getting an authentic product.
Also I'm coming across a lot more garbage brands on Amazon that I'm having trouble plowing through to find what I want.
It doesn't help that Amazon seems to be pushing me to buy a lot of garbage too with their suggestions, their own promoted sales, and etc. It feels like there is a very Wallmart type push for "hey this is 30 cents cheaper and look at all these reviews (fake, or by morons)!"
Prime Day seems more like a garage sale than anything else ...
I'm constantly seeing promotions for highly questionable health products / supplements...
Lots of wrong categorized products that seem like spam almost.
I feel like not just a lot of garbage but fewer quality products. I wanted a good HDMI switch, but all Amazon has are inexpensive (granted I have a couple and they're "ok") but not great switches and that is it. They really want me to buy these flimsy things that are all the same with these tiny annoying remotes.
Oddly enough for me Amazon was a route to find a variety of BETTER quality things than I might find in a store, it is becoming harder to do that now.