Re:40% of the top sellers on Amazon are based in China, acco...
by zwaps on Friday May 10, 2019 @12:35PM
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Actually, what I do is to just shop elsewhere, and buy from brands that I know either produce, assemble or do their QA checks outside of China.
Luckily, such brands still exist for most products.
Amazon was, before it got flooded by Chinese goods, quite useful. But rarely can I not wait a few days for my product, if it is not available locally.
Case in point, when I did need something from Amazon per morning express, it did not arrive until one day later. I got a refund for the shipping, but I had to buy the thing elsewhere.
Amazon's use to me is declining more and more. I already did cancel my prime...
> - Ordered a brand product, got something that had obviously been opened and used before.
> - Searched for something, found only hundreds of mostly identical Chinese generic products. Ordered one, was complete and utter garbage.
> - Searched for something, found hundreds of mostly identical Chinese generics. Ordered one, and it was actually pretty decent! Sadly, this happens less often.
Well, that's a daily life experience in China. Globalisation works both ways...
You have to cultivate your intuition. I have no idea how one gets it, but it helps.
I'm shopping on Aliexpress since it opening in 2010, I see that for me Aliexpress is an "easy shopping experience," but for people from my college class shopping there unending frustration. Somehow, they got an almost natural talent getting into trouble with scam deals.