Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad

Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by yalogin on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:33PM (#33734720)

Over the last few years Amazon has been overwhelmed by Chinese goods and over time the search results has become similar to aliexpress. I would have never heard the manufacturer’s name and will never remember them either. All of them have close to 5 star rating and there is no way to even judge if they are any good. You buy if you accept that. Feels like it’s time for this to be disrupted.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by noncoml on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:43PM (#33734834)

When it came to shopping I used to blindly trust Amazon. Wouldn’t even check prices anywhere else.

Now, it’s always the choice of last resort. I really don’t like it when I have to shop on Amazon.

It feels like a combination of AliExpress and eBay. Delivery times are getting worse by the day too.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by avitous on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:42PM (#33735417)

I used to trust them a whole lot more, too. But of late it seems Amazon is leaning toward a cesspool of price gouging, and I've noticed a lot more of the presented results are "Sponsored".

Along with that, I stream movies on my TV, running clients, usually Netflix or Prime Video, on my xbox. Increasingly the Amazon prime video client wants to present me with options to "Rent or Buy" instead of free offerings (I am a Prime subscriber after all, and seek to take advantage of the free streaming offerings), sometimes a page of results will contain nothing but pay-to-play offers.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by fmajid on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:16PM (#33735732)

The iPad or browser version offer a "free to me" option. Unfortunately they also count their ad-infested service as "free to me".

In my experience Amazon has the best streaming service now. There's nothing on Netflix I want to see and I'd have cancelled the service a long time ago if it were not for my wife and 10 year old daughter.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by silisili on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:46PM (#33736037)

Came to say this. Some locations must still have it good, but where I live in the US, delivery dates are 7 to 8 days. Almost every retailer is way faster than Amazon.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by Beaver117 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:31PM (#33735307)

Aliexpress products aren't bad. And although they're very cheap at the source, I'm willing to pay a gigantic markup to get it in 2 days with free refunds rather than 2 months.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by fmajid on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:18PM (#33735745)

I've had recourse to AliExpress customer service in cases where what was sent didn't match the product description or was lost in transit. It was also slow because they have this weirdly procedural arbitration process that feels like the judiciary, but they reimbursed me.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by shellfishgene on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:10PM (#33736808)

At least to Europe shipping times from Aliexpress continue to get better, I often get stuff after a week now, mostly within 3.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by fmajid on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:14PM (#33735710)

I buy my electronics from B&H Photo, or cut out the Amazon middleman and get the Chinese stuff from AliExpress if it's not time-critical. AliExpress customer service is also slow, but fair in my experience.

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Re:Almost Everything on Amazon Is Becoming an Ad by russdill on Thursday November 24, 2022 @03:18PM (#33735749)

And 8 other identical looking products listed under a different manufacturer.

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