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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by bombcar on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:09AM (#35055486)
Amazon is rapidly dropping to my second or third place to look, I often start at Home Depot or Best Buy or other places without a marketplace first, then only sanity check Amazon to make sure I can't save somehow.

Same thing happened to eBay, any attempt to cut down on the scammers just reduced the number of actual real sellers, until basically there's nothing but scammers left for large swaths of the site.

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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by Marsymars on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:38PM (#35059242)
Best Buy is at least toying with the idea of a marketplace - Best Buy Canada search returns mostly marketplace items, but for now at least you can still filter to only items sold by Best Buy.
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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by wyre on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:07PM (#35060472)
I’m constantly purchasing things from sellers on eBay and have no run-ins with scammers.
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Re:Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business by bombcar on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:10PM (#35060502)
eBay is still quite usable if you know what you're doing, and "scammers" here isn't referring to actual "ship you a brick instead of a laptop" but "water down search results with acres and acres of cheap Alibaba shit"

Which is sometimes exactly what people want.

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