Re:Bed Bath and Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
by somehnguy on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:50PM
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My experience is the opposite - I've bought the exact same products from Alibaba that I could have gotten on Amazon for 4x the cost. The only difference being random brand printed on the plastic.
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Re:Bed Bath and Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
by bombcar on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:01PM
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It depends on the product. All those random USB C docks and hubs? Sure, you can find identical ones on baba. But there are products that aren’t really available. I’m sure you can get stuff identical to Harbor Freight, but actually identical to Milwaukee or Dewalt? A bit harder.
Re:Bed Bath and Beyond Files for Bankruptcy
by gamblor956 on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:31AM
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The stuff on Amazon is the stuff from Alibaba.
The stuff in Target, Walmart, etc., is not. (And specifically, I mean the stuff physically sold in retail stores.) That is because retail stores are held to product liability laws in a different way than Amazon is (was? depends on the outcome of several pending product liability lawsuits against Amazon).