Comment on The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 months agoI mean… even if it still works or hasn’t fucked up it’s still a cheap knockoff. The cheap knockoffs I get from Amazon usually work fine, but I don’t go there to find cheap knockoffs, I need a specific brand usually. Where I get frustrated is when I search for a specific item I need and I get a hundred cheap knockoffs listed first. Maybe other people don’t care, but I don’t want a genuine Sorny or Pantafonix.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have never seen this. It just doesn’t happen that often on US Amazon stores. There entire thing, at least in the US, is over blown.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 months ago
Literally just did this to prove it to you. I searched for “Wireless phone charger”. Something that’s not technical, that most people with wireless charging have at least thought about buying. First page is shown here. Feel free to point out any brands that you recognize.
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I’ve tried 2 so far from amazon. Both garbage. 1 didn’t work out of the box and the other worked for about a month then crapped out. Amazon hosts just garbage now. I’ve gone back to buying from retail whenever possible.
phar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I agree with you, however Anker is a well known brand
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 months ago
I actually had never heard of them, but I’ll take the recommendation! Still looking for a quality one, I’ll give them a shot. You can see how actual 3rd party products get lost in the thick of all this crap surrounding them
Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anker is a cheap knockoff brand?
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s not, they just hadn’t heard of them
ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It happens every single time I ever search for anything on Amazon in the US. I have to search through pages and pages of shit knockoff items with fake reviews from other product listing created by “brands” with names that look like a cat walked across the keyboard.
Most the time the items are unrelated to what I’m actually looking for and are only showing up because their titles are “CIGNHKA Road Bike saddle seat chair seat comfort adjustment bike seat mountain seat, gravel, ideal, perfect use universal, black.” And then the description has even more word salad.
If you bother taking the time you can find 17 other brands selling the same identical item with the same markings and the same specs (sometimes with the same reviews) with the only change being the name on the product.
If I didn’t live in a very rural area that Amazon somehow still covers with their free shipping I would never shop their. I only shop on Amazon when I can find a specific item from a specific well known brand.
MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nah, my search results look this like this. Even when I search for a specific brand, very rarely does that make it to the top of the list. Far more often than not, I have to go digging for what I want. It sounds like you have a different experience of Amazon and I honestly envy it. It used to be great