Comment on Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Unsure how much better ebay and etsy is but I often use amazon to research products and either find a way to direct order or use ebay instead.
One of my hobbies is fucking amazon over. Often I’ll order from both amazon and ebay, the item comes from amazon in tqo days and start using it, when the same item comes from ebay I’ll return the used one back to amazon and keep the ebay bought one.
Etsy has been more or less swamped with TEMU crap that can be shipped for free. If you don’t offer free shipping TEMU, I mean Etsy, wont show people your stuff. It’s like having the word dead in a YouTube vid, the Algorithm doesn’t like it.
Of course you can bake shipping into the price, but then you’re $5-$20 more expensive than the TEMU with better images section of Etsy.
Sure, there are real people, but they’re hard to find or be.
eBay is a mixed bag, and shipping is often $10-20.
Amazon will drop customers who return too many items. They have to protect themselves from ongoing fraud just like every retailer.
Yaky@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Fuck amazon (and fuck ebay amazon dropshippers too). But you’re that impatient you need to waste time and energy shipping something back and forth? (and likely having that product end up in an amazon discard bin anyway)
Their price already accounts for returns. You are just fucking over the delivery drivers who have quotas to meet.
Deckname@feddit.org 1 week ago
Thank you for pointing out the obvious, that apparently has not come to that guys mind.