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merc@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoIt’s almost more useful to use the specific websites search function for many things now
Except Amazon’s search of their own store has been so enshittified that it’s normally better to search for a product on Amazon using Google.
this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I do the same except once I find it I go to that specific manufacturer and I buy it directly from their website more often than not
burrito@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
So AliExpress? I swear 95% of the stuff sold on Amazon is just crap people are reselling from AliExpress.
wrekone@lemmyf.uk 6 months ago
That’s a good way to do it, whenever possible. Unfortunately most of the results on Amazon these days are from companies with word salad names, like ENGRTSIAL or LOFRABTAN.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Do not use Amazon unless you know exactly what you want. The reviews are almost all fake. What’s annoying is that if you search for review sites on a type of product you do not know much about, they funnel you back to Amazon’s “highly rated” ones and get a kickback of you but the no name garbage. Also annoying is that those words salad companies are all the same manufacturer for the most part. They set up a ton of different names to flood the search results and then throw up a bunch of fake reviews. Some of that shit can be dangerous. Louis Rossman just did a video testung out some highly rated fuses and one of them by Nilight did not blow until 5x its amperage rating. That can easily lead to a fire. He also did one on crimping cables a bit ago that absolutely failed to crimp. Amazon removed his negative review.