can’t speak for the quality in recent years, but i bought a amazon basics laptop backpack some years ago and it’s held up better than some “name brand” gear i’ve had.
No other way to put it
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solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Stamets@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It goes one way or the other for me but nothing in between. Either it’s better than the others or absolute garbage that falls apart almost immediately. It’s a bit of a mindfuck
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
A lot of it is because Amazon is known for stealing designs from innovative, small companies and running them out of business to sell their stolen designs under the Amazon Basic brand. Usually they do so by decreasing the quality of materials and relying on their own supply chain to keep prices low.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
when going generic, i’ve found it’s best to stick with supplies that don’t really matter and easy to replace if it sucks–aluminum foil, trash bags, etc
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 month ago
basically Amazon looks at what sells well, then they go to the source and nudge them into making the product under their white brand:
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradoxlone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
AmazonBasics is just dupes of popular products. They see what sells the best on their website, copy them, and sell them for a slightly lower price.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
meh. everything is “duped” from something else. youtu.be/bH1akL3SZiA
if you want to pay extra money to buy the “real” product from the actual brand’s website to avoid giving amazon any money, then go ahead. i’ll buy the cheaper thing that works just as well
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
When did we stop calling these “clones” and start calling them “dupes”? I guess I’m not up to date on my lingo.
smort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah I’ve had great experiences with amazon basics hoodies and phone cables
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 1 month ago
To be fair I think “Amazon’s choice” labels whatever product is most purchased for a given search term, not awarded by Amazon itself
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Sure, but they can also control what comes up in a search
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, it kind of is awarded by Amazon itself, it wouldn’t be too hard to add “if product.manufacturer == [Amazon brands] then skip label”
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
oh i don’t think Amazon leaves anything out of their control anymore. if that label is for the most picked for a term the it’s because they manipulated the search. but I’m thinking it’s just a sticker that they put on things they want to sell and also manipulate the search results.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
I see it pop up on random products, even ones with bad review score, so I’m not sure it even has any logic. There’s some product categories where the brand name product with good reviews doesn’t get the “Amazon’s choice” label, but some knockoff Chinese brand that isn’t even much cheaper does.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
I always love this Obama meme because of how bad of a Photoshop job it is.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
tbf the Amazon Basics stuff is usually decent.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Hate to admit it but yea. They can make them at better than cheap trash quality and keep the price at trash quality cause they have the supply chain and bulk to not lose money on em. I’ve gone into their Amazon fresh shops and really love some of their products. Their peanut butter is pretty darn good, and the only better strawberry jelly I’ve had besides small farm stuff is Knotts berry farm.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
something something DMA
Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I don’t understand, can you please put a glowing and blinking red circle and arrow on the funny bit?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And a paragraph on the back describing what it was to be used as evidence against us?