Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Bruncvik@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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Looks like I’m spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I’d be purchasing from either place; it’s just another example of Amazon’s enshittification.

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dingus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I always love the nonsensical order of letters that these companies use.

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- Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It’s because of the US patent and trademark office. Not many people are competing with those who slam their heads on the keyboard for their brand names.
  
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  - mech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I read that it’s to avoid internal competition.
    A Chinese company manufactures a product (or parts of it) for a Western brand with high quality control standards.
    Half the production output meets the standard and is sold under the Western brand name for a higher price.
    The other half is sold much cheaper, with a brand name that sounds unappealing to Western customers but can still be sold to Asian markets or people who don’t care and only look at the price.
    So the name sounds bad on purpose to steer buyers who care about that towards the more expensive brand with a higher profit margin.
    
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  - Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Amazon does not require a brand but having a brand allows the seller better access into amazing seller’s tools.
    
    Amazing incentivizes this shit and does not give a fuck about it. They could be easily detecting this using LLMs but they don’t because they only care so it profits.
    
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- e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My favourite of these comany names is still BOIFUN who obviously sell DVD players, baby monitors and door bells.
  
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  - tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS
    
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- vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  CTIRCHIU is definitely the most premium brand judging by that price, truly a name you can trust
  
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  - TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m pretty sure CTIRCHIU is a Lovecraftian monster.
    
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- sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hoement sounds like a word, at least. A… Hoe moment?
  
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  - ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t care what the Hoe meant, she’s still a hoe.
    
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  - umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I was thinking it was a movement for sex worker rights, or something
    
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- thekerker@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What you mean? HAFSBEVCZ is a totally established, reputable brand.
  
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  - cron@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Looks more like a randomly generated password.
    
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- toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  There’s a reason for them! I can’t find the original video I saw about it, but this one explains it pretty well:
  
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UrqlMfwUC4&t=192
  
  I also like how sarcastic this person sounds (at least to me) during their sponsor segment.
  
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  - kn33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You’re probably thinking of the HAI video.
    
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- x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My favourite one so far is “Hoement”
  
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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
People need to realize that Amazon has them locked in.

I needed a tall mini fridge for a garage. Cheapest I could find was fucking $700.

I went into a nearby home appliance store and got the same one for fucking ~$200. Granted I had to pay for an $80 delivery, but it still beats the shit out of every option for a 7 cu ft fridge on Amazon.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Every dipshit with a freshly minted MBA thinks they’re going to go and disrupt the appliance industry by putting it online and snatching it out from under all those antiquated local dealerships run by out of touch old men who can barely operate a computer. They think they’re going to go from zero to nationwide tomorrow, and they’re so smart because nobody’s thought of it before.
  
  It turns out that dealing with the final mile with appliances is killer, and extremely difficult logistically. That makes the entire operation much more expensive than anyone thinks at first glance. Not just in terms of raw dollars and cents paid to disinterested common carriers to move your product from A to B (who also won’t install the stuff or even bring it inside your customer’s house) but also in damaged and returned products and angry screaming customers who will be initiating credit card chargebacks all the time whenever anything goes wrong.
  
  All of those little local dealerships have had decades to figure out how to move a refrigerator from their warehouse to your kitchen and how to remediate the situation if it all goes pear shaped on delivery day, and all of them only service their local territory for a reason. The further you stretch without some physical presence in where you’re stretching to, the more impossible it becomes to control the logistics.
  
  So yeah, that’s probably in no small part why your fridge would have been so expensive. Amazon is among the latest figuring this out the hard way, and you can’t just slap a refrigerator or a stove in a bubble mailer and dump it on somebody’s front porch.
  
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  - ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Local appliance dealers likely also have a dude who in a pinch can just carry most appliances where they need to go.
    
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  - brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Tangentially, this reminds me of some advice I read on whole home water filters. Get this one or get that one. but get it from a local business who’s been in your area for years and years. You will have a problem with it. You are going to need someone to call. And they say, just plan for that from the start.
    
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- LePoisson@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not to be that guy but there’s no way in hell that $700 is true. There are pages of fridges for less than $400 that are 7 cu ft.
  
  Here’s one for $300
  
  I mean, fuck Amazon and all that jazz, don’t get me wrong - I just feel like it’s worth noting the hyperbole. It’s not that bad, at least from an end consumer perspective.
  
  Amazon is admittedly powered by greed and the tears of the proletariat but they do a good job keeping the customer happy.
  
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  - Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    my 2 cents… not everybody sees the same prices at Amazon… that is part of their dynamic gouging
    
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- IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Everyone is free to set their own priorities, but for me, I’ll just not purchase a thing at all, rather than buy it off Amazon. Most people buy too much crap they don’t actually need anyway.
  
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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Some stuff is more, most is less, at least in my town.
  
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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly, my strategy for buying goods online is to look up the relevant wikipedia article, read the list of manufacturers, look at their own wikipedia pages or read customer reviews, then finally go directly to the company site and ordering directly.

For used items or niche items not widely produced, ebay or craigslist.

Amazon always had funky shit with how they recommended things - now people just know how to game it more, so winning move is not to play there.

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- ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Check out an app called Karrot. It’s basically craigslist but you periodically have to confirm your location, so you know all items are local. It also has a shockingly accurate photo identification and pricing feature.
  
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- Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not going into such depth (unless it’s technology I don’t understand), but I usually shop on Amazon after I figured out what exactly I wanted, and what price below other stores I was willing to pay. I found that only two categories I still overwhelmingly purchase from Amazon are books and branded art supplies.
  
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  - ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t know where you are located so this may not apply to you, but in the US for branded art supplies I always go with DickBlick or Jerry’s Artorama, because in addition to the usual “stick it in a bubble bag and see how damaged we can make it before it arrives” Amazon shipping policy, branded art supplies are now being counterfeited on Amazon, like so many other things.
    
    I already could not safely buy liquids (Gamsol, OMS, etc) or soft supplies (paper or canvas pads, single watercolors) because of careless shipping, but now I won’t even try because of counterfeits. If you want the branded version of something that already has budget knockoffs, say an item like Holbein or Caran d’Ache colored pencils where the real thing is vastly more expensive than others in its category, you’re taking your chances on Amazon. Amazon has been selling counterfeit fountain pens for years, even low end pens like Lamy Safaris which always blew my mind, but now it’s a lot of things in the art supply world.
    
    So now I only get cheap knockoffs there, anything under $50. Anything over that, or anything liquid or bendable/breakable, I go with a real art supply store. It’s absolutely worth it, they pack it all very carefully, excellent return service when I’ve needed it, and I can still pick up deals better than Amazon without ever having to worry about the possibility it’s a counterfeit and I just wasted hundreds on a scam.
    
    If you’re not in the US you may be having a markedly better experience, so disregard. But in the US, Amazon for branded art supplies is a big NO for me.
    
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- realitista@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I usually start with a google image search, find ones that look good and then try to track down where I can get them from.
  
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  - Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ah, I degoogled my life, so I use Wikipedia instead. Although considering that google images may be flooded with AI slop now that strategy might not work for much longer. Creative tho!
    
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FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This shit frustrates me to no end. These days I just look on Aliexpress first, just so I’m aware what the usual drop shipping item actually goes for.

It’s very annoying that platforms like Amazon tolerate this. Because it’s actively driving me away from them. I want to see good quality items, not the same Aliexpress shit priced ten times higher. But I can’t FIND the good stuff because the platform is literally full of garbage.

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- chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s what’s driving you away from Amazon?!!
  
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  - walden@wetshav.ing ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Take a step back for a second. They’re complaining about Amazon, and you’re response is “that’s the wrong complaint”.
    
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  - Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    People have no morals. Most people only care about the cheapest price, and after that getting the best item for the cheapest price
    
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sramder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s missing the random “Amazon’s Choice” badge on one of the 20 identical choices 🤣

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W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Amazon is just a drop shipping marketplace where everything comes direct from the exact same warehouse in China.

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- dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Exactly. Once you know about “white box” goods and the robust Chinese manufacturing chains that support it, you can’t unsee it.
  
  What blows my mind is that Amazon is just accelerating this, and at times, embracing it with their own brand. They’ve gone from being a whole-ass shopping mall to end-of-days-K-Mart in just a few years.
  
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- Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  How do they drop ship from China in 2 days?
  
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  - W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Not everything on Amazon ships in two days. In the picture, the dates vary quite a bit.
    
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  - Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Because Amazon pushes sellers to use Amazon warehouses and shipping their product in advance
    
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  - Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Easy, they don’t.
    
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  - flynnguy@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    One of the many reasons I canceled my prime subscription is a lot of stuff was not coming in 2 days.
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hey now. China’s been churning out much higher quality merch of late. And the American Tech Giants have been increasingly wrapped up in US trade war politics. So a lot of this shit now comes from the Philippines, India, and Bangladesh.
  
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gigachad@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Honestly, I stopped buying on Amazon 3 years ago. Apart from an enshittified experience I don’t want to pay for Jeff Bezos next Helicopter. I go to the store or buy on alternative web sites which are 10€ more expensive, but fuck Jeff.

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- Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  ebay. You get pretty much the same offerings but at least on ebay the people selling actually care about looking good since negative reviews really tank your scores and those actually matter.
  
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  - gigachad@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Just a week ago I got victim of Amazon dropshipping on eBay. The product was delivered by and from Amazon, but the ebay seller used a weird tracking service so it isn’t too obvious. He put the 5€ difference directly into his pocket. I complained to eBay, but they decided “based on automation and the use of artificial intelligence”, that no rules were broken. So be careful with using eBay as an alternative. Negative reviews can be more or less easily removed on eBay, better give a neutral review in these cases.
    
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- jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Their b2c stuff isn’t what’s making bezos rich. It’s AWS, which is difficult to avoid as it runs over half of the internet. But I get the sentiment.
  
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4grams@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Man it’s fallen off a cliff. Many years ago I bought a knockoff Chinese messenger bag from Amazon. It’s fantastic, great materials, good quality zipper, it’s he up to daily use for years and looks even better than when I got it (leather developed a nice patina).

So, I needed another bag, went looking for the same brand as mine. No longer there, but there are 75 identical looking but weirdly named brands instead. I found one that looked as similar as I could to my old bag, and this one is an utter piece of shit. I mean, I’ll use it, it’s a duffle bag so not as much use as the messenger bag, but the difference is stark. Stiff, cheap cloth, leather sure, but probably harvested entirely from cow buttholes, zippers look brass, but one zip and the color wore off…

Everything, even purchased goods have nshittified. Everything looks cool but just absolutely sucks.

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I wonder what enables this business model to survive? 🤔
  
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  - BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    People being afraid of AliExpress
    
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  - Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    A market of lemons
    
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- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  leather sure, but probably harvested entirely from cow buttholes
  
  lmao
  
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.

Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.
  
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  Shit was bad in 2008, too. The degree to which drop shippers had consolidated down to one mega-wholesaler rather than a dozen crappy fly-by-nights hadn’t happened yet. You got a dozen different flavors of crap rather than just one. But it was still crap.
  
  Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.
  
  Under an Amazon keyword search, sure. You can still find good quality products outside of Amazon. You can even find it inside Amazon if you know what you’re looking for.
  
  The difference between 2008 and 2025 is primarily that Amazon’s degraded to the state of Yahoo or Sears.
  
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  - bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    You think normal people today go outside the 5 walled garden corpo sites?
    
    They dont.
    
    They are terrified of an html website. I dont have tech friends irl, so trust me. The real internet, the original non corpo net, is only for ultra nerds now.
    
    If you seriously think the internet is better now than 08 ish, well I dont agree.
    
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  - devedeset@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results right on the first page. Maybe an ad or two.
    
    Now it is effectively:
    
    AI summary
    
    ad
    
    ad
    
    ad
    
    link that is effectively an ad
    
    link to AI generated website
    
    link to AI generated website
    
    link to an actual decent result
    
    link to a questionable result
    
    link to AI generated website
    
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- devedeset@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I forget the exact proposed bill, it might have been SOPA (or something else threatening net neutrality), and it might have been around 2010. That made me think “they want to make the internet into cable TV”. And we’re pretty close to that being reality in a way.
  
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- fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  driven by AI-slop
  
  (For real: all those products and descriptions/titles are so bad, it has to be AI-slop)
  
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biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I deleted my Amazon account last month. No more Goodreads and IMDb is just another plus.

Extracted my ebooks from my Kindle with Calibre, so I am fine.

Feeling good and less targeted and bombarded.

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- umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Having really hard time converting Kindle books lately, especially since last time I tried this, the deDRM plugin couldn’t handle the newest Kindle for PC versions. Is there an easy way that doesn’t involve getting a physical Kindle device? Does the Android thing work?
  
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  - Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I suppose the easiest way is installing an old kindle for PC version, if that’s the problem (not through the kindle website)
    
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  - biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Cannot say. I had a very old Kindle and all my books on device.
    
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- BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Does that work for Google Play books? Is it an app?
  
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  - umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Google Play Books allows publishers to set the DRM policy. Some titles are not protected and can be just downloaded as EPUB. For the DRMed books, it can send them to Adobe’s ebook reader/sync app, which (last I checked) can be decrypted by the deDRM plugin.
    
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  - biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Calibre is a program for Windows/Linux. To be able to export books (and deDRM them) there are different plugins, but I never heard about one for Google Play Books.
    
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Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But you know that capitalism is so good because the free market ensures that there’s so much variety and choice in quality and innovation.

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- henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What we have isn’t even capitalism. The supposed free market doesn’t exist when the big players pocket the regulators to use as a weapon against smaller businesses and secure their own market positioning.
  
  Incidentally, this is typically the end result of capitalism if you don’t rain in and break up the monopolies.
  
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  - Dojan@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I know. It’s how what China and the Soviets had wasn’t communism. A relatively small group of people climb up top and ruin everything, as they always have.
    
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  - Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    What we have is exactly capitalism. A “winner-takes-it-all” system breeds oligopoly, and oligopoly breeds corruption.
    
    the big players pocket the regulators
    
    That’s the entire point of capitalism, it’s how it’s always been, and it’s how it will always be. It’s class analysis: the capital owners have the media, the political power, and the repressive force of the state apparatus behind them.
    
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  - SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are two factors necessary for a truly free market that prevent any capitalist system from actually being a free market. They are:
    
    Consumers need to have perfect information about the products and the companies that make and/or sell them.
    
    There needs to be zero friction for new entrants into the marketplace, whether that is from costs to start up a business, or anti-competitive behavior from other companies with money to throw around.
    
    It is impossible to achieve either of these in the real world.
    
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It used to work. When something no longer sold, manufacturers would diversify. Now they force you to still buy the same product with the help of politicians and bribes.
  
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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
More expensive AliExpress…
It feels like Amazon is flooded with dropshipping beyond repair.

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socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Are you looking for something which can actually take a beating? I have bought like four of these cheaper bags on Amazon and they all fall apart in a year or two. And before then they all have shitty strap adjustments which slowly slip over time.

I’d strongly suggest getting something like a chrome or timbuk2 bag which will be like 5x more expensive up front but will actually last decades instead of years. I have been dailying the OG chrome citizen messenger bag for five years now and it’s barely broken in.

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- Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Timbuk2 isn’t as good as they used to be. If you can find a used one it’s worth it, I’ve had mine for like twenty years, but I wouldn’t gamble on one made in the last five years. (They closed all their physical stores and cut costs on manufacturing by moving offshore)
  
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- thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
  
  Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
  
  But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”
  
  GNU Terry Pratchett
  
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the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I will not defend Amazon. But the lack of local retail/price gouging which is shipping in Canada keeps pushing me to Amazon.

I need a role of 3D printable filament or an SD Card. The nearest store is 1-2 hours away and costs twice as much for the convenience, buying from the manufacturer may not possible and if it is shipping cost just as much as the product.

I would love it if there was competition, but there isn’t and Amazon knows it. So for the most part I just buy from brands I know are safe.

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ptc075@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My co-worker & I have the exact same lunchbag, except the label has a different gibberish name on it. Yup, both from Amazon.

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LBP321@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do Amazon companies count in Scrabble?

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harcesz@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Just in case anyone actually intends to buy one, buy european: blahol.com

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a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Once again capitalism has bred all sorts of innovation in the space!

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mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So I just got a steam deck… A little birthday present to myself.

My local microcenter sells nothing for it… Neither does best buy. And if best buy did I wouldn’t over pay anyway at that failing store.

So… Amazon it is. 40 bucks and two days later I have a silicone case, anti glare screen protector and a cheapo dock.

I didn’t want to get all that shit off amazon… It was just the most convenient place and in my case the only place.

If anything amazon needs to crack down on these bs Chinese sellers.

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binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
More and more I’m finding things I want either aren’t on amazon or are buried under so many inferior products that they are hard to find. Earlier I was looking for geek themed ugly Christmas sweaters, and the ones on the first few pages of amazon results were absolute garbage. Found several viable suppliers elsewhere in no time.

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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Amazon’s product search is intentionally bad

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Almost everything on Amazon is cheap trash, and they promote the hell out of all that trash instead of products of any quality. I am also so sick of the click funnels where you search for a specific item and they just give you pages full of knockoff trash as search results even if you go to a specific brand store. It’s nonsense.

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Maybe people will stop using Amazon?

Nahhhh

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ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s worse than when eBay peaked.

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davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Amazon: The same 31 products you don’t want, again and again and again and again and again

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mustlane@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t use Temu, lol. Good ol’ AliExpress has proven it’s quality over a long period of time. Also, there are many trusted stores that were proven to be of high-quality. Just Google some reddit posts asking for the good ones.

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televisionhead@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This shit has literally always been the number one reason I avoid Amazon as much as possible, even back when they were pretty new. As soon as they started selling more than books, it’s been like this.

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roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Shop local if you can, avoid Amazon.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I honestly haven’t bought anything from Amazon for a long time. Sure, other online retailers are shit, too, but at least this year most of them like Walmart have been funding the DNC as a result of the tariffs. Amazon is funneling fat stacks into 45’s pockets, doubling down on fascism.

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