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.
Shop local if you can, avoid Amazon.
Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon
Submitted 3 days ago by Bruncvik@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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roserose56@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For me, local is improving, but slowly. Living in Ireland, the local market is, well, insular. Until recently, local shops faced very little competition, so their prices were exorbitant and customer service non-existent. This attitude is slowly changing, and my shopping habits are shifting to local, so hopefully in time I’ll stop buying from Amazon, Ali Express, and the likes.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, if you’ve got an REI in your neighborhood, that can be handy. But even they still get their merch from somewhere that isn’t the storefront or even the city. There really isn’t a “buy local” option for textiles in a material sense, unless you really know where to look.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Shop AliExpress if you can, avoid dropshippers and petit bourgeois
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you’re in canada just go on the shop app. Forget this Amazon bullshit. Buy local.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Or hit up the thrift stores. Eventually you’ll find something. I have to go because it’s the best place to buy fat man clothes.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Shopify is American
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
The app itself just collects retail storefronts into one tool so you don’t need an app for each store.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You should check out chrome industries. I’ve had two of these messenger bags and I have a few of the backpacks. Really great build quality and the bags last forever and look great.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
My day bag is a Chrome. I got it at their brick and mortar location in lower Manhattan over ten years ago. It goes on every trip with me short or long and has seen multiple lengthy eras of daily use yet it doesn’t have a single fray or tear. And if it did, they have a free lifetime repair policy. Fucking incredible, literally one of the most excellent purchases of my life.
iamericandre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is why I have a few different bags. Their stuff is bomb proof and the lifetime warranty is solid.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just choose the one from the brand you trust most!
Wav_function@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I recommend GHSOUNETS, or FNNAULOO
Otherwise just mash your keyboard and the best brands show up.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The more consonants the brand name has the more you know you can trust them. Vowels are sus
n0respect@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Warning: Cat-like typing detected
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Depending on where in the world you are:
There is a resale store called Buffalo Exchange with a bunch of locations who always has the best messenger bags IMO. I’ve purchased several vintage messengers from them for carrying art supplies.
My favorite is a rigid leather satchel the size of a briefcase. Its new enough to have a laptop pocket, but old enough where the laptop would be expected to be gigantic. I use that slot for canvasses. Then it leaves the main pocket open for my mini-easel and brushes. External pockets act to replace my purse on days I carry it. All genes covered with a giant leather flap which locks closed. V protec.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thanks! That’s actually what I’d be looking for. I’ll check whether they deliver hassle-free to Ireland. Relatively few speciality stores do.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Apologies for the YouTube link but Cory Doctorow explains this phenomenon really well: youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV_yxxn4
elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
this is the exact reason I try to avoid buy off amazon. You pay 5% more elsewhere, but the seller probably gets 50% more
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I have seen some sellers figure out workarounds. If you have a different SKU, it doesn’t get considered. So for example, Poppi soda sells a 12 can variety pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 can variety pack for the same price at Costco. Different SKU, lower price per unit.
iridiom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I will also throw in for a chrome bag. I’ve had a messenger for a decade and its a tank. I got it made left handed. chromeindustries.com/…/citizen-24l-messenger
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just get a used Filson off eBay. I’m not even sure why you would consider anything else
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just a guess but, I wouldn’t consider anything that was an order of magnitude more expensive than what I was looking to spend.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I looked them up now, and they look very good, but for my purposes I’d like a bag that costs less than the contents.
It turns out that I was looking at the wrong type of bags. What I really needed (and got) was a thin, lightweight laptop bag, which holds my notebook (of paper variety), a few pens, and some odds and ends. For anything that’s capable of carrying significant bulk and weight, I prefer a backpack.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s like ebay in 2001.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 days ago
What’s Amazon
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 days ago
It’s the site where you can buy things off of temu and the resell it here.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
A river
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org 3 days ago
I just assume they're all scammers, the real challenge is finding one outside of that scope.
Because I've bought products when I've faced similar situations like this. Bought it, then that merchant mysteriously disappeared, never to come up again.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I really don’t it’s a scam, just a bunch of different vendor selling the same cheap bag from China. It’s exactly what it appears to be.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Freedom To Choose
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
just went through this myself
needed a gooseneck phone mount for tomorrow morning. nothing local has something suitable, so damnit amazon it is
oh look, it’s dozens of the same product, using the exact same photo often even, from random shit brands
I’ve been doing pretty good at avoiding amazon for the past year or two, but every two or three months there’s something that I just can’t get somewhere else on the timeline I need or at a reasonable price
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This far from a solution but I thing I do is do a quick search for it on a search engine and look for websites makes a list of the best ones you can buy at the moment. Here’s an example: I search for “best hiking shoes for national parks” and many outdoor-focused gear websites will recommend shoes from brands like Columbia and Merrell.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s a sure fire way to land on AI generated affiliate sites that just rank items by popularity or their royalty %
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Those are all just affiliate spam links, often AI made, generated to get people to spend the most money so they get the best kickbacks.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I have a messenger bag!
It’s a tote bag with the MSN logo on it.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If I ever find a bag with with an ICQ logo, I’d pay in gold.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
literally slop 🤣
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Lol dummies this isn’t enshitification. Amazon used to not list this stuff, but they realized that they were losing sales because people would go to temu and AliExpress and buy the cheap goods there.
It’s not that hard to tell which products are cheap products from China being sold by distributors. Y’all are just bad at shopping.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 3 days ago
To a certain extent, isn’t it still enshitification? They lowered their standards (making the product/marketplace worse) to capture marketshare/increase profits.
Also, blaming consumers for being “bad at shopping” is certainly a take. What about the gold plated HDMI cables sold at a huge markup? More expensive doesn’t mean better and we can’t expect everyone to have the knowledge or ability or time to know about every single thing they purchase. Shitty companies are charging more for less and consumers are being squeezed. Photos are all manipulated and there’s no real way to know the quality from a picture. People are trying their best to get good products for their money without being scammed.
Krudler@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah this thread is beyond sad. People want to think they’re savvy consumers; also think every AA battery with a different outer wrapping is made in a dedicated battery factory.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Amazon is a service. That service is becoming materially worse (I have a harder time finding what I’m looking for because of the flood of substandard products, and even when I do find what I’m looking for, there’s a sizable risk that it’s a fake). This is very much enshittification; they captured the market share, and now they’re squeezing it. Anything that makes them more money but is worse for the consumer, they do. Anything that is better for the consumer but costs them money, they don’t do.
snf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Had to post this, gives me the giggles every time. Ryan George gets it.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Why in the world would you be using Amazon
Duranie@leminal.space 3 days ago
Sometimes I check Amazon to get ideas of options, then look for independent companies that sell products with the features I want.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 days ago
I hate to say it, but I almost appreciate the honesty that comes from multiple different alphabet soup brands selling the exact same item often with the exact same photos. Additionally, unbranded items aren’t always poor quality.
I’ve actually got some unbranded Christmas light strings I bought because I just wanted to put some lights on some columns at my wedding and wanted to spend less than $100 doing so, and those light strings have outlasted every commercial Christmas light string I’ve purchased. Heck I have a couple of those strings which have been on for 3+ years straight.
Most unbranded items are made by factories that do OEM and ODM work for actual brands that we’ve all heard of, so they know how to make quality products and they can get more ongoing orders if they make products that are worth restocking. Sometimes you get burned but far more often than not I end up with something that’s relatively decent quality and fullfills the need I have for the item
Bruncvik@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I agree with the quality aspect. We got some solar lights for the garden that are brighter and last longer than those you buy in local stores for a much higher price. That said, I prefer to buy such no-brand items from Ali Express, which charges a third or half the price Amazon does for the same item.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fwiw I like ll beans. It’s quite expensive but really durable
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
How is this enshitification? You can go into a physical store and find the same from one store to another. I think this is just your bias speaking.
thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 days ago
At least with a brick and mortar store you actually know what you’re getting*
*to a degree. You still won’t know how well it will actually hold up in the real world - but you can at least get an idea of it’s construction (Materials/stitching and so on) that you don’t/can’t get via an online shop (especially with all the bogus reviews nowadays)
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A lot of it is done by hustle bros.
televisionhead@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
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