Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon

Comments

• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just choose the one from the brand you trust most!

  source

  • Wav_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I recommend GHSOUNETS, or FNNAULOO

    Otherwise just mash your keyboard and the best brands show up.

    source

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The more consonants the brand name has the more you know you can trust them. Vowels are sus

      source
    • n0respect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Warning: Cat-like typing detected

      source
• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Apologies for the YouTube link but Cory Doctorow explains this phenomenon really well: youtube.com/shorts/vrgtV_yxxn4

  source

  • elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

    source

    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

      source
• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Knife sharpening stones are the same. I am thinking of using a brick instead.

  source

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Home Depot got some fine brick my friend, fine brick indeed.

    source

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, just get a couple of smooth ones, rub them together to take off any edges of necessary. Or sandpaper but that costs more.

      source
• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Hoement” immediately stuck out to me and sounds like a portmanteau of “hoe” and “moment”

  Sounds cool enough to be used as slang

  source

  • neaptide@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Best weird “brand” name on an Amazon product I bought was a “Lokass” cooler. And of course the name is proudly displayed on the lid of the cooler haha.

    source
  • Colonel_Panic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I have hoements every day.

    source
• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you’re in canada just go on the shop app. Forget this Amazon bullshit. Buy local.

  source

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Shopify is American

    source

    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The app itself just collects retail storefronts into one tool so you don’t need an app for each store.

      source
• iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  chromeindustries.com/…/citizen-24l-messenger?gad_…

  source

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source

    • iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is why I have a few different bags. Their stuff is bomb proof and the lifetime warranty is solid.

      source
• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Just get a used Filson off eBay. I’m not even sure why you would consider anything else

  source

  • JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• flamiera@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• iridiom@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

  source
• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s like ebay in 2001.

  source
• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s Amazon

  source

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s the site where you can buy things off of temu and the resell it here.

    source
  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A river

    source
• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Freedom To Choose

  source
• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

  source
• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a messenger bag!

  It’s a tote bag with the MSN logo on it.

  source

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If I ever find a bag with with an ICQ logo, I’d pay in gold.

    source
• Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
  • SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• snf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Had to post this, gives me the giggles every time. Ryan George gets it.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30

  source
• TheMinister@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why in the world would you be using Amazon

  source

  • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sometimes I check Amazon to get ideas of options, then look for independent companies that sell products with the features I want.

    source
• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

  source

  • Bruncvik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fwiw I like ll beans. It’s quite expensive but really durable

  source
• SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s a sure fire way to land on AI generated affiliate sites that just rank items by popularity or their royalty %

    source
  • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source
• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  source

  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

    source
• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A lot of it is done by hustle bros.

  source