• Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My favorite enshittification of Amazon is how you can filter products by manufacturer, but only if the manufacturer is a reputable company like JOOGEE or XZzy or GoodTime and not those weird no-name companies like Anker or Samsung.

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      1 year ago

      Won’t even bring up the brands I like unless I search for them specifically, even then they’re not the first result. Amazon gives the ad space to brands that are around for 3 months then poof.

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        1 year ago

        but you should buy stuff from Smorkyaplorb Megasystems because they give the best kickbacks

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      1 year ago

      My favorite enshittification of Amazon is that, plus, the bonus fact the filtering acts different if you pay for prime. The filtering works better with prime. It should work the same regardless if one pays for prime or not.

      They basically deliver a shopping experience that is worse unless you pay them money monthly. It’s enshittification two layers of abstraction deep.

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    1 year ago

    For a while I used amazon as a “product browser”, I would shop for what I want on there, and then go buy it straight from the manufacturer or whatever online marketplace the seller prefers.

    Now, it has gotten so bad, it isn’t even useful for that. Amazon will show you 50 overpriced knockoffs of the thing you’d actually want to buy without ever showing you the real thing unless you already know the brand name of what you want ahead of time. The reviews are useless too now, everything has 4 1/2 stars and the same substanceless reviews.

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      1 year ago

      Hard to shop for vitamins when you have sham accounts claiming it cured their cancer, when you’re just trying to take better care of yourself but don’t wanna fall for homeopathic scams.

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    1 year ago

    I can’t even get the sorting method to work. It shows me a few items that match the sorting at first, then it goes all over the place. Utterly useless.

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    1 year ago

    I ordered a standard deck of cards. Should be simple enough, right? They never arrived. I waited a full month. I finally reached out to Amazon customer support and demanded to know what happened to my deck of cards. Their response was unbelievable: “We’re dealing with it.”

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    1 year ago

    Don’t use Amazon. It’s not like they are the only web shop for stuff you would like to have.

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    1 year ago

    As someone in Asia where Amazon is trying to break through the market with stiff ecommerce incumbents, Amazon is great. And more importantly, they know they have no real value selling the generic Chinese stuff that has infiltrated US Amazon, so the amount of that is a lot less. The Chinese stuff on Amazon tends to be from the better companies that have tried to brand themselves and sell decent products (think Anker at the start), otherwise it’s usually products from established brands. If I wanted cheap Chinese stuff I have way better and cheaper avenues.

    Competition is good, eh?

    • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      How long has Amazon been operating in your market? Their MO is capturing a customer base with low prices and good service, followed by capturing sellers by offering them access to said customer base. After having locked everyone in their last step is to extract all possible value from both groups. Their playbook is creating a chokepoint to force themselves upon everyone for trade.

      Check out Chokepoint Capitalism.

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        1 year ago

        Competition is far fiercer here, they have to contend with Alibaba-backed platforms as well. I also have access to Taobao. It’s not going to be as straightforward as it is in the USA.

        • nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
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          I believe you, but the ultimate goal for all of those platforms is monopoly, looking at their track record. Like Peter Thiel said, competition is for losers.