Shopping on Amazon Has Gone to Absolute Shit

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davids877 said:
Sadly, the available Dexos2 certified oil list is very short. Rumor is Valvoline and Castrol both dropped the cert. And the 1qt prices are ridiculous at the parts stores. Looks like Mobil 1 ESP is available in 5Qt at one place near me and below $10/Qt, which requires leaving the house.
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It's shouldn't be that hard to find. Many Walmarts I've gone to have Pennzoil Euro L, which has the dexos 2 rating. They're usually around $27-28 usd per 5 quarts jugs.
 
A few years ago I ordered an 8 TB Western Digital external from Amazon. They shipped it in a box the size of a medium microwave with a couple of crumpled up sheets of brown paper for "padding", so basically it just bounced around throughout the shipping. When I plugged it in I could immediately hear a constant rattling sound. It seemed to work but yeah... I'm not trusting 8 TB of my precious pirate's loot to that. WTF were they thinking?
 
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I never had any issues buying off Amazon. I am not an autist looking for cheap Ching-Chong garbage like a Nintendo Swetch.
Any fuckups, like 2, because I was actually an autist and did not pay attention to the third party I bought from.
 
If I want to buy something cheap and plastic from China I use Amazon as a catalogue for what is available before heading to Aliexpress.

I also buy used CDs off Amazon from 2nd party sellers, they usually also sell on other platforms though so I will check them all to see where is the cheapest.
 
anustart76 said:
As a result, these Chinese companies, who aren't native English speakers, have to have their own names for trademark reasons. Because it's so hard to come up with names, they've resorted to just using random strings of characters that they can then trademark.
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Exactly. Amazon's decided that being a infrastructure/logistics company is better than just being a retailer so they "ship and fulfilled by Amazon" a bunch of knockoff crap.

Archive of a article from a while back that talked about it:

The Junkification of Amazon Why does it feel like the company is making itself worse?
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
My parents were talking about this sort of thing a few years ago--a company is only good until it takes over, then goes to shit.

For example, Wal-Mart in the 1990s was better in pretty much every way than Kmart...Kmart was plagued out of stocks, Wal-Mart had it. Kmart had old, crappy stores, Wal-Mart's were more modern. Their products were generally better, and Wal-Mart had McDonald's and Daytona USA.

Then Kmart went bankrupt and their stores disappeared, and almost immediately Wal-Mart's selection and quality dropped off the cliff within a few years.

Same thing with Amazon.
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Walmart has a "Walmart standard" that may not be super high, but they maintain it. I genuinely appreciate their consistency.

Amazon feels like making dice rolls on if you got a great deal or got scammed.
 
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Trying to buy a wheelbarrow right now and I'm running into an issue I see on a lot of products. The reviews are either "It's perfect" or "It's complete garbage". This product isn't even Chinkshit, or at least it's doing a good job of pretending to be Dutch.
 
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i got some chink ass UV resin and it's pretty fucking great. levels itself out and fills its own gaps despite the high viscosity, goes where i want it to go. they did something right.
 
Slap47 said:
Amazon feels like making dice rolls on if you got a great deal or got scammed.
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Strongly agree on this; a couple years back I needed a new hard drive bracket and cable, so I thought that it'd be safe to just order some cheap chinesium garbage from amazon.
After all, how can you fuck up a standard cable and piece of cheap metal?
I rolled a 1. When it arrived what I instead received was a generic lighter that barely worked and a fidget spinner. My initial assumption was that I just received someone else's package, but no, this was specifically labelled for my address and amazon had reported that they delivered the product.

With a brief chat with customer support I got my refund and left a negative review on the seller's page. Almost immediately after they sent me a response asking me to change my review to a 5 star one in return for a free giftcard. I didn't accept it, but obviously others had as many of the positive reviews could be summed up as just "good", "works", or "arrived on time".
Absolutely a wake up call to the state of amazon for me.
 
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thejackal2 said:
In general I'm not really sure what the bitching in this thread is about. It's fairly easy to see where the item is being sourced from and the seller ratings are fairly accurate.
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I agree with most of what you say. In my particular example, I did not spend time closely examining my $10 purchase of tomatoes that were previously offered by sale by Amazon.com and purchased by me for a similar price. What I didn't mention in my example above is the seller is named Amzon,com which is clearly an attempt to deceive, yet Amazon continues to let them remain on their site after I spent over 2 hours on the phone trying to get $10 back for an obvious scam.

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This isn't true. The person doesn't remember how awful the days of early online shopping was in the late 2000's and early 2010's on other sites. It also was extremely expensive, took ages to arrive and items would be broken.

Amazon at times fucks up but it widened choice. You also have the opportunity to buy cheaper especially when shopping for clothes or electronics. If you re say Gen Z you have no idea over priced in store shopping used to be. You would not believe how much I paid for an Ipod in 2008. Or when the TV broke in 2005 in my parents house how much we had to pay for a new one at fucking Sears!
 
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Bought a monitor from amazon. Arrived a couple of days ago in busted up packaging that has clearly been returned several times (there are thick white labels stuck all over it to hide all the previous delivery notes). Open it up, screen is busted. I'm now stuck with the moral quandary of returning it so it can be sent out to some other poor sod.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Bought a monitor from amazon. Arrived a couple of days ago in busted up packaging that has clearly been returned several times (there are thick white labels stuck all over it to hide all the previous delivery notes). Open it up, screen is busted. I'm now stuck with the moral quandary of returning it so it can be sent out to some other poor sod.
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Just return it and report product. Your morals are not worth giving the seller free money for a busted monitor you can't use.
 
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I don't buy a ton of stuff online but I was trying to find a makeup mirror for my wife for Christmas so I checked on Amazon first. Most of them looked like cheap Chinese garbage but there was one from a brand I recognized as a real brand that looked nice but I hesitated buying it because there was a postal strike that was fucking up deliveries and I didn't want it to get lost in the limbo somewhere and not arrive in time for Christmas. I decided on a whim to check some local stores before ordering it not really expecting much because I live in a small town with shitty stores. But I ended up finding the exact same mirror at a drug store not only that but it was like $5 cheaper than the listing on Amazon before the delivery fee and where I live shit's usually like at least 10% more expensive than the city. So it would have just been a straight ripoff buying that shit from Amazon.
 
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Grub said:
I don't buy a ton of stuff online but I was trying to find a makeup mirror for my wife for Christmas so I checked on Amazon first. Most of them looked like cheap Chinese garbage but there was one from a brand I recognized as a real brand that looked nice but I hesitated buying it because there was a postal strike that was fucking up deliveries and I didn't want it to get lost in the limbo somewhere and not arrive in time for Christmas. I decided on a whim to check some local stores before ordering it not really expecting much because I live in a small town with shitty stores. But I ended up finding the exact same mirror at a drug store not only that but it was like $5 cheaper than the listing on Amazon before the delivery fee and where I live shit's usually like at least 10% more expensive than the city. So it would have just been a straight ripoff buying that shit from Amazon.
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I had a similar experience. Live in a smallish town. Wife wanted a milk frother for Christmas. Got nicer one at Canadian Tire for cheaper than an off brand one on Amazon.
 
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