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Not a monopoly but Amazon Basics products are copies of Amazon's best selling products at a much cheaper price. This makes third-party vendor competition pretty
by dmlittle 10y ago
Not a monopoly but Amazon Basics products are copies of Amazon's best selling products at a much cheaper price. This makes third-party vendor competition pretty harsh. I can buy a Rain Design mStand Laptop Stand for $40 or buy the Amazon clone for $20.
- vadym909 10y agoOn this front Walmart is so much better.
- cdr 10y agoThe Amazon Basics items I've seen could be described as "the minimum acceptable". It's better than the typical Chinese junk, but anyone upmarket shouldn't have to worry.
- sotojuan 10y agoThen it was a genius idea. There's tons of awful, broken stuff for really cheap on Amazon. With basics you get something you can at least know it works and if not can complain to someone.
- brobinson 10y agoI just bought two 9-foot HDMI cables for $8.99 Amazon Basics is awesome.
- lsaferite 10y agoI have the Rain Design stand, and out of curiosity I checked those just now on Amazon. Seems Rain Design has suffixed their product with (Patented) now. I'm guessing they are less than thrilled with Amazon at this point.