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I've been seeing some items that are ONLY sold by 3rd party sellers. For example, go search on Amazon for Nintendo Switch. I get it, there isn't much stock out
by bratsche 10y ago
I've been seeing some items that are ONLY sold by 3rd party sellers. For example, go search on Amazon for Nintendo Switch. I get it, there isn't much stock out there.. but on Amazon there is no way to say, "Pre-order for whenever you get more in stock."
Instead you're forced to buy from 3rd party sellers. Now go and look at some of those sellers. There are tons and tons of sellers who have either 0% positive feedback, or they just started and have no feedback.
I'm worried that more items are going over to this Ebay-like model of shady sellers.
- Arizhel 10y agoAmazon has gotten so bad about this stuff that I consider those "shady sellers" on Ebay to be a better bet than the ones on Amazon. At least on Ebay, I can tell right away if a seller is shipping from China. I can't see that on Amazon until I go to the checkout, and see that it'll take several weeks to arrive.
- sharemywin 10y agoI goto aliexpress I paid $9.70 for a 1m micro usb cable. oh, wait that was 10 of them. versus $2.86 for one on ebay or 4.99 on amazon. versus $10 at the store. not affiliate with them, but if your going to by cheap shit from china why not go direct and get it the cheapest.
- makomk 10y agoPlus, when you go to look at reviews on Aliexpress you know they're from people who bought from the seller you're buying from, not some unrelated supplier whose genuine listing a scammer has subsequently latched onto.
- cryptarch 10y agoEbay is pretty good, just use the Spamhaus tools to check out all negative and neutral reviews and look for weird stuff. Ebay has a lot of experienced sellers with hundreds/thousands of transactions and only a few neutral/negative reviews a year.