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I’ve stopped buying from third party sellers on amazon. And I’ve bought a lot less from amazon proper too. Probably started about 4 years back.

0xADEADBEE 8y ago
I did the exact same thing as you around the same time-frame and with the amount of comments I see on here extolling Amazon I assumed I was an outlier. What made you tail off? I was in the UK and I started noticing that while they had originally been cheaper for most things, they were not and the convenience (or inconvenience if I was out when a package was delivered) didn't really offset that particular delta. I made the exception for about a year after I caught on to that in order to buy second hand books because typically they would retail for 1p with a ~£2.50 postage fee but I stopped that after a while for various reasons (travel, ebooks, relocation).
- dwighttk 8y ago
  Books are about the only thing I still buy at amazon. It probably started with a purchase I made that kept delaying shipping, but the price was like 20% better than anywhere else and I didn’t need it anytime soon. After a couple months and like 6delays I canceled the order and decided to start buying from bestbuy and Walmart. (Also Barnes&noble locally but their website is bad and their app is even worse.) Oh the other thing that definitely turned me off is searching for something like a hoodie and getting a page full of results that each give ranges of prices from $10-$50 and the only one for $10 is an xxs in dingy white and everything else is $50. (Just made that example up)
  - tinus_hn 8y ago
    That’s the same on AliExpress, if you search for SD cards you get offers for $0.01 cards and when you look at the offer you chose capacities and the 0.01 offer is for a 1 megabyte SD card that is sold out.
mrfusion 8y ago
I’m not sure it’s possible to filter out third party.
__jal 8y ago
I quit Amazon a while back. Because of what I bought from them, counterfeit garbage was less of a problem for me than for some, but their shitty dark patterns and information sharing pushed me over the edge. If they put a quarter of the effort into seller fraud they put in to making in as difficult as possible to actually comparison shop in their store... What finally pushed me over the edge was when 3rd party sellers started text messaging me. Fuck that noise, Bezos, I'm out. (No, not a direct Amazon action; no, that seller did not need my phone number; and yes, it is Amazon's problem.)
randycupertino 8y ago
Walmart.com used to be a nice place where you could buy things that you weren't sure if they were counterfeit or not on Amazon, however was saddened to learn they also introduced third party selling and have been getting more fake products on there lately: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/bh1i95/fake_jaclyn_hill_palettes_being_sold_on_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/bh1i95/f...

0xADEADBEE 8y ago

I did the exact same thing as you around the same time-frame and with the amount of comments I see on here extolling Amazon I assumed I was an outlier. What made you tail off? I was in the UK and I started noticing that while they had originally been cheaper for most things, they were not and the convenience (or inconvenience if I was out when a package was delivered) didn't really offset that particular delta. I made the exception for about a year after I caught on to that in order to buy second hand books because typically they would retail for 1p with a ~£2.50 postage fee but I stopped that after a while for various reasons (travel, ebooks, relocation).

dwighttk 8y ago
Books are about the only thing I still buy at amazon. It probably started with a purchase I made that kept delaying shipping, but the price was like 20% better than anywhere else and I didn’t need it anytime soon. After a couple months and like 6delays I canceled the order and decided to start buying from bestbuy and Walmart. (Also Barnes&noble locally but their website is bad and their app is even worse.) Oh the other thing that definitely turned me off is searching for something like a hoodie and getting a page full of results that each give ranges of prices from $10-$50 and the only one for $10 is an xxs in dingy white and everything else is $50. (Just made that example up)
- tinus_hn 8y ago
  That’s the same on AliExpress, if you search for SD cards you get offers for $0.01 cards and when you look at the offer you chose capacities and the 0.01 offer is for a 1 megabyte SD card that is sold out.

mrfusion 8y ago

I’m not sure it’s possible to filter out third party.

__jal 8y ago

I quit Amazon a while back. Because of what I bought from them, counterfeit garbage was less of a problem for me than for some, but their shitty dark patterns and information sharing pushed me over the edge. If they put a quarter of the effort into seller fraud they put in to making in as difficult as possible to actually comparison shop in their store... What finally pushed me over the edge was when 3rd party sellers started text messaging me. Fuck that noise, Bezos, I'm out. (No, not a direct Amazon action; no, that seller did not need my phone number; and yes, it is Amazon's problem.)

randycupertino 8y ago

Walmart.com used to be a nice place where you could buy things that you weren't sure if they were counterfeit or not on Amazon, however was saddened to learn they also introduced third party selling and have been getting more fake products on there lately: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/bh1i95/fake_jaclyn_hill_palettes_being_sold_on_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BeautyGuruChatter/comments/bh1i95/f...