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The trouble is that in many cases it goes a bit further. Steps 1-4 are as you say. But then 5. Keep looking down Amazon's product listings. 6. Notice that _ev
by gjm11 7y ago
The trouble is that in many cases it goes a bit further. Steps 1-4 are as you say. But then
5. Keep looking down Amazon's product listings.
6. Notice that _every single thing in the list_ is a weird pseudo-brand whose products are presumably drop-shipped from China.
7. Notice that many of these things, although nominally having different manufacturers, are obviously pretty much the same thing, probably coming out of the same factory.
8. Try to find some suitable products somewhere in the list that actually come from companies you might have heard of and that aren't just reselling the same probably-low-quality Chinese products.
9. Give up and go to a bricks-and-mortar store.
(For me, looking at Amazon UK, for the particular search mentioned above there do seem to be a few real products in among the deluge of fake-brand junk. But often >90% of the products in the list are fake-brand junk. And of course then there's the possibility that the real products are actually fakes too.)