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I gave up on Amazon and Ebay altogether, and deleted my accounts. It's just not worth my time having to deal with dishonest sellers and getting zero help. Thos
by karlkloss 6y ago
I gave up on Amazon and Ebay altogether, and deleted my accounts.
It's just not worth my time having to deal with dishonest sellers and getting zero help.
Those sellers know perfectly how to play the complaint systems of the platforms, and it's destroying the customer experience.
When I want cheap crap, I now buy it where I know it's cheap crap, and when I want quality, I preferably buy it directly from the manufacturer, or from a renowned dealer.
- ActorNightly 6y agoIts less of an issue then you make it out to be.
- dspillett 6y agoDepends what you are buying. Some products are far more commonly copied than others, and with varying degrees of inferiority to the original.
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- capsulecorp 6y agoIts more of an issue than you make it out to be.
- CapitalistCartr 6y agoI knew it was bad beyond recovery when I started getting counterfeit books.
- syockit 6y agoI came across this issue when I was pondering whether to buy the English edition or the Japanese edition of Uncle Bob's Clean Code. Luckily I saw the reviews saying that the English one was counterfeit, so I went with the Japanese one instead.
- fmajid 6y agoAmazon is actually more sketchy than eBay now. Not at all something I would have predicted a decade ago. If you are going to get questionable Chinese stuff, you might as well skip the middleman and get it from AliExpress, albeit with very slow shipping.
- lokedhs 6y agoSellers on Aliexpress tends to be quite honest about what they are selling, so buying there is reasonably predictable. I have rarely been disappointed by anything I bought from there. On the other hand, Ebay (and I presume Amazon, I never use them) tends to buy cheap stuff off of Aliexpress, mark it up and resell it, sometimes also faking the brand.
- mkl 6y ago> Sellers on Aliexpress tends to be quite honest about what they are selling I'm not sure how much is deliberate dishonesty, but there sure is a lack of truth. Product titles are often a mishmash of words copy-pasted in and half irrelevant/misleading, making searching for some things completely impossible. Sellers often use pictures of other companies' products (sometimes multiple different ones), and contradictory specs are not uncommon. They often don't have sufficient English to understand and answer questions trying to clarify. I have rarely been disappointed, but my expectations are always pretty low.
- lokedhs 6y agoWhat you say is true. But I have never gotten the impression that this stems from dishonesty. I have the feeling that a lot of the sellers simply don't know how to present their products online, and since everybody else is doing the same thing there is little reason so change. At least that's the impression I have gotten. I'm willing to accept that others may have had really bad experiences there.
- airhead969 6y agoThere are tons of shady US sellers on Etsy looking to make a quick buck without any customer service. On there, I bought a poster that was pictured in a frame for $25 and all that came was a wrinkled piece of paper in a tube from a US seller who wouldn't refund a dime. The honesty of Aliexpress sellers varies. A "blanket hoodie" I bought doesn't even go to my hips. Many AE sellers, when confronted with insufficient or wrong items delivered, will offer coupons or discounts rather than replacements or refunds. You have to insist on what you want because interacting with Chinese businesses often requires assertiveness. I'm a diamond-level buyer, so AE pretty much sides with me 99% of the time and since I don't make frivolous disputes.
- airhead969 6y agoHazard Fraught: your local dispensary of cheap crap.