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This mirrors my sentiments exactly. Peak Amazon for me was about 3 or 4 years ago - I would order from Amazon without even thinking about it. Now, you can’t use

This mirrors my sentiments exactly. Peak Amazon for me was about 3 or 4 years ago - I would order from Amazon without even thinking about it. Now, you can’t use it unless you know exactly what you want, because their search is unusable, and with the prevalence of counterfeit goods mixed in with all the legitimate stock… It’s become less of a hassle to just order from the manufacturer, if it’s anything I really care about.

antoniuschan99 5y ago
That’s what I been thinking too. Around 2017-18 the no name Chinese brands started massively flooding the site.
- m463 5y ago
  I suspect a lot of no-name chinese brands are actually amazon. (except with randomized-word brand name)
  - account42 5y ago
    That doesn't seem to fit with them mostly not using FBA and instead shipping directly from China.
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ejb999 5y ago
same here - used to buy everything I could from amazon, without really checking the price (they were always generally lowest price or close to it especially if you factor in the free and quick shipping and previously not having to pay sales tax). Now I search on amazon, then do my best to find it somewhere else for cheaper or about the same price - just the same way I do when I search for hotels on expedia or kayak, but always book direct. Not helping AMZN either is the fact that it seems like they have pretty much given up on rapid shipping - especially where I live - two days (with prime) used to be standard - now It is more like 5-6 days for most things - even with prime. Seems a bit bait-and-switch on the supposed promise of two day shipping.