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Target and Wal-Mart also sell third party shit. It's easier for me to just buy directly from brands I like, or to shop for them on a couple outlet sites I trust
by brimble 5y ago
Target and Wal-Mart also sell third party shit. It's easier for me to just buy directly from brands I like, or to shop for them on a couple outlet sites I trust (so far) to sell legit (overstocked or lightly damaged) top-quality stuff and not lower-quality second- or third-tier versions (as some outlet stores do), than figure out how to avoid or disable displaying third party sellers on a bunch of different sites.
By the time you factor in the time and frustration for that, any savings (which isn't even guaranteed) doesn't look like great ROI anyway. Plus, even Amazon often won't carry the full range of a brand's products, so I get more options shopping this way.
- mardifoufs 5y agoBest buy is filled with 3rd party sellers too but it's at least very easy to filter them out. If I could do the same on Amazon I wouldn't have any problem with 3rd party sellers, but they instead make it almost impossible to know even if you check manually.
- aceazzameen 5y agoThat and Amazon commingles their inventory with 3rd party inventory, which can sometimes be counterfeit. And Amazon doesn't care if the counterfeit products are mixed in with the genuine products in their warehouses. As far as I know, Best Buy/Target/Walmart don't commingle their inventory with 3rd parties because they have physical stores that they can pull from.
- aceazzameen 5y agoTrue. But stores like Target also let you see inventory in physical stores, so it's easier to purchase an item you know is coming from a Target store/warehouse than a 3rd party.