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> accumulated 29 one-star reviews on Amazon and was discontinued the day after we bought it. They forgot to say how it re-appeared the next day under some othe

> accumulated 29 one-star reviews on Amazon and was discontinued the day after we bought it. They forgot to say how it re-appeared the next day under some other manufacturer name that's a random assortment of words and letters slightly different than "NiceTQ"

kridsdale1 3y ago
I swear, there must be software to make pseudo English phoneme strings for Chinese resellers to register as “companies” on amazon. 95% of them are ridiculous and I can’t believe a human made them.
- npongratz 3y ago
  It's a fast and cheap way to avoid running afoul of trademark laws.
  - anamexis 3y ago
    It isn't to avoid running afoul of trademark laws, it's just that it's easy to trademark pseudorandom brand names, and Amazon upranks trademarked brands.
    - galangalalgol 3y ago
      How much does it cost to trademark a brand globally? Or at least in major markets? Hiw long before someone starts trademarking uuids?
bee_rider 3y ago
It is annoying that these sellers do this, but it is a pretty obvious thing to do, it is economically incentivized, and so it is totally unsurprising. The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve. I mean if I was to give somebody advice as to which cables they should buy on Amazon, it would have to be: use a brand you know and make sure you buy it directly from their account, and if there’s no such brand, don’t buy a cable from Amazon… but then I guess nobody asks.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  > make sure you buy it directly from their account Commingling makes this advice useless.
- galaxyLogic 3y ago
  > The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve. Not so weird I think. They pretty much have a monopoly so what do they care. The more Amazon is used as the sales-channel the more money Amazon makes. And most users don't have a way of testing their cables. If a cable stops working it is easy to assume the user somehow broke the cable or its connectors themselves.
- Spooky23 3y ago
  It's amazing what people fail to notice when it pays their bills.

kridsdale1 3y ago

I swear, there must be software to make pseudo English phoneme strings for Chinese resellers to register as “companies” on amazon. 95% of them are ridiculous and I can’t believe a human made them.

npongratz 3y ago
It's a fast and cheap way to avoid running afoul of trademark laws.
- anamexis 3y ago
  It isn't to avoid running afoul of trademark laws, it's just that it's easy to trademark pseudorandom brand names, and Amazon upranks trademarked brands.
  - galangalalgol 3y ago
    How much does it cost to trademark a brand globally? Or at least in major markets? Hiw long before someone starts trademarking uuids?

bee_rider 3y ago

It is annoying that these sellers do this, but it is a pretty obvious thing to do, it is economically incentivized, and so it is totally unsurprising. The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve. I mean if I was to give somebody advice as to which cables they should buy on Amazon, it would have to be: use a brand you know and make sure you buy it directly from their account, and if there’s no such brand, don’t buy a cable from Amazon… but then I guess nobody asks.

marcosdumay 3y ago
> make sure you buy it directly from their account Commingling makes this advice useless.
galaxyLogic 3y ago
> The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve. Not so weird I think. They pretty much have a monopoly so what do they care. The more Amazon is used as the sales-channel the more money Amazon makes. And most users don't have a way of testing their cables. If a cable stops working it is easy to assume the user somehow broke the cable or its connectors themselves.
Spooky23 3y ago
It's amazing what people fail to notice when it pays their bills.