Looks like I’m spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I’d be purchasing from either place; it’s just another example of Amazon’s enshittification.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Almost everything on Amazon is cheap trash, and they promote the hell out of all that trash instead of products of any quality. I am also so sick of the click funnels where you search for a specific item and they just give you pages full of knockoff trash as search results even if you go to a specific brand store. It’s nonsense.

  • the16bitgamer@programming.devEnglish
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    19 days ago

    I will not defend Amazon. But the lack of local retail/price gouging which is shipping in Canada keeps pushing me to Amazon.

    I need a role of 3D printable filament or an SD Card. The nearest store is 1-2 hours away and costs twice as much for the convenience, buying from the manufacturer may not possible and if it is shipping cost just as much as the product.

    I would love it if there was competition, but there isn’t and Amazon knows it. So for the most part I just buy from brands I know are safe.

    • flamiera@kbin.melroy.org
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      14 days ago

      This is what people aren’t talking about enough. It may make people feel all good inside to not have Amazon and everything - until they are commuting for long periods, having to spend more than they budgeted for and shipping to not be available. Also, who loves it when you have to store-hop multiple places and still not find what you need?

      It’s like I can’t rely on Walmart or even Best Buy to have what I’m looking for. They have their limits. I can’t rely on small businesses either because they probably won’t have whatever it is I need.

      So, sorry, I’m going to keep shopping Amazon as sparingly as possible. Do I hear anyone who is Anti-Amazon prop up any stores for reasonable commute and pricing and available shipping for people and communities? No? Then shut up about your lectures that people don’t need Amazon and how they’re sheeple for continuing to buy from it. It is all about self-pride and virtue signaling.

  • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Amazon is just a drop shipping marketplace where everything comes direct from the exact same warehouse in China.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    20 days ago

    The internet was so good in 08. You searched for stuff, found exactly what you needed, and were done.

    Poor kids today will never know anything other than ad ridden bot corponet.