https://futurism.com/amazon-products-ai-generated

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    Usually Chinese resellers creating dozens of random letter names that look official. They resell AliExpress items at a premium to westerners lol.

    Amazon is slow to take down scams and low quality products because they sell sponsored listings and prime partnership which boosts products made by actual companies.

    • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      When I was looking for a whetstone the amazon results were actually sorta funny. They're selling all the same thing just with a stamped company name on it but the price varies wildly.

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      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        Yeah what I often do is just buy what I need for Amazon, make sure it’s prime and return eligible, buy it again for like 4% of the Amazon price on AliExpress, then return the Amazon product once the Ali item arrives lol

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          If a brand has a website that isn't just Alibaba listings and an About section with no address, then it's probably a real product