Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges
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Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.
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This, among other shitty behaviour, is why I avoid Amazon now. It's just a horrible shopping experience.
Amazon is basically Ali Express or Temu. All the trustworthy / quality products are buried unless you explicitly search for them.
Except Aliexpress is still fun.
Let me spend 6 hours looking at slightly different screwdrivers and keycaps and dodgy anime merch and ICs that haven't been used since 1988. Way better than 84 pages of KWJIBO brand home goods.
I went to multiple hardware, plumbing stores, and Amazon but only found my obscure bathtub faucet to hose fitting on aliexpress for less than a dollar
I ended up on Temu for the first time today since I always avoid Amazon. Pretty sure that site gave my phone an STD.
I use it to price check and sometimes figure out a better search term before I get it from a china direct seller.
Ali express isn't that different from other websites, there are certain brands I know and trust, or if something is cheap enough, I will take a risk on it being good. I actually just bought some stuff there yesterday.
It really is. Etsy too.
Remember when Etsy was for actual crafts and not a dozen people drop shipping the same kitschy shit from China?
I do! If you're patient and careful, you can still find some good creators on there. But, it's almost not worth it to even look anymore. Etsy doesn't even pretend to give a shit about all of the fake shops and misleading listings. Unfortunately, I haven't found any good alternatives yet either.
I haven't used amazon personally in years and I haven't missed it a bit. The biggest problem is trying to order stuff at work because my employer doesn't care that amazon is a shit company. If I put a purchase order in for a niche part from Joe's Niche Part Depot I just get a response of "We don't have them registered as a supplier in our system, but amazon has that part too and it's only $3 more there so we're just going to get it there."