I trust nothing on there anymore, it is very difficult to wade through the crap. All I want is a 3m HDMI 2.1 cable and I don’t believe what I’m getting.
It’s like chinavasion but with better marketing.
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wick@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Amazon turned out really weird. I feel like the idea of Amazon should be consolidating reputable retailers together, but they decided to open the floodgates to random people and now it’s little better than wish.com. Maybe they should split the site up and push all the random sellers onto a different platform.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Hey man, I’ve got your cable right here: 10m 5m 3m 2m 1m HDMI 1.4 2.0 2.1 cable male female for Xbox 360 One Series S X PS3 PS4 PS5 Wii U Switch Apple PC iPhone iPad 4K 4:4:4 16:9 1080p 60Hz 120Hz.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Ah yes, CHORUTY brand, my favorite
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
“Boss, we have 20 downvotes again!”
billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 months ago
Just bought from them for the first time the other day, good all around experience 🙂
Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have you had any issues, I’m seeing ridiculously long cables that I didn’t think we’re commercially available like 15m 48gbps HDMI which I thought was above the length maximum
grinde@programming.dev 9 months ago
Is it fiber or copper? Copper is probably not going to get you that far, but fiber can supposedly still deliver a decent signal at up to 60m.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are optical HDMI cables with much longer maximum lengths than passive copper cables. I assume the electrical - optical conversion is done in the plug itself.
sndrtj@feddit.nl 9 months ago
It’d worse than things like Temu. With that you just know you’re buying cheap knockoffs with let’s say questionable quality. On Amazon, you don’t know what quality you’re getting, for a worse price, and even worse delivery times (my last purchase from Amazon took 2 months to deliver. For a book!).
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Amazon has basically become a delivery company with a shop front and no responsibility.
Their selling fees are utterly incomprehensible, but their calculator reckons you’ll get about half the money for a £18 item and about 60% of it for a £45 item.
I feel like for that sort of cut, Amazon should be taking full responsibility for the fire hazard bullshit available from them.
Amazon, Uber, Deliveroo, etc are just leeches.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does Temu actually send the items?
sndrtj@feddit.nl 9 months ago
In my experience, yes.
slumberlust@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bought some plant stuff for the wifes bday and the company name on Amazon was XXXtenacion…wtf does that even mean? Why xxx? I don’t know, but there are thousands of these ai generated/poorly translated brandings going on.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 9 months ago
…That’s the name of a dead rapper. What the hell?
slumberlust@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You are right! I double checked it’s XXXFlower, not the rapper :)
AngryAnusHornets@lemmy.world 9 months ago
[deleted]KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I prefer fleaBay these days. I mostly know what I’m getting whether it be someone’s personal item or a mass produced product. I feel like I have better control. Not a lot, but more. I also use B&H for tech stuff.
ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I love how you people go full on crazy when these stories come out.
Yeah, it is definitely just a step away from wish 🙄
BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
For a lot of it its a couple of steps away from ali express atleast. So much so that most of it is just ali express but 10 times more expensive with next day delivery.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hey man I’ve had quality knockoffs from Wish. Wish is great if it’s not much and you wanna gamble a little.
But, so is Amazon, now. Better return policy, but you pay full price so the gamble is way worse.
Damage@feddit.it 9 months ago
It used to be the safe alternative to eBay… Nowadays maybe it’s the opposite
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yep, just bought a new pixel directly from the Google store on Amazon. They shipped me a refurbished one that was carrier locked to Verizon. It’s been 3 weeks since I shipped it back and they still haven’t checked it in n for a refund. Prob never buying anything worth more 200 bucks from them again.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 9 months ago
Bet it wasn’t google, it was something ‘xingwang productions’ calling themselves google.
Raspberry pi had loads of these during the shortage (still does, I think)… the listing has ‘Raspberry Pi model 4B’ and ‘Visit the raspberry pi store’ and ‘#1 best seller’ and you dig a little and find it’s a reseller who’s shifting at a markup.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 months ago
The problem is Amazon puts everything with the same SKU in the same bin. So your “xingwang productions” Pixel phones are in the same place as the official “Google Store” stuff.
I basically stopped buying on Amazon unless there’s no other way to get what I want (or it doesn’t matter that much) because of this. Definitely not touching any food, skin cream, etc from there or expensive electronics.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
See, this is weird. Normally I get a refund the moment I drop it off at UPS/Kohls/USPS. They don’t even wait for the item to actually reach their warehouse most of the time. This includes a $4k laptop with a DOA thunderbolt port.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 9 months ago
That had been my prior experience as well. I’ve bought and returned several more expensive items in the past, but I think they’ve made some recent changes to their return policy. Now they’re not returning funds for expensive items until they’ve checked it in.
30mag@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My experience with returning stuff has been pretty good also, although I don’t doubt some people have had bad experiences.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve seen so many Amazon drop ship listings on ebay. They don’t even use different pictures.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I just got straight to the source on Ali for all my chinesium stuff, although if you don’t want to wade through the express it can be a chore. And express vendors can be as expensive as Amazon.
Ebays not bad, especially for used gizmos. And anything important I just get it from a legitimate retailer.
Landmammals@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It really is. On eBay the seller has a rating. On Amazon the item has a rating. You’re just sort of randomly buying the thing you want and hope to get a good seller.