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IDK what’s worse…that this is a thing, or that I’m so accustomed to Amazon’s shenanigans that I’m used to heading into the dark web of results, aka Page 2, in order to find exactly what I’m looking for.

That said, charging cables are kind of a bad example. I’m prepared to spend $10 on a 6-pack of varying lengths of Brand X cables I’ll replace next year as opposed to one $25 Apple-approved MFi cable that I’ll also replace next year.

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bobman@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Page 2 is never a safe place to be.

Amazon fails because its so expansive, but customer’s expectations aren’t high enough for Amazon to maintain that breadth.

Amazon has the money to vet its products and provide better search results, it just chooses not to because it doesn’t need to.

Better to shove a shitty, expensive product in customer’s faces than a cheap, standard one.

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MrShankles@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I too am willing to venture onto page 2. The reviews are what are killing me now though. All the reviews are for the top 5 results, because nobody trusts anything from page 2, when it only has a few buyers and 3 reviews. It’s cyclical

And if a product has multiple “styles” to choose from, all the reviews are lumped together, so it’s near impossible to figure out which product they’re actually talking about.

It’s like I’m playing detective, just to determine if the keyboard stand I’m looking for will be worth a damn or not.

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