Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products

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• Raglan@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  how far the mighty have fallen to be compared unfavorably to aliexpress. sheesh.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Aliexpress search results are garbage. A dozen knockoffs of the same thing, sorting doesn’t work, and when you search for a specific part it shows you the price of the right product but the wrong variety.

    But it’s cheaper than Amazon, cuts out Bezos, and for standard shipping is usually about as fast.

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    • Raglan@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I cancelled prime a while back and I’ve been mostly trying to order direct from manufacturers when possible. Costs more but I figure that’s the price of not contributing to a known bad actor in some small way.

      Thanks for the summary. I’ll keep in in mind if I can’t find a more direct route.

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      • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s probably still cheaper than prime. It hasn’t been worth the money for me for years. I still try to buy from local businesses that deserve support first, though.

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• 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m the same way I’ll look up a product… When it’s obviously an import… I’ll just go to AliExpress and get it there.

  The time savings isn’t worth the additional price imho

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• antbricks@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First time using AliExpress I got scammed. I got a refund, at least, but I haven’t been back since.

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    how did you get scammed if you got a refund?

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    • antbricks@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t know how AliExpress works internally. It was one of the apparently common scams where the seller pretends to ship a package to you. It’s scam #5 in this list: www.reddit.com/r/Aliexpress/s/YEqwsP1ef6

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      • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        hmmm don’t know. I am sure there are scams out there, no doubt. But your situation is identical to a “lost in the mail” scenario.

        My point is that if AliExpress made you whole, all you lost was time. It sucks but I would not considered myself to be scammed if at the end of the day I have my money back.

        I don’t think I would trust Ali or Amazon (which I rather not use, period) with anything over $100 just in case anyway.

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• artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  LOL WTF are you talking about!? Virtually everything on AliExpress is a scam.

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Seems to me like over half the crap on Amazon is just drop shipped AliExpress junk anyway. Why not cut out the middle asshole?

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do you think AliExpress is manufacturing all that shit? It’s a digital storefront (middle asshole), just like Amazon. Difference is Amazon will refund just about anything with no questions asked. Ali will just tell you “better luck next time”. Not to mention that they blocked my VPN so I couldn’t buy from them if I wanted to.

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      • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah it’s cutting out one of the middle assholes so it’s one instead of two. From the stuff I get recommended on Amazon it’s pretty clear they don’t care about false advertising either. Cant help you with your vpn problem though

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      • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I tried buying from Aliexpress once, they rejected all of my credit cards, so I asked their support, who wanted documents from my bank, so I gave it to them, and crickets. Tried contacting them again, same issue. Whereas Amazon just works.

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• cmbabul@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fucking TikTok shop is better

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