Comment on Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble

• yiliu@informis.land ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, if people have lost faith in Amazon, they sure don’t show it with the amount they spend on it.

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  • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There are some things you can really only buy there. Which is why I bigly agree with the US government that they’re a bigly monopoly bigly abusing their monopoly power (bigly).

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It extra sucks for rural America where you might only have a handful of stores to pick from and all are discount stores like Walmart and Dollar General. Makes it hard to buy better quality/up market items

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        buy better quality/up market items

        I find this to be a challenge in general. Amazon and Walmart killed recognizable name brands as quality markers. Walmart forced their suppliers (some of which were name brands) down in quality and prices in order to maintain shelf space, and Amazon is just a haven for rip-off and junk goods.

        But the only places you can find quality with good warranty periods in my experience is ultra-high end suppliers in very top line stores. For instance, I’m trying to buy a leather jacket and everywhere I look both online or in person seems like a junk expo.

        I’ve had similar problems with furniture, and even home goods recently. The only place I’ve had any luck at all is Costco.

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    • yiliu@informis.land ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Got any examples? Between Walmart, Etsy, AliExpress, Home Depot, and Wayfair, plus the fact that nearly every major store has online shopping and delivery…I really can’t think of anything I could only get on Amazon. To be quite frank, I think the US government’s case is sorta ridiculous.

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      • aesthelete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Of course you do, you post like some type of Amazon shill.

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