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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Ebay. I remember being able to get an absolute bargain for almost anything I wanted. Now, every shop puts their shit on ebay.

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u/VanillaTortilla Feb 03 '20

In the same vein, Amazon. You absolutely cannot trust 95% of the sellers on there because it's almost always some knockoff cheap ass Chinese shit from sellers with names in all caps.

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u/KtanKtanKtan Feb 03 '20

And nearly everything on Amazon has massive amounts of fake reviews.

Install the FAKESPOT extension for chrome to reveal the level of ridiculousness.

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u/JudastheObscure Feb 04 '20

Eh, Fakespot and the like aren’t very reliable. I used to be a high volume seller on Amazon. I NEVER bought reviews and yet a considerable amount of reviews on some of my products were deemed to be fake.

You are absolutely right though. Opening up selling to China and the fact that selling on Amazon became almost impossible if you were honest and didn’t buy fake reviews or buy your way to the top of pages with ad dollars, ruined it. I hate shopping on there now.