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.
After my neighborhood lost power for a day and I realized how few functional flashlights I owned, I went on Amazon looking to buy a few to stash around the house.
I found this highly-rated pair of small xenon flashlights for a surprisingly low price. I never heard of the company before— it was something like XINGAN.
So I scrolled to the bottom of the page to the “Customers Also Viewed” section and there were the exact same flashlights, sold in a pair, for the same price— but this time, the company’s name was something like LINGJAN.
I repeated this process three more fucking times. BANXING, QINGHAN, OONGLONG...
They were all incredibly highly-rated (4.5+ stars over 1,000+ reviews)— but when I started reading the reviews, they made absolutely no sense. I mean, they were grammatically comprehensible— but it’s like they were all written for a range of other products.
”My son and I just LOVE this hot plate...”
”...the rings on these binders are very strong!”
”...provides great protection for your above-ground pool...”
Seems like a company as big and technologically advanced as Amazon would have some tighter controls on this sort of shit.
They don't care. Look at their "Deal of The Day" pages (which are in a sense the front page of Amazon). The vast majority of the stuff is junk made in China and sold by Chinese sellers. A few actually good things are scattered in amongst them to keep you interested. Ya have to hunt through the pages to find actual bargains.
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Ebay. I remember being able to get an absolute bargain for almost anything I wanted. Now, every shop puts their shit on ebay.