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I tend to use Ebay more to find things that are fine even used (e.g. fins for diving)
Ebay is a online flea market
When there are good deals, those power buyers are armed with the best Sniper apps to scoop them up or to bid the price up so they don't compete with them.
Every niche market gets taken over by the same Power seller greedy assholes.
Amazon's clothing/shoe search is impossible. You'll look for 34x29L White Linen Pants, and it'll show you 40x50L Dark Grey Wool Pants from Andre the Giant.
Who still wears ties?
Leather messenger bag didn't just stink of leather, it stank of a slaughter house. I'm a guy who likes earthy smells, this was the smell of animal fear, blood, and feces. Tong Tang brought in roadkill to Chungking goatmeat butcher, and the carcass probably rotted for several days. Definitely not cured long enough or dry enough. Stitches were missing several holes. Yet it had mostly 5 and 4 star ratings and lots of customer pics.
I figured the quality would be shit, but I'd take it to a shoe repair place and have them stitch and reinforce the leather and turn a $50 bag into a $200 bag for $20 more. Nope!
How do they do it? They make these things for $5 inc. labor and materials, sell 'em for $40+, and DGAF. A $500 investment in 100 bags can easily net them $3000 after shipping costs. Then they offer the shit to noted reviewers who "Buy" it, and get gifts and cash on the sly. Amazon DGAF. The better stuff, made of better materials and/or workmanship, is brought and rebranded as a foreign retailer's private label.
I also brought several shirts over the years, $12-15, claiming to be 100% cotton, and of course, were polyester and again, awful stitching and see through fabric. I use one to clean the pool and absorb chlorine splashes.
Unlike Ebay, there is no way to control dropshipped or Chinese products on Amazon.
On Ebay, you can choose both country of origin, and if they fake it, set the delivery options to nix dropshipped goods (ie anything more a few days is dropshipped)