Amazon's ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

Amazon’s ads strategy helped pump its profits while steering shoppers to higher-priced goods, the agency alleges.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      521·
      2 years ago

      Amazon is basically Ali Express or Temu. All the trustworthy / quality products are buried unless you explicitly search for them.

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
        16·
        2 years ago

        Except Aliexpress is still fun.

        Let me spend 6 hours looking at slightly different screwdrivers and keycaps and dodgy anime merch and ICs that haven’t been used since 1988. Way better than 84 pages of KWJIBO brand home goods.

        • GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 years ago

          I went to multiple hardware, plumbing stores, and Amazon but only found my obscure bathtub faucet to hose fitting on aliexpress for less than a dollar

      • GiantFloppyCock@lemm.ee
        121·
        2 years ago

        I ended up on Temu for the first time today since I always avoid Amazon. Pretty sure that site gave my phone an STD.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
        31·
        2 years ago

        Ali express isn’t that different from other websites, there are certain brands I know and trust, or if something is cheap enough, I will take a risk on it being good. I actually just bought some stuff there yesterday.

      • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        Remember when Etsy was for actual crafts and not a dozen people drop shipping the same kitschy shit from China?

        • Travalaaaaaaanche!@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          I do! If you’re patient and careful, you can still find some good creators on there. But, it’s almost not worth it to even look anymore. Etsy doesn’t even pretend to give a shit about all of the fake shops and misleading listings. Unfortunately, I haven’t found any good alternatives yet either.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I haven’t used amazon personally in years and I haven’t missed it a bit. The biggest problem is trying to order stuff at work because my employer doesn’t care that amazon is a shit company. If I put a purchase order in for a niche part from Joe’s Niche Part Depot I just get a response of “We don’t have them registered as a supplier in our system, but amazon has that part too and it’s only $3 more there so we’re just going to get it there.”

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    45·
    2 years ago

    Making it more difficult for a customer to find what they want to buy is certainly an interesting retailer strategy.