[stevage]

I imagine everything constantly hovering on the threshold of what is tolerable enough for most people. If you could never buy anything useful on the internet, the system would collapse and people would do something different. But instead, the quality etc will just decline to a point where it is still marginally better than alternatives like shopping in person etc.

[ghaff]

People who can afford to do so will perhaps just pay 2x to 3x to shop a more limited selection from personally curated stores.

[shinycode]

Unfortunately if you so create a new product or service it’ll be really hard to find you this way and it might require a lot more money and effort to reach out to the audience.

[b112]

Oooooh, custom search engines.

Amazon would hate this, but make a deal with shopify to speed up spidering their sites. Then, spider all other retailors.

You put in a product id/name, and it only shows results from amazon, shopify sites, and vetted retailers.

The manual curation part, is vetting the retail site. Walmart would be a problem(for example), unless it was easy to tag 'sold by walmart'. Amazon's filter would only include shipped by amazon stuff.

So like 'hanes t-shirt', and you get 7 links, from 7 sites, all woth prices and shipping cost estimates.

Amazon has horrible pricing, bordering on predatory for some things. Maybe I'll do this, I'm bored this summer.