[waihtis]

the modern consumer in a nutshell: you can effectively ban them from your platform and they will still weasel their way back through the tiniest crack in the system. That chinese counterfeit junk amazon sells is just too lucrative

[TeMPOraL]

What else can they do? Check out from life? Or bankrupt themselves on principle?

Honestly, fuck on-line platforms and their arbitrary bans. In meatspace, you can't be just banned from a store, or a store chain, not without a criminal record at least. Sure, user accounts are governed by vendors' ToS, and any store can ban you from their loyalty card program for any reason, but off-line, those are all incidentals not required for completing a purchase. On-line, identity, security, and optional marketing crap got bundled together into a single "account". It's a historical accident that needs to get corrected, possibly by regulatory means, to harmonize it with the general expectation that the store can't refuse you service for extra-legal reasons.

[waihtis]

I'd get this sentiment if it was some super critical piece of living a fulfilling life, but amazon is a junk store which makes the whole situation absurd to begin with

[TeMPOraL]

There are only so many places you can order stuff on-line locally, to save on non-food products more expensive or downright unavailable locally. Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly - a major reason why people prefer those large marketplaces. And then, it's not just Amazon. Adopting such policies is becoming a trend parallel to centralization. Amazon alone may not be "super critical piece of living a fulfilling life", but getting banned by it and a few more large companies (Google, in particular), and you may lose some critical things (at least critical in immediate term).

[waihtis]

> Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly

If using a web shop is cognitively exhausting to you, there likely are bigger problems underneath.

[TeMPOraL]

A single one, no. Two dozen different ones - I can do it, but it gets so annoying that I'll happily pay premium to buy the same things on a single site.

[olivermuty]

I don’t get why you get downvoted on this comment. Anyone buying from Amazon should realize they are buying from Temu in a trenchcoat, filling the pockets of an immoral man who treats his warehouse workers like chattel.

I have bought from amazon exactly once in four years now, because a vendor (a chinese one!) has Amazon as the only outlet where they provide warranty because they are plagued with counterfeits and bootleggers.

I find that fact for a chinese reseller so incredibly ironic. These guys are good people tho, bunch of gamers making the pinnacle of controllers for pc gaming with mouse clicker buttons and whatnot.

Shoutout to Playdigi Apex :D (no affiliation / economic insentive)

[codetrotter]

I don’t find any Playdigi Apex, but I find Flydigi Apex. Is that the one?

https://www.amazon.com/PC-Controller-Feedback-Force-Adjustab...

And how different is it from for example this one, which under half the price and looks like it has a better rating?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY83CL2D

[olivermuty]

There you are at the crux of the issue. You can’t trust amazon ratings at all :(

But you are completely right btw, it was indeed flydigi and not playdigi. And the one you linked is unknown to me.

I bought the Flydigi one after a very in depth review by this guy: https://youtu.be/WwQ4Q1mgyik?si=knLgDsqsyELq0B_t