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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Usually Chinese resellers creating dozens of random letter names that look official. They resell AliExpress items at a premium to westerners lol.

Amazon is slow to take down scams and low quality products because they sell sponsored listings and prime partnership which boosts products made by actual companies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

When I was looking for a whetstone the amazon results were actually sorta funny. They're selling all the same thing just with a stamped company name on it but the price varies wildly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah what I often do is just buy what I need for Amazon, make sure it’s prime and return eligible, buy it again for like 4% of the Amazon price on AliExpress, then return the Amazon product once the Ali item arrives lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Hey I have that whetstone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How did you even choose a product from this list?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If a brand has a website that isn't just Alibaba listings and an About section with no address, then it's probably a real product