Marketplace shopping rant!
I’ve had it with third party sellers. Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy… I’m done.
Back in the early days of the pandemic, I ordered a few board games from Amazon to help pass the time (huge board game fan here). I was expecting an expansion pack called Coup: Reformation, but what I received was obviously a knockoff. The colours were off, the packaging just a label on a box, not at all printed on. It looked cheap – and it wasn’t. I paid for the real thing.
Annoyed, but not deterred, I recently ordered some clothes that were supposed to be Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren. But what I received were so obviously fake. The labels weren’t even there at all, never mind being the right ones.
And I know you’re all going to tell me to be careful with third-party sellers, or just don’t buy from them anymore, and I’m not going to. But I wish it hadn’t gotten this bad. I wish online shopping wasn’t such a minefield these days.
I really wish Amazon would get rid of 3rd party sellers, or at least put a big ol' label on them so you can avoid them more easily.
Has anyone else had similar experiences?