Fair, your word is enough for me to go and look at them closer.
My problem is that there's just so many fly-by-night stores selling the same chinesium with varying degree of markup - from "we just import this stuff" to "we put nice photos and descriptions, and pretend we're a premium brand" - that I just gave up and don't try to discover new stores myself. I only check them out based on word of mouth now. Beyond that, I either buy a particular item of known quality, preferably from manufacturer or a bigger chain (so I have legal recourse if they screw me over), or accept that what I'm going to get is going to be garbage.
My problem is that there's just so many fly-by-night stores selling the same chinesium with varying degree of markup - from "we just import this stuff" to "we put nice photos and descriptions, and pretend we're a premium brand" - that I just gave up and don't try to discover new stores myself. I only check them out based on word of mouth now. Beyond that, I either buy a particular item of known quality, preferably from manufacturer or a bigger chain (so I have legal recourse if they screw me over), or accept that what I'm going to get is going to be garbage.