I don't understand why Amazon isn't doing more about this problem. Perhaps it's because consumers would rather buy the cheap crap?
At the very least they should somehow be grouping up products with the exact same product images. It's really fun to wade through listings of light fixtures from well known manufacturers such as IBESTWIN and COLMEGUNA.
> Perhaps it's because consumers would rather buy the cheap crap?
Nope. Even if it were true that people actually want garbage products (and I doubt that to be the case for most of us) we still want to be able to find the garbage products!
It used to be that as long as you knew exactly what you wanted amazon search was OK. Searching for something like "Shower curtains" would always just return a very small number of products listed over and over again but never all of the shower curtains they have for sale. Now, even searches for very specific things return bizarre nonsensical results.
My guess is that it's a combination of Amazon just not caring about the user experience, Amazon wanting to promote only certain items, and Amazon wanting to prevent scrapers from being able to easily get large lists of products on the website and what their prices are.
At the very least they should somehow be grouping up products with the exact same product images. It's really fun to wade through listings of light fixtures from well known manufacturers such as IBESTWIN and COLMEGUNA.