The good thing about Amazon is that they've made it increasingly easy to stop buying from them. Finding the things you need is increasingly difficult and even if you find it, most of it seems like obvious scams. Amazon went from a bookstore to the "everything store" and back to being just a book store, because those are the only items you can reasonably find and trust to not be scams.
It must be rather difficult to be in the US where Amazon is so dominant, because I given up and just rely on local webshops.
It’s not a reliable book store either! Counterfeits, cheap reproductions, fake publishers, ai generated books, pirated content .. as well as co-mingled SKU’s.
For physical and e-books!
It's such a strange assortment of results whenever I search for anything on Amazon now. Buying direct from the producer or even just walking into a local big box store is less stressful if I have the time.
Books cannot be trusted too. I have purchased books which have such cheap paper and bad print and cover that feels like someone makes them in their garage. It wasn’t worth the price.
I worked for a webshop years ago, they wanted to implement a "marketplace" and I advised against it, but they went forward anyway. A few years later I was contact by someone still working there, they had dropped the marketplace again. They simply could not deal with the amount of absolute shit sellers where shipping and it was damaging their brand. This is a store that was really selective about which products could be sold and what resellers was allowed and they still couldn't do it. So why isn't this damaging Amazons brand to the point of them limiting marketplace?
It must be rather difficult to be in the US where Amazon is so dominant, because I given up and just rely on local webshops.