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<blockquote data-quote="wayfaringstranger" data-source="post: 1453527" data-attributes="member: 17578">This article is about getting rid of amazon but Amazon is one of the PRIMARY drivers for cheap junk- they literally target quality manufacturers and undercut them by cutting corners[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/04/i-havent-used-amazon-for-almost-3-months-and-i-dont-miss-it-one-bit/[/URL]In addition, I noticed Amazon pilfering from the work and ingenuity of smaller sellers by making or inserting cheap overseas imitations of highly popular goods, undercutting their price point.“No competitor is too small to draw Amazon’s sights,” the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-competition-shopify-wayfair-allbirds-antitrust-11608235127" target="_blank">noted</a> in December. “It cloned a line of camera tripods that a small outside company sold on Amazon’s site, hurting the vendor’s sales so badly it is now a fraction of its original size, the little firm’s owner said.” An earlier WSJ investigation found Amazon <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">targets popular products and vendors</a> to take over their market share, often with inferior products. I was finding that true all the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wayfaringstranger, post: 1453527, member: 17578"] This article is about getting rid of amazon but Amazon is one of the PRIMARY drivers for cheap junk- they literally target quality manufacturers and undercut them by cutting corners [URL unfurl="true"]https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/04/i-havent-used-amazon-for-almost-3-months-and-i-dont-miss-it-one-bit/[/URL] In addition, I noticed Amazon pilfering from the work and ingenuity of smaller sellers by making or inserting cheap overseas imitations of highly popular goods, undercutting their price point. “No competitor is too small to draw Amazon’s sights,” the Wall Street Journal [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-competition-shopify-wayfair-allbirds-antitrust-11608235127']noted[/URL] in December. “It cloned a line of camera tripods that a small outside company sold on Amazon’s site, hurting the vendor’s sales so badly it is now a fraction of its original size, the little firm’s owner said.” An earlier WSJ investigation found Amazon [URL='https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-scooped-up-data-from-its-own-sellers-to-launch-competing-products-11587650015?mod=article_inline']targets popular products and vendors[/URL] to take over their market share, often with inferior products. I was finding that true all the time. [/QUOTE]

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