Amazon becoming like Alibaba
Is it me or has anyone noticed that as a purchaser, it is getting increasingly hard to find decent UK branded products on Amazon these days, the site is like an Alibaba site full of Chinese brands.
Find myself increasingly looking at other sites for decent gear, which is worrying if it becomes a trend for UK marketplace sellers wishing to sell on this marketplace
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Seller_Yja9oH7DLHk2I
I often can’t find what I am looking for due to the sponsored listings clogging everything up.
Seller_gOlDFgS5Li5Jc
well we have plenty of authentic branded products sourced from uk suppliers so feel free to fill your boots
ha ha
Seller_IkU8EePd75e2p
I mean what can you expect almost everything does come from China. Plus people like cheap prices.
Seller_0Amk0hnQkPWMH
I wish we could filter on UK only sellers, like you can on Ebay. That said I have been caught out on ebay before, thinking it was a UK seller
Seller_Rds42gzScDQFa
Agreed. My better half is frequently looking for homewares, kitchen bits n bobs such as hardware used for baking etc and it all comes from China with long long delivery dates! And quite often the item never arrives!
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
100% I would also add however that I am finding the same on eBay. But at least you can filter by UK only on there.
Seller_oGFKRixtdkjxL
This happened years ago - Amazon courted it with the Blue Dragon initative. Personally I hate shopping on Amazon, it’s an absolute pain. I recently tried searching for a vehicle boot liner - you’re just presented with a myriad of near identical ‘branded’ tat all from the same Chinese factory, he who pays the most get the top listing and the reviews are clearly bought wholesale. Basically I gave up. The site cancer came when non-branded items started outweighing branded items.
Seller_Xpg0j76yeJ7rb
The problem is generic items being ‘branded’ with 101 brand names which creates multiple cat entries…
Amazon needs to create a ‘brand’ ASIN. Same product with multiple brands on the ASIN selected by a dropdown box and sorted by price/seller rating
Seller_vIpv9uvBH6CFY
A few weeks ago I was searching induction cookware sets for my new induction hob, and it kept showing me incompatible sets. Then if I did find one that was close to what I wanted, there were various ‘colour’ or ‘style’ variations of totally different non-compatable sets on the same listing. I’m sure what I was after exists somewhere on amazon. I just couldn’t find anything compatible with induction that was also nice. There were, however, loads and loads of lovely incompatible sets. I gave up and bought mismatched pieces in the grocery store instead 
Seller_tsX7unnrHkZZ2
It doesn’t matter, as long as we can buy the products we want.
