I agree completely. It’s become really difficult to determine product quality before you buy. All reviews are astroturfed, and increasingly previously trustworthy brands are just putting their name on the same product as everyone else, all cranked out in China. This is not to say things made in China are poor quality because they are made in China. I’m not a dog-whistling racist on that point. China makes things to whatever quality and price point American companies ask it to. Companies have also figured out that profits go up if they get rid of theories and buy on the secondary manufacturers’ markets in Shenzhen instead. Then they start demanding lower costs on that end, factories oblige by cutting corners and so on. Amazon then makes all this worse by flooding every vertical with scammy brands and making it difficult to tell them apart.
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