Have you noticed an increase in generic junk products on Amazon?

Have you noticed that whenever you search for a given product on Amazon, the initial results are all these products with meaningless "brand names" in all caps like ZORXWO and STILVY and things like that? Apparently these are throwaway trademarks that Chinese factories create to conform to American law which requires products be sold under a brand name. And you have to scroll through a lot of this stuff to find any recognizable brands.

Amazon seems to have gotten really crappy recently. I ended up canceling my Prime subscription. 😕

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TeirdalinFirefall · 31-35, M

They give their stuff away for free in exchange for positive reviews. Before my account got blacklisted from reviewing things I've gotten about a thousand dollars worth of cool things from them. Now all burned up due to the wildfires here, but it was fun while it lasted. My brother still gets things occasionally
Savesoo is the main site for it.

Most of these 'companies' are just one seller buying from manufacturers, packaging it up and selling them. It's a little wholesome.