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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Ynotisay · M

A lot of times your buying the same product under a different brand name. But if you stick with Prime you know those companies have been vetted. If they're offering the return policy they do with Prime they want to make sure those companies are solid. I don't have retail stores around me and Amazon is kind of necessary. I only buy via Prime and it's worked out really well.