Seems like many companies product quality has plummeted over the last few years. For example, Google (despite its flaws), used to have good products and services. Now they are virtually unusable.

My doctor sent me forms to my Gmail and I never got them. I looked it up and apparently Gmail has the document provider blocked so you literally cannot get medical forms. Stuff like this happens all the time now! Their search engine is nothing but sponsored ads now.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I just think it’s funny that capitalism ends up making much much worse products over time.

  • 小莱卡
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    2 years ago

    Pro tip: buy your consumer electronic products from aliexpress. At this point, you can find products with nearly identical quality but 10 times cheaper. I bought airpods clone for 20 bucks, they’re literally the same product. Also a lot of brands nowadays are literally just dropshipping off aliexpress, don’t give em a single cent of your money.

    • MexicanCCPBot
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      12 years ago

      Can confirm a lot of products on Amazon (and even brick and mortar shops) are just generic Aliexpress stuff branded and overpriced

    • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      12 years ago

      My buddy has used dh gate. He said the same thing. You just buy from the manufacturer and skip the process of jacking up the price by like 300% for no reason.

      • 小莱卡
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        12 years ago

        DHGate is great, i buy my sports jerseys from there at 15 bucks lmao. They even come up with patches like World Series champions, all star game, postseason, etc… Meanwhile in the “original” store they’re up to a 150 bucks.

    • Arsen6331 ☭
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      12 years ago

      The only problem is that I am unfortunately in the US, so it takes ages to get here and shipping costs are really high.

      • @gcb@lemmy.ml
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        12 years ago

        shouldn’t have let amz and other US based groups defund your post office 🤷‍♂️

        most colonized countries have a postal system that is nothing but an artificial barrier for the common person to import tools and goods.