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I was with you on walmart for awhile but now they're doing the same marketplace bullshit that amazon is doing and all expectations of quality and authenticity are lost again. If I want something used I'll go to ebay and if I want something drop-shipped from china I can go to aliexpress myself. So now I'm using Target.com whenever possible. It's often cheaper than amazon anyway.

I actually started using walmart.com over amazon a number of years ago when two things I ordered on Amazon arrived in walmart.com boxes. The resellers were just doing arbitrage and sure enough my $20 orders were an average of $6 cheaper at walmart.

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The marketplace is the reason I don’t use Walmart. The marketplace and commingled stock is Amazon’s biggest problem and Walmart appears to be playing catch-up rather than forging their own path. We don’t need another Amazon. I’ve been using Target, eBay, Best Buy and random sites lately. The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does.

Yeah, I have noticed that as well. Newegg is another one that went down the "Market place" approach and is why I didn't list them. I just use Micro center now. A little bit less selection, but not much and they will order almost anything for you and get it quickly.

TigerDirect[1] is a solid alternative to Newegg, that doesn't appear to have succumbed to the easy buck of the marketplace model.

[1] http://www.tigerdirect.com/

Funny that TigerDirect is now the solid alternative to Newegg. Ten years ago it was the complete opposite. Sad to see how Newegg have destroyed themselves.

TigerDirect has a terrible interface for trying to find the product you want. For instance, if you are looking for a laptop you can filter by price and by brand--that's it.

MicroCenter has sophisticated filtering ala Newegg, but in laptops for example, there is exactly 1 model that sports any AMD processor at all.

After more than 20 years of ecommerce growth, it is discouraging how bad things are.

Agreed on Newegg. I am currently dealing with two separate issues for items sold by 3rd party. Thankfully, both items were low cost so even if it ends up being a loss, it is not the end of the world, but I used to swear by Newegg. By comparison, Ebay is all third parties, but they have some way to discourage bad actors. Newegg and Amazon are a disappointment lately.

I never thought I would not say it these days, but Ebay has gotten better ( comparatively speaking; maybe others just gotten worse ).

And BestBuy. It’s shocking how they’re falling all over themselves to destroy their brands with cheap third party trash.

Best Buy doesn't have a 3rd party marketplace.

I think the US site doesn't, but the Canadian one does. If you follow the link below, you'll see there's a Best Buy Only toggle. That being said, it's nice that the let you quickly hide third party items.

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/brand/Samsung

I really lament Newegg. It was very awesome for a long time in a way that Amazon couldn't match.

Lately, the 3rd-party market has really turned me off of them.

marketplace is fine unless they start fulfillment service, isn't it? Just only buy from the shop, not from thirdparty shop.

You can filter out non-Walmart sellers from the left side filter on search results.

> The Target experience is great even if they don’t have the same selection Amazon does.

Sometimes this is nice. If I'm buying paper towels, I don't need to be overwhelmed with 800 options.

I agree the marketplace stuff sucks. FWIW you can pretty reliably filter the retailer to 'Walmart.com' and only see first-party stuff.

Walmart has a quick option to filter out marketplace items. On the desktop site, on the left hand site, just select retailer = Walmart and it will only show Walmart items .

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