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Yep, I just ordered from them again for the first time in a while... Big mistake.

My order was very simple, just a pack of head bands since when I go for runs I sweat way too much.

After my run I took the head band off and my forehead was DYED the color of the band and later broke out in hives...

Grimly reminded me Victorian Era arsenic-based green dyes, which leached from fabrics into people's skin and made them very sick.

Amazon desperately needs content curation somehow, the experience of figuring out which headband to buy was so awful... And after all that, it caused a mild injury from god-knows-what chemicals.

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The solution is simple but the shareholders won’t like it: remove third party sellers.

They don't even have to remove them. Just move them to a separate marketplace under the Amazon umbrella.

If Amazon had a "Prime Plus" or something that would allow me to find and order non-third-party-seller, accurately described, quality products with a robust no bullshit "whatever the cost, will go above and beyond fixing any problems in the rare event they occur" attitude, I'd be very interested.

I also wouldn't mind a marketplace that is well known to be hit or miss. When I place an order on alibaba or bangood, I know exactly the risks I'm taking. That risk, weirdly, almost makes it entertaining. "Is it going to be the ball bearings I ordered, or a pair of Crocs shoe knockoffs, or a beef jerky? Place your bets!"

I have to assume that such an option exists. There is no way in hell that Amazon execs are limited to the same search options and overall UX as ordinary users. We just don't have access to the VIP entrance.

Making such a subscription publicly available is a blatant admittance that the platform has gone to such shit that one needs to pay for a filter so you don't break out in to colorful hives.

I doubt Amazon execs use Amazon.

If they did that they would be highly unprofitable though.

3rd party sellers pay them for ads. Then they pay them if a product is sold. And then they pay them for packing and shipping the product. And then they pay them if the product is returned and they don’t even get any of the money they pay Amazon back if the product is returned.

It’s no wonder Amazon is filled with sellers of fake products because any seller of legitimate products could barely survive on their marketplace with all the fees Amazon showers them with.

The product you describe has ABSOLUTELY ZERO USE CASE IN THE WORLD. It is purely a scam. Amazon is now the biggest mall where half the shit will make you break out into rainbow hives. I'm glad people are finally catching on. F that company, mostly.

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