• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 day ago

    What I don’t get is HOW people shops on Amazon, their search engine is the shittiest I’ve seen in a long time: “you searched for AMD RX1234 video card; here is a RX1235, a RX1024, and another one from a completely different brand! People also searched for other that is maybe related to that”

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      11 minutes ago

      People are looking for “king sized sheets” of “paper towel holder” not gtx4070ti super from gigabyte or esp32 chipset bullshit is how. Most people are getting basic shit, not trying to get around Newegg or a PC parts supplier.

      That’s not a real sharp take tbf.

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      Yeah, their search is basically the main thing keeping me away from their store.

      If I type in EXACTLY what I want, down to the exact type number, it’ll first show me things that vaguely have the same text, followed by things in the same category, followed by something totally random like a waffle iron, and MAYBE on page 2, there’s the thing I need. Show me that FIRST, not the slew of crappy clone/fake/off-brand shit or things not even in the same category.

      I usually have better luck just going to Google and searching it that way. Usually that gets me to the item straight away. Like it should be.

    • anhydrous@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      For sure; you’d have better luck finding product listings from another search engine their own search. I feel like it used to be better. Years ago, it would return exactly what I searched for, but not today. I think that was before 3rd party resellers were as common as today though