The most obvious problems I face with Amazon are due almost entirely to how it's built and how it runs its third-party seller platform. There are duplicate product listings, fake products, fake reviews, and mixed inventory now to the extent that even buying something where "Amazon" is listed as the seller does not prevent you from getting inventory sourced by one of the third-party sellers of the same product. Because of this, I've found myself more and more going to alternatives where I can actually know and trust the retailer and supply chain. I long for the pre-platform Amazon days.

The news that Amazon has also abused sellers on their platform should shock nobody. As soon as they got into selling house brands, the writing was on the wall. Ironically, I can actually trust Amazon's house brands to at least be legitimate, non-fake products even if they do tend to be cheaply made.