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Good lord the amount of dropshipping 'brands' with seemingly randomly generated names like Wynboop and FveBzem and DmofwHi and ZGGCD all selling the exact same product with the exact same description and product photos is frustrating. The NYT even wrote about this[1] in 2020 but clearly Amazon doesn't care.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...



I recently ordered a magnetic usb-c adaptor and the box turned up empty.

I left a review warning others this was a possibility, but Amazon removed it since it was critique of a seller rather than the product.

It’s impossible to tell if you’ll get a genuine product if Amazon censors reviews critiquing sellers sending the wrong product or no product at all.


Why didn't you rate the seller on their profile page? Doing it on the product page makes as little sense as removing stars for bad packaging on there.


A lot of them sound surprisingly similar to IFR waypoint names. Try guessing which one is a sketchy Amazon brand and which one is a waypoint name:

WEXIM

PEIPU

SEMRE

MIADY

YEAKE

(Answer: WEXIM and SEMRE are waypoints, the rest are brands)

I wonder how the sellers decide that "ah yes, today is the day I'll start selling YEAKE-brand USB cables". It sounds vaguely English, I guess.


That reminds me of this sketch: https://youtu.be/nQpxAvjD_30?t=4s




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