I know there are similar communities like !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net about finding products that you don’t break after a year, and any number of buy<insert_country_here> communities. I’m looking for a community specifically for finding reputable products that aren’t sold on Amazon, regardless of where the seller or buyer is, and regardless of the ethos of the seller beyond making quality products.
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There’s also !deamazon@piefed.social, but that’s more about general anti-Amazon sentiment than specifically helping steer people away from Amazon’s online retail monopoly.
Most online retailers have ALWAYS been scammy. Its part of what helped grow Amazon in the first place. They were actually trustworthy, reliable, and offered good consumer protections in simple and straight forward refund policies
This is basically true of all the current giants. No company that gets that big can start out entirely fucked up. They have to get their legitimately THEN go to shit.