Study Says Amazon, Walmart Suppress American Made

by: Snapped

“ Amazon's chatbot explained the discrepancy itself: 40 to 50 percent of Amazon's active sellers are based in China, and a filter for American-made goods "would visibly redirect shoppers away from a very large portion of the seller base."" “

Um…yes.  Wasn’t that precisely the point for selecting the filter?    

by: my2cents

This is outrageous

by: Bill

Absolutely absurd.

by: BillBooks

Not surprised at all.  Favoring the ''big'' suppliers who are actually shipping from China has been their goal for many years.

I recall Amazon years ago when they eliminated the ''ships from'' detail on listings.  That was explained away at the time as conflicting with FBA  since FBA inventory  moves around, but Amazon knows at the moment you look at a specific listing exactly which warehouse that item sits in (FBA), or the seller's ship-from address if FBM.    I always assumed that change was so they could hide the fact the item was not even in or from the US at all.

I am shipping from California. I find it interesting that more than half of my orders on those sites where my location is easily visible (Abe, eBay) come from the intermountain west or west coast.   I have checked and found that in many cases there are sellers with lower prices on the east coast, Texas, etc, but the buyer preferred to purchase from a closer seller even though the price was higher.

by: etectra

One things these Chinese sellers do not employ is someone fluent in American English and culture as many of their products are a joke.

I was looking for a replacement metal cat litter scoop with a specific spacing between the tines as anything less or more is not ideal based upon raising rescue cats since 1979.

One of the obvious Chinese vendors was bragging about how easy it to clean while showing a image of a smiling Caucasian model gleefully cleaning it in the kitchen sink. Of course maybe that is normal in China where they raise dogs and cat in order to beat them to death a club to serve them as food.

Amazon's own brand is know for cloning products of established brands and producing the products in China.

For years designers on the print-on-demand site Zazzle have had their images stolen by Chinese based Amazon store owners. Amazon has responded by telling the designers that they need to purchase one of the items they claim are infringing on their design for Amazon to take action. Even if the design is taken down it may remain in Amazon's catalog and the same IP violator is running other stores on Amazon doing the same thing.

by: Geetar

@etectra Product quality is good, and testing is fine.

by: Geetar

This plan has been in action for a very long time. Everything you have seen is not a mistake, or to boost profits for the company. There are policies, agreement's, laws, trade policies.....to suppress the USA. That POS Kissinger concocted all of it. Just search the UN Lima declaration of 1973. That POS was the architect of it. You know right after he made his many historic visits to china. The plan was not to raise the developing countries, it was to take from the US and give to them.. Basically take the developing world out of poverty, and put the developed world into poverty. Why, because if everyone gets a piece of the pie, the ultra rich dont get their HALF of the pie any more. So now we are in a time where China told all of these rich people that control commerce and sales, "no we dont need you any more, go away!". Now they made themselves the middle man in everything. It's disgusting.

by: RKTOYS

Pretty stupid when a site's item details say "made in USA or imported."  Well duh it has to be one or the other, just say you don't know.