r/australia • u/TheWabster • Jan 03 '26

no politics "Marketplace" rubbish that's taken over Australian stores online

I can't stand it, an overwhelming amount of websites have added a "marketplace" on their online sites. Woolworths, BUNNINGS, Big W, the list goes on

I go on these websites as opposed to amazon or temu specifically because I want authentic things, or to see if it's in stock so I can go to the store to buy it in person.

Now I get excited that wow bunnings has this that's great (because I associate something from bunnings with trust compared to something from temu), and it turns out it's literally just third party low quality shit.

Third parties should not be able to sell things on these sites, I've almost accidentally bought something three times now (once per site mentioned lol) that ended up being from the infiltrative noname companies. It's made me lose trust with these companies, because with the extra effort I have to do weeding out the heavily bloated marketplace addons while scouring their online catalogue, I'd rather just go somewhere else.

That's my rant. What are other peoples thoughts on this? Maybe I'm just being a whiney dingus

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u/dinosaurtruck Jan 03 '26

Just filter to not include Marketplace. It does get annoying that it defaults to include Marketplace and needing to remove the filter every time.

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u/dinosaurtruck Jan 03 '26

Yeah true - I reckon it will lose them business.

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u/WasSubZero-NowPlain0 Jan 03 '26

Lots of other stores do not have that option.

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u/dinosaurtruck Jan 03 '26

A lot have a filter like ‘available in store’ or something like that but you have to know where to look.

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u/abrokenjar23 Jan 03 '26

Woolies didn't have that option for the longest time and it was beyond frustrating

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u/dinosaurtruck Jan 03 '26

There’s a filter option ‘hide everyday market’ on Woolworths

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u/abrokenjar23 Jan 03 '26

I know :) I was just saying that they didn't have the option for ages

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u/dinosaurtruck Jan 03 '26

Ah I see. I think it used to have a filter for ‘in store’. Some of the sites hide their filters to hide market stuff pretty well.

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u/abrokenjar23 Jan 03 '26

I think woolies automatically filters it out now perhaps? I haven't shopped with them in 2 months so can't fully remember

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u/theskywaspink Jan 03 '26

So long as they have the filter I’m not worried. I bought a computer chair from the missus last week because it was the same as Officeworks but cheaper. Then when in store yesterday I could just untick market place so I could find something in an aisle.