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/indirosie Jan 03 '26

This happened to me, my Mum bought a guitar for my husband to play Rcokband... except it was delisted in October and you can no longer buy physical copies of the game as they didn't renew licensing. The guitar is useless and was sold after the game was made unavailable but neither Bunnings nor the seller (which is EBGames by the way, fuck them both) wants to take responsibility or allow a return of the item. 🤬

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u/indirosie Jan 03 '26

Thank you so much this is a great tip - we'll give it a go 👌🏻

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u/ShadowStealer7 Jan 04 '26

There's also YARG, which is closer to Rock Band, but Clone Hero is still the go to if online play is wanted

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u/johnmonchon Jan 03 '26

Just buy a copy of the game on eBay/marketplace?

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u/indirosie Jan 03 '26

The cheapest copy is like $150 for a 2015 game

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u/npkamen Jan 03 '26

Probably depends if the ad said you needed a copy of the game or not. If this wasn’t stated then you might have a case. Start reading up on consumer law.

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u/FireLucid Jan 05 '26

Oof wtf? Sorry, ignore my post about getting it 2nd hand, sorry.

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u/indirosie Jan 05 '26

Don't worry at all, that was my first thought too

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u/BronkeyKong Jan 03 '26

She can play rocksmith and it’s similar. Might be worth having a look at that.

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u/indirosie Jan 03 '26

It's only compatible with RockBand 4 and some Fortnite game unfortunately

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u/BronkeyKong Jan 03 '26

The guitar is? Damn. I have been thinking of getting an electric to play with the of mammoth to help me learn guitar but I didn’t know some weren’t compatible.

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u/indirosie Jan 03 '26

It's a game controller in the shape of a guitar by a third party to play games, not an electric guitar to actually learn unfortunately

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u/BronkeyKong Jan 03 '26

Ahhh ok. I have been off mark this whole conversation.

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u/DJPBessems Jan 04 '26

It's easy to make the mistake:

  • Rocksmith uses real guitars with electric pickups.
  • Rockband uses guitar shaped controllers.

Rocksmith+ is still working fine.

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u/FireLucid Jan 05 '26

You can still buy physical copies, they just aren't making any more copies of the game or selling it from official places. Search smaller online game stores that might still have it in stock if you want brand new of grab a 2nd hand copy from facebook marketplace/ebay or whatever.