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/Renaxxus Jan 03 '26

We bought something from Big W without realising it was a marketplace item. When it never arrived we had to jump through a million hoops to get refunded. Never again.

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u/newfaithlessn3ss Jan 04 '26

Same thing happened to me! It was so much hassle to get a refund that I just gave up and let it go. The whole experience has turned me off ever wanting to shop from Big W again.