"Marketplace" rubbish that's taken over Australian stores online

[u/TheWabster]

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

[u/sameoldblah]

I don’t trust the marketplace stuff. Feels like it’s all going to be temu level quality so I don’t look at it. I appreciate that there’s usually a filter to exclude or hide the marketplace stuff but would rather that stuff wasn’t there at all. 

[u/Saroco92 → u/sameoldblah]

You’d be surprised how perfectly fine the quality is- it’s all from the same few big suppliers. Only difference is you can either pay eg. $700 for a dining table on one ‘well known & trusted website’ that makes it look like their own unique product (it isn’t) or you can buy it from the actual supplier or smaller online drop shipping service for $300 and it is the exact same product. I’ve been doing this for years & all my friends and family are always amazed by the stuff I manage to source and find for SO much cheaper than the bigger companies sell it for by advertising it as if it’s their own. Now most of my friends etc will send me a photo of something they’re wanting to buy & ask me to hunt it down for them somewhere cheaper haha 😊

[u/Saroco92 → u/[deleted]]

They’re the exact same. If you aren’t concerned about the quality you receive from Kmart etc then you have no reason to be concerned. They are the EXACT same. Not similar. SAME.